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Is it just me?
Seems that every-other time the paint is mixed on the palette, the brush tip produces a tiny fiber right before applying a brushstroke to model.
Tweezers ending up to be an inseparable component to the paintbrush due to the frequency with witch I have to pause and de-fiber the paintbrush, and sometimes the model.

If I am not alone, I can sleep well this night, otherwise I will have a restless night of pondering where and how I went wrong in life.

I have those sometimes, but no explanation.

I blame my cat Izzy. Despite her not being allowed unsupervised into my painting room, and the issue occurring before I got her. She is Void; the laws of time and space to no apply to her.

 Nevelon wrote:
I have those sometimes, but no explanation.

I blame my cat Izzy. Despite her not being allowed unsupervised into my painting room, and the issue occurring before I got her. She is Void; the laws of time and space to no apply to her.

Izzy the Void Cat , so true. We have 4 cats and a stray that likes to hangout nearby, so that would make sense.
Ok, I can rest well this night!

You're lucky. My cat not only fouls the entire room with hair, but jumps up on my table and drinks my paint water.

I've seen them hundreds of times but I thought it was from the paint brushes themselves.
I never thought it could be from my wet palette because I don't always use a wet palette.

As a chap with long hair? Fibre shedding is surprising prevalent. And even if you’ve short hair, short of being completely baldy? You’ll be shedding hair.

So will your clothes, towels, soft furnishings etc.

It could be bristles working their way loose, or random floaty fibres in the general atmosphere from your bonce, face, arms, hands, pets, or ones which landed on you whilst out and about. And because we rinse our brushes in water, which captures wee floaty fibres? Our brushes fall foul of them.

Now that I think about it

Its the floaty fibers, they are smaller than hairs.
I do not use wet palette, or a dedicated palette for that matter. My palette is my nail, or table top of the work bench, or a flat top of a paint jar, or a corner of a bits container. And I do not work with multiple colors out. I squeeze out a drop of one color on the most convenient surface and pain everything with that color drop until it depleats or dries out.

Also l, I do not have a dedicated paint room, I have one room that is all in one: A walk in closet, a storage, a hobby room, the bedroom, ETS.
So it is a tight, fiber factory. No wonder.

I can't change my situation for the moment, but I can find a wet palette with a lid!

I'll give this cheap one on ali a try.