Flipsides -  Artist's Notes on the backs of paintings

I like to write. It's been a part of my creative process for a long time now. It used to be that I wrote before I got started on a painting. Sitting in the smallest room of my house (when I had a house) trying to summon the inspiration to go up those 14 stairs to my studio and pick up a  brush and begin. Trying to figure out what I might paint and how, wondering if I would ever be able to  make a painting that was as beautiful as I wanted.  That was when I was working  totally in the studio from a lot of really poor photos and mainly, before I had discovered plein air painting and all it's fascinations.  Now it seems that  I don't have time to paint all the things that inspire me.  But I still save a little time for writing... many times just after I've painted a small painting out in the landscape, I'll record my feelings about the scene or about the feelings of the day on the back of the painting.  Just unrehearsed and from my heart. Very unedited. Hopefully not too embarrassing to me later.  Sometimes the words find their way onto the back of the panel after  I've returned to the studio or onto the back of a small studio painting. The written notes make the memories linger a bit longer, freshen the feelings I had when I was painting.   I enjoy writing them,  I feel compelled somehow to make these notes.  I hope you'll enjoy reading them.  Karen

I'll try to find some of the others that I've made notes on and get them posted here soon.  I always like hearing if you like these kinds of things.           Email