by Rain Trueax For the last year or two (or more), we've been getting calls from our Advantage insurance plan asking us to find a 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   We spent this week still waiting on the carport permit. This is so frustrating as it's about length of nails, ...

More balanced!  More depth! Feels much improved after reviewing my collection of on location gestural sketches described in yesterday...

contrast enhanced pencil The first excitement when I feel the most alive is the feeling I want to express in my finished paintings. The ...

by Rain Trueax   shared this morning by a friend on Facebook Yesterday, I posted a blog and hope you will read it as it's about...

by Rain Trueax I had written the blog for today and then woke up Friday morning to another mass shooting, this time in New Zealand. T...

Turnip Peel to Beach Debris Last year I tried but failed to enter the Corvallis Arts Center's Around Oregon Exhibit.  The on line en...

by Rain Trueax Have I mentioned too many times that I don't like change. I am a creature of habit. I like what I like. But constant...

Aquabord allows the watercolorist to paint on a surface that can later be sprayed with acrylic eliminating the need for glass protection. ...

by Rain Trueax     bye bye Okay, to start-- I do know inanimate objects don't have feelings and are not real. I know this logic...

  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...

By Rain Trueax February 19th-- Super Snow Moon For this blog, I had ideas, multiples-- during the week. Then here the time comes, an...

I packed a few art supplies including 11"x14" Aquabord and some canvas boards coated with absorbent ground for watercolor. For p...

by Rain Trueax It's been cool in the desert with more rain than last year but that promises a beautiful year for wildflowers. We...

Great Aunt Myrtle's hand sewing on paper and fabric around 1930 To my valentines, my co-author Rain, my supportive husband, and my...

by Rain Trueax This week, I got to thinking about how much of life is about luck and timing. Those two items can go either way for 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 is one given in life and really only one. Once we are born, we will die. Now some believe only the body dies. Th...

by Rain Trueax photo for Imbolc 2017 When we are in Oregon, we usually see the first lambs about now. Imbolc, Ewe's Milk, is a ...