Iktomi Looks Over the World

Illustration for my current project Second Chance Spirit, trying to imagine what the painting in Spider’s office at his restaurant looks like. Raven is a better artist than me, so no doubt the real thing would be much cooler looking Second Chance Spirit Ch. 5 - Managing Manitous Coyote plunged his paintbrush into the cup of black paint and drew a circle on the glass, followed by five drippy lines. He studied the new figure's placement among the others and gave a nod of approval. "Oh no," he said, hands shaking and voice rising in pitch, "help me!"

The logo decorating the entrance of Iktomi's Eatery was much improved, he thought. A small circle with a smile and a chief's hat rested on a bigger circle, from which two legs and six arms bearing different dishes of food sprouted. The mascot was too simple, but now the picture told a story. Faceless figures fled before it, arms outstretched with panic as the monster chase

Most of the animal spirits get a huge ego boost from seeing positive representations of themselves or their animals in art or human stories. Spider is especially vain in this way, and commissioned Raven to make this rather large painting for him.