HELLO AND WELCOME!

Hello and welcome to Pink Ribbon Prints. I have set up this account to raise Breast Cancer Awareness through Art, and to raise funds by selling prints of my work. All of my proceeds through these sales will be used to fund my participation in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day. If your goal is to donate to our cause, please use the link below, as I realize relatively small proceeds from the sale of these prints. If your goal is to obtain some nice Breast Cancer Awareness Artwork, by all means, purchase my prints knowing that my take will benefit a good cause.

We would greatly appreciate your help. A donation would be great. If you want to walk with us, and are willing to meet us in Tampa Bay next fall and commit to raising $2,200.00, that would be even better. To learn more, go here: [link] . I’ve put something there that’s fairly artistic in it’s own right.

OK, here’s our story; we’re a forty-something couple living in Connecticut. In December of 2004, my amazing, incredible, beautiful wife, Tina, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. It started with an ominous little dot on a mammogram. Over the course of the next several months, she underwent a dizzying array of tests, and blood work, and scans, and mammograms, and biopsies. In the summer of 05, she began chemo. At the end of her treatments, while she was still trying to recover from it’s effects, I was inspired to draw this picture

and shortly after it, this one

As she recovered from chemo and prepared for radiation, a precautionary mammogram was done, and sadly, another ominous little dot was discovered. They wanted to biopsy it, but my wife decided she didn’t want to go through all that again. Rather than suffer through a life time of fearing every mammogram, she elected to undergo a bi-lateral mastectomy, and decrease her chances of a relapse to less that five percent. As she considered different post-mastectomy reconstruction options, some of her ideas led to me drawing this picture:
as well as this one

In December of 05, while she was in the Hospital having her mastectomy, I kept myself busy in the waiting room and at her bedside drawing this


As she recovered, we started trying to help the greater cause and try to raise Breast Cancer Awareness. In late winter of 06, we committed to walking in the 2006 Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day. As part of my fundraising effort, I a poem dedicated to my wife ([link]). Upon reading it, my wife’s niece Sarah wrote me a thank you note on a greeting card that gave me the inspiration that led to this picture


In June of 06, she had permanent implants put in, thus marking the end of her surgical procedures. A few months later, we participated in our first Breast Cancer 3-Day, both of us walking 60 miles over the course of 3 days. At the closing ceremonies, as my wife and the other survivors came into the center, they were greeted by everyone holding up three fingers in honor of the three days. That gave me idea for this picture


The most recent Breast Cancer piece I’ve done is one that I one day intend to get as a tattoo on the back of my calf. I also think I’ll use it as my avatar for this account.


So that’s where I am with my Pink Ribbon series. I’m about halfway through with my next one, and I have several more kicking around in my mind. I’ll keep updating this account as I finish them. If you have any ideas you would like to see me do, please feel free to suggest them to me. I might also be willing to list some other people’s works up here, but you would have to be willing to let me list the print and donate the proceeds towards our cancer walk. I would also entertain involvement in a Breast Cancer Awareness Club.

Again, ALL proceeds realized from the sale of any of my prints will be donated to Breast Cancer Awareness.

Thanks for reading and I would love to hear how Breast Cancer has affected your life.

If you would like to check out my other artwork, go here