[metapost] Using a color repeatedly

[Hans Hagen]

On 8-8-2012 08:41, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Please forgive if I have overlooked something obvious but apparently I can't do:
>
> pickup pencircle withcolor blue ;
>
> So if I have to do multiple draw/fill operations using a colour, what
> am I to do? Appending withcolor blue to each statement is not very
> nice to read.

in addition to drawoptions (that need to be reset aftwards) this is also 
an option:

draw image (
	draw fullcircle scaled 1cm ;
	draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ;
) withcolor blue ;

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