Finishing Pineapples and Limes: wonderful day

Here is the progression of my painting the pineapples. The top left one is bothering me so I need to fix that, it's too, something, I don't know yet, but it needs to be toned to the right colors of the color scheme I have got going here. But my first Pineapple I was super afraid of how it was going to look, but as you see in the first picture it isn't too bad. I was very proud of myself. And for other art going on I have also posted here a few pictures of what I have of my three of washes; a flat wash, graded, and a mixed.

Here is my plan for the washes that I will be doing. Hopefully it will be ready for when I go to class. If not, then hopefully Sister Ellis will be nice to me. I really loved these three colors and how they worked together. It made me happy. I liked doing it on a smaller scale too, it was a little easier, but going bigger will help me with experience and going places with watercolor. I am so excited about this class.

Here is the real deal. So now to finish it all off and make it become what I want it to. Finished pictures to come soon.

Limes, Simple Object, chart: Sept 26 2010

Here are the newly updated and better looking limes. NOW to start working on the pineapples and get them up here as well.



This one, with the balloons is titled, "Free Entanglement".

Structure Geology Field Trip: second week of school

Here are a few pictures from my field trip that I went on when I missed class. I enjoyed it all and being able to be out camping and seeing these awesome things. ENOJY!!









A thrust fault of Chugwater siltstone( the bright red)

Water color 251: limes galore and a few pinaps

For my 251 art class we were given this assignment and here is a few pieces of it. final and others to follow.

Life at the Gold Mines. August 13, 2010

So the tour I went on yesterday, was pretty much amazing, actually it wasn't really a tour, I shadowed an ore control geologist around while he did his job and I helped him out. He took me into his office, showed me around the in-house software programs that they use there at Newmont, and then took me to talk to one of the engineers, and she showed me around a little more with the software programs. After that the geologist, PJ Shumway, took to to see Gold Quarry pit, which recently had a pretty major land slide. The sediments that went, were some basal sands, that lie right on top of this huge layer of Montmorillionite, and the sand likes to hold water, so it super-saturated the clay and one day, away it all went. They have a couple blast hole rigs down in the bottom, a couple trucks and things, stuck down there until they get that place cleaned out. Apparently, I got a treat seeing that, because no on is supposed to really see that. After talking about the slide he talked to me about the geology there in the pit, and pretty much what happened, it looks like someone threw up there, there are so many faults going through there that have down dropped and shoved, and pushed everywhere that the oxides are just everywhere. I can't quite remember what some of the faults were, but its got The Roberts mountain thrust fault...SOOOOOO AWESOME.

PJ then took me to one of the pits there that they are mining out of since Gold Quarry is closed down, and I got to go down into the pit there on the blast patterns, with the blasting crew, and do some ore control. He threw, well dropped 10% HCL onto the sides of the holes they were drilling out and getting ready to blast and seeing if it had calcite in it and if it is non-acid forming sediment. IT was super cool to be down there and see this fault system that went through there. They had the roberts thrust, some other faults, and an anticline. SO awesome to see the way that it had mutli-fractures, and folded up back on itself ( It escapes me at the moment what it is called, but its right on the tip of my tongue.) and fractures, you can see the folding back on itself in the smaller layers and he was telling me that is what it looked like on the big scale. Oh man. I got such a great geology lesson there. In the Pete pit, where we were for this, there is a little bit of the rodeo creek unit, and then it goes down in the Popovich formation, which he was telling me is a bunch of black boring micrite. Well more so a silty to muddy limestone grading into calcarenite and limestone with planar laminated silty limestone. That was an adventure in itself to be able to see all of that first hand. And PJ was telling me that I must be pretty special, because they don't just let anyone in to the pits, ESPECIALLY on the blast pattern. So it was pretty awesome.

Then, we went up to another newer pit where they are starting some new exploration, and helped him map the high wall for the next blast, well not map it, just figuring out the hardness of the rocks and how hot they would have to load the holes for blasting the rock. He was going to have me map the high wall with him, but he had to be back at gold quarry at a certain time to talk with one of the blasting engineers. Then I was shown how they put all the information we got at the blasting holes into the in-house software and then, I was taken back to the place of my normal working out at the core shed. BY this time my brain was completely on overdrive. It was a lot to process all in a few hours.

I was talking to John Powell, the head surface geologist, and he asked me if I wanted to be considered for an internship next summer, I told him that I was SUPER interested. Even though field camp will kinda be in the middle of it. I told him if I could get hired right after I get out in April, I could work for 7 weeks, then go to field camp, and then come back after it and then work for 7 more weeks. So I am hoping it goes through. I was a little more interested in the mining career path after this day. We shall see though. PJ was very helpful with the advice and all.

We shall see what the future may bring!!

: June 6 --Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

So Friday I went in to work for a full 40hrs on my paycheck this week. I was exposed to more things that the others I work with do on a regular basis. I helped mark footage's of the core that many places have been drilling out. I was then instructed on how to take pictures of the core for other records. AND then I was shown how to break up the core, bag it in bags according to a certain order and then I bagged up all 600 some feet up in a bunch of bags and tied off with zip ties, so they could be put into a bin, and sent on its way to the assay lab so they could break it down more and determine what kind of rocks they are dealing with and where the GOLD is in those rocks. Definitely a great experience. I loved how much I got to look at the rock and recognize things I have learned in past classes from school.
Then I was summoned to sit at a computer for the rest of the day, 4 hours or so, to change the names of the pictures that they took of the core footage. THAT was something, let me tell you. I learned myself how to type numbers in pretty fast with my left hand because my right dominant had was tired. OH GEE.

What a day, what a weeek.

June 2, 2010: Missing you like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter

Wow, so it sure has been a long time since I have been on here. A lot has happened to me worth spitting out on this wall of a blog thing.

I have been working out at the Gold mine here in Northern Nevada for three weeks now. Crazy how time surely flies, But it has been good. I work in the Geology Warehouse where they receive, prepare, distribute, and then store the rock core samples. I get to play with rocks, rock flour, and interact with all the geologists that come into the building to map and log the core samples. :D without even getting the internship. So it's a pretty awesome job I have here.

BUT more to come...
I promised my niece that I would go play Frisbee with her a few min ago, so I better run. I will be back though I promise!!