All fine art prints are made from original reverse glass enamel paintings made by Karin Mayer.
The paintings are done with vibrant, bright sparkling enamel paint to capture the amazing spirits which surround the beautiful area where the paintings originate. This technique is unusual and unique.

Karin Mayer, born and educated in Europe where she first learned this art, paints Hi Desert Joshua Tree scenes with a mystique and spiritual eye.

• Reverse glass painting is a nearly lost art, which started in the middle ages.
  In Europe reverse glass painting was a popular folk art and some early modernists also experimented with this technique, notably Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter, members of the German Group of painters, "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Riders).
• The materials commonly used include ink, tempura, oils, acrylics.
  Karin - instead - uses a brilliant and glittering, highly fade resistant, extremly durable, fast drying commercial enamel. 
• Karin begins the process of reverse glass painting by selecting a desert motive. This image may be a Joshua Tree, Yucca plants, cactuses, jimson weed or a variation upon such motives, including local people, artists and musicians, architecture, etc.
• Then, Karin traditionally precedes the painting with intense concentration, and often spends a length of time in meditation with the motive that is going to be painted.
• Next Karin decides upon the colors that are going to be applied and then the glass painting process begins on what will be the back side of the glass.
• The process of applying paint is continued everywhere on the glass, except where the background color will be added.
• Karin's reverse paintings on glass achieve a special luminosity as reward for employing this tedious process. Tedious because everything is painted in reverse order. For example, in portrait painting, the glint in the eye is applied before the pupil of the eye, is applied before the eyeball, is applied before the face, and so on! This reverse process makes the paintings so dynamic, mysterious and fascinating, just as the motives are that Karin Mayer paints.
• Finally, background color is applied. When it has dried is the first moment that Karin will actually see the painting she has just created from the front in it's completed form. Most paintings are painted in one go and this process takes many hours. The material used is fast drying and errors cannot be corrected the moment the paint is applied.
• Enamel reverse glass paintings are difficult to create, but a delight of the eyes.