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Char Reed Illustration – Helping animals in the gulf

The Ugly Goat — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:39:49 +0000

Char Reed is offering the beautiful artwork above as prints and greeting cards, with 100% of the earnings being donated to these two very worthy charities:

The International Bird Rescue Research Center

The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies

It’s a beautiful artwork and a generous offer of help to where it’s most needed right now.
Please visit Char Reed’s Blog to read more about it, and help spread the word.

Haiti. And original artwork.

The Ugly Goat — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:44:14 +0000

As I’m sure most of you know, Haiti has been struck by an earthquake. The worst earthquake it’s seen in 200 years. So…not so good. Reports are that there are more than one hundred thousand people dead.

Stop for a second and think about that. That’s more than everybody I know. Dead in one go.

Nothing is going to help those already gone, but the people left behind are doing it pretty tough.

If you feel so inclined, you can make a donation to help the survivors through a whole bunch of charities and methods.
And, if you’re in the mood for buying some art, you can do both at the same time.

I’m selling this original artwork, called ‘The Pointless Nowhere Tree’ and, if purchased, will donate 50% of the purchase price to the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Click picture for a bigger view of the artwork

The Pointless Nowhere Tree, signed original
Pen and Ink
Approx 21 x 30cm (roughly 8.5 x 11), but photo shows size pretty clearly.
Comes unframed, and obviously the ‘toeknuckles.com’ watermark does NOT appear on the original

Postage and handling included in purchase price.

I’m asking $135 (US), which is a significant discount from my normal pricing, and includes shipping.
50% will be donated straight to the Haiti fund.

If you’re interested in purchasing, please just let me know!

Remembering what’s important at Christmas

The Ugly Goat — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:37:07 +0000

This toddler, followed by a vulture, collapsed in the dirt on the way to a feeding clinic.
Luckily, the photographer chased away the vulture, and this particular little girl made it to the clinic. I shudder to think how many didn’t.

Ok folks, I do this every Christmas, and it’s that time again – me asking you to please make sure you remember charities at this time of year.
This is when many charities are most stressed, and when we so easily get caught up in our own purchases and forget just how much charities rely on donations to get by.

Oxfam Unwrapped is an Australian site I have used for a few years now, and, after seeing the photo above, have been reminded to purchase from again this year.
You can buy something for as little as $10.

Less than it’d cost to get some cake and coffee at a cafe.

Less than a movie ticket.

And it might save somebody’s life.

I can sacrifice an evening at the movies for that.

Oxfam Unwrapped America can be found here.
And Oxfam International is here.

Of course, this year I’m pimpin’ Oxfam, but you needn’t donate there if you don’t want to.
But just please remember to donate (if you can’t afford cash, consider goods or time) to the charity of YOUR choice.

There are a lot of people trying to do a lot of good out there, but they need a little bit of help from us, and can’t get by when we forget about them.