“I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” she relayed in an interview with society6’s blog. According to Hoeckel, while her earlier work relied mainly on imagery from National Geographic, she now tries to find rarer publications, looking out for an image that speaks to her. This process is mostly spontaneous.

“The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them,” says Hoeckel., adding that while in the past she used to do everything analog, she now works on digitizing her materials. “But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious,” she notes. “That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her intuitive approach to art making seems to be working for her. In the the past 5 years or so, her work has been exhibited worldwide and published in top tier magazines. Her clients include brands like Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. But you can also follow her work on Instagram:

The post Translating the Subconscious Into a Work of Art: Meet Beth Hoeckel appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Known for her digital collages, her work is made of geometric shapes arranged in colorful patterns. But according to Kövecses, what now has become her signature style, took some time and experimentation to develop.

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” she told Papirmass. “Accepting the fact that as an illustrator I usually have to follow instructions I still find it hard to cope with tweaking my artwork many times before coming up with a final illustration.”

“I often scribble some vague sketches into my phone or notebooks that lay around the house and then get back to them later to turn them into final artworks,” she explained the creative process that takes place behind the scenes. “When working I often surround myself with books and albums on art, plants, children’s novels, landscapes or food that I spread out on the floor like a live mood board,” she adds.

Based in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her lifestyle fits nicely with her chosen subjects and themes (or vice versa). Committed to the art slow living, Kövecses’ inspiration comes from life on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and being a mother of three small kids. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea,” she says.

Enter her wonderfully colorful worlds.

The post Anna Kövecses’ Collage Art is All Sunshine and Rainbows appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, judging by her playful portfolio there seems to be a lot of drawing, cutting, and pasting going around. There’s also a lot of color (mainly pink). According to Blythman, her process includes covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of colors, with the added copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up and rearranges them, employing paper collage techniques.

“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” she says. So much so, in fact, that her choice of color dictates her art piece rather than the other way around. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first,” she stressed. “Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

With almost 70k fans on Instagram and clients that include anything from start-up businesses to high profile international brands, her creative recipe seems to have worked. You’d want to follow her ins and outs.

The post Chin Up! Laura Blythman’s Art Will Lift Your Spirits appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Also known as Max-o-matic, Tuja’s collage art has been exhibited far and wide, in cities like Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. He also collaborates regularly with brands, with selected clients including Nike, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” says the Barcelona-based collage artist. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them. We are editors of reality and builders of new worlds. We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life.”

But sometimes the chaos becomes overwhelming, in which case, Tuja tries to find order within it. “I love to work with limits,” he says. “Most of the time I invent secret (and stupid) rules of production to create my collages. Collages created with 3 pieces and two main colors; collages created with the letters B-D of an encyclopedia and a skate magazine… these are some rules that I impose on myself to create collage series.”

According to Tuja, limits are boosters of creativity. See for yourself.

The post The Restless Art of Max-o-matic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As his work collapses inside itself, the viewer is invited to fall down the rabbit hole, following Eckman-Lawn’s lead. So far, his work has appeared in comic books, on album covers, book covers, T-shirts, music videos, newspapers, and posters; as well as amassing some 70k followers on Instagram, a noteworthy achievement to any artist.

But when it comes to the creative process itself, Eckman-Lawn mostly relies on his intuition. “Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” he told Beautiful Bizarre, adding that in such case it’s just a matter of finding the right images, “until it looks right.” According to him, “that can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living, and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else,” he notes. Take a look at some of his original creations in the gallery below.

The post The Surreal Collage Art of Alex Eckman-Lawn appeared first on MobiSpirit.

According to Luka, his unique style, a hybrid between constructivism and neo-plasticism, is very much the result of his background in architecture. With it, he aims to tell a story and evoke a situation or a vision, in an entirely unusual and original way. 

“My works are like an everyday diary,” he told Another Fine Mess. “A chronicle of what I see around me, around my friends.” He also describes his art as a puzzle. “People try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry,” he notes. “It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch.”

Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. Once the sketch is done, Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea. “There is always a story to be found in my works,” he says. “I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”

The post There’s a Story Hiding Within Alexey Luka’s Abstract Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I make mixed media collages using recycled magazines and other paper products. I usually use my own photographs as inspiration,” the artist shared on Bored Panda and added that she refers to her work as “organized chaos.”

In addition to beautiful landscapes, she creates lively snapshots of her everyday life, from puppy portraits to Teton National Park sunsets. Although she doesn’t have a big following on her social media accounts, her work is still worth checking out.

We really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow her for future updates. Which artwork is your favorite?

The post These Beautiful Collages are Made From Recycled Magazines appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Having studied Fine Arts at ArtEZ University in Arnhem and later obtained a BFA in Drawing and Art History, Vooijs’ art is built upon a solid foundation, an experimentation with shape and form. “I like to see what happens when you cross digital stuff and layer that with traditional methods,” she explains on her website. “Building up and peeling pieces away or scratching my way back to the surface, until I feel that it might be time to step back and leave it alone.”

Though her pieces vary, the process is fairly straight forward and usually begins with an image found on the internet or in magazines. Often, these images become the physical basis for Vooijs’ work. Using digital sketches, prints, markers, spray paint, thread, and ink, she transforms the original images so that they reflect her life and her aesthetics.

“Some pieces took so long I almost gave up,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “Actually, I did repaint a lot of my work… sometimes it’s just the quickest fix and besides that, it’s budget-friendly. I also often work on a couple of pieces simultaneously.”

The post Building Up or Peeling Away: Dorris Vooijs’ Unique Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Interested in the manipulation of tone, line, and shape, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. Inspired by graffiti and urban decay, he also experiments with his source material, using tools such as charcoal and printmaking, instead of found paper cut out of books and magazines.

“I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” explained Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

As such, his collages have a distinct, rather somber, quality to them. According to him, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the cut pieces, then arranging and rearranging them until a new image is formed. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

Below you’ll find some of his more striking pieces.

The post This Collage Artist is Inspired by Urban Decay appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But her distinct style took some trial and error to develop. “In the beginning, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” admitted Pallarés in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.”

But it all came together after coming across Dadaism and Surrealism. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” reflected Pallarés. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

While it is Pallarés’ portraits were first to catch our attention, she also experiments with more conceptual collage making, which tends to revolve around subjects that she finds important such as the passing of time and the unconscious. All very Dadaesque if you ask us…

The post Helena Pallarés’ Portraits are Bold and Graphic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” she relayed in an interview with society6’s blog. According to Hoeckel, while her earlier work relied mainly on imagery from National Geographic, she now tries to find rarer publications, looking out for an image that speaks to her. This process is mostly spontaneous.

“The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them,” says Hoeckel., adding that while in the past she used to do everything analog, she now works on digitizing her materials. “But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious,” she notes. “That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her intuitive approach to art making seems to be working for her. In the the past 5 years or so, her work has been exhibited worldwide and published in top tier magazines. Her clients include brands like Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. But you can also follow her work on Instagram:

The post Translating the Subconscious Into a Work of Art: Meet Beth Hoeckel appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Known for her digital collages, her work is made of geometric shapes arranged in colorful patterns. But according to Kövecses, what now has become her signature style, took some time and experimentation to develop.

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” she told Papirmass. “Accepting the fact that as an illustrator I usually have to follow instructions I still find it hard to cope with tweaking my artwork many times before coming up with a final illustration.”

“I often scribble some vague sketches into my phone or notebooks that lay around the house and then get back to them later to turn them into final artworks,” she explained the creative process that takes place behind the scenes. “When working I often surround myself with books and albums on art, plants, children’s novels, landscapes or food that I spread out on the floor like a live mood board,” she adds.

Based in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her lifestyle fits nicely with her chosen subjects and themes (or vice versa). Committed to the art slow living, Kövecses’ inspiration comes from life on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and being a mother of three small kids. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea,” she says.

Enter her wonderfully colorful worlds.

The post Anna Kövecses’ Collage Art is All Sunshine and Rainbows appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, judging by her playful portfolio there seems to be a lot of drawing, cutting, and pasting going around. There’s also a lot of color (mainly pink). According to Blythman, her process includes covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of colors, with the added copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up and rearranges them, employing paper collage techniques.

“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” she says. So much so, in fact, that her choice of color dictates her art piece rather than the other way around. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first,” she stressed. “Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

With almost 70k fans on Instagram and clients that include anything from start-up businesses to high profile international brands, her creative recipe seems to have worked. You’d want to follow her ins and outs.

The post Chin Up! Laura Blythman’s Art Will Lift Your Spirits appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Also known as Max-o-matic, Tuja’s collage art has been exhibited far and wide, in cities like Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. He also collaborates regularly with brands, with selected clients including Nike, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” says the Barcelona-based collage artist. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them. We are editors of reality and builders of new worlds. We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life.”

But sometimes the chaos becomes overwhelming, in which case, Tuja tries to find order within it. “I love to work with limits,” he says. “Most of the time I invent secret (and stupid) rules of production to create my collages. Collages created with 3 pieces and two main colors; collages created with the letters B-D of an encyclopedia and a skate magazine… these are some rules that I impose on myself to create collage series.”

According to Tuja, limits are boosters of creativity. See for yourself.

The post The Restless Art of Max-o-matic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As his work collapses inside itself, the viewer is invited to fall down the rabbit hole, following Eckman-Lawn’s lead. So far, his work has appeared in comic books, on album covers, book covers, T-shirts, music videos, newspapers, and posters; as well as amassing some 70k followers on Instagram, a noteworthy achievement to any artist.

But when it comes to the creative process itself, Eckman-Lawn mostly relies on his intuition. “Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” he told Beautiful Bizarre, adding that in such case it’s just a matter of finding the right images, “until it looks right.” According to him, “that can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living, and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else,” he notes. Take a look at some of his original creations in the gallery below.

The post The Surreal Collage Art of Alex Eckman-Lawn appeared first on MobiSpirit.

According to Luka, his unique style, a hybrid between constructivism and neo-plasticism, is very much the result of his background in architecture. With it, he aims to tell a story and evoke a situation or a vision, in an entirely unusual and original way. 

“My works are like an everyday diary,” he told Another Fine Mess. “A chronicle of what I see around me, around my friends.” He also describes his art as a puzzle. “People try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry,” he notes. “It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch.”

Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. Once the sketch is done, Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea. “There is always a story to be found in my works,” he says. “I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”

The post There’s a Story Hiding Within Alexey Luka’s Abstract Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I make mixed media collages using recycled magazines and other paper products. I usually use my own photographs as inspiration,” the artist shared on Bored Panda and added that she refers to her work as “organized chaos.”

In addition to beautiful landscapes, she creates lively snapshots of her everyday life, from puppy portraits to Teton National Park sunsets. Although she doesn’t have a big following on her social media accounts, her work is still worth checking out.

We really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow her for future updates. Which artwork is your favorite?

The post These Beautiful Collages are Made From Recycled Magazines appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Having studied Fine Arts at ArtEZ University in Arnhem and later obtained a BFA in Drawing and Art History, Vooijs’ art is built upon a solid foundation, an experimentation with shape and form. “I like to see what happens when you cross digital stuff and layer that with traditional methods,” she explains on her website. “Building up and peeling pieces away or scratching my way back to the surface, until I feel that it might be time to step back and leave it alone.”

Though her pieces vary, the process is fairly straight forward and usually begins with an image found on the internet or in magazines. Often, these images become the physical basis for Vooijs’ work. Using digital sketches, prints, markers, spray paint, thread, and ink, she transforms the original images so that they reflect her life and her aesthetics.

“Some pieces took so long I almost gave up,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “Actually, I did repaint a lot of my work… sometimes it’s just the quickest fix and besides that, it’s budget-friendly. I also often work on a couple of pieces simultaneously.”

The post Building Up or Peeling Away: Dorris Vooijs’ Unique Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Interested in the manipulation of tone, line, and shape, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. Inspired by graffiti and urban decay, he also experiments with his source material, using tools such as charcoal and printmaking, instead of found paper cut out of books and magazines.

“I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” explained Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

As such, his collages have a distinct, rather somber, quality to them. According to him, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the cut pieces, then arranging and rearranging them until a new image is formed. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

Below you’ll find some of his more striking pieces.

The post This Collage Artist is Inspired by Urban Decay appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But her distinct style took some trial and error to develop. “In the beginning, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” admitted Pallarés in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.”

But it all came together after coming across Dadaism and Surrealism. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” reflected Pallarés. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

While it is Pallarés’ portraits were first to catch our attention, she also experiments with more conceptual collage making, which tends to revolve around subjects that she finds important such as the passing of time and the unconscious. All very Dadaesque if you ask us…

The post Helena Pallarés’ Portraits are Bold and Graphic appeared first on MobiSpirit.