812. SOLD813.SOLD Animal lover

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Nikki Addeo is a Philadelphia-based illustrator and fellow animal lover. She's so grateful for this opportunity and inspired by all the previous contributions. You can find more of her colorful creatures at www.thenikkinoodle.com and www.thenikkinoodle.blogspot.com.

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

G9. SOLD Great American Character Designer - Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver was born in London, England on August 30th 1972. Aspiring to be a professional artist his whole life and knowing drawing would be his vocation, Silver got his professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures in amusement parks. In 1993 he went on to establish his own illustration company called Silvertoons. By 1997 Silver was hired by Warner Bros. Television Animation as a character designer, and has been working in the animation industry ever since. He has worked as Character Designer and Supervisor for Disney Television Animation, Sony Feature Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, designing characters such as "Kim Possible", "Danny Phantom" and Kevin Smith's "Clerks" the animated series, to name a few. Silver is the author and artist of five self-published books on the art of sketching, caricature and life drawing. In addition to working freelance full time, he also teaches an online character design course at schoolism.com. Silver names three treasures to success in life that give him what it takes to keep on drawing: passion, desire and determination. -taken from Stephen's  Blog

Stephen's Website

Stephen's Passion for Life

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810. SOLD811. SOLD Oliver's Army is back to help the Gulf

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 Oliver Wade is an animator and illustrator living in Texas. A Cartoonist with a capital "C" - a man with a flair with a pencil. He has worked in animation and the video gaming industry. He will soon take the plunge into children's books too. - cause I'm gonna push him in.

Oliver works digitally, so this will be a digital print. He will sign and mail it to you!!!

His card is available for a $10 donation. See details to the right.

If you'd like to contact Oliver Wade you can @ Nm8ed@aol.com

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"Only happy in a black sky" was an experiment. I designed it so that if you look at it the way I sent it shows happy stars in a black sky. If you flip it over it shows sad starfish on a black beach. Kinda "high-concept" :) -Oliver

808.SOLD809.SOLD CRUDE

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Frank Dormer is a children's book illustrator from New England. He also teaches. His first children's book as author and illustrator is due later this year.

Frank can be reached :

www.frankwdormer.com

fwdormer@aol.com

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

807. How many days???

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Julie Fortenberry is a picture book illustrator from Mt. Kisco, NY. You can see more of her work at  www.juliefortenberry.com

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

806. SOLD It's not ink

Stephanie Ruble is an artist and writer living in New York. This painting
of an octopus and her jellyfish friends is approximately 4" x 5" and was
done with acrylic paint.

I love to visit the beach as often as possible and was devastated to see
the pictures of the oil covered animals. I'm grateful to Kelly for finding
a way for artists to use their talents to make a difference.

Stephanie's Links:
website (http://www.sruble.com)
blog (http://www.sruble.com/blog)

805.SOLD living outside of New Orleans, LA

Anne Kelley is a freelance artist and illustrator living outside of New Orleans, LA. 

"Seagull" is a digital painting; you'll receive a 4"x 6" print of this artwork.

Links:
Portfolio
Sketches & Draws

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

G.5-8. ALL SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARDS- MO WILLEMS

Sorry- I messed up the staggered posting this week. Mo's back with 5 more and I'll do it manually 1 at a time. Next Wednesday 6:30 PM est.

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Mo Willems is the author and illustrator of some of the most beloved contemporary childrens' books.
He is also from New Orleans and He is here to send some ripples out to help the Gulf and the animals that live there. 


Mo's website
He's got a bibliography HERE 
Mo's blog

Mo has generously sent 9 sketches to Ripple. Next Wednesday he will be back.

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804. SOLD Please Help!

I am an Illustrator who was transplanted in Orlando for an animation gig at Disney. 

I've set down roots and grown to love natural Florida - this subtropical climate supports so much life! 

The oil spill is destroying the grand biodiversity in the Gulf and all along its coasts. 

Please help! Together we can make a difference to preserve and to rescue
those most severally effected.

With gratitude,
Kathy Blackmore

katherineblackmore.com

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

801.SOLD 802. 803. SOLDThree ripples from Michelle

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Michelle Henninger is a children's illustrator, who lives with her husband, two brilliant (and very artistic) children, and their loopy dog in Nashua, New Hampshire.  She feels strongly that the most important things in the world are accomplished by people who keep trying, even when there seems to be no hope.  The gulf oil disaster is immense, the clean-up daunting, but with a small sketch and a small donation, we can make things better!  Thanks to Kelly Light and Ripple, we can do our part.  Please help.

You can see more of Michelle's work at  http://www.michellehenninger.com/, or on her blog at http://michellehenninger.blogspot.com/.

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

800. HOLDFashion Forecast- Not pretty

I am a freelance illustrator and cartoonist living outside of LA with my wife and daughter with a dog on the way in November (God help us).  I am currently working on my portfolio for ICON 6 and SCBWI and developing a webcomic that I hope to debut in the next few months.  I also exhibit in galleries and have two group shows coming up at WWA Gallery and Nucleus Gallery. 

My website is:

http://www.fmhansen.com

798. SOLD799.SOLD Flight of the Manta

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Flight of the Manta 2
Flight of the Manta 3

Alicia "Kat" Dillman is an illustrator who lives in the San Fransisco Bay Area with her boyfriend and two Studio Kitties. Kat paints digitally using Corel Painter, mainly for children's books.

As someone who grew up in the Bay Area with it's miles and miles of tidal wetlands and marshes, news of oil spills is always heart wrenching.


Experience Kat's work on her website http://www.katgirlstudio.com

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

797. SOLD Oil Shells

Christine Kane is an artist and naturalist living in Chicago, Illinois. She studies nature by hiking and painting what she finds in the Midwest Forest Preserves. Christine offers free step-by-step painting demonstrations so the beginning artist can learn how to paint what they discover on their own adventures.

http://letspaintnature.com

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/christine-kane.html

Painting:

"Oil Shells"
4.5 x 7.5
watercolor and micron ink

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

G.5 HOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARD - Vanessa Brantley-Newton

This is card is for a $50 donation.


Vanessa Brantley Newton is the illustrator of a wonderful book "Let Freedom Sing" and also "Drum City" and soon to be published "Tallulah" .


"I have known that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was three.

I am self taught and I have attended both F.I.T. and SVA in New York.

While I work digitally, I do paint traditionally with gouache and watercolor.

I love all things retro and spend lots of time surfing the net for

vintage children's books and illustrations. I am inspired by

all things humorous and child like. I live in Northern New Jersey

with my husband ,9 year old daughter and two cats Kirby and Stripes.

It's going to take a long time to clean all this mess up! Hopefully

we can save as many as we can and restore what has been

so terribly ruined." - Vanessa


http://oohlaladesignstudio.blogspot.com/


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G.4 SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARD - Aaron Zenz

Aaron Zenz is a children's book Author/Illustrator who lives on the West Michigan shoreline.  Each card is 3.5" X 5", was created using Prismacolor colored pencils, and features critters from his upcoming book "Chuckling Ducklings" (Spring '11, Walker Books).

Links:
Website:  www.aaronzenz.com/
Portfolio:  www.kidshannon.com/artists/index.cfm?artist_name=aaronzenz
Blog:  www.bookiewoogie.blogspot.com

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796. SOLD It's A Sad Sad Situation

I am so happy to be able to do SOMETHING for this sad situation by cleaning just one sad bird. Thank you to Kelly for initiating this project...

This is a high-quality digital print on archival paper, photographed from the original watercolor and ink painting. I am an artist/illustrator living in Northern California, much too far from my own ocean. More of my work can be see at www.susansorrellhill.com  

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

795. SOLD Sea fairing turtle

Rebecca Gavney Driscoll is an illustrator residing in Wisconsin.    She freelances full time and animals of all kinds are her passion.    This is a PRINT of a sea fairing turtle.   The size is 8x10.

http://www.rgavneydriscoll.com/ 


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

794. SOLD A Pelican's BIG smile

Gerald Kelley lives in South Florida and works as a children's illustrator. You can have a big pick me up and look at his work HERE

Gerald works digitally so this will be a signed print.


This card can be yours for a $10 donation. See details to the right

G3. SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARD - Susan Miller

SOLD TO NINA CRITTENDEN
This card is for a $50 donation.

Susan Miller is a children's book illustrator that lives in Florida.
I think this is a really great thing you are doing, I hope this helps.
http://www.susanmillerillustrator.com
http://www.susanmillerillustrations.blogspot.com

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G2. SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARD - Janeen Mason

SOLD TO PAM SEMONES

This card is for a $50 donation.

Janeen Mason writes and illustrates children's picture books from her studio in South Florida, a stone's throw from the ocean that she loves. Her books have won numerous awards including most recently the Ben Franklin Silver. One of her books was a finalist in the 2010 Book of the Year Awards at BEA. Mason is the Secretary of Florida's Council on Arts and Culture and considers herself an arts activist. "Art of the Story" is a solo exhibit of Janeen Mason's original picture book illustrations which is visiting Florida Museums. To learn more please visit www.JaneenMason.com.

Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
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