illustrations

The Hunter Returns To Bed,
November 1998; pen drawing.

All Poems were done by Pam Steele.
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Katherine,
Febuary 1999; pen drawing. This poem was written in rememberance of Mrs. Steele's Grandmother, who always had ivy on the front porch.

Distant Songs,
April 1999; pen drawing.
This poem is dedicated to a man who died in 1997 while dancing in the Wallowa Valley Nez Perce Pow-wow.

Other Rivers,
December 1998; pen drawing.
This poem was written with Mrs. Steele's youngest son, Matt, in mind when they moved fron one side of the states to the other side, connected by their rivers.

   The reason's these illustrations came about is due to the fact that to graduate from Wallowa High School, a senior has to try their time into some carreer based project. Mine was Illustrating. Though I did work for only two people, Mrs. Steele's poems are the only ones I was able to get a copy of that also have the poems on them.
    The poem illustrations done for Mrs. Steele were for the personal copy of her book of poems, entitled Other Rivers, Distant Songs. None of these images were in the mass printing of her book.
   The Hunter Returns to Bed was the first poem I did for Mrs. Steele. After she saw the finished effort, she wished for me to do four more poems: Other Rivers, Distant Songs, Katherine, and Webs. Webs was too difficult for my abilities to compentently do, though Mrs. Steele and I did try test ways to draw her imagination.
I passed my Senior Project.