Quick update

There seems to be a problem with uploading pictures here today, so this is just a quick update....
-dimarie designs now does Keds shoes! Available at my Zazzle store click here
-I have some new designs on mousepads also....
-Dont forget to check out our main art site, where we now have our private bubble sites, geared more toward the sales.... the community side is still there also if one likes to leave comments and read the writings, poetry and journals, as these are not accessible thru the private bubble as of yet...
- I have loads of works in progress at the moment, as soon as the bug is fixed with uploading pics, i'll give you all a glimpse of what i'm up to!
Until then....
Peace N Luv Trippaz!
Take Care of Each Other!

Dimaries Silhouette Art

silhouettes of magic

pictured left-watching life unfold

So I've been tryin out a new style...and enjoyin it I must admit :)
Theres something so mysterious and beautiful about shadows, silhouettes... and I get to embrace this with this style.

After finishing my first picture like this, (unicorns) I had enjoyed it so, I had to do another...and another and another and the ideas kept coming in :)
pictured right -faerie mumma

But after I had finished a handful of them, it got me to thinking of where I had gotten my inspiration from, and I had to go back thru memory to find out :)

When I was younger, one of my favourite books for a short time was The Kingdom under the Sea.


It was a book of fairytales, albeit rather dark ones...and for each story there was one or two pictures...and the pictures were amazing!
Gorgeous pictures! All done in sihouettes, on a backdrop of what looked to be marble effect dyed paper,,, I loved that book.
But as life takes over it was lost amongst other dearly held treasures... fell into the abyss of childhood relics long misplaced...
and I forgot all about it...

So back to the present, after I had completed a few silhouette pics of my own design...I started to remember that book!
I could vaguely remember the pictures...the witches hut on a chicken foot...the mermaids... I couldnt remember properly...
Of course I couldnt remember the author or illustrator either...even got my mother to check her house to see if my old book was there somewhere...but no luck.

Days later, upon talking to a fellow RB member about the origins of my inspiration for my silhouette pics, I finally had the idea to google the book title! Why I hadnt thought of that already I'm not sure lol, so much goin on in this mind its hard to keep up sometimes...
Not only did I find said book, but with it the author and illustrators names...And more books in the same style! yay! I love that artwork!


So, the illustrator is the very talented Jan pienkowski, who is also famous for the "Meg n Mog" childrens books.
His official site can be found here

So, I'm lovin this style of work... I have many more to come!

...I just need to be careful to not do anything too similar to Jans stuff! And keep mine original!
Tho his style seems to be more arabic than mine, and his backgrounds are marble effect....my backgrounds are more spacey and light explosion, and my characters more medievil, european lookin than his...

The Dragon Kin Battles

So they also look really great on Tees! check it out! here are my Seers ones...

and above here are what the 'seers' series look like in print form framed.

So thats some of my latest work...have also been doing some more photography and bass related pieces too...

Come check it all out at my RB 'home'

dimarie designs portfolio

All artwork shown here is available to buy as prints, (and some on tee designs too!)If you would like to purchase one (or many lol) simply click on any of the links under the artwork or click on my RB portfolio link to the right under my profile...

Hope you have enjoyed my visions!

Peace N Luv Trippaz!

:) :) :)

Collaborations and Inspirations

desert spirits

Sometimes we are inspired by others art...sometimes another artist has a piece that jumps out at you saying "collab...collab..." lol.
One of the beauties of being part of an artistic community, such as RB, is the opportunty to do great collaborations is made so easy!
Being one that usually doesnt work well with others myself, I'm also finding the process a good learning curve.
Its always interesting to see how collaborations, and inspired art come together, the many different ideas that take shape and the varying interpretations that bring about results that are often mindblowing!

The Nightmare

Here are some of the collaboration pieces I have done...

- 'desert spirits' is a piece I have collaborated with Damien Venditti, a talented Australian Artist on RB.
I loved his painting, Dream of a hundred thousand years as soon as I saw it, and envisioned butterflies all over it lol, and after telling him so, being the cool guy that Damien is, he allowed me to do come up with something incorporating it.
So, using his painting as the background, I incorporated some of my ink drawings to it, to create the desert spirit and her butterflies.

- 'The Nightmare'
Kristina Kitchingman, who is an avid photographer, and also has a portfolio full of wonderful images on RB (and happens to be my aunt aswell lol) was kind enough to allow me to use some of her photographs in whatever way I pleased. (I love it when people do that!)
So this poetry piece was created incorporating some of Kristina's bones and skeleton photographs, to help add to the atmosphere of the nightmare portrayed.

Amaltheas Enchanted Home

- 'Amaltheas Enchanted Home' is a collaboration piece for a contest in the Live, Love, Dream RB group. The theme for the challenge was ‘Inspiration’ and was to encourage collaborations between artists and inspired art...
Kristina suggested I come up with something with her pictures...
So, using some of Kristinas photographs, my overtired imagination (lol) and self taught photoshop skills, this piece was created.

Unicorns have always been inspirational to me,
As a young child, my favourite movie was The Last Unicorn
I fell in love with the story and the magical beauty that was Amalthea, the tragic unicorn on her quest to free her kind, burdened by unfamiliar mortality, love, and regret that comes from her enchanted human guise.
It was the beginning of my life long love affair with all things magickal, has been the doorway to a world of unending inspiration, and opened my eyes to the beauty of imagination.

The Enchanted forest of AmyLee

- 'The Enchanted forest of AmyLee'
AmyLee, a creative and generous RB artist, sent me some photographs of herself for me to use.
This piece I came up with while going thru public domain images, where I found the gorgeous photograph by Petr Kratochvil titled 'In the wood' that he has generously donated to the public domain! So a little burning and dodging and airbrushing and layering and wings and imagination, The Enchanted forest of AmyLee came to be.

Here is Petrs photograph
'In the Wood'

and to the right,
my other piece created
from it,
Mystery in the woods
which is, save for a colour overlay, the background for the enchanted forest pic

- 'the realm of others' is another competition/challenge piece.
Created for the comp in the Alien Worlds/Landscapes RB group.
The challenge, using the mountains and water provided by AV ...add the sky to make it an alien world landscape.
this piece is what I ended up with..

the realm of others

It was fun this one!
My computer died halfway thru at one stage, and I'd forgotten to save any progress (when will I learn lol) but, It didnt bother me for once, as I was enjoying it, and it just meant I got to play around with it for longer and not feel guilty about the housework waiting for me lol.
Definately be sure to check out the other entries for this comp, as there are sure to be some fabulous art created! The group host, AV has come up with a brilliant challenge!
Also worth checking out AV's portfolio, full of great artwork! I just love his alien landscapes!

serpent of seduction

Serpent of seduction is a drawing I was inspired to do by a poem called Hiss written by RB writer/poet, deliriousgirl.
She has since taken her poem down from public view, until I get permission, unfortunately cannot post her great poem alongside it, but it was an erotic sensual piece of writing that spoke of satin sheets and snakes and desire...

Amphibia Bubblemania

Amphibia Bubblemania is another collaboration piece with Kristina, the background being her photograph Misty Sunset. Sourcing various frog pics from the public domain, I got set to creating the amphibia world, took me a few hours this one!
I grew up surrounded by cute lil froggies everywhere lol... even had some pet ones for awhile, but they didnt get along too well with our tortoise :) so my own childhood was very inspirational in the making of this piece.

So, In the coming days I'll show you some collaboration pieces created by other artists, as I'm currently waiting to hear back from a few great ones!

Hope you have enjoyed these!

All artwork shown here is available to buy as prints, (and some on tee designs too!)
If you would like to purchase one (or many lol) simply click on any of the links under the artwork or click on my RB portfolio link to the right under my profile...



Peace N Luv Trippaz!

All the best!

Give hahpistuff some lovin!

Shannon, aka hahpistuff needs some lovin!

pictured left hahpistuff's current avatar at RB copyright to hahpistuff

Shannon is a brilliant artist who specialises in her own original line of characters, the lighter side of dark, among other fabulous art she creates.
If you would like to see more of her stuff, be sure to visit her hahpistuff RB portfolio, which is full of wicked designs, aswell as her hahpistuff zazzle gallery
And of course there is her official site at www.hahpistuff.com
But our lovely Shannon need your votes!
Isnt it a wicked design!
Hahpistuff has entered a competition to have her design printed on...Doc Martins! ooh yea!
So, above is her awesome design, named Heidi's boot, and if you like it (of course you do!) then here's the great news, you can vote for this beauty every 24 hours!
So get over to Heidi's boot and vote vote vote!
give Shannon some lovin, She deserves it!

and just incase that link wasnt obvious enough, here is another hehehe!
LINK TO VOTE FOR HAHPISTUFF!!!

Your soul will thank you as they say...
But seriously, Shannon is an awesome chick, and apart from being a fabulous artist, She is a really lovely person, and I know she would do anything for her friends,
so go vote for her! You know you want to! :)
Peace N Luv Trippas!