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Seated Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 26, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Seated Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 25, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Man Pulling Rope

By Teresa Jordan on December 24, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Seated Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 23, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Kneeling Man

By Teresa Jordan on December 21, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Woman Seated on Stool

By Teresa Jordan on December 20, 2019 in Life Drawing, Oil Paintings

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Seated Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 19, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Seated Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 18, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Slightly Crouching Man

By Teresa Jordan on December 17, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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Leaping Woman

By Teresa Jordan on December 16, 2019 in iPad Paintings, Life Drawing

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All Marie ever wanted in life was to work outside with horses and cattle and dogs. As a girl, she worked alongside her father and brother; when she married, she and her husband John Bell bought a neighboring ranch. Teresa wrote about Marie in both Cowgirls and Riding the White Horse Home. One of her stories–about women who rode through the country when she was a girl, breaking horses for pay–intrigued the novelist Molly Gloss, and served as the inspiration for her wonderful book, The Hearts of Horses.

The signature stamp Teresa uses on her prints is a Japanese hanko, or chop. For Westerners, a hanko is often designed with kanji – idiographic symbols – that represent the sounds of the syllables in the person’s last name. Because many words sound the same, the particular characters chosen have significance. When Teresa and her husband, Hal Cannon, visited Japan many years ago, they had the gift of staying with Kimono artists who generously selected kanji for “Jordan.” The top kanji translates as “clarity” or “purification,” and the bottom one represents “dawn” or “morning.” These kanji turned out to be auspicious, for more than a decade later Teresa began a daily painting practice with the hope of starting each day anew. Now she uses this beautiful hanko on her prints.