My writing in 1954  My writing in 2019  A small detail from a book stood out as confirmation of what I thought happened in my own...

by Rain Trueax When you reach a certain age, which could vary for any of us, the idea of end of life comes into play. I mean at 75, I o...

  When I first began gluing paper to canvas, I was confident that I would think of a purpose for the collage. If some of the pieces of ...

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...

I embrace the freedom of working on the worst made canvas ever.  No fear of spoiling it. Handmade papers I made and collected are glued ...

Painting large is physically and emotionally satisfying. It keeps me moving as I age. Only it is becoming more difficult to carry these ...

by Rain Trueax To be honest, I don't have much to say. Lots going on politically, but I prefer not writing about that-- bad enough...

 The Corvallis Caring Place residents and staff have shown so much appreciation that I continue to have the desire to make a good showing. ...

by Rain Trueax I am a fan of documentaries. There are times when a movie just does not appeal to me. Almost always a good documenta...

The certain tolerance that I have for chaos in our home reached a limit when I had to move very large paintings to get into a cabinet for fr...

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...

December 2018 my painting involvement was slowed to just looking at my recent oil paintings and wanting to make changes but my paints were p...

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by Rain Trueax Ho ho ho, who wouldn't go? Silent Night. Holy Night. Whatever Christmas means to you-- if anything-- it tot...

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

by Rain Trueax Recently, I've been thinking about life and writing-- how they go together. Many years ago, I decided people coul...

Gleaners are everywhere sifting through harvested fields and looking through dumpsters to name two gleaning sites. But I had not thought ab...

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...

Every Spring the first time painting outdoors after becoming accustomed to dimmer lighting of winter, I need to be mindful that the brighter...