Cooling Waters, 2000
Woodcut Print
8 x 3 in
Edition 200

Block:     Cherrywood
Ink:         Black/red-purple
Paper:     Mangani Pescia Blue (shown)
Available in Stonehenge Fawn
Process:  Sketched on the field
Image:     In the spring, desert washes swell with rivulets and falls that disappear as quickly as the cool weather, giving way to the scorching summer months.

Through the Portal, 2000
Woodcut Print
9 x 3.5 in
Edition 200

Block:     Cherrywood
Ink:         Black/Bronze
Paper:     Hand tinted Rives De Lin
Process:  Sketched from memory
Image:     The best places to hike the desert are off the National Parks, out there following a nasty dirt road, outside the boundaries of the written maps. Many portals like this one give us a framed window of the hot desert lands.