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Publisher Marketing: Most artists seldom reveal in writing the meaning or reason behind painting a particular artwork. The reason varies with the innumerable purposes in having chosen art as a career field. Having great respect for the power of words, I decided to combine a written message with some of my paintings using a new poetry form of my own design. I call the poem a TONETTE. The term TONE TICS, derived from the literary science of speech sounds, is the basis of my new poetry. In my Tonette, there are ten lines with a corresponding number of syllables for each line. The first line begins with ten syllables. The following nine lines, each reduced by one syllable concluding with the last line's one syllable word, results in an upside down right triangle, with its meaning intentionally hidden for the reader to discover. By placing the Tonette opposite a painting, it becomes an extension showing the painting's stimulus for creating words. Now seen as an attachment, the Tonette presents a new visual and mental experience. Creating Tonettes was verbal game playing and fun to do. First, I look at my painting, using 'free-association' for words to come into my mind, which then tap-out on my desk, checking the number of syllables, meaning usage and sound. Mental health professionals use free-association technique to reveal their patients' subconscious memory. By using this method, I uncovered hidden themes, unknown to me, proving one's subconscious mind is never fully repressed. Perhaps this is the reason most artists do not try to explain their work with words. For the true artist, painting is an obsession. The artist at work really does not know why he or she feels compelled to paint both subject matter and content, as they do. As for myself, I never begin a painting with a preconceived idea. The canvass is always a blank. Images and color emerge, sometimes quickly, at other times not so fast. As the composition evolves, the finished painting's color, line, shape, texture, volume, variations in tones all fuse together into a whole. Amazingly, we never escape our subconscious selves.