One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to start a Redbubble shop for a bit of passive income; apart from the slight wrinkle that my art/personal laptop died of 16,000+ bad sectors on the hard disk, things are going fairly well on that front! I have all of the pieces for my intended selection-at-launch done and ready to scan (apart from the A2-sized one, which is going to require some very careful photography instead). I’ve set a photo of ’em as the featured image on this post, but in case that doesn’t come up, here it is again:
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Starting from furthest back:
The tetraptych of #bacteriophages (icosahedral head, long ‘tail’, six legs) on the wall over the printer (each image will be sold separately) — Lower middle: #bacteriophage in shades of red, surrounded by the words ‘Autistic Pride’, also in red; Right: bacteriophage in the black-grey-white-purple colours of the asexual pride flag; Left: bacteriophage in the dark green-light green-white-grey-black colours of the aromantic pride flag; Upper middle: bacteriophage in five shades of green (which turned out more yellow-toned than I initially intended) against a lemniscate in black — this represents the #autigender pride flag (‘Autigender’ designates a gender identity so strongly influenced by one’s being Autistic that it cannot sensibly be considered apart from it)
A painting on an A2-sized canvas, placed on a blue desk easel, depicting a purple bacteriophage-rocket hybrid blasting off from a blue-green planet in the lower-right corner. (Fun thing, I based the landmasses in the painting on the island of Tanegashima in Japan, which is the real-life basis of Mossdeep City and the Mossdeep Space Center in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire)
Two paintings, the left-hand one on an A4 canvas and the right-hand one on a square canvas, showing variations on the theme of ‘layered four-pointed star motif in many colours’. The right-hand painting is in a fairly basic rainbow colour scheme progressing outward from the centre, while the left-hand painting has a more complex colour scheme and ‘channels’ of random splotches of colour to each side of the layered stars. (These channels came from my unwillingness to waste paint when I’d mixed slightly more than I needed to cover a particular area — my dad pointed out that they make a nice order-vs-chaos contrast with the layered stars.)
In the foreground, on top of the laptop: a roughly rectangular piece of cardboard painted with a chaotic variety of colour splotches. Similar in principle to the ‘channels’ mentioned in the previous paragraph, I used this as my ‘avoidance of waste’ picture when I was working on some custom Funko Pop figures, and I thought it would look nice on a hardcover journal or T-shirt or something 😀
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This represents my intended range of pictures — mainly bacteriophages in various #pride flag colours (since there seems to be a bit of a gap in the market), with occasional surrealist bacteriophages and colourful abstract geometry as inspiration strikes.
I did the two layered-star pieces during the 2020 lockdown — or at least, I intended to, but I ended up having to squeeze them into the interstices of an unexpectedly increased workload from the publisher that was my main/only client at the time…
Further updates once I get a working art laptop again! 😀
Susan Albinson 