by Rain Trueax It's been a scorcher this week and not just Arizona. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8358117/Temperatures-e...

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...

 Monday, May 25, first thing in the morning, I painted for a few minutes. Finishing a painting takes the longest. For days  many times a day...

by Rain Trueax In the United States, today is Memorial Day, significant to many for assorted reasons. I thought in a troubled time such ...

by Rain Trueax One of the blogs I read suggested that people come up with positive things that have come up for them through the pa...

Having a painting project in progress makes me feel good and optomistic. Now painting brings me closer to one of my favorite fellow painters...

This was on FB. Is it true? Some of it fits what I've read but what about the rest? Here's the thing-- shouldn't we check on wha...

by Rain Trueax May 2020 and the high temperatures have reached Tucson. Although I have called myself old for some years, I am only n...

  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 ...

Painting movement has been an interest as long as I can remember. When I was very young preschooler, I had an activity book with wildlife...

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

by Rain Trueax Trying to cut down the photos to a few for this blog is proving very difficult-- and that just for the ones from May...

Monday, May 4 Up early! Watched a fledging swallow being fed and Red Tail Hawk also watching with interest. Had a leisurely breakfast. M...

by Rain Trueax Because I got this from Facebook, I wanted to share it widely. As countries and states open up, each of us will need to...

by Rain Trueax sunset April 30th from Casa Espiritu With the self-distancing and quarantining going on, there has been talk about how...

Thursday, April 23, I got out my paints and set up on the back patio to paint the swallows in flight. The surface was a self prepared water...

by Rain Trueax I've been torn on what to write here given the times. My gosh, we get all this information but which parts do we tr...

  In order to find ways to intice my husband with ALS to eat his vegies, I experiment on myself. Here is a wilted salad on my morning oat...

by Rain Trueax   The candle came from San Xavier, a mission I love to visit and now and again light a candle there. Years ago, we had b...

Feeling satisfaction in my framed painting of disturbed air in the swallow's flight path. It was a challenge requiring many trials pain...