What kind of music do you listen to while painting?

[Michele Rushworth]

What I listen to depends on what needs to be done in the studio at the moment and what the speed of the music is.

For painting faces, hands or anything where I need to be sure and paint slowly and carefully it's has to be a CD of all slow songs. There's a series of CD's with titles like "The Most Relaxing Piano Music in the World -- Ever!" There's a 2-CD set for classical, guitar, etc. too. Corny titles, but I can count on the fact that just about every song is slow paced.

Then for canvas stretching, tidying up or painting big simple backgrounds I can play something faster. Anything from Classical to Enya, from African music to Zydeco.