Beaver
by Jordan Henderson
Buy the Original Drawing
Price
Not Specified
Dimensions
20.000 x 26.000 inches
This original drawing is currently for sale. At the present time, originals are not offered for sale through the Jordan Henderson - Website secure checkout system. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original.
Click here to contact the artist.
Title
Beaver
Artist
Jordan Henderson
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal On Paper
Description
Many of our old, sage adages have solid reasoning behind them.
Take the term, “busy as a beaver.” It’s got great alliteration, with the sound of two B’s so close together, but it’s also very accurate, as anyone who lives along a river bank populated by beavers can tell you.
Now we don’t have a huge population of beavers near our river in rural Washington State, and they’re not always here (they have a semi-permanent settlement further up river, in the mountains), but when they do show up, we know it.
Young cottonwoods are nibbled, their bark stripped, a ring completed around the trunk. Saplings fall. There is much evidence of chewing. Sawdust, but not generated by a saw.
“Beaver’s been here,” we say. “And he’s been busy.”
We always speak of one beaver, and it’s always a him, and for all we know, it is indeed just one busy, busy beaver. Or a collection of them. But they’re all busy.
My charcoal drawing, Beaver, is a portrait of one such fellow, taking a break along the riverside. It is one of a series of charcoal illustrations that I created for the dystopian Covid-era love story, Much Ado about Corona, by Canadian author John C.A. Manley.
Other illustrations in this series include Moose, Dandelion, Turtle in Charcoal, Arrest, and Maple Leaf, which you can see on my general profile page. I also created the cover art for the novel, entitled the same as the book, Much Ado about Corona.
I suppose you could say that this particular project kept me as busy as a beaver, although my focus was less on creating general destruction on the river bank and more on creating images – brainstorming, sketching, finding reference material, composition, and the final result.
It’s a most satisfying busy-ness. Which, I suppose, is how the beaver thinks of his work.
Uploaded
August 3rd, 2022
Statistics
Viewed 745 Times - Last Visitor from Beverly Hills, CA on 04/17/2024 at 9:05 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Similar Images
Comments (4)
Lori Pittenger
Congratulations your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 8/15/2022! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery and please add it to any of the many themed catalogs in our group’s discussions. Excellent work!
Recently Viewed
