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Quick Sketch III

By Teresa Jordan on July 5, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Quick Sketch Flamingo

By Teresa Jordan on July 4, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Quick Sketch II

By Teresa Jordan on July 3, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Quick Sketch I

By Teresa Jordan on July 2, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Tango Flamingos

By Teresa Jordan on July 1, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

“The Bachelors,” on the right, makes a nice companion piece to “Chilean Flamingo Dreams of Tango,” on the left.

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Not a Flamingo…

By Teresa Jordan on June 30, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Shy

By Teresa Jordan on June 29, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Mirror, Mirror…

By Teresa Jordan on June 28, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Who’s the featherest of them all?

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Chilean Flamingo Dreams of Tango

By Teresa Jordan on June 27, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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In the mood for a bit of whimsy…

By Teresa Jordan on June 26, 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.