962. 963.SOLD At the Sea's Side

962. Catching Breakfast- an original done in colored pencils/markers on a 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" card

963. SOLD Flying- An 8x12" signed print on nice photographic paper

Erin Taylor is a freelance children's illustrator. Her work has been featured in many places, including the national  magazine KidZone, newspapers, holiday cards, and a children's hospital. She was the featured illustrator on the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in summer 2009. More of her work can be seen at erintaylorart.blogspot.com

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957. 958. 959. sold960.sold 961. SOLDThe Guardians

sold

957. Flight

958. Hopes for Springtime

959. soldGuardian

960. soldGuardian 2

961. SOLD Song Birds

Stanislawa Kodman is a freelance illustrator and designer who loves nature and animals, both of which are a compelling influence in her work. She will supply a 6" x 9" print on archival paper for any of the artwork purchased.

See more of her work here: www.stanislawakodman.com

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222. On the Beach

222.
My name is Shalini Raman, and I currently reside in Auburn Hills, Michigan. These are my card contributions to the subject 'Ripple', concerning the Oil Spill.

This is a work in watercolor plus pen. I chose to show some fish here; I just can't imagine how many fish would be suffocated to death since the thick oil on water wouldn't really allow oxygen exchange to occur at the surface of the water. Though I chose to show the pictures more as a one panel cartoons, there is definitely nothing funny about this whole incident.

You can see more of my work at my blog.

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219.sold220. soldJersey Girl

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220.sold
My name is Tara. I have always had a passion for art. In 2010, I finally allowed myself to follow my dream. I am now working my way to making art a part of my daily life & hopefully a career. In the meantime I juggle Mommyhood, 2 part-time jobs & an online art course where I'm learning techniques to break into children's book illustration.
I prefer to create with almost any type of pencil BUT favor graphite 6b.

See her work on her blog:
BLOG

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216. SOLD Lovely Animals

216.

My name is Danaye Shiplett and I am an author & illustrator living in Alabama. I created a few quick illustrations to help with Kelly’s amazing project and I definitely plan to be doing a lot more!
Each piece is an original illustration, sketched and inked digitally then hand-colored on illustration paper. The cards are 4.25x5.5”.

More of my art can be seen at
http://danaye.com/

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G 46. SOLD Great American illustrator Corey Godbey

Cory Godbey is an illustrator, animator, and writer for Portland Studios.

He has illustrated picture books and book covers for Oxford University Press, Random House, and Marvel to name a few, and has worked on several animated shorts and commercials with clients including Prudential
Insurance, Microsoft Zune, and the upcoming documentary film The Last Flight of Petr Ginz.



In 2008, Cory’s work was accepted in the Society of Illustrators 50th Annual of American Illustration. In early 2009, Cory created the popular Maurice Sendak tribute site “Terrible Yellow Eyes” where professional artists from
all over the world contributed works inspired by Where the Wild Things Are.

His short graphic novel stories have been featured in the Eisner nominated FLIGHT anothologies.

Cory seeks to tell stories with his work. He also likes to draw monsters.

www.corygodbey.com

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185. and 186. making her MARK

186.
185.


Julia Mark

I am a Canadian artist who loves working with different kinds of inks. Art teacher by day, artist by night, I love to draw. I love the idea behind this blog, and am happy to submit my drawings for the cause!


http://juliasartmark.blogspot.com

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181-184. SOLD Family Giving

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183.
182.
181.

Michelle Munger

I really wanted to do something to help, especially after seeing countless pictures of these poor animals dying because of the oil and the people who are loosing their livelihood. I live in Texas, and even though the oil hasn't reached our shores just yet, we are still connected to those it has. I had each of my three children draw a picture of the oil problem through their eyes. I drew one from a picture that tugs at my heartstrings every time I see it.
These are digital pictures drawn using an art program called ArtRage on a wacom tablet. You will be getting a print on postcard quality paper.
Kelly Light, thanks for starting such a marvelous website.

http://MichelleMunger.com

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177.sold Light of Hope - IF

177.sold


Christie Drahnak.
" I enjoy creating art and music, and I love animals and nature. Art and music are hobbies for me.
I created this watercolor and titled it "Light of Hope." You truly inspired me. I want you to know people like you are the light that shines through and darkness. You lift hope up to a place where we all can see it."


http://cartoonbugg.wordpress.com/

http://cartoonbugg.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/ripple/

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151. Heart wrenching -IF

151.
Matthew Gambrell
Graphic Designer / Illustrator
lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma

lifeinpayne.blogspot.com

this is a digital print.

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155. New colored birds -IF

155.
I am Kevin Spear from Pendleton, Indiana. My web site is http://kevinspear.com

I am a children’s illustrator and cartoonist. I design and illustrate children’s activity books for a religious publisher.

this is a digital print.
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154. whimsical

154.
Sung-Hee (Regina) Hong

I love doing mixed media and whimsical art.
In my illustration, My whimsical angel is giving her own wing so it can fly !
I live in Toronto, Canada and here's my blog link.

Each card is available for a $10 donation. See details at right

Across the Pond- they want to keep the Pond clean

44.

Kerridwen Niner Is from England! She's inspired by friends who have decided to sketch for the Gulf animals. Think about it- the Sea belongs to no one and everyone -all over the world.

Check out Kerridwen's work at all of her sites!

blog1
blog2
blog3

This adorable sketcgcard can be yours for a $10 donation. See donation details on the right.

956. sold Fish Moon

It's 3.75" x 5.5" Monoprint/Collage, 'Fish Moon'

Fern Polsky-Hilyard is an artist/teacher living in Maine. She tries really hard to keep things simple... and to laugh also.

G45. SOLD Timothy Mitoma

I'm an illustrator in Corte Madera CA and have been wanting to help the poor critters effected by the giant oil monster but didn't know what I could do. When I heard about  Kelly's project I knew it was the perfect solution. I could use what I do best to make a contribution thanks to Ripple. My piece is of a Kemp's Ridley turtle, an endangered species in the Gulf.  This piece is 9" by 7" and it is acrylic on watercolor board.

http://timmitoma.blogspot.com
http://mitoma.mosaicglobe.com


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955. SOLD Heal the Earth

SOLD

955.

Norma Vantrease is an author and illustrator of children’s books living in Central Florida.  Her latest book is entitled Ants and My Pants from Scholastic Press.  Norma is also a recently retired art teacher of 37 years. 

Heal the Earth measures 4”x5”.  It was sketched by hand and painted in Photoshop. 

“I love the way the birds’ heads and necks create a heart, which to me symbolizes the innocence of nature.  Notice there is a dark cloud of oil moving in from the top of the image.  Will the birds be safe?  Their fate is in our hands.  I plan to help, and I hope you can too.”

Find out more about Norma by viewing her blog at
picture--pages.blogspot.com.

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952. 953.sold 954. SOLD I See the Light...

952. I Want Them to Fell Better

953. sold I See the Light!

954.sold Beauty in Murky Waters

Vidya Vasudevan is a Childrens' Book Illustrator who lives with her husband and two children in Northern Virginia.  These images are done using pencil, colored digitally, except 'I See Light'  Though done years ago, this illustration turned out to be appropriate for the current situation in the Gulf Coast. There is always a silver lining behind dark clouds, and this project offers a shining light behind a very gloomy cloud.  Keep up the great work, Kelly Light! Vidya's blog: www.vidyavineed.blogspot.com

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950.sold 951. Helping Turtles Find the Sea

950. sold Baby

951. Experience

Bonnie Jean Woolger Decatur,Ga.

Wooden pen maker, printmaker, book maker, I grew up on the beach in south Florida and live in fear and horror of the oil spill. When I was 11 a sea turtle laid her eggs in our garden on the wrong side of A1A and so when they hatched I filled my pockets and my shirt and made many trips across the road to get the baby turtles on their way to the ocean before they could be hit by cars. I can’t save them from this.

See more of my work here: http://lostandfound-bjw.blogspot.com/

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G44. SOLD Great American illustrator Carlyn Beccia

Carlyn beccia is the wonderful illustrator of these books:
I Feel Better, with a Frog in my Throat
History's Strangest Cures
(Houghton Mifflin 2010)
 
The Raucous Royals:
Test your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce Which Royal Rumors are True
Houghton Mifflin 2008

 In 2008, Beccia's debut book, Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? was a the Golden Kite honor recipient for picture book illustration. In 2009, Beccia was the winner of the International Reading Association's 2009 Children's and Young Adult Book Award for Intermediate-Nonfiction.

Find out more about her @ http://www.carlynbeccia.com/index.htm

this is a digital print


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EYEWITNESS REPORTS ART from the HEART -makes a difference!

 Ripple has taught me a lot- not the least of which is What Art Can Do - and what ARTISTS CAN DO TOGETHER!!!

Many of the artists who have contributed to Ripple are also stepping up to stomp out with GIANT ROBOT POWER- children's literacy issues and supporting 826 LA - a Non-profit writing tutorial center.

 Check out Dan Santat's site about it HERE

If I have created any new fans of these artists- I'm thrilled!- but unlike here at Ripple- I will be bidding against you- so LOOK OUT!

Here's a list of the artists who keep sending meaningful ripples out into the world:

MO WILLEMS
MATT PHELAN
JARRETT KROSOCZKA
MELANIE HOPE GREENBERG
TOM WARBURTON

 DAN SANTAT
 BOB BOYLE
JESSE JOSHUA WATSON

948. 949. soldTurtles in Ink

948. Turtle in Ink

949. sold Turtle Hatchling in Ink

Artist Susan Walker works and lives in Harmony, PA with Husband,11 yro son and  8 yro bbg triplets, Lucy the beagle and Mini the cat. She enjoys working in pen ink and watercolor in either  this type of style with whimsy  and color or a realistic detailed approach for sports fields and other such subjects.
  

"I am honored to be able to contribute in some small way to help out the wildlife and bring a little smile to those who have received these works and area reminder too of their contribution in this effort."

"Coming together is beginning. keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
Henry Ford

See more of her work at www.susanwalkerart.com or  visit  her blog to read more about her approach to a creative life.http://susanwalkerart.blogspot.com/and these cards http://susanwalkerartforsale.blogspot.com/

These images can be purchased for a $10 donation. See details at right.

946. SOLDsold 947. Frog and Duck

946. sold Green Tree Frog

947. SOLD Ruddy Duck

Evan M. Jensen is an illustrator of the fantastic and graphic designer working in the Chesapeake Bay watershed around Washington, DC. His work is usually watercolor, with adaptions of ink and pencil when called for. Aside from design projects and regular work in the fantasy, sf and children's book fields, Evan and his mate Lisa are in the process of gathering early-century equipment to start up Cinnamonopteryx Press: a letterpress, printmaking studio and bookbindery in Annapolis, MD. They live together with two cats, a hedgehog and a corn snake.

Evan's work is around online at http://www.evanmjensen.com and on his blog at http://eimhinjensen.livejournal.com

These images can be purchased for a $10 donation. See details at right.

945.soldNot Funny

945.sold

Julie Hammond is a children's writer and illustrator living in St. Louis, MO. " Not Funny" is a 2.5x3.5 inch watercolor illustration depicting a Laughing Gull covered in oil from the spill. To view more work from Julie please visit her blog at juliehammondart.blogspot.com

This image can be purchased for a $10 donation. See details at right.

Verizon Down FIXED!!!

Hi! Verizon is down and i can't get the Ripplrsketches@verizon.net emails. please be patient - They say it will be fixed by tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience-Kelly

942. sold 943. sold944.sold They Say...

942. sold Gulf Gull-Reporter

943. soldGulf Gull-Enquirer

944. soldGulf Gull-Herald

They say they've killed the well.  They say 75% of the oil is either gone or dispersed.  They say the waters are reopened for fishing. They say, they say, they say.......what do the animals have to say?

This is all great news, but the work is far from over.  Clean up will continue for a good while.

My Gulf Gulls, Reporter, Herald and Enquirer are out there speaking their minds.  Just listen and you'll hear their findings.

I'm an illustrator who lives far from the Gulf and far from any ocean.  I consume petroleum products without much thought.  But I love animals and hope my small contribution to the marine life recovery adds to the awesome power of Kelly Light's Ripple Sketch project.  I'm tossing in three more pebbles.

Donna Jeanne Koepp

www.whitewolfstudioart.com

whitewolf.studio@yahoo.com

These images can be purchased for a $10 donation. See details at right.

940. sold 941. sold Mucking Things Up

940. sold Blue Turtle

941.  sold Deep Dive

Jim Giar is an artist and sequential storyteller. He resides in Cleveland suburbia with his wife, two daughters, a border collie Akira and two new hermit crabs. These two pieces are 4"x7", pen and ink, Design marker and colored pencil. He hopes to someday travel to the Gulf so he can meet a sea turtle and personally apologize for mucking up their lives."

My website ... http://www.chelzostudios.com/  
My work blog ...  http://www.chelzostudios.com/blog/


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939. SOLD Afloat

939.

Annie Beth Ericsson is a children's book illustrator and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She paints sea turtles (and other creatures) with watercolor on Arches cold press paper. 

Website - www.anniebethericsson.com
Blog - walkinginpublic.wordpress.com
Twitter - twitter.com/walkinginpublic

This image is 4"x5" and can be purchased for a $10 donation. See details at right.

G. 43. SOLD Great American illustrator Lisa Horstman

Lisa Horstman is a children's book author/illustrator living in Knoxville, Tennessee. She creates her art by building stop-motion animation puppets, photographing them, and then combining them with background paintings. Her latest book is "Squawking Matilda" (Marshall Cavendish Kids), about a girl and her pesky pet chicken.

See more at www.lisahorstman.com. For frequent updates on works-in-progress, go to www.lisahorstman.blogspot.com.

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937. soldGulf Pelican

937.sold

My name is Aimée van Drimmelen and I'm a freelance illustrator based in Montreal who works in pen & ink. I have a deep respect for the natural world and it's creatures.

About the piece: This image was directly inspired by the gulf oil spill. Painted in July 2010 on a recuperated 22" drumskin (see my website for more on this), it was part of Drawing Expo 2010 at Galerie Rye in Montreal. It depicts a brown pelican flying out of the water. I found myself getting very emotional while painting this because pelicans are my favourite bird, they are huge, gorgeous and majestic. Watching them flying and fishing is one of my favourite activities (we have white ones in Canada). Seeing images of these creatures floating up dead on the shores of the gulf, saturated with oil has broken my heart. But I wanted to stay as positive as possible with this illustration. This pelican has survived, but there is still fear or anger in its eyes. It is determined and will overcome this stupid preventable mistake. My only hope is that humanity can learn a lesson from this tragedy and do the same.


aimeevandrimmelen.com
( http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/2010/08/937-gulf-pelican.html)

This beautiful illustration is available for a $10 donation. See details at right.

936. soldCrashing Waves

936.sold

Artwork by Mary Beth Kopacz. 

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935. soldSea Turtle

935.hold

Kieren Dutcher is an illustrator in Oakland, CA. Her first picture book, "Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes: Stories and Songs to Share", Tuttle Publishing, came out in April 2010. This painting is in her favorite medium, gouache resist, roughly 8"w x 6"h on Arches watercolor paper.

You can see her work at www.kierendutcher.com, and www.kierendutcher.blogspot.com, and www.childrensillustrators.com

This card is available for a $10 donation. See details at right.

934. Sad Whale

934.

Ilona Drew is a designer/Illustrator living and working in Brighton, England. Ilona worked in-house for 6 years designing greeting cards until going freelance in order to explore her creativity and explore textiles and homeware design. Ilona's Grandma was one of the first members of Greenpeace and she grew up looking at posters of whales in her Grandmas house and this was the inspiration for her sad whale illustration.

This is a digitally created file and buyer will recieve a high quality print.
You can see further examples of Ilona's work by following www.ilonadrewthis.blogspot.com

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929.sold 930. 931. sold932. FUBAR'D!

929. FUBAR'D!

930. OMG!

931. Srsly?

932. WTF?

Kristine Astop is a freelance pin-up artist and cartoonist residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her boyfriend humanoid, W, and canine counterpart, Ripley.

Each image is 2.5" x 3.5" and created with Prismacolor Fineliners, Art Markers, and Sakura White Opaque Pen-Touch on Illustration Board.

Website: http://www.plasticcake.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/plasticcakeillo

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