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Out of Darkness Drawn…

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

I haven’t worked on the etching press in a very long time. It’s great to be experimenting with monotypes again!

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Little Pink Bird

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

Found some hand-made paper at the studio today… what fun!

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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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Just playing

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

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Night Whimsy

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

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Weird One

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

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Imaginary Bird

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

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Imaginary Bird

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

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Red

By Teresa Jordan on July 27, 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.