What do you do while you paint?

[bluepony78]

It depends.
If my daughter (10 months) is awake, I usuaaly have the tv on for noise, the dog pacing and trying to play with the cat, the cat screaming like he’s being killed, and one eye on baby. I do “easy” work, like layer white markings on horses. Things that don’t require any real brain power, can be stopped at a moment’s notice, just going over the white again and again(I do all my white markings with 15 layers of white) Gets boring after a while.

But at night, when she’s sleeping, if hubby’s away/sleeping, I love to put the radio, or a cd. I like enya, and there’s a new cd I just heard can’t think of the name, some kind of gorgeous music. I saw the concert on tv and was blown away. celtic music I think it’s called. The better the music, the better paintjob I do. It’s almost like theropy.

if hubby’s home, I have to listen to gunshots. He plays x-box, and has to have surround sound, so the neighbors can hear us getting invaded and hubby saving the day ONCE AGAIN. 🙄

[UnicornLvr]

Yeah, I hear ya on the music thing. If I’m listening to music I usually pop in Pure Moods, Enya or a Lorenna McKennit type CD. It depends on what I am painting as to what music I listen to.

I also like to put in a really long DVD, like the any of the Lord of the Ring extended versions. If I know I’m going to be working alllll day I will have a Lord of the Rings extended version marathon or a Harry Potter marathon. Sometimes I even do a CSI marathon or The Office season 1 and 2 as I just luv those shows and have the DVDS (yeah….I’m a dork) 🙄

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