A New Creation

I'm starting a new oil painting for my mom. It's a garden scene. She's going to put it over her bed.

This is my sketching out where everything will basically go...

...and this is what it looks like after the first coat of paint!

(Stay tuned for when I start putting more layers on it!)

Long time, no SEE!

Some things I've worked on over the summer!!
I experimented with Rorschach ink blot tests... what do you see and how does it make you feel?

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Some faces...

I actually did several studies of blossom branches. This one was one of my last in that series.

Doodling with sharpies.

Painting Party!

Today was my first official day off from school work!! So, my roommates had a little painting party! The following is our work...

"Leaves" by: Kezia
"Chinese Cherry Blossoms" by: Kezia
"Abstract" by: Jaimee (my roommate)
"Forged Leaves" by: Kezia
"Red Leaf on Stone" by: Heidi (my other roommate)

My Earthship Model

So, for my Housing class, we all did 15 hr projects that we worked on throughout the semester. My project was studying Earthships and learning what it would take to build one in Kansas.... I had LOTS of fun! One of the professors helped me by letting me borrow some Earthship books.... she's an Earthship nerd like me!! I made a model of a basic one to scale. Here it is!

Here's the inside, looking at the planter in front of the window.

Here's the front. Complete with a wind generator and solar panel to provide electricity!

Here's where you enter! The front door!

This Semester So Far

I Seriously want an Earthship!

I'm doing a research project on the architect, Michael Reynolds. He created a completely self sustaining home that not only houses people, but feeds them, too! Using solar and/or wind energy for electricity and each house has it's own water storage system! The water is collected from melted snow and rain.

The walls are made from old car tires, stuffed with earth, and non-load bearing walls are made of glass or aluminum cans bound with a cement mixture. From the angle the big windows are placed the sun comes in the house, heats it up and makes the plants grow. You can grow almost anything from banana trees to herbs to your own fish pond!
Books for my research... I haven't started yet...

My studio project, a Visitor's Center. I'm doing a South East Alaska Native Center in Skagway, Alaska

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As the saying goes... 'New year, new you!' Well, I learned about eating raw food over Christmas break and I was very eager to try it! So, I went to Barnes and Noble and bought a raw food cookbook... there wasn't much to choose from, so I chose the one with the prettiest looking cover, the best pictures and simplest recipes. Turns out it was the BEST book EVER!!!! The author is Ani Phyo (said, 'Pee-o').

I'm not completely 100% eating raw, but I'm close enough for now. Enough to feel a difference in my body and my digestive system. It's like my body's saying, "THANK YOU!!"

So, Here's some of the creations I made yesterday...

This isn't a creation, it's just me and my sister on New Year's Eve, having fun taking pictures in the car.

No kelp noodles at the health food store, so I just got regular Pad Thai noodles.
Sprinkled cabbage and basil on top.
Then made this AMAZING sauce!! It tastes just like normal Pad Thai, only not hot and with no meat. The big flavors came from raw almond butter, coconut oil, and ground coriander.
Me, eating it!!! SOOOO GOOD!!
Then I made a personal size flourless cake for dessert! Using walnuts and pecans as a base, and binding it together with dates and agave nector.... REALLY good as well!!
The white 'frosting' was just pecans, coconut oil and vanilla.
And then today I made a salad with the Pad Thai stuff I had left over! Just added some spinach and made a Rawmesan cheez out of pecans, garlic and salt! SOOOO GOOD!

I don't know if I'll ever want to go back to eating like the way I did!!