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Little Blue…

By Teresa Jordan on September 25, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Whimsy

By Teresa Jordan on September 24, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

They just make me laugh, with the quirky and sometimes comical expressions!

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Little Blue Heron

By Teresa Jordan on September 23, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Little Blues are so much more blue than the great blues!

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Heron in the Night

By Teresa Jordan on September 22, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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On the Prowl III

By Teresa Jordan on September 21, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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On the Prowl II

By Teresa Jordan on September 20, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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On the Prowl

By Teresa Jordan on September 19, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Dance

By Teresa Jordan on September 18, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

This was inspired by a photograph of my friend Cary Nowell’s, and drawn to celebrate the life of her beautiful mother, Joan Matthews.

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Something to Say

By Teresa Jordan on September 17, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Alive!

By Teresa Jordan on September 16, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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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.