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Matty's doodle, dubbed the Shiwi - Source: Breakfast -
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A couple of doodles of an alternative New Zealand Flag have fetched over $20,000 on Trade Me auctions.
Prime Minister John Key's doodle sold on Tuesday night for $10,150 to Elite International School of Beauty and Spa Therapies Director, Simon Harding.
Harding says they just wanted to support a good cause. He says the students at the school often donate money to different charities and thought this was a really good idea.
Key made it clear before he began drawing on Breakfast that he wasn't an artist but within 24 hours of listing the art work the bidding was up over $3,000.
Late last week ONE News' Breakfast reporter, Matty McLean decided to doodle himself, drawing a very odd animal dubbed Shiwi because of the uncertainty as to whether it was a sheep or a Kiwi.
Shiwi was put up for auction with McLean announcing a tongue-in-cheek challenge suggesting he would raise more money for Cure Kids than the Prime Minister with his doodle.
In the dying minutes of Matty's auction on Wednesday morning a large bid was placed skyrocketing the total from $350 to $10,500.
A family from the Western Bay of Plenty bought the Shiwi doodle and plan to hang it in their home beside a doodle by the late Sir Edmund Hillary.
The entire amount raised at auction, $20,650, will go to Cure Kids.
