819. SOLD Flight of the Manta

Flight of the Manta


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

You Gotta Have Heart!!!!

"You Gotta Have Heart- All you really need is heart- when the odds are sayin you'll never win- that's when the grinnin should start- You gotta have hope- mus'nt sit around and mope..... Not a solitary sigh can you hear- Mr. 'cause we've got hope......"

I love that song from "Damn Yankees".  It speaks to what we're doing here at Ripple. Faced with a situation that seems hopeless -  you go out and keep going- with hope.  We grab a pencil- a paint brush - a stylus and do what we do - we draw. We draw for the birds and the dolphins and the sea turtles and for the beach covered with 1000 dead hermet crabs.

Then other people holding on to hope come and see the art and donate with their hearts. They write me how happy they are when the sketches arrive in their mail boxes!! I love to hear it.  Write me if you can - maybe I can post some up here.

The people cleaning the animals run on hope. They've released 473 rehabilitated birds - hoping for their healthy lives ahead of them. People are carefully digging up Sea Turtle eggs and moving them to the East Coast of Florida -in the hopes of giving the hatchlings a chance at a nice long sea turtle life. They do it on hope - we do it on hope. How can we not?

It's the 84th day of the oil spill. There's a cap on now- Let's hope it works. Let's hope it stops. Let's keep hoping.

We've got Mo Willems again this Wednesday night! -all kinks worked out of my crazy system!
Friday night it's Jarrett Krosoczka and his awesome ripples!
Sprinkled all thoughout - amazing works by other great artists - make sure to follow the links to all of their other work.

I have to Thank all of my helpers on Ripple again- Bonnie, Nina, Nicole and Anna. 

And a big THANKS to all of you who give me hope. -  Kelly

G11. SOLDMaggie Swanson

I've illustrated over 100 children's books. www.maggieswanson.com.

I live in Connecticut with my husband, Rick and two exceptional cats. 

A lot of my free time is spent volunteering at my local animal shelter 

cleaning and photographing- www.shelter-cats.com.

The jar is 2.5 X 3.5 inches.

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

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

G10. SOLD GREAT AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR - STEPHEN MARCHESI

Stephen Marchesi is a commercial artist working mostly in the children's book field, having illustrated close to five hundred book covers and 40 picture books as well as hundreds of textbook and magazine drawings.

http://www.portfoliosolutionsllc.com/

http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=smackam

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

818. SOLDWhy is it So Dark?

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Bethanie Murguia is a writer and illustrator living in Sausalito, California. This image is watercolor and ink. She lives one block from the beach where she plays in the sand, kayaks, and cavorts with the seals, birds and jellyfish. The bay is a huge part of her life.

Her first picture book will be available from Tricycle Press/Random House in 2011.

See more of her work here:
Website: www.aquapup.com
Blog: www.bethaniemurguia.blogspot.com
Each card is available for a $10 donation. See details at right.

817.SOLD Ibis

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Stacey Moriarty has degree in Graphic Illustration, but rarely flexes that muscle. The disaster in the Gulf has inspired her to create "Ibis." The artwork measures approximately 4" x 5-3/4" and was created using oil pastel on board.

"Every year I visit Longboat Key on the Gulf with a group of very close friends. Bonding is our primary reason to get together, but it is the beauty of the area that brings us back year after year. Thank you Kelly for providing me with a way to help restore (tiny as it may be) the areas devastated by the disaster."

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

816. SOLDOrigami for the Gulf

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Carey is an origami artist living in San Diego, California.

See more of Carey's work here: http://flickr.com/photos/careysniche/

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

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Phyllis Harris started her career in art in the greater Kansas City area at a local city newspaper. She then began freelancing as a graphic designer for clients such as Hallmark Cards until she began her full-time illustration career for children's publications in 1999. Since then, her illustrations have appeared in magazines and books for clients such as Scholastic, Standard Publishing, Cartwheel Books and Highlights and High-Five Magazine. 

Phyllis illustrates using traditional as well as digital mediums on a Macintosh computer using Painter, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop software.

These pieces are 3" x 4". Traditional watercolor and brown prismacolor
pencil outlines.

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Phyllis Harris

http://www.phyllisharris.com

http://phyllisharris.blogspot.com/

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

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

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

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.

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

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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