Char Reed Illustration – Helping animals in the gulf
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.
June 19, 2010 2 Comments
Overhaul!
As you’ve probably noticed, I’m doing a bit of an overhaul here.
My apologies for anything not working 100% as it should – I’ll have stuff sorted out in a jiffy!
June 12, 2010 3 Comments
So! A note about this blog
I have made the decision to change the way this blog works, as you may have noticed from a lack of updates.
Mundane sundries now go to my personal livejournal once again, here at livejournal.
However thoughts on work, art, being a freelancer, misc general interest items and videos of cute animals will be posted here. Oh, here’s one now!
So The Ugly Goat is not dead…just….uh…whatever.
Stay tuned!
November 29, 2009 Comments Off
I’m supposed to be working
This is me supposed to be working:
Clearly…uh…NOT working…
I also realised that I forgot today is “Vintage Ad Friday”, and have shortchanged you one vintage ad. Hah! Sorry about that.
On the bright side, I’ve had such a good response from my entries about being a freelance illustrator and selling work wholesale that I am currently in the process of writing more about it – specifically, getting your art out and about into physical places: cafes, shops, galleries, the like.
So stayed tuned.
November 6, 2009 Comments Off
I’ll give YOU egomaniac!
I heard somebody say recently that bloggers are the ultimate egomaniacs – thinking that people not only what to hear what they have to say, but will go out of their way to do so day in, day out, regardless of the importance of the content.
And to top it off, most bloggers have no qualifications, are experts on nothing, and really only talk about themselves.
And I guess this character has a point, really.
I can’t deny that I like having people read what I write. And I can’t deny I write about myself a lot.
But here’s the thing:
I think I’d be more of an egomaniac were I to talk about other people more.
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September 21, 2009 2 Comments
