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To each his own
I like that idea Peggy, but how does that work? What holds the pole in place - just your brush hand resting on it?
I suppose it depends a lot on the style and size of your palette, the length of your arms and the size of our hands but I hold my palette (as you can see in the photo attached to my earlier post) on my left hand and arm and find it is comfortable to hold the mahl stick as well.
I said "on" because I don't really have to hold the palette much; it kind of just rests on my arm and thumb. Some times I even have a rage, two or three other brushes and the mahl stick in my palette hand.
You know it took me some time to get used to using the mahl stick at all. My painting instructor would walk by and see me resting my pinky finger on the wet canvas. I of course did not consciously know I was doing it until he would point out the marks I left with my finger in the wet paint. That is when I first started using a mahl stick having it in my hand during most of the finish stages of a painting kept me from going back to resting my finger on the canvas. After awhile it became a habit that when I pick up my palette in my left hand I also pick up the mahl stick. And I have held it in my palette hand as I do now since then.
But it is nice to see how others work.
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