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Mama in the Dry Grass

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

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The Missus

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

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Quail

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

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Duckfooted Quail on Ice (Under a Blue Moon)

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

I seem to be in a whimsical mood these days…

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The Girlfriend

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

Not as flashy, but charmingly chubby!

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Quail in Blue

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

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Blue Chook II

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

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Chicken From the Dark Side II

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

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Sad Chicken in a Heat Spell

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

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Just Another Chook

By Teresa Jordan on June 15, 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.