My last postcard included my email on the front, but this time it seems to take away from the illustration.
Now it’s time to send it to Vista to print it!
Ripple for Illustration Friday
“Remember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” -Scott Adams
This image will be available on the Ripple blog created to help the animals affected by the deep water oil spill in the Gulf. www.ripplesketches.blogspot.com/
Make the Ripple a Wave
I don’t know of anyone who isn’t aware of the oil spill in the Gulf, but do you know how to do something about it? Though I live off the Gulf Coast, I felt removed from the situation… reading about the oil’s progression and tsk tsk-ing those who drag their feet in it’s resolution. So what can we do?
It takes someone like Kelly Light and her daughter to begin a movement!
They have created a blog called Ripple where you can purchase an Artist Trading Card and the donations will go directly to the cause. Each sketchcard on the blog is $10.00. The $10.00 is a donation to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Every penny is donated. The two Non-Profits that are benefitting are The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center.
This crisis is so heart wrenching and it’s the innocent who are suffering! Please won’t you visit the Ripple blog and donate. If you are an artist perhaps you want to donate your work in the form of an art card. The information for doing so is on the Ripple blog.
I’ve created two cards. One will be on it’s way to a kind person in Hawaii on Monday the other, a sea turtle, will go up on the Ripple blog and will be for sale along with the other artist created cards.
Ripple A small sketch- a small donation-each small act helps!
Character Study
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
-Winston Churchill
Illustration Friday ~ Early
Early Bird…
Either you are… or you’re NOT!
Which are you?
Time ter clean yer ole room there Matey!
Arrrg…. Do ya be needin a map just ter navigate yer room Matey? Is there a serpent a swimmin in the Sea o’ Dirty Laundry? Aaarrrg… it jes might be time to clean yer room!!
This is actually a piece taken from a dummy book that I’ve been working on for ages. I thought it might make a great promotional piece. I’m pretty pleased with the outcome!
Aaaarrgh! Well me hearties, it’s time for me to weigh anchor and go swab the poop deck!
Fair winds to ye!
Plant a Radish
Plant a radish. Get a radish.
Never any doubt.
That’s why I love vegetables;
You know what you’re about!
Plant a turnip. Get a turnip.
Maybe you’ll get two.
That’s why I love vegetables;
You know that they’ll come through!
They’re dependable!
They’re befriendable!
They’re the best pal a parent’s ever known!
While with children, It’s bewilderin’.
You don’t know until the seed is nearly grown
Just what you’ve sown.
Lyrics by Harvey Schmidt for the musical The Fantasticks