Seeing  interesting pattern, shapes, line, and color in the landscape is a step in framing my photographs to a rectangular window. Then wit...

Traditionally painters make plans like taking photos of their subject and making drawings of their composition before starting to transfer t...

Morning is my peak time for inspiration just as I am waking up, the most imaginative solutions occur to me. Like a couple of days ago I vi...

by Rain Trueax   Image from Stencil.  No, it's not me but isn't that a great old face as she looks at a barren and dried up w...

by Rain Trueax As we approach the new year, it's a time for me to look back as well as forward. In some of my looking back, I picke...

Cinevardaphoto is the second film of Agnes Varda reviewed here. The first was "The Gleaners", December 12.  As the words "c...

Yesterday's blog post featured photographs of clouds with fantasy titles that are inspiration for when I am on location and am moved ...

  Thank you grandson Kevin Oliver for sharing your interesting photograph. "Every cloud has a silver lining' is a saying of hop...

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

In my paintings I will  not borrow the color arrangement in these photographic compositions. I will not reproduce the detail that is recog...

I have not painted for several weeks resulting in being restless, worried, and out of sorts. I need some creative excitement like painting....