A project I had last year was to design the Raccoon County Music Festival Tee Shirt. 

I live in Geauga County, and Geauga is a native American word meaning “raccoon”, hence the name of the festival which is held annually at the Geauga County Historical Society’s Century Village in Burton, Ohio. 

I began with carving a woodcut of a raccoon’s face, then

made a print from the carved block.   After the ink was dry, I  scanned the raccoon print into my computer, and did the rest of the design in Photoshop.

The model in the photo above is my backpacking son, Shane. 

                 

                   photos, tee shirt design and text © 2006 by Gayle Wohlken