Call of the Desert
Woodcut
31" x 40"
Edition of 1 key block print and 1 color print
done for a commission (Boy Scouts of America -Las Vegas)
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NFS Copyright © Maria Arango, 2002
Block: Cherry
Ink: Oil based, umber/black, process
color mixes
Paper: BFK Heavyweight Buff (Cream)
Process: Two color print, color block printed a la poupee.
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Image: The following passage from John C Van Dyke's "The Desert"
inspired this image:
“The desert has gone a-begging for a word of praise these many
years. It never had a sacred poet; it has in me only a lover. I take you
far beyond the wire fence of civilization to those places where the trail is
unbroken and the mountain peak unblazed.
The sandy wastes, the arid lands, the porphyry mountain peaks may be thought
profitless places for pilgrimages. Try as I might, I shall never be able
to tell you the grandeur of these mountains, nor show you the glory of color
that wraps the burning sands at their feet.
We shoot arrows at the sun in vain--yet still we shoot.”
Call of the Desert
Woodcut
31" x 40"
Edition of 1 key block print
done for a commission (Boy Scouts of America -Las Vegas)
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Call of the Desert
Wood Block
31" x 40"
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