Filling with color open areas between shapes / paths

[Alberto Andreuzzi]

Dear Community,

I am new to Illustrator and I am trying to understand how to fill with color an open area between shapes / paths. I have the image below, a spiral which 'touches' two different paths. I would like to fill in the white area, but do not manage, not even with the Live Paint Bucket tool, where I get the message below. Any suggestion? Many thanks.

[Doug A Roberts]

Have you tried following the instructions in the message?

It indicates that your selection includes paths that are not part of the live paint group.

[Alberto Andreuzzi]

Hi and thanks for the reply.

Actually no, because I did not even understand what he was saying.

But now I understood that the 'Control Panel' is actually the 'Object' menu, did as the Message Box was saying and solved the issue.

Other issues popped up, however, like I cannot fill in a path, now, or some paths have disappeared under the fill of the Live Paint Bucket and so on...

I believe I need to look into it a bit more 🙂

Thanks for you help anyway, appreciated!

[Doug A Roberts]

The Control panel (or Control bar) is this:

If you can't see it in your workspace, it can be acivated under Window > Control.

The Object menu is what the message refers to when it says 'the Live Paint menu' (Object > Live Paint > Merge)

[Alberto Andreuzzi]

Thank you 🙂

I am going to study the Live Pain tool a bit better.

Eventually, I will find out how to fix those issues.

For the time being, you helped me solve that issue I had so I can consider the thread closed

Many thanks and have a nice day! 🙂

[pixxxelschubser]

For testing purposes, you can work with a copy of your current file.

Then select everything and create a Live Paint group. And then continue with the coloring...

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/live-paint-groups.html

[Alberto Andreuzzi]

Thanks for the answer. I am getting a bit fluent with this, hopefully I will know how to use properly. Still nedd to understand how to not mess up paths when dealing with a Live Paint Group.