Snack Mountain Blog

Wow! I love living in California! I got this beautiful newsprint booklet in the mail with all  the info on propositions for the upcoming election. It gave me the idea to do drawings/posters for Prop 37 which would mandate GMO labeling! The drawing pictured above is very rough and I’ll probably redo the whole thing. (Side note: I have to admit how vulnerable I feel posting these half-finished-early-stage-experimentation paintings/drawings up here but I have no idea if anyone actually looks at this so I’ll just continue to do so.) Anyway, look at this booklet:

It’s super thick! Love it! Can’t wait to vote YES on prop 37! Because no one wants hairy broccoli or corn zombies, right??? I also decided to make some salt-dough so I could make a broccoli bust! It will probably be the first of many!

He looks pretty terrifying right now but will hopefully look less scary once I paint him! In other news, I tasted the 2nd fermentation kombucha with the blueberries and its freaking delicious!!! Why wasn’t I doing this before!?!?!?! It’s so much more delicious (and possibly alcoholic)…

So, I’m not craving ice cream but today I bought this vintage ice cream sundae poster and so I decided to draw it. As for the cleanse, the main thing I’ve noticed after almost a full week is that I am significantly less hungry! I almost feel like I could skip meals! What’s happening to SNACK MOUNTAIN?!?!?!

So I’ve fallen off with the drawings but I haven’t given up yet! Today I set up new batches of Kombucha and started 2nd fermentation on the last round! I’ve never done this before and hope that nothing explodes or that no one loses an eye!! The person most likely being me since I am the only one that will touch them. I infused them all with ginger, some with lemon, blueberries and cranberries!! Pretty exciting stuff! I also started a new batch of sauerkraut that in this picture looks more like a salad.

Delicious! More on drawing stuff to come!

Yet again, I had dreams that I was eating things that I am not supposed to eat while on the cleanse. The weird thing is that I am not craving bread at all! I feel totally normal and fine. It’s only day 4 after all. Today I decided to stray from a drawing and do a photo. But I mean, there was some drawing involved….

Stay away from the bread cactus!!!!

So today I tasted the sauerkraut from the Sandor Katz workshop! It’s soooooo good. I think the large batch I made the following day went south because some of the brine evaporated. I tried to salvage it by transferring the bottom portion to a smaller jar and sealing the lid instead . It wasn’t smelling too appetizing. And for some bizarre reason, that didn’t stop me from tasting the teeeeniest bite. Well, to no one’s surprise that probably wasn’t a good idea! I’ve been neurotically thinking I am going to get sick any minute now! This neurosis inspired me to try out Bruno Munari’s vegetable stamp idea with some cabbage, apples and plums. This is what my face will look like if I get sick. Hahaha.

So! After the first day of the cleanse what do I dream about? Eating sugar-ey things like cupcakes and Reese’s Pieces until I remembered I can’t eat them on the cleanse and then I would spit them out. So weird. I don’t even like cupcakes. Reese’s pieces, well, that’s a different, longer story. Again, not sure about this drawing but, NO EXCUSES!

In other exciting news! I got my California plates today!!! It made me feel all giddy! All I have to say is…WUUUUUUUUUU hoooooo! I am a real Californian now!

I have become sooooooo LA! Today I am starting a 3-week cleanse! Don’t worry, it’s not one of those crazy juice cleanses where you don’t eat solid foods! It’s a cleanse I am doing via the Akasha Center which is an amazing Integrative Medicine Clinic in Santa Monica. Basically, you drink 1-2 protein smoothies a day (with supplements they provide) and then you don’t eat wheat, dairy, alcohol, coffee, soy, eggs, and nightshades. I avoid dairy to begin with and have been wanting to try a 3-week break from wheat for a long time! You are also supposed to exercise 5 times a week and do yoga and breathing exercises!

So! One of the things I wanted to focus on while doing this cleanse was making new work. It didn’t occur to me until today that I can combine the two ideas into a drawing series! So, each day, I will make and **hopefully** upload a drawing/illustration/painting inspired by my cleanse.

To be honest, I don’t really like this first drawing (it’s supposed to be dandelion greens which I ate today!) but that’s the whole idea. I’m cleansing! Hahahaha. Let’s see how this goes!