This is an illustration I’ve been working on and I thought it fit pretty well with the Illustration Friday prompt Satellite.
Illustration Friday ~ Paisely
How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child! Her Pearl!- For so had Hester called her; not as a name expressive of her aspect, which had nothing of the calm, white, unimpassioned lustre that would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant “Pearl,” as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother’s only treasure!
The Next Postcard
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!
Illustration Friday ~ Trail
Into the woods, It’s time to go,
I hate to leave, I have to, though.
Into the woods- It’s time, and so
I must begin my journey.
Into the woods And through the trees
To where I am Expected ma’am,
Into the woods
To Grandmother’s house-
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim for Into the Woods