Showing posts with label Bihar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bihar. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Untitled 225


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 6".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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Talented painter David Larson Evans has done an awesome painting of Mojito on the couch. Check it out and smile.
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Professional squirrel watcher.


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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Square 3


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 6".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Sky 23 (pastel)


Pastel on PastelMat, approx. 9" x 7".

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


It's been ages since I've done a pastel sky. I found a piece of PastelMat lying around and starting making marks with my always-favorite Unisons. Skies paint themselves on PastelMat. 


Below: I want to thank Loriann for a great idea on cleaning pastels: a window screen and a hand vac do a great job, safely. I went to the hardware store and got a piece of flexible, soft window screen material. (Before I got the window screen, I admit I did try using a vacuum cleaner but accidentally sucked up a couple of half-sticks of pastel.) Cleaning the excess dust off a box of pastels now couldn't be simpler.

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You know what I'm about to say, don't you? Yeah, "someone let the cat...

...out of the bag." 

Yep. There was just nothing else to say about that.

Rumi update: Went to the vet today and we've decided that if possible, we'll try a food trial. My vet spoke to a cat internist who thinks Rumi may have somehow developed a food allergy. It will be the last thing to try before turning to steroids. The catch is that because we have six cats, all of them will have to be willing to eat the special food (because food is always available to all the cats) for eight weeks. I got a sample of the special dry food from the vet and will try it on each cat individually first. 
I have a feeling Miss Lemon is going to be the one that refuses it. She is the pickiest one and also the only one who won't ever even try wet food, not even the occasional canned tuna treat.
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In Bihar, India.


[Edited to add: Ha, I just realized it looks like this guy is selling condoms. No, it's actually some kind of Indian snack packet. It's fun to see junk food in other cultures, isn't it? My favorite snack food there is fried lentils. Yum. 


And when I lived in Japan many years ago, snack food was utterly mystifying and often (I'm a vegetarian) disgusting. Like little dried whole fishes with eyeballs and all.]


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Untitled 216


Pastel on UArt, approx. 4.5" x 6".

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

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"Well, hello there, my name is Fennec and I'm a goofball."

Vertigo!
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I'll be taking Rumi in to reweigh him this week. He needs to at least have held steady, if not actually (hopefully) gained a little weight, or else we will likely have to try putting him on steroids for at least a while (vet's recommendation; the assumption would be that he is allergic to something). The cause of all the weight loss is still a mystery. Tests ruled out a lot of conditions, but the actual reason remains an enigma thus far. When I pick him up lately, he feels about the same to me, maybe even gained a tiny bit? But maybe it's just wishful thinking.

It's not good for them (or anyone, probably) to be on steroids long-term, but for a short time it shouldn't cause problems. Miss Lemon is actually on steroids and has been for years, and probably will be her whole life; she has a poorly-understood autoimmune disorder that causes terribly painful swollen mouth and paw tissue when not on steroids.
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Hanging off the back of a jeep, Bihar, India.


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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Untitled 215


Pastel on UArt, approx. 4.5" x 5".


Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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The latest bizarre search words that people used and ended up accidentally on my blog were looking mad and mondays slay me.


Fennec is unfazed by Mondays, or any other day of the week.


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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Untitled 214


Pastel on UArt, approx. 7" x 8".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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I've been struggling with severe depression lately and have found it very hard to work, paint, play guitar, blog...pretty much everything. I'm changing meds and today is a little better. 
At least I have my animolecules to keep me company.
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In Bihar, India.




More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Untitled 211


Pastel on UArt, approx. 9" x 12".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Untitled 206


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 5.5".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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Rumi update: the reason for his weight loss is still a mystery. Poor skinny little guy. The ultrasound showed nothing out of the ordinary (and he now sports a shaved pink tummy), though it ruled out quite a few possibilities. I'm currently waiting for results from an additional blood test, to see if he has a rare condition called pancreatic insufficiency. We're running out of hypotheses...

The vet also suggested doing a dewormer on Rumi just in case, and since I have to do the process with Rumi, I figured I might as well do the same dewormer with Fennec, since Fennec has had mysterious abdominal ailments (bloating, diarrhea) pretty much since we got him. The deworming is meds mixed with their food three days in a row, then wait two weeks, then another three days in a row. And yes, they both were dewormed before, but apparently it can be a good thing to do several times.



Fennec and Gadjo share a nap kind of afternoon.



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Me update: the divorce stuff is difficult and I can't really say anything about it here because The Husband sometimes reads my blog.

Still looking for a place to live avec animolecules, and a place to do art. Sigh. A lot of work/time put into the search so far, and it's still fruitless.
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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Untitled 203


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 6".

Art purchase inquiries: please email me: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com].
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He just kills me with his nonchalant, lazy, trusting, furry orange self. Just kills me.




I'll be taking Rumi back to the vet to reweigh him this Friday, about a week early. He just looks so thin. I arranged with the vet that if indeed he has lost more weight, then they can take blood right then and save an additional trip. 

Not that Rumi would mind an extra trip, of course. He loves going traveling and meeting people.
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In Bihar, India. I looked up and there were hundreds, maybe thousands, of dragonflies circling around above me. Creepy.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Monday, December 26, 2011

Untitled 197


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 6".
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Still haven't found a new place to live or do art. Still looking.
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I adore Fennec's sleeping positions. I also love his unapologetic laziness.



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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Untitled 195


Pastel on UArt, approx. 5" x 6".
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Bursting at the seams: my studio (at least for however long it's still mine to work in).
Still haven't been able to find a new studio space. And when I do, I can't even imagine the process of trying to move everything--especially all the hundreds of unframed pastels pinned up on the walls.

In this photo, on the left you can see, pinned on the far back wall of the studio, about a fourth of my finished, unframed smaller-format Rothko-esque pastels. 

On the right, a couple of large oils in progress on the floor, and pinned up, some slightly larger, even more minimalist Rothko-esque pastels I've been doing lately (none posted yet). I think they're 9" x 12". When it's time to frame any of them, I'll probably need to get bigger frames than the current 11" x 14" frames I usually use; I think a bit more white mat around them would be better.
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Another lazy day on the green sofa.


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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Untitled 194


Pastel on UArt, approx. 3" x 5".
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In Bihar, India.


More art on my website: jalapfaff.com