KCovid relief Coloring pages (week three)

One of the great things about being an illustrator is the ability to make images from just one or two tools and a bit of time. And right now we've mostly got too much time and a whole lot of work to do together. So these coloring pages are a first step. All proceeds from these pages goes to start a fund for commissioned work from local craftspeople. Those pieces will be raffled off to create a greater fundraising sum and given to art as public works, or to organizations in KC looking to pick up the slack while our economy is down. This is for us to create pathways out of a situation our government is flummoxed by, and which we're slowly suffocating in together. It doesn't work without y'all, just like these images aren't done until you bring color to them.

This week it's two great American Authors

From Biography.com

"Ursula K Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California to an artistically and intellectually vibrant home. She struggled initially to be published in the mainstream fiction world, but her first three novels, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions, put her on the sci-fi map. In 2008, 40 years later, Le Guin made literary news with Lavinia, a metatextual examination of a minor character from Virgil's Aeneid. Le Guin was also widely known for her globally popular Earthsea fantasy series. She wrote essays on fantasy fiction and feminist issues as well, and was awarded the Living Legend Medal by the Library of Congress, among a plethora of career honors. Le Guin died at her home in Portland, Oregon, on January 22, 2018, at age 88."

and

"Considered one of America's most influential poets, Walt Whitman aimed to transcend traditional epics and eschew normal aesthetic form to mirror the potential freedoms to be found in America. In 1855, he self-published the collection Leaves of Grass; the book is now a landmark in American literature, though at the time of its publication it was considered highly controversial. Whitman later worked as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, writing the collection Drum Taps (1865) in connection to the experiences of war-torn soldiers. Having continued to produce new editions of Leaves of Grass along with original works, Whitman died on March 26, 1892, in Camden, New Jersey."