KCovid relief Coloring pages (week four)

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:

"Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, exquisite language and richly detailed African American characters who are central to their narratives. Among her best-known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, Love and A Mercy. Morrison has earned a plethora of book-world accolades and honorary degrees, also receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012."

and from his NY Times obituary:

"Mr. Deloria, who was trained as both a seminarian and a lawyer, steadfastly worked to demythologize how white Americans thought of American Indians. The myths, he often said -- whether as romantic symbols of life in harmony with nature or as political bludgeons in fostering guilt -- were both shallow. The truth, he said, was a mix, and only in understanding that mix, he argued, could either side ever fully heal."