Arkansas

I am the artist Mathew Morrison main artist with Clan Morrison art. (So far, I am Clan Morrison Art.)Like most artist I love the South. I was actually born in the Piney Woods, a dense strip of Lope-lolly pine and Hickey forest which go from Missouri to Texas; however the state most known for the Piney woods is Arkansas. It happens to be fairly flat so any time it rains, it floods. There is a mountain range that Laura Ingles lived and raised Rose in the Ozarks. I personally lived in the Thicket and love it the best.

Everything in the picture is resting on the flag which is a red field with stares that Arkansas chose when it seceded making it one of the last to secede from the Union. It was a red field with stars. The mocking bird in the foreground is the state bird. The Bowie knife is because Jim Bowie came from Arkansas who was noted as being crooked and invented the knife. The rock underneath the bird’s tail is the state rock.  The state gem is Diamond (Arkansas is the only state have them native.) which is between Indian vase and the Mocking bird. The Fountain is the spring at Boiling Springs National Park which is on Arkansas state park quarter. Art is very important to Arkansas’s native Craftsmen draw people to the state and create a mythos of native wood working. This is represented with the easel. The Native American vase shows the wonderful interaction between Ozark people and Arkansas Native Americans. I drew the picture six months ago.

This is my drawing of crest of a barn on a back road in Indiana.  It was sunny that day as I drew it on that spot. Old barns are sadly part of Americana that is being lost. Too many farmers want to replace or renew the old barns.