Apache-Color of the West

The pot that the fairy wife took and Olaf the Black who washed up on Lewis sing that I am Clan Morrison. Bamboo and horse hair blushes endowed with Japanese culture and the pastels of France tell that I am an artist. The closest thing to the highlanders in the US is Apache. My sister’s Texas history teacher pronounced the name “A-pot-to-shey.” The best known was the Dutch Reformed “Medicine Man nicked named Geronimo. Morrisons are said to be descendent of Olaf the Black or Lost Tribes.

  

                Apache have one of the most interesting mythologies. Their cryptid is a Skinwalker, a shapshifter. The Arizona wilderness has a special beauty which can only be expressed in pastels. The distinct red, blues and yellows are more controlled with chalk. Like all good pastel works, I has a lot of purple. I had to use a book to get the colors right. Originally, the teepees were not going to be in it, but it needed something special by the river that shows humanity. It was difficult to add the white teepee, but after that was done adding a black buffalo herd was easy. It is 8” x 6,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.

The name of this piece is Pacific Island, is 6”x8” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently. I enjoyed drawing American Samoa, but the way I do the State Series does not have color. However, the Pacific needs color. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Nova Scotia-New Scots

Prince of the Kingdom of Level-Plains who rested in the Green Island and the highland lost to clearance cry the lone tune of illegal pipes that I am clan Morrison. The bound of chalk and watercolors say that I am an artist. Nova Scotia was originally a colony of Scotland which it shared with France. My people ended up in Ohio.

Nova Scotia has a very different mythology. Behind everything on the left is All Souls Church. Behind everything in the sky is the reverse Saltier which is the flag of Nova Scotia. Behind ever thing on the right is the Halifax town clock. The great statue is Evangeline in Grand-Pré. She is the statue of the Wadsworth poem and Grand-Pré was her home Nova Scotia is where Cajuns come from. She is wear a tam (with red hair) which is a tradition highlander hat for the highland clearances to Nova Scotia. The song says, “O 'illean bithibh sunndach A-null air a bhòidse.”  In front is Fort Anne. Sticking out of the roof is a nanchor shaft from the Halifax Explosion. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Forȇt,  is 6”x8” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently. I stayed in Mexico for a week and Monterey street kind of seem like this. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Tao Stone-Zen

The gold-hilted sword, giant of the gray hag and the three white dogs of Finley swear to the Highlands that I am Clan Morrison. The purple dust that clings to everything and the Zen mind on find when one seeks the perfect black declares me an artist. The mind is the spirit of existence. Zen is the mixture of Tao and Buddha., but Zen literally is neither Taoist nor Buddhist. It is said to be simple elegance but is better understood as living in the moment. Its essence is chi being bond to Ying and yang thus Tao. The Tao is God without the Western Ideas which make him nationalistic and evil.

Tao stones have thier have their own mythos. It symbolizes existence and balance in life thus Tao. But, stone are also bound to the “eight fold path.” Likewise, stones are bound to the Japanese board game Go which is considered a martial art. The Japanese phase is the Zenism “Seeking Life in Death.” It cares the idea of understanding death through each moment.  The idea of the piece is the word Tao also means steam. I drew this in a stream near where I live putting the Zen sumie on with meditation music on after wards. I ended up using a ruler to get the proportions perfect.    I used some extra ink to outline the main stone and its reflection for definition. It is 12” x 18,” drawn with Sumie on watercolor paper and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Forȇt,  is 4” x 7.5” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently.  The name means forest in French. It was with only 3 colors plus white and black. Most of my drawing is done in the forest. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Croix-First Blood

The ballad verse of the Blue Men from Lewis and the smith who did not name his dirk sing the chorus that I am Clan Morrison. The fixative that holds chalk and the rolled paper that smooths drawing say that I am an artist. In a college communication class, one of my term papers focused on St. Croix. It is tropical “Tammany Hall” and the “Muckrackers.” The island is one of the most left leaning in the West Indies except for Cuba. In 1493, the Caribs drove Columbus from the island. St. Croix was a colony of France until the Danes bought it in 1733, but the us bought it in 1917. The main industry was sugar and rum product until the late 1800’s, but Americans brought in Puerto Ricans to restart the sugar manufacturing. Morrisons are from Lewis.

St. Croix has a special mythology dotted with pirates. Behind everything on the right side is Eliza James McBean Clock Tower. Be everything on the left is the Steeple Museum originally called the Lord God of Sabbath Lutheran church however was turned into a military base after the church moved to the Dutch Reform Church in 1831. It was later a school and a hospital. Everything rests on a doorway  with leaves from St. George Village Botanical Garden which is on a former Danish plantation and an ancient Amerindian settlement. The wedges surroundings the barrel is from Point Udall, the most eastern point of the US. The barrel is for Cruzan Rum Factory which began immediately after the fall of prohibition and is one of the few distillers left on the island which continually equally produced sugar until the 1961. After twenty years, it made the island different in being not dependent on tourism. (it is currently owned by Beam, Inc.)The carnival feathered head dress is for Christmas carnival which first started in 1912 but restarted in 1952. The cannon cart is for Fort Frederik which is said to be the first place in the Caribbean to recognize the US and the slaves were emancipated in 1848. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.

The name of this piece is Marsh,  is 5” x 7.5” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently. The unique nature of using color is the broad palette of colors. There is a lot of neon pink in white clouds.  I am from the Bayou, but trees were dominated so I found this fun. The domination of clouds is a different element. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.