Sadly, this doesn’t always work either depending on how you paint
In this example below the white is a separate object, but for some reason the way the interaction occurs with the painted object
I tried swapping the objects around (although I’m fairly confident it processes top down), I tried fill tool, I tried layer tool, I tried filling the icons, I tried swapping the order I do things, but no matter what I try, it seems to eliminate the icons
If I do no painting at all, it slices the icons as expected and and I get the white, but the moment I add paint to that area it seems to get rid of them.
It looks like the paint is applied to the entire group and you don’t seem to be able to change that…
The only way to make that work was to fully invert the painting and paint the bit that you wouldn’t normally paint (i.e. primary colour to secondary colour etc)