Winter is horrible, it's like 10 degrees here with windchill factors an shit. I can't wait for fuckin spring, cause there's no way I'm wandering around for 3 or 4 miles hitting up buildings. But as for the topic, what I found was easy to do was (if you're fuckin old enough to drive like me) hold a can or two up to your heater inside and turn it on high. Then run out like the goddamn dickens and spit your fill and outline. Hop in, drive really fast making sure to hit a squad car on the way back to the safehouse. Fuck.
here in finland it's -20 C atm, but we're still painting, and no problems. just remember to wear warm clothes & gloves. i use leather gloves, some use cotton gloves under gardening gloves... those latex gloves suck on wintertime. and shake your cans well, you have to shake them all the time to keep them from freezing... and some cans don't cover as well as they do on warmer conditions, but otherwise, paint like it's summer. but don't use latex or paint frozen walls.
in boston its mad cold wen I put the cans on me they were fine and was snowing my hands did not frost up h34r:
i was well and ready on may way to go bombing(it was snowing that night) when i hopped the fence and was leaving my yard i realized i was going to be the only set of prints out there at midnight. so i forced myself to turn back n wait it out.
if you can get like downtown with your paint, i love painting in shit. one night it was fucking -15, no lie. and i was out for 2 and a half hours bombing the east side of my city. [good ol' rochester ny] and i mean you gotta dress warm as fuck i had like thermal pants and shirt, a pair of jeans, timberlands, 2 t-shirts 1 hoodie, pair of baseball gloves, and a black bandana and i mean i got a cold but i just took crazy amounts of zicam and that shit went away, but when its mad shitty like that there is NO ONE out. and you gotta remember the cops hate running in the cold just as much as you do
While you drive to the spot just put your cans in a bag/box in the footwells and put the heater on high that way the cans get warm... Once you'Re there get a lunchbox or something that can fit all your cans in and throw the cans in... a pocket warmer can help also... The point is a insulated lunchbox keep stuff cold OR hot... so basicallly you are extending the time your cans stay hot!
i got my hands on a ski mask/ balaclava they work great and cover your whole face keeping your face protected from frost bite. But just wear good clothes and shit...
Waaahhh my fingers are cold... waaaaaahhhh my pieces that are drippy in August are even sloppier now.... Geez people. muscle through it or just go to the buffet and wait for april. thats my take.
I disagree with the statement about high winds = mostly mist... Painted during hurricane "termoli" in italy 2003... my piece, as well as crew mates was crisp... like I said above... muscle through it... experience is the best thing you can bring with you when you go painting... reading about it online will only get you so far (not very far). Thats my take.
^^i never have a problem with anything and im in colorado its almost always winter here.... im going out tonight only problem is ice build up on signs and shit thats the only thing having to break ice off for signs.
yeah its mad cold here one time i did a throw up n after the fill-in my finger was stuck 2 the cap n i tryed 2 pull it off n it pulled the cap outta the can i had 2 rip it off n then use a diff finger 4 the outline
hahah i gottttt allll kinds of those stories, lmao, pitch black in a tunnel its about midnight about 20 degrees outside and the snows falling. i just have latex gloves on and the paint cap is backwards, i pucj down madd hard cause i can baerly feel my hands and the shit sprays into my finger, with the after spray ending up in my mouth, i chocked and ended up collapsing it was the grosest shit. idk how people huff paint.