Moments and Thoughts

This season and term have flown by! There have been many fun memories and lots of work that's been done over this short time. I've learned somewhere around two hundred trees in my plants class. Learned how to push and pull space in my art class as well as painting with charcoal (adding water to charcoal). The 12 principles of Japanese garden design. French in it's many uses. These are a few pictures to highlight some of the things i've been doing! Most recently to right before the last post. My friend from High School requested me to help him actualize an idea for his next tattoo. It's taken all term to finally get to this point, I also used this drawing as my art final which ment this version took 8 hours to create! This is the Bald Eagle version And the Golden Eagle version we'll see which he picks This was version 1 at the beggining of the term the finals are versions 4,5 and 6 The start of my final project i'm working on that'll be a miniature model ...

This is the mid way point now it will be copied (by hand) to Velum then taken to a printer and printed out for the final version! This is the finished product on velum but not printed because the printer was broken at kinkos

Just got back from a little weekend trip to the island. It was filled with rich yummy foods and my wonderful mother! Also my boyfriend was hard to get rid of after he tasted some of the food ;) The following pic is of Ian and I just before I had to leave for Eugene. Mean while back in Eugene I've been busy learning over 84 trees so far. We have to learn Common names, Latin names and be able to identify a twig sans leaves from each tree. That's just for tests, we also learn growing habits, preferences and other fun facts. Here are some of the more colorful trees I've learned so far! (this is a great way to study) Although there seems to be a rain curse on the class hence the rainy day photo's... Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata) American Elm (Ulmus americana) This is a rare tree because most of the older trees were wiped out or destroyed because of Elm disease Korean Stewartia (Stewartia koreanea) This ones really cool because everything is velvety and soft! Staghorn Su...

Here are a few of the tree's in my neighborhood i've learned about! Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) Flame Ash (Fraxinus oxycarpa 'Flame') Black Hawthorn (Crateagus douglasii) Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Red Maple Crimson King Norway Maple (Acer plantanoides 'Crimson King') Norway Maple (Acer plantanoides) Threadleaf Japanese maple (Acer palmatum 'Dissectum') Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)

There have been the football games, the visit from my man back in WA, starting classes which are all great and the little moments around the quad i've come to treasure! Pictures go from newest to oldest... Leg tattoo i doodled on myself! Katherine's snowflake Both Katherine's tattoo's i drew =D I Christina's elegant tattoo! Random climbing of trees is a great past time for Fridays nights in Eugene! Being a Dona Gatta (cat woman)/ Vampire Katherine lounging in a tree Playing in the piles of leaves under my new favorite fall tree: American Ash 'Purple Autumn' Katherine "falling from the tree" Kitty webbing! The riparian(river community) tree's of Willamette Valley Our dumpster loves us! Silverleaf Maple (Acer saccharinum) just one of 30 trees i've been studying so far! Roommate bonding on the floor of the kitchen! Football game against WSU! Cal? game Just a little peak into the busy day to day life here! Not captured on photo's are the tr...