Carmen Electra Tries to Paint Away the Pain  7/30/06

Carmen Electra has turned to painting to help her through the pain of her marriage split from rocker Dave Navarro.

The creative model/actress admits her estranged husband treated her to an artist's starter kit when they were together and now she steps up to her easel whenever she needs to escape her real life.

Electra says, "I never had an art class, but painting was the one thing I loved more than anything else as a girl. I'm not very good at it, but it's fun."

The Scary Movie star insists she won't be showing off her artistic efforts anytime soon: "I just put them away."

And, whenever Electra needs to let off a little steam, she gets behind her drum kit.

She adds, "When I was four years old, I had a kids' paper drum set, and now I have my own adult-sized kit."