I love ravens, and have always looked forward to their company on canoe trips and hikes, and along steelhead rivers. Several years ago, I sat an overlook along Yellowstone Lake when a raven descended down on the breeze. He’d pretty obviously been spoiled with food by other visitors, but all we shared between us was my poorly croaked conversation. The visit went on for fifteen minutes or so, and has never left me. I decided I wanted to celebrate the encounter with a woodcut.
First proofs were printed with Lyell Castonguay and Carand Burnet of Big Ink, through Whiteaker Pintmakers.
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