Art is a line around your thoughts.
GUSTAV KLIMT
Success is a worn down pencil.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO
Who I Am
I’m Diva Almeida, usually D Almeida or just D as I like it most, born in 1976, sign Pisces.
I have been a freelance final art professional since 1997 for all kind of printing technique mostly screen printing and offset printing, serving Portuguese graphic companies and graphic standards manuals from Spain, England and Portugal. I’ve been also an editorial designer for more than 15 years and a web designer since 2006 when flash websites were still dominant. After a few years developing in html5, I eventually surrendered to CMS; first Blogger, then Joomla, finally WordPress and always WordPress.
Since 2020 I’ve decided to dedicate myself exclusively to the illustration activity, publishing my own art work and using all my web technical knowledge in terms of my own online projects.
My artistic work ended up being very influenced by this activity as a final artist for 25 years so that most of the works displayed on this website are vectorized flat color models for application in any printing, reproduction or cutting technique.
Thematically, my artwork is also deeply influenced by a more remote past as a Graham and Classical Ballet student as well as 7 years of musical education that intensely covered about 12 years of my life, from childhood to majority.
About 12 years ago I also started getting interested in the afterlife world and some esoteric practices, becoming a new inspirational source for my creativity and personal development. You can read more about this facet in my blog article Tarot And Focus, Mind Enhancement And Life Reading.
There is also a small photography gallery, part of a hobby that has accompanied me through various stages of life since I was able to buy my first camera at the age of 16. Image editing has always been part of my professional activity, but photography itself – as art – has never been more than a hobby for relaxation and for a different kind of contact with Nature.
I’m a big fan of all arts and an enthusiast for sports, mother Nature and technology. This website intends to be not only a place for publishing and selling my artistic work, but also for sharing some technical knowledge and inspirational matters through the Blog.
Thank you for stopping by, welcome to d-art.work.
D-Art is my personal created brand, a small project from a final artist career
I talk about techniques and concepts linked to printing world, especially screen printing – mainly hand screen printing for the purpose of artistic production; I also talk about graphic tools, with a focus on open and free software. I would like to create some weekly or monthly challenges… Well, let’s keep working :).
