The flowers of the mugwort prescribed by the mermaid on a blackstone by which the child died sing the  bonnie, bonnie ballade that I am Clan Morrison. Dumpster diving for art supplies and colors of charcoal swear that I am an artist. I was born on the edge of the Bayou and the Bayou Rondez-Vous has been in Montreal. I knew one guy from Quebec when I lived it Texas. He lived next to one of the houses for which I mowed. My Dad bought him a Canadian flag. He taught English at the local community college. Québec (Originally Kebec) was colonized by France because of a massacre of French Protestants in Florida. Cardinal Richelieu made the area catholic and made Montreal into a major trading hub. (In spite of this, Quebec did send a representative to the Synod du Desert or underground French Protestant convention in 1715.) Because of the battle of the Plain of Abraham, Quebec was given to England. In the 1960’s, the police protested with a walk off. Québec declared independence with French recognition, but the Mounties stopped it. This created a situation which ended with French being the only language in the province.   I broke stone by cooking them and breaking them in cold water.

The La Chassegalerie goes that the devil gave some loggers or fur traders a flying canoe to visit their loved ones on New Year’s Eve; however on the way back they were so drunk that they hit the top of a tree and were never heard from again. The Water fall on the fall right side behind everything is Montmorency Falls. It is actually taller than Niagara but narrower. When It freezes the bottom is called the “sugar pile.”The Castel on the right is the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac. T was originally the home of Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac who governed New France from 1672 to 1698. I became a hotel in 1899.  They rest on hills of Hautes-GorgesDE-LA-RIVIÈRE-MALBAIE national park. Everything is on the Flag of the Provence of Quebec. The Flag of Quebec has gold fleurs de lys and was use as a colony of France. The cross is the Croix du Mont Royal which replaced a wooden cross the Sieur de Maisonneuve for deliverance from the flood on 1643. The cannon is for the Battle Field where Québec fell to England.  The hexagon building is the ice fish shack. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@gmail.com to order.   

Piney woods-Big sky

The night at the fairy ball and the skin of the Maid-of-the-Sea sing the ballad that I am clan Morrison. Cutting down cardboard boxes for drawing materials say I am an artist. I was born and raised on the edge of East Texas.  I went coming among the pines. My dad was in oil as a chemist there was a humongous statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, but more than that there are pine trees sixty foot tall. I learn to draw there and ironically was the lowest in the class. People take art seriously in Texas. I cryed when I had to leave for the North . I still hate snow and cold. One said thing was that urban sprawl from Houston was tearing down the trees. I like leather.

Most people don’t think of East Texas as big sky, but by every fake lake is big sky.the clouds are for the high rainfall but also as East Texans have a shadow of how Texan they really are.   In the bottom left corner, there is an oil well. The trees are for the lop lolly pine forest making its other name “Piny Woods.”  The oil well called the “grasshopper” is one of the dominant industries for the region makes the small East Texas city of Humble a nationally known. (The company is now called Exxon. When the mayor of Humble was ask if the name of the city would change with the company , he answered, “H* no!”)  The hill that the trees are on is shaped like the Alamo because the furthest south of the Piny Woods with San Jacinto where Texas won its freedom.  It is 5.5” x 8.5,” drawn with pastels and completed recently. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@gmail.com to order.   

Nunavut-ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ

The fairy worker making a ladder to the moon and mare of the sea fairy queen rings across the Highlands that I am Clan Morrison. Colored chalk from pastels and cardboard paintings declare me an artist. Nunavut itself is an artwork. ᓄᓇᕗᒼ is the newest territory. ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (Inuktitut) is the language of the native Inuit of the territory which used a separate alphabet. My name is ᒪᑑ. The sad thing is everything is overpriced as in four dollars for a candy bar, I always find ladders unstable.

Its mythology is similar to western mythology. Inukpasugjuit may be Bigfoot. Ijirait or Tarriaksuit appear like a Scottish fairy. Far behind everything is  Mount Pelly which is said to be three giants who froze to death. Everything is on a Thule sod house in the Qaummaarviit Historic Park. The handle with the marine mammals is the Mace of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut and is made on a Narwhal tusk. The tube hut is for  Pond Inlet /ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᒃ . The boat is  Our Lady of Lourdes in Tuktoyaktuk.  The boot is a Baffinland Inuit Boot. It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently.

The name of this piece is Hillcountry Waterfall, is 5”x7” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently.One of the things about Texas is raftin’ in the Hill Country of central Texas. The scenery is prettier from that view.  If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@gmail.com to order.     

Vancouver-Canada's Oregon

The gold drops reviled the beautiful Fairy land and Michel Scottís white snake sing that I am clan Morrison.  The English-speaking art scene is Vancouver. It is said to be the maple syrup flavored Seattle. The eco tourism of the left leaning left coast has a boast a bridge showing the red wood canopy. Ironically, the provinces greatest industry is lumber. I used to live in snake country.  

British Columbia has a special mythology. Bigfoot was first observed in this area. The word ìsasquatchî comes from the people of the area term for wield man. Behind everything is three women were turned in to a mountain upon their request after their love was lost and is called the ìThree Sisters Mountain.î Behind everything on the left is the Fisgard Lighthouse which is the oldest light house on the Canadian West Coast. Everything is on the providenceís official flag. The woven hat is for the Haida nation who is original inhabitants of the province. The "Zhong" (pillar with the Chinese characters on it) is the Monument to Chinese-Canadian veterans which honors the railroad worker and veteran of WWII of Chinese descent. The Girl in the scuba gear is the ìThe Girl in the Wetsuitî which rests on rock by the Staney Park Seawall in Vancouver It is 9" x 12," drawn with pencil and white charcoal and completed recently. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.

Le République-Poppy

The ghost mother of Pabbay who go bless the gift with the strength of the child and the daughter who could not save the ship with black magic cast the spell that I am clan Morrison. The paper that response to the flow of the media and the graphite mixed with clay play the tune that I am an artist. As an artist, France is the ideal of greatness. The greatest of all art is Paris and the ultimate is the Louvre, but any one descends into the French country side finds true beauty that was my personal change from a student to artist in a land covered in coquelicot  (poppies). I find Jewish “magic” saves.

Poppies are themselves are mythical. John McCrae in his poem –“-In Flanders Field:”

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly.

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

The flowers are for remembrance. Poppies remember those who died in war but are also native to France. The poppies looked good with the French flag and from my time in France it fits. It is 8” x 6,” drawn with pastels and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Feeling flames as Cool is 8.5” x 11” and drawn with Sumi-e on watercolor paper recently. The Japanese says, “a true meditation makes one feel the flame as cool.” If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order. 

Manitoba-Canadian middle

The ghosts that are bound to Edinburgh Vaults and the black dog of Death swear to the hills that I am Clan Morrison. The smell of alcohol that dissolves the pastel chalk and the Zen of Sumie say that I am an artist. As an artist, I have always been interested in the Native American and Americans have an acute interest in the Plains Nations. Most these nations call Manitoba home with Winnipeg being the original trading post of them.  I was a major rail hub until the Panama Canal. I considered going to a Bible college In the province about ten miles from the Minnesota border. In many ways it is very similar to Minnesota being in the prairie but the lake changes it to be more be more Ohio. As an English colony, it was given a royal ballet. I had a black dog named Daisy.  

Manitoba has a special and unique mythology. Thunder birds fly over the provence.  Behind everything is the Esplanade Riel which connects Winnipeg to St. Boniface and is the only pedestrian restaurant bridge in North America. The polar bear behind everything on the left is for the port of Churchill, the only Canadian arctic port. The wooden boat behind everything on the right is for the Manitoba Museum which shows the areas maritime history. The lake monster in right corner is Winnipogo in Lake Winnipegosis . Everything on the  smiling marshmallow thing  is called “Happy Rock” in Gladstone.  The scepter on Happy Rock is the Manitoba’s Mace which is used in the Legislative Assembly. The weird fan under the mace is for the Manitoba Electrical Museum and Education Centre.  It is 9” x 12,” drawn with pencil and white chalk and completed recently.   

The name of this piece is CSA Winter Camp, is 9”x6” and drawn with pastel on cardboard recently. The flag is my personal favorite Confederate flags the Breckinridge Flag from west Tennessee. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.   

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.