Showing posts with label SLOWCOLOR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SLOWCOLOR. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Untitled 220


Pastel on UArt, approx. 6" x 6".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].

This is a pastel from a month or so ago. 

I've been in the studio a lot lately, working on a couple of Diebenkorn-esque "Ocean Park"-style pieces. They're on the biggest canvases I've ever worked on: 3' x 4'.  (Although that's not even close to Diebenkorn sizes.) I love working on the bigger canvases, it turns out. I hope to work even larger than 3' x 4' someday. 
It's funny, after I've spent a few hours working on one of the 3' x 4' ones, when I look around at the studio, the 30" x 40" recent paintings suddenly look very small to me!

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Mr. Fennec, the poster child for sleeping well and getting your full 18 hours.

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Handmade in India.

More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Monday, August 29, 2011

Untitled 153


Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 6.5"
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Gadjo seems to have found the just-unpacked shipment of naturally-dyed linen SLOWCOLOR scarves.


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Bulletin board in Finland (photo credit: The Husband).


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Monday, July 4, 2011

Untitled 136


Pastel on PastelMat, approx. 4.5" x 4.5".

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Fennec, melting on the couch...



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Some of our early block-print experiments in India.


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Friday, July 1, 2011

The many moods of Fennec

Fennec, annoyed.


Fennec, skeptical.


Fennec, coy.


Fennec, straightforward.


Fennec, pensive. 


Fennec, pretending innocence.

To me, the most amazing part of getting a new cat is discovering, bit by bit, their unique personality. When you first take them home, they are just cat. Day by day, a strong and unique personality is revealed, until at last, perhaps in a few months, you truly know them, and their quirks. I wish I could meet literally every cat in the world. What a fun goal that would be!

Here's what we've learned about who (the rapidly growing) Fennec is so far:

--When he decides to nap, he drapes himself over cushions and looks like he's melting.

--He's a little piglet and eats as much as he can possibly hold every time he goes near the food bowl. He also howls for cheese, yogurt, and yams. He walks around with his tummy the size of a softball.

--When you do something he doesn't like, like pick him up when he's not in the mood, or pet him when he wants to sleep soundly, he makes these hilarious little irritated grunts. We say he's making his Angry Noises at us.

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Gadjo knows instinctively that the color blue matches his lovely eyes. We just got a new batch of SLOWCOLOR scarves that are cross-woven (one color on the warp, a different color on the weft), and some patterned, with stripes and checks. They're beautiful. They're not on the website yet, but will be soon! (Anyone who wants to know when they're up on the website, leave me a comment here and I'll let you know.) 

As soon as we unpacked them, Gadjo hopped on top of them and waited politely for his picture to be taken.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com


Sunday, May 29, 2011

Untitled 118


Pastel on PastelMat, approx. 5" x 5".

I've done a few things lately in a high-key palette just to experiment. I'm usually more of a medium-key painter.
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Who's that two-headed creature on the couch?


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If you're in town, tomorrow (Monday) is the last day of the Boulder Creek Fest. Come see SLOWCOLOR's beautiful naturally-dyed linen scarves. Our booth is near the main library entrance.

(Below) Our logo being embroidered, in India.



More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Untitled 89


Pastel on Sennelier LaCarte, approx. 2.5" x 2.5".

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Our SLOWCOLOR e-store is now up and running. Here's a pic of our lovely friend Margaret, also a business owner, wearing a couple of scarves at our recent launch party. You can get 10% off right now by entering aprilfool10% as the code.

And now it's back to art and animolecules.


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At the dyers' center, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com