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I have no problem talking with visitors to my studio once I have the work blocked in; that's what's hardest and takes the most concentration. The rest is just fun. My grown daughter sometimes wanders in to chat when she's visiting, and my grown son sometimes brings a girlfriend in to see what's going on and to watch. My five-year-old granddaughter has developed enough concentration that she can work at her easel long enough to make it worth my while to start to paint while she's there. (I do have an old plastic shower curtain under her easel to protect the floor from her spatters, though. Less for me to worry about.)
For Mother's Day I asked for a player that could handle multiple CDs and had autoreverse for tapes. That seems to be a confusing concept and I got continuous play instead, which isn't the same thing at all. So we went back to Best Buy and did find what I wanted. The contraption plays three CDs in sequence and I can set it to replay them all; the tape player will loop indefinitely as well. That way I don't have to keep putting down my brushes and deciding what next to hear. Somehow I don't like the radio as much; there's too much on there that I don't care for, and I prefer soft rock and other vocals to classical music when I paint. I do get into a zone but not to the extent that I don't hear the music, and it helps relax me and let me focus on my work. I could never watch television while I painted, or engage in a complex philosophical discussion, either, but I can listen and add the odd comment.
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