Ripple Sketches – “a small sketch, a small donation…together we can create a ripple in the oil soaked waters of the Gulf.”

Kelly Light  – a talented young illustrator from New York came up with a brilliant idea to raise awareness and raise donations to benefit  The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center. Artists donate original art (mostly ATC size), email Kelly an image and she posts it on the blog created especially for this. Viewers donate $10 to one of the 2 chairities, email Kelly confirmation, then an artist will mail them an art card signed and a thank you note on the back. As of this writing, over $5000 has been raised! And the really exciting thing about this is that if you go to the very first post “Be the change you want to see in the world“, you can read her frustration with the oil spill and read about her new idea and how she had raised $100 so far.

19 days later it’s up to over $5000.

That first post is cool on so many levels. Just take a step in the right direction and see where it will lead you. Bravo Kelly Light!

Artists from all over the world are participating. When you view the blog, keep scrolling down and clicking on “older posts” in order to see more and more art. Many of the artists are professional and have links to their blog – oooh so inspiring!

Better go get to work on my art card to donate.

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