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.

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A link worth checking out.
How a web design goes straight to hell

I can related both as a web designer and as an illustrator.

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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!

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I’m not ashamed to say I laughed. REALLY hard…

Even the dog thinks it’s tragic. I love that he stands and stares the whole time.

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An artist friend shared this with me (thankyou Lisa!), and it’s worth watching.
It’s a video on TED wondering about how we approach creativity and ‘genius’ but keep our mental health at the same time.

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I saw this, nestled amongst overly emotional and dark video clips aimed at angsty teenagers, and found it to be quite cute. And uniquely UNangsty and unboobular for being on a video clips show.

But then I like birds and hate teenagers. Maybe I’m biased.

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I’m feeling kinda depressed today. Unmotivated with my art or work. It probably doesn’t help that I feel very tired…I feel like I’m slogging through thick molasses to get anything done.

That is, I WAS! Until I checked the post box!

This year I took advantage of Deviant Art’s free shipping worldwide offer, and ordered a bunch of little prints to use little gifts, gift tags, cards etc for people this Christmas. Had I had more money, I would’ve ordered much larger ones, but at least I got SOME, even if they are small.

And, since I was ordering and it was so cheap without paying shipping, I got a couple for me. My favourite being from artist Ravenari!

I’d have taken photos of the other things I ordered, but since they’re not all for me and some are going as gifts to people, I can’t or it’d spoil the surprise.

The above are poor quality pictures (really, my camera is dieing), but I’m VERY impressed with the quality of the prints from Deviant Art. To be honest, I was expecting slightly dodgy, but the colours are good, it’s crisp, it’s Kodak paper – all in all, a lot better than I was expecting.

So now I’m happy, and am going to go about hanging some of these up near my work space as inspiration.

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