New Hampshire-Granite

Water horses which can mask as beautiful women and vanishing maidens who unfurl battle flags which release thousands of warriors swear that I am Clan Morrison. The beautiful dance of the brush and the chi of the white charcoal blending graphite and paper swear that I am an artist. New England has a unique connection to art. New Hampshire gains the power of the mountains like West Virginia which ironically drawn many people from Massachusetts and the like called “flat-lander.” The state transformed from agrarian to industrial to Tourist. New Hampshire has become one of the only New England skiing abodes. There is also Lake Champlain and its monster. Weather people know the state for Mount Washington as it has the fastest wind in the nation. Climbing is also big there. My mother’s old boss had a secretary from there and stole my mom’s pen because it had a NH on it.  (NH was my mother maiden initials.)I was  able to find an online scan of the MacLeod Fairy flag.

 

New Hampshire’s mythology has a difference from other states. The purple lilac is the state flower made official in 1919 and New York’s bush which is in front of everything. It is a harbinger of spring, but more importantly in is the symbol of endurance with it growing to be a hundred as NH is called the granite state. The building on the right is a shaker barn. Shakers were founded by Mother Anna who thought she was the female Jesus and received visions to invent circular saws. The Concord news paper is named “Mother Anna.” The face on the right is the “OLD Man of the Mountain.” According to the Native Americans, Mohawk Indian Chief Pemigewasset brought peace through his marriage, but his wife left to visit her dying father. The whole winter, he looked for her return until the Great Spirit took his life. That spring, his face was on the cliff still looking for her. In 2007, it fell off the cliff and his spirit was free.  The weird “yelling” doll behind the lilac is for the Andre Nature Trail where sculptures are brought in from around the world.  I drew this picture a few mouths with pencil and white charcoal.

The name of this piece is “Indiana Yard” and was done in ink almost two years ago and is 12” x 9.” One of the joys drawing on the spot is ink in the pen freezing. The solution is to the nib between thumb and fore finger. Snow has a unique beauty on evergreens as it is frozen death battling eternal life. This also has sweeps and curtains made with snow on green chandlers. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my material email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.