I love the comments from a plein air painter from Hawaii and another one from my co-author, Rain.  The painting of these swallows looked l...

  Pinned up drawings and hung new and years old paintings of swallows in preparation for a paint out this morning. The plan is to paint ...

"Flight Patterns" Graphite on 14' x 11" smooth bristol paper     Friday, May 8 Have not painted or sketche...

Thank you Rain for putting up a detail of my painting, "Fantasy" as the blog header.   It is a female strong 2019 fantasy interpre...

At the Corine Woodman Gallery in the Corvallis Arts Center the November 12 to December 4th exhibit is called  The Woodblock Traditional and ...

Every evening a black cat crouched in the cosmos waiting for the unwary finch. So in an effort to make the hunt more difficult, I pulled ...

WANTED THESE SOLD PAINTINGS The money received for a short time made me feel good but now these paintings would be more valuable for m...

Starting July 31st my past four Wednesday blogs were about the development of two similar paintings. I declare them finished this week.  A...

  Hulali assisted me by tying off ten locked ends  to keep them in place while working on the other side. This is the stage whe...

  Exhibits at the Corvallis Arts Center open up fascinating Lunch Box Artist Talks facilitated by the talented curator Hester Coucke. Janu...

by Rain Trueax There were years when I had a big footprint where it came to Christmas. It goes back to childhood with Santa coming Chr...

by Rain Trueax   It's hard to believe that it's already December. This year went by soooo fast. I am not much of a holiday per...

Trick or treat? What a fun time to decorate for the  trick-or-treaters. Two black cats and a witch will greet them.  Husband Don is trying ...

by Rain Trueax  The reason why I write paranormals, despite not having a clear genre where my work fits, is my curiosity as to what mi...

The Owyhee Spring is where we tied up our rafts to refill our water jugs. Originally I painted the ferns and moss like a poor photo I took ...

Since I posted yesterday on when could I rightfully identify myself as an artist, I realized that I didn’t include my thoughts on how often ...

by Rain Trueax My idea for the blog that led to so much trouble was reading something another author had written about the importance...

There is a limit to how many paintings can be stored in a 1,200 square foot house. My husband and I need room to move about and live s...

In this post and next Wednesday's post I will be giving examples of how I manage my collection of my own art while remaining prolific...

by Rain Trueax Sometimes I dream something and wake with an associated idea-- sometimes only roughly associated. It happened this week....