It’™s been another busy week on Redbubble. Lots of artists are exhibiting, publishing, starting new projects, and offering loads of support, encouragement and advice to other artists. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{Works by Fern Blacker, Victoria Stanway, donnamalone, Beatrice Cloake
N.A.P.A, Valerie Rosen, Sue Ratcliffe, Helenka and AlineGason Aline of Solo Exhibition}

1. Your Community Curators announced the first recipient of their monthly Spotlight on Groups and winners of a $100 voucher to spend on the group. Congrats to Solo Exhibition and stay tuned for this regular feature on our blog.
2. berndt2 will forever be our hero because he went to London Fashion Week, and once got thisclose to Daniel Craig. Check out his glam black & white shots.
3. Photogra

_{Two deer ii}

In modern life, we tend, intentionally or otherwise, to surround ourselves with the banal. At times, the combined weight of obligation, bureaucracy and the desire to impress can be such that we soon forget life is full of wonder, hope and mystery. It’€™s times like these that you might be pleased to have someone like Randi Antonsen (aka claravox) to remind you. Antonsen hails out of Indery, Norway, and describes herself as a dreamer and an artist€™. Her portfolio is both versatile and extensive.

Perhaps it is the artist’€™s upbringing on an island – quite literally near the top of the world – and in some degree of isolation that behaved as a catalyst in the development of her unique style. She describes the experience of growing up with limited expos…

We’re Heading to Austin!
 

This year, during the lunacy that is South by Southwest, we will be hijacking a gallery space in Austin, Texas for three days and filling it with bucketloads of amazing work from Redbubble artists. If you happen to be in or around Austin during SXSW, then come on down and say hello. There will be lots of art and design to feast your eyes upon and we’ll also have previews of future things, free things, weird things and some tunes to accompany all the awesomeness.

We’ll be open March 11, 12 & 13 from 11am – 7pm at Gallery D, 436 W. 2nd St. Austin, TX. Entry is free and you don’t need to be an official SXSW attendee so you’re welcome to bring your friends, your cat and any interesting people you meet on the way.
 

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It’™s been another busy week on Redbubble. Lots of artists are exhibiting, publishing, starting new projects, and offering loads of support, encouragement and advice to other artists. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{works by: Farfarm, Elox, Jai Llewellyn, Richard George, eon, Raul’s Companion, Pepijn Sauer, and howpin}

1. Natasha Perova has created beautiful galleries using her favorites as gallery pages.
2. Natalie Ord’s commended work Enchanted Sorrow will be shown in a London exhibit.
3. Ecreations spent some time viewing exhibits at the Hunter Museum in Tennessee.
4. Linda Sannuti creates a lovely video to accomodate her own music and works of art.
    

_{Work by mmargot}

1. mmargot invites us to share the creative backstory on her work, Fire Next T

_{Harpy Sunset}

‘Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence’. So begins Calvin Coolidge’€™s famous quote inspiring sports and business people, academics and artists alike. David Kennett describes himself as a late starter in illustration and is even a trifle self-effacing when describing his early work. If indeed his entry to the world of illustration was as difficult as he describes, it’€™s hard to believe looking at his portfolio today. But the artist may well be a shining example of Coolidge’s sentiments. He describes his work as €˜time consuming, enjoyably so€™, which is reflected in his highly diverse and meticulously produced portfolio.

Upon completing his studies in illustration, Kennett was recommended by one of his lecturers to work on a 16-…

_{Drown my Sorrows by Filter}

More people have travelled into outer space than to the depths of our own planet, so it’s little wonder that the ocean provides such inspiration for storytellers and artists. These uncharted landscapes allow our imaginations to run wild. We can still imagine there might be a grain of truth in the myths and legends of kraken, sea serpents and leviathan. We’ve compiled a collection that dives into the imaginative depths of our oceanic bounds. Lost souls, underwater cities, sea creatures (real and imagined) sirens and mermaids – below we explore the mystery of what lies beneath.

If you’d like to leave a comment for an artist, add a work to your favorites, or buy any of these works, just click on the individual images to visit the work pages…

It’™s been another busy week on Redbubble. Lots of artists are exhibiting, publishing, starting new projects, and offering loads of support, encouragement and advice to other artists. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

_{works by Marianna Tankelevich}

1. Marianna Tankelevich and Cishvilli have collaborated to create a delightful book featuring Cishvilli’s poems and Marianna’s images.

1. Sophie Smith has had a work featured in Paper.Li.

1. Jainiemac let us know that she has a created a collection of blurb books.

1. Sentimentum has had a number of works published in the Flowers in Art book.

_{works by Phillip Wise}

1. Phillip Wise will be hanging his work in Tasmania for two months.

1. Alvaro Sánchez is part of a collective exhibiting their works in Montreuil, Fran

We’re well into 2013 and some of us might still be roaring ahead on goals for the new year, while others might be losing a little steam after that initial gung ho-ness. Whether you’re the type to set goals and stridently stick to them or not, one thing we could all use is a message of inspiration. Encouragement to keep going, achieve the lives we want, or aim higher – these are aspirations we can all relate to, whether it’s for our lives or our art.

To that end, we presented a challenge a few weeks back of creating inspirational posters, meant to inspire and encourage. We got an unprecedented number of entries, from the silly to the sublime to the profound and it was great fun sorting through them all to see what you came up with. But alas, all contests must end so…

_{Unicycling Trio}

“Hey, you! The one with the camera. Yeah, you! Point and click, my friend, and don’t delay. I’m a vibrant street scene, full of activity and color, and I need to be photographed. Behold my bold triangles and contrasts. See how I respond to depth-of-field experimentation.”

When a scene confronts you like this, you want to have a good camera handy. Fortunately, Pepijn Sauer (agnostic) is as well prepared as any boy scout and carries some sort of camera wherever he goes. Naturally, the process is never quite as easy as this, and such a description would belie the true cleverness that goes into the work. Shooting a scene from a unique angle to create an eye-catching composition is but one of the skills that separates photographers like Sauer from any…

_{Click on the images above to see the original works}

It’s easy to reach for Google when you need some suitable textures for your work, but armed with a little imagination and a camera it’s ridiculously easy to create your own. The following tutorial contains some tips for photographing textures and a whole bunch of textures you can find in and around your own home. We hope it inspires …

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Getting Started: Camera Settings
 

1. Set your camera to Macro.

There are three simple key steps to optimising your digital camera to shoot textures. The first is an easy win; set your camera to it’s ‘Macro’ mode, for macrophotography. The great thing about creating your own textures is that nearly all point and shoot cameras have a built in macro mode.…

It’s time for another wrap up of news and activity from our Redbubble artists. We’ve seen some exciting exhibitions, publicity coups, and interesting journals. Here’s just some of the action we spotted this week.

 
^{Works by Claudia Dingle, BarbBarcikKeith, Tahnja, Madalena Lobao-Tello, Susan Bergstrom, MoonSpiral, Annika Hiltunen, & kimberlysdream}

1. Uber-artist Tom Trager was just featured in a Geekshirts article series, Designer Unlocked interview of 2013.
2. Claudia Dingle just had her work slice of lemon featured in a Women Painters group post, along with work from a bunch of other great members.
3. Open call to submit work to an exhibition called “Be My Valentine” at the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst, Australia. It runs from February 6th to the 17th. F