Just do it and do it messy if needed
Hello friends!
Welcome back to Stavrina Art Lab!
Once a month, I try to send you something that hopefully helps you and inspires you!
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For a long time, people have been asking me the same question:
“Where can I buy your work?”
And for a long time, I had no answer.
Not because I didn’t want to share my art.
Not because I didn’t dream about it.
Mostly because I thought I needed everything to be better first.
Better branding.
Better products.
Better organization.
Better confidence.
Perfect, basically.
But perfection is a moving target, and if you wait for it, you can end up hiding the things you care about for years.
So this is me choosing differently.
I finally opened my Redbubble shop for Stavrina Art Lab.
Not because it’s perfect.
Because it exists.
And honestly, that feels brave.
The scary part of putting your art out there
Making art privately is vulnerable enough.
Sharing it publicly is something else entirely.
The moment your work exists outside your sketchbook, your room, your close friends, it becomes real in a different way. People can judge it. Ignore it. Love it. Misunderstand it. Buy it. Wear it. Hang it on their walls.
That’s terrifying.
I think a lot of artists quietly carry this idea that we need to “arrive” before we deserve visibility. That somehow we need to become fully polished versions of ourselves before we’re allowed to say:
“Here. This is what I make.”
But courage is rarely polished.
Most of the time, courage looks like uploading the artwork anyway.
Launching the shop anyway.
Starting before you feel fully ready.
Why I chose Redbubble
I wanted a place where people could finally access my work in a simple way.
Friends have been asking for prints, stickers, and little things for a while now, and I kept saying “soon,” without really knowing what “soon” meant. I choose only the products that ship both from Europe and the US. This way I know that if a friend orders from Europe, they will not have customs.
Redbubble gave me a way to begin.
It’s simple, flexible, and honestly, beginning mattered more to me right now than building the perfect online store from scratch.
My motto is anyway:
Stay creative and experiment!
And I think there’s something beautiful about allowing ourselves to experiment
You are welcome to my shop!
If you’d like to support my work, browse the designs, or simply see what I’ve been creating, you can visit my Redbubble shop here:
Stavrina Art Lab Redbubble Shop
I’ll be adding more designs over time, and I’m genuinely excited to finally have a place to point people to when they ask where they can find my art.
Love,
Stavrina
What a great message. Beginnings are messy and that's OK, it's part of it!