Untitled 60 (oil and cold wax)

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

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

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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 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 54 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 54.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  16" x 16".   Sold.

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Gadjo knows what color to sit on to match his eyes.

Gadjo and Rumi.

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Somewhere in my neighborhood.

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Untitled 53 (oil and cold wax)

Untitled 53.  Oil and cold wax on museum panel.  10" x 30".   Purchase information: jala [at] jalapfaff [dot com]

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My old food processor died, so I got a new cheap one (because one must eat pesto in the summertime). Never before have I gotten something packed in a box that was so cat-ready.

Mojito waiting for me to apply his shampoo, so he can get this over with...  (He's very good about it, but really dislikes being bathed.)

Gadjo and Rumi, the little lovebugs.

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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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