“Folking Canadian - Qu'Appelle River”
Canadian tall-tales, campfire stories, and regional folklore’s romanticized reverence for the spirt of the nation, contrasted by society’s modern definition of it. Exploring the foreboding parallels between the stories told and the lessons never learned.
The Qu' Appelle River in Sasquatchewan got its name from a Cree Indian legend about a man hearing voices call out to him on his way home from a hunting trip.
The concept is simple – a whooping crane doubling as a river, but here are a few scans of the pages of thumbnails of possible treatments. It was important to explore as many options as possible to be sure I had the right layout
Some pics of the screen printing process. First time printing directly to wood panels. I was very happy with the wood grain texture in the final image.
