A pastel from last year.
Untitled 278. Pastel. Approx. 4" x 5". Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]
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Grocery store bouquet.
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Showing posts with label approx. 4" x 5". Show all posts
Showing posts with label approx. 4" x 5". Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2014
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Untitled 229
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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Note the difference in sleeping positions between Gadjo and Fennec...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Untitled 219
Pastel on PastelMat, approx. 4" x 5".
Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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Rumi update: trying steroids now in hopes he will gain weight. Miss Lemon--of course--refused to eat the special food. If the steroids work, the vet said Rumi could be weaned off them eventually, and probably only have to use them every now and then. Also if the steroids work, she said it will be proof that he does indeed have some sort of food allergy.
Rumi update: trying steroids now in hopes he will gain weight. Miss Lemon--of course--refused to eat the special food. If the steroids work, the vet said Rumi could be weaned off them eventually, and probably only have to use them every now and then. Also if the steroids work, she said it will be proof that he does indeed have some sort of food allergy.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Untitled 218
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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From earlier this winter. Those are Cleo tracks.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Untitled 202
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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Still looking for a place to live and do art. Dealing with a lot of insomnia and increased frequency of migraines.
Also now dealing with a yucky recurring plumbing problem in the house which the other day decided to reappear with a vengeance. Can no longer use the downstairs toilet at all, and it's a tricky and nasty business to take a shower (because it doesn't want to drain, and because water and gross stuff comes up from underground too). Lately I'm showering by balancing on a small pile of bricks I placed in the shower stall (which puts your head too high for the water coming out, so then you're balanced on bricks under your feet, while practicing mild contortionism trying to bend your head down below the water spout...).
Of all the kitty combinations witnessed around here, this pair is by far the most common. They are truly inseparable best friends.
I'm still worried about Rumi. It's getting close to the time (another week or two, I believe) to bring him back to the vet to reweigh him. He looks to me like he may have lost even more weight. Maybe he'll have held steady, which would of course be preferable to continuing to lose. But from the looks of him, I'd say he probably hasn't gained any weight. After reweighing him, if he has lost more weight, then I think the next step is blood tests. My best guess would be hyperthyroid, but it seems to be kind of unheard of in a young cat.
Gadjo's FHS has been noticeable but not out of control--it seems to happen maybe a couple of times a day, but each episode is fairly brief.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Untitled 199
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
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I like Gadjo's perturbed look here, as Fennec decides to take up more space.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Untitled 192
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." --Picasso.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Untitled 189
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4.5" x 5".
This one and the next one I'm going to post (Untitleds 189 and 190) make a really nice pair. I'm going to be framing them and about seven others for my next show, which I will be hanging on Dec.28.
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I'm a little bit worried about Rumi. He had his annual checkup recently, and has lost 10% of his body weight--and he was already a very slim cat. It's strange, for a young and otherwise apparently healthy cat. The vet wants me to bring him in again in about 6 more weeks to reweigh him. He's a very hyperactive cat and I think maybe he just burns off more calories than he can hold onto. His symptoms sound like hyperthyroid, but usually only senior cats suffer from that; Rumi is still a spring chicken.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Untitled 182
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Untitled 168
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
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Look how big Fennec's gotten (pic below)! I think he probably outweighs Gadjo now. Gadjo is now one year old and Fennec is...I don't remember...6 or 7 months, maybe, and is definitely going to be a big boy.
Gadjo has turned out to be one of those long, lean, lithe (but overall not very big) Siamese I've seen before (but never had one). When I pick him up he feels almost weightless, like he's build from little bird bones. He likes to be held balanced along one of my forearms/hand, and folds his long slim legs up in a complicated origami, which always makes me laugh.
What beautiful, amazing creatures they are. Not a day goes by without me being utterly in love with cats.
By the way, it's been a while since I mentioned the possibility of Gadjo having FHS (Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome). For a few months there, it seemed he was symptom-free and I had stopped holding my breath and thought perhaps he had escaped the disorder after all. But out of the blue, he had some bad episodes a few weeks ago. Just as I was about to give up and try some meds on him, his episodes began diminishing again and now they are almost nil. He does seem to be a high-strung cat, certainly the most nervous and hyperaware one I've ever had--traits of many Oriental breeds, apparently. In a way, FHS is kind of a magnification of those traits.
My guess right now is that he does have the disease, but if we are very lucky perhaps he won't have a severe case. If it ever gets bad enough, I will try him on meds, but it would be great if we didn't have to. What worries me most is it usually doesn't develop until a cat is one or two years old or more, and little Gadjo showed symptoms before even turning a year, which makes me fear an especially severe case. My poor darling. I'm just happy when I see he's having a day with no or few symptoms.
Fennec, on the other hand, is your classic laid-back big orange guy. My vet says there is a real tendency for male orange cats to be especially mellow and sweet and easygoing. Fennec certainly seems to be headed to fulfill that destiny.
I'd only ever had two male orange cats before, two brothers that were not at all laid-back or mellow, but I suspect they were somewhat feral when we got them, and we ended up not keeping them, giving them to a friend (of course we had too many cats anyway [!]), as they were very alpha and had been causing problems with the rest of our cats as they grew up. I had named them Uno and Dos, and unfortunately Uno disappeared from my friend's one night, but Dos is still there and very much cherished.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Untitled 163
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
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Don't forget, if you're in Boulder please come visit my studio this weekend or next for Open Studios.
Thanks, everyone, for the compliments on my previous post. I'm loving seeing some of the recent pastels framed and up as a group! I sold a few things today but, surprisingly to me, none of those.
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The love between these two just kills me.
And speaking of killing, I really wish Rumi wouldn't sleep like this. It's very disturbing to walk by the couch and see this:
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Untitled 162
Pastel on UArt, approx. 4" x 5".
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I had some dreadful problem with my iPhoto library. I still don't understand what happened or how The Husband patched up the problem or if the problem is fixed now for sure. But I am happy to be able to blog again today finally!
Coy boy on the couch.
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In India.
I thought this was some sort of tombstone. The Husband said it's something to do with telephone cables. Or electricity. Something like that.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Untitled 155
Pastel on PastelMat, approx 4" x 5".
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Fennec--all boxed up and nowhere to go.
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I can only imagine the gossip that must go on when the same bunch of women gets together every day for hours.
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