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.

Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

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/


Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

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

Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

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

Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

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--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

G1.SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR CARD -TOM WARBURTON

SOLD TO NANCY LENNERT!

This is a 3 card set for a $50 donation.

Mr.Warburton is the creator of Cartoon Network's sooper triple smash hit series
"Codename Kids Next Door" and the author of the not-so-bad picture book "1000 Times No".
He lives in Los Angeles with his sooper hero wife and two sooper powered sons.
You can learn more about his heroic exploits at www.warburtonlabs.blogspot.com

These cards were done on watercolor paper with watercolor (duh), colored pencils, sharpie, brush pen, white out and whatever else i had around.Hope ya'll like!please shout if you have any questions!


Mr.Warburton sent these a while ago before I even asked.- Great guy! Great stuff!
Rules on $50 cards to the right--->
Be the first to send inquiry ONLY. After you hear from me- go run and donate!-Kelly

791. SOLDSOLD792. Help Move Mountains!

792. SOLDFish Scuba

791. SOLDOctopus Snorkel

John Huber is a fine artist, photographer, freelance illustrator and website designer living in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He stumbled onto the Ripple blog via a retweet on twitter. Proving that 140 characters CAN help move mountains, or raise awareness!

Pieces are 2.5 x 3.5" on 160lb acid free paper.

John's website: www.huberific.com

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

790.SOLD Incensed!

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Hello, I am Betty Wilkins, a high school English teacher, living and sketching in Central Texas. Texas beaches have been a destination for me my whole life; I am terribly saddened by the devastation to this delicate ecosystem, and praying it will end very, VERY soon. My "Incensed" seagull is sketched with watercolors and watercolor crayons and is 2.5x3.5 inches.

See more of my work here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettyfromtexas/

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

789. SOLD Sad to leave

"Veronica V. Jones is a freelance illustrator living in the Northern Virginia area. She works digitally in Photoshop and Painter, and created this 2.5" x 3.5" image to express her sadness at the mess in the Gulf. Hopefully our small efforts and donations can make a difference."

See more of her work at Moonshines.com
On Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/moonshines.fantasy.art

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

TOMORROW STARTS "GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR" MONTH

This is Eastern time (I'm in N.Y.)


Thursday July 1st Tom Warburton @ 7:00pm

Friday July 2nd Janeen Mason @ 6:30pm
Susan Miller 7:00 pm

Monday July 5th Aaron Zenz @ 6:30pm
Vanessa Brantley Newton @ 7:00pm

Wed July 7th Mo Willems @ 6:30 pm - 8:30pm 4 cards available: 1@ each half hour.

Friday July 9th Stephen Silver @ 7:30 pm

Monday July 12th Stephen Marchesi @ 6:30pm


Wed July 14th Mo Willems Strikes Back @ 6:30pm - 8:00pm 4 cards:1 @ each half hour


Other artists to come: Dan Santat, Jarrett Krosoczka, Jeff Newman, Pascal Campion, Corey Godbey, Don Tate and many more surprises...

Some of the greats may not be household names yet but are no less great. They have many books published - give of their time in mentoring - environmental activism - promoting literacy for kids - and many are just so darn good! They have given their time and talent to help the animals of the Gulf.


This schedule may be tweaked as more cards come in. Check back often to make sure you have the time to try to get one you would like.

Again THE RULES:

We will be asking a $50 donation - for each of these cards. $50 for the 50 states of this nation that want to see the oil stop gushing into the Gulf.


TO BUY A "GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR" CARD: At posting the scheduled posting time (not before) the FIRST person to send an inquiry to: ripplesketches@verizon.net stating card name - artist name and number and get a response that it is yours must THEN go donate to one of the Non Profits and send the copy of the confirmation a.s.a.p.. We will mark the card "HOLD" and when we receive the confirmation we will mark the card "SOLD". We will only hold for one hour. Do not donate before inquiring first. Donate after being told it is yours. We'll have a lot of people wanting the same card. It's first come- first serve here on Ripple- just be the first to say "I WANT THAT SKETCH!!!" - then be quick about the donation and confirmation. All information must be included- the artist, the card, the number. And you must send all of your info with the confirmation and we must see proof of a $50 donation -not just the confirmation number. Your address must be included also. It will be sent to the artist to mail the card out to you.

We are checking time stamps on emails. Think the opposite of "The Price is Right"- You can be over but not under. 6:31 is fine. 6:29 is not. I can't say it enough- no pre-sales. It is first come - first serve. I will announce the winner ASAP!

As always- it's just me here- please be patient. You can ask me questions ripplesketches@verizon.net - Thanks all!! -Kelly

787.788.BOTH SOLD Lino Cut Jellies

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Jellyfish Linocutprint 6.4'' x 9.4''

Maria Bogade is an Animation Artist and aspiring Illustrator living in Ludwigsburg, a small town in Germany.
Check out her blog to see more of her work www.mariabogade.blogspot.com

Each print is available for a 10 $ donation!

785. 786. Houses for Hope

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786. SOLD Deck House

A few more "Houses for Hope" from Susan Walker of Harmony PA.

www.susanwalkerart.com

http://www.etsy.com/shop/susanwalkerart

http://susanwalkerart.blogspot.com/

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