Untitled 60 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 60.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  6" x 24".   

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We're still here!  Life isn't easy, but we are all still hanging in there.

Technological issues still haven't been solved, but here's a new post, with a new painting, at last. 

This painting has some copper sheen that I couldn't capture on camera.
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Snow snout. Mojito.

The boyz: Gadjo and Rumi.

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Untitled 59 (oil + cold wax)

Untitled 59.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   

Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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First new painting in a long time.

I've given up trying to figure out all my technology problems for the moment--the main problem being that I can't access or post my older photos. But since I finally did a few new paintings, I can post them.
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Things are still tough, but so far we're all hanging in.
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Mojito is turning ten next month. I can't believe how fast the time goes. He's my best friend, my protector, and my baby. I need him so much, and I really hope he has some good years still ahead of him.

Gadjo is doing well lately. The med he's on does quite a good job at controlling his (probably due to being a purebred Siamese) anxiety, and the anxiety is partly what triggers the FHS, so he is experiencing very little FHS anymore, which is wonderful. Nowadays usually the only time it's triggered is when the gray cat from the next building comes and menaces him through the window. That cat infuriates Gadjo to no end. And infuriates me too, because it literally tries to attack Gadjo through the windows. As you can imagine, this is mostly a summer problem, when there's only a screen between them.

Fennie is...busy being Fennie. Lots of napping in his daily agendas, but lately he's become quite active and kittenish (read: hyper) every evening. When your "kitten" weighs close to 20 pounds in a small apartment, it's kind of annoying.

Rumi (who is also doing surprisingly well lately--it's possible that the B12 shots I was taught to give him at the vet are what's really helping him--he's put some weight back on) loves to bug everyone. He is so sweet and funny and endearing, but he adores being a pain, especially when it comes to purposely sitting right in Mojito's favorite spots (and trying to trip people when they walk). 

Mojito really wanted to lay his head down, but Rumi was in the way (and Rumi knew it). Finally Mojito just said screw it, I'm laying down anyway. Rumi was mildly squished and didn't look super comfortable, but stayed there quite a while out of sheer obnoxiousness. He's such a little marshmallow clown.

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Untitled 58 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 58.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   

Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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Some very striking Stargazer lilies at the grocery store.

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Untitled 57 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 57.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   

Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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Gadjo and Rumi, Rumi and Gadjo.

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My photo + waterlogue app.

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Untitled 56 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 56.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   Sold.

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Untitled 55 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 55.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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Gadjo.

Nature invented the concept of complementary color.

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Untitled 286

I've had almost no time lately to paint, but I've done a few small pastel works.  I'm excited about this one, because not only do I really like it, but it's also kind of a new direction for me.

Untitled 286.  Pastel.  Approx. 4" x 6".   Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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Fennec has his head shot. He's ready for any auditions that might come his way.

I haven't blogged for a while... My life feels completely crazy juggling so many things. I'm kind of exhausted lately.

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The other day I went by a client's (I guess technically I'm supposed to call her one of my collectors, but that always sounds so pretentious to me) to drop off a couple of small paintings she is considering.

I got to see a bunch of my art in situ. Her house is so perfect for my pieces--she has an ultra-modern house with all white walls and a ton of light.

Here's one of my oils on linen. It's 36" x 36" (looks small! Her wall spaces are seriously massive).  She bought it about three years ago, before my divorce:

And here is my group of small white paintings, oil and cold wax on museum panel. They are 6" x 6" each and she bought them last year. She has them in a little alcove with this awesome bench. So perfect:

She has good taste, don't you think? ;)

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Untitled 52

Untitled 52, Oil and cold wax on museum panel, 24" x 24".  

Sold.

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I didn't actually think Fennec's arms were so long!

The lovebugs. I love Rumi's content little smile.
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The other day, I took Mojito out for his usual fetching session in the dog park. He pooped right away, as always. As I approached to pick it up, I stepped in a giant pile of some other dog's poop. I started (cursing and) wiping it off my shoe, and while I did, Mojito came running back to see why I was lagging...and he stepped in his own poop.
Why oh why does dog poop smell so utterly horrible?
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So this is really embarrassing, but a friend suggested I do this... I have put up a "Chip in" widget here on my blog, below. If you are able and the spirit moves you, please consider a donation, however small. 

I cannot describe the emotion I feel seeing a contribution come in...because I don't think I've ever felt that emotion before. The fact that total strangers or fellow bloggers I've never even met in person have given me something valuable--it's amazing. I don't want to sound trite, but the feeling is that of hope--not just for me, but for the realization that though the Internet isolates us in some ways, it also allows for a new sort of global generosity and caring, and that actually makes me feel hope for the future, and for humanity.

Thank you. I know that so many of us are struggling to survive in this economy.

[Someone broke their legal, court-ordered agreement with me; they were supposed to pay me the money they owe me on Oct. 31.  They refused.  I need to raise funds to pay rent, food, meds, and immediate attorney's fees (beyond what I already owe my attorney) so that I can pursue Contempt of Court, which is the only chance to get what I am owed.]


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Untitled 44 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 44, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 10" x 30".

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Untitled 43 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 43, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 12" x 12". Sold.

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 It kills me when Fennec sleeps in this face-plant position:

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Art is everywhere...  This is a piece of precut Swiss cheese from a package I bought.

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Flux

Flux, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 16" x 16".

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Kitties always look so angelic and innocent while they're asleep...

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What does this look like to you? Does it look like half a 25-year-old cactus was broken mercilessly overnight by three mischievous kitties? Yep, that's correct. 

And yet. And yet, I love them so. Everything's forgivable. 

Well, except maybe that time I painstakingly coaxed, over seven years, a very rare orchid to bloom, put it in a place the cats shouldn't have been able to reach, and the next day the cats severed the flower spike.

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7

7, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 6" x 12".

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 Ears!

Happiness is a cozy kitty.

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6

6, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 6" x 12".

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 Who doesn't fit in his favorite box anymore?

Qui, moi?? Vraiment?

It cracks me up when I discover that I've been walking back and forth unknowingly being observed by a small Oriental statue.

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First finished painting since the divorce and move!

5, oil and cold wax on museum panel, 6" x 12".

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There's a "6" and a "7" coming soon, too.

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 He's all gangly legs, this one.

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