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Pelican break…

By Teresa Jordan on January 12, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Last of the pelicans…for awhile. Tomorrow I am entering a five-day silent retreat…a blessed respite from news and technology. It will be nice to be truly quiet and Hal will let me know if we need to run for our lives. I wish that were a joke. Sending love and prayers for all of us…

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Pelican Landing IV

By Teresa Jordan on January 11, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Pelican Landing III

By Teresa Jordan on January 10, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Pelican Landing II

By Teresa Jordan on January 9, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Pelican Landing

By Teresa Jordan on January 8, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Even the imaginary birds are crying…

By Teresa Jordan on January 7, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Buds

By Teresa Jordan on January 6, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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Dalmatian Pelican II

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

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Yes!

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

I’ve just been introduced to Dalmatian Pellicans, and I’m in love…

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Today, I Needed Color…

By Teresa Jordan on January 3, 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.