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Old and Sad

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

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Roly Poly

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

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Big Guys

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

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Quick Sketch

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

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Dancing…

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

Today is our 30th anniversary, and we are still dancing after all these years…

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Just playing

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

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Not Before Dinner

By Teresa Jordan on August 15, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

It’s been so hot and smokey lately that I felt a need for polar refreshment… and if this had a title it might be something like “No, you can’t have ice cream before dinner…”

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Sometimes a girl just needs another ostrich

By Teresa Jordan on August 14, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

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“Inscribed across the heavens…”

By Teresa Jordan on August 13, 2021 in Birds, iPad Paintings 0

Excerpt from “The Journey,” by David Whyte

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again

Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky

Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens

so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.

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Gloaming II

By Teresa Jordan on August 12, 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.