_{Adventure Awaits by Vintageskies}

Maybe it’s the adventurer in us but show us an artwork featuring a mountain and we find ourselves dreaming of far away adventures. We’re not the only ones inspired by perfect peaks and snow dusted summits. Here are just a few fine examples of marvelous mountainous slices of art from the talented folks on RB.

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_{Splendour Of The Rockies by Al Bourassa}

_{Mountain Pass by Martin Knight}

_{966 by peter holme}

_{Sierra Mountain Meadow by Elaine Bawden}

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_{The Lake}

If there’€™s one thing an artist must appreciate, it’s the experience of picturing something in the mind’s eye, then turning it into a reality. In his Redbubble profile, uberkraaft (Matt Williams) explains, ‘€˜… I make things I really want to see’€™. The ability to do so with a good deal of finesse and attention to detail brings us our next feature artist.

Matt completed a degree in sculpture at the University of Sheffield and then went on to a Masters in Digital Media at Coventry. But his artistic journey doesn’€™t start there – He’€™s been creating since he was old enough to pick stuff up and, even from a very young age, was never in doubt that his future lay in the creative industries. Right he was, too, since uberkraaft no…

_{Nature’s Choir – Mono}

Doom, gloom and political nit-picking. Honestly, it’s hard to stomach your breakfast with the news switched on these days. If there’€™s anything the world needs more of, it’s a bit more fun, and Budi Satria Kwan (radiomode) will help your fruit loops go down with a smile. While he describes his portfolio as ‘€˜Surreal, carefree, minimalist. Mostly colorful’€™, some of us would go a step further and call it innovative, insightful, sometimes fantastical and often side-splittingly funny.

Budi’s work is ingenious in its own right, but he has an appreciation for other people’s finest repartee as well, and in many cases his visual treatment of such commentary functions as an effective value-adding tool. Check out the pe…

Well we’ve just about recovered from our South by Southwest adventures so it’s high time we shared a round up of all the shenanigans that took place in Austin. On Sunday the 10th of March we took over Gallery D and transformed it into a Pop Up Gallery, filled to the brim with RB swag. Then we worked our proverbials off for the next three days, waving your work in front of as many eyeballs as possible.

The response was quite overwhelming. For many visitors, this was their first introduction to Redbubble and they were quite blown away by the quality of your work and the products on offer. We also had a bunch of artists drop by – some travelling on planes just to witness RB in the flesh (we’re looking at you Nichole Lillian Ryan), others beamed to us via Skype thanks…

_Changes

Being a freelance artist can be pretty tough. You might find yourself struggling to stay motivated one minute and swamped with work the next. You do, however, get to plot your own course and it is in light of this that language like ‘self-taught’€™, ’€˜autonomous’€™ and ‘self-reliant’ tends to come up in the freelancers’€™ resumes.

Chris Wahl grabbed hold of the rudder a short time after high school when, after a brief stint in retail (yes, an oft-told story) he had the opportunity of a six-month apprenticeship with Walt Disney TV Animation Australia. Incidentally, this wasn’t Chris’s first choice: He was originally aiming to become a newspaper caricaturist, but the merging of newspapers in Australia at the time meant fewer opp…

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In the Japanese art of aikido, the concept of ‘chou-wa’ relates to spiritual harmony. This can refer to harmony with one’s opponent, but the idea is not limited to the dojo; it extends to every aspect of life, not least what you do with it. For example, when your daughter asks you to help with a project involving photography and you find passion and talent for the art (while also discovering a great creative partner, model and muse), you give due consideration to taking it up more seriously.

That’€™s precisely what Nikki Smith (aka Citizen) did.

Nikki’€™s work with book covers is another example of her application of spiritual harmony, since she did not initially set out to create them, but certainly views them as a pleasing accomplishment. And indee…

In a group Skype chat at RBHQ during the week, someone was heard to exclaim ‘what the hell is with all the pugs lately?’ The general consensus was that we weren’t quite sure why, but they seem to be cropping in greater numbers than usual – in our feeds, the recent items uploaded to the site, WIPs on Instagram and on art and design sites across the interweb.

Maybe people are finally growing tired of moustaches or perhaps they’ve been collectively hypnotized by these fur covered balls of personality. We can’t be sure, so in the name of research (and end of week amusement) here are 40 pug loving artworks from artists on RB. There are currently just over 1500 works tagged with ‘pug’ and we have a feeling there are going to be a few more of thes…

_{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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_{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-…