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.

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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.

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.

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“I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” writes McCann on her website. She notes that a common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. Her female characters are often surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern, which according to McCann either represents her prison or her liberation.

Like most creative souls, McCann’s artistic calling was hard to ignore early on. After growing up painting, drawing, cutting, and anything in between, she went on to study fashion in England. But after moving to the US with her family she returned to painting. “I started painting again and taking art classes,” she told Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Years later, and she hasn’t let go of her pair of scissors, arranging her papercut collections in careful compositions. See some of her work in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Katie McCann’s Whimsical Collage Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Handcrafting each work from start to finish, the result is highly textured and intricately detailed art pieces and collages that can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” writes Geiman on his website, reflecting on his creative process.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he explains. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness – landscapes, scenery, and characters that are inspired by the world he grew up in. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” writes Geiman poetically. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

Below are some highlights from his Instagram page.

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His favorite paper materiels include old maps (“for color reasons, for information or joke reasons”) which Clark utilizes, relying on the linear qualities within them to frame his collages. “They are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way,” he explained in an interview with Zoneone Arts. “I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

Arranging his found paper in order, Clark works to achieve colors or scales, then tears, cuts, and folds the pieces and glues them into place. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” he relayed the messy process.

His subjects tend to center around the natural world, with his work being both creative and humoristic. “I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” he says. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them. Less boring and predictable that way, I don’t like things to be too worked out, I am not interested in that type of thinking.”

The post The Wonderfully Messy Collages of Peter Clark appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I’ve only ever worked digitally so that’s what I’m the most comfortable with,” the artist told in an interview for Ballpit. “My favorite program is and has always been Adobe Photoshop. It was actually meant for my mom who wanted to do graphic design but I kind of took over it. Recently though I started learning to use Blender. I thought it would be amazing to move my art into the world of 3D.”

If you scroll through her Instagram account where she has attracted more than 9,000 followers, you will find images of women and men chilling in the clouds paired with all the pinks, blues, and purples.

If you are interested to see her creations, check out the gallery below or take a look at her personal website for more.

The post Kamila Bednarek Creates Enchanting Collages of People Relaxing in Clouds appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“On a normal day, I’ll get into the studio, answer some emails and start digging into some old books,” Feighan shared with the Urban Outfitters blog, talking about his busy lifestyle. “I usually have 5-10 projects going at once so I’m always sourcing a lot of imagery. I’ll spend a lot of time cutting up paper and listening to records before I start to assemble any of the finished pieces. I’ll usually work on putting together a few at once.”

And much like his messy lifestyle, so are his collages. It’s a happy sort of mess, full of splendor and color. One collage features a vibrant landscape with huge blossoming flowers and cactuses towering above people and buildings; another one shows a buzzing highway that runs through what looks like a dense tropical island.

“I started making paper collage work when I began taking art classes in college,” he recalled. “But before that, I had been doing a lot of digital collage in high school, mostly for band merch.” Check out some of his vibrant collage art in the gallery below:

The post The Messy and Wonderful Collage Art of Ted Feighan appeared first on MobiSpirit.

It’s probably because some artists are taking original ideas from the past, mainly, from the ’80s and ’90s, as inspiration for their modern works.

Whatever the reason is, the influence of the past few decades can certainly be felt today. But, one artist seems to have taken this a little bit too far, literally using vintage posters and pictures to create surreal collages with an amazing effect to any onlooker.

Award-winning artist and art director Mohanad Shuraideh is the said artist.

Using old photographs from decades before, Mohanad crates scenes that would arguably make for the perfect posters for fantasy movies that most of us would be dying to watch or rent during the ’80s and the ’90s.

To see more of Mohanad’s works, be sure to scroll down below.

The post Artist Makes Surreal Collages Using Vintage Pics 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.

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.

“I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” writes McCann on her website. She notes that a common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. Her female characters are often surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern, which according to McCann either represents her prison or her liberation.

Like most creative souls, McCann’s artistic calling was hard to ignore early on. After growing up painting, drawing, cutting, and anything in between, she went on to study fashion in England. But after moving to the US with her family she returned to painting. “I started painting again and taking art classes,” she told Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Years later, and she hasn’t let go of her pair of scissors, arranging her papercut collections in careful compositions. See some of her work in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Katie McCann’s Whimsical Collage Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Handcrafting each work from start to finish, the result is highly textured and intricately detailed art pieces and collages that can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” writes Geiman on his website, reflecting on his creative process.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he explains. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness – landscapes, scenery, and characters that are inspired by the world he grew up in. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” writes Geiman poetically. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

Below are some highlights from his Instagram page.

The post These Collages Were Assembled Using Reclaimed Materials appeared first on MobiSpirit.

His favorite paper materiels include old maps (“for color reasons, for information or joke reasons”) which Clark utilizes, relying on the linear qualities within them to frame his collages. “They are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way,” he explained in an interview with Zoneone Arts. “I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

Arranging his found paper in order, Clark works to achieve colors or scales, then tears, cuts, and folds the pieces and glues them into place. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” he relayed the messy process.

His subjects tend to center around the natural world, with his work being both creative and humoristic. “I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” he says. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them. Less boring and predictable that way, I don’t like things to be too worked out, I am not interested in that type of thinking.”

The post The Wonderfully Messy Collages of Peter Clark appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I’ve only ever worked digitally so that’s what I’m the most comfortable with,” the artist told in an interview for Ballpit. “My favorite program is and has always been Adobe Photoshop. It was actually meant for my mom who wanted to do graphic design but I kind of took over it. Recently though I started learning to use Blender. I thought it would be amazing to move my art into the world of 3D.”

If you scroll through her Instagram account where she has attracted more than 9,000 followers, you will find images of women and men chilling in the clouds paired with all the pinks, blues, and purples.

If you are interested to see her creations, check out the gallery below or take a look at her personal website for more.

The post Kamila Bednarek Creates Enchanting Collages of People Relaxing in Clouds appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“On a normal day, I’ll get into the studio, answer some emails and start digging into some old books,” Feighan shared with the Urban Outfitters blog, talking about his busy lifestyle. “I usually have 5-10 projects going at once so I’m always sourcing a lot of imagery. I’ll spend a lot of time cutting up paper and listening to records before I start to assemble any of the finished pieces. I’ll usually work on putting together a few at once.”

And much like his messy lifestyle, so are his collages. It’s a happy sort of mess, full of splendor and color. One collage features a vibrant landscape with huge blossoming flowers and cactuses towering above people and buildings; another one shows a buzzing highway that runs through what looks like a dense tropical island.

“I started making paper collage work when I began taking art classes in college,” he recalled. “But before that, I had been doing a lot of digital collage in high school, mostly for band merch.” Check out some of his vibrant collage art in the gallery below:

The post The Messy and Wonderful Collage Art of Ted Feighan appeared first on MobiSpirit.

It’s probably because some artists are taking original ideas from the past, mainly, from the ’80s and ’90s, as inspiration for their modern works.

Whatever the reason is, the influence of the past few decades can certainly be felt today. But, one artist seems to have taken this a little bit too far, literally using vintage posters and pictures to create surreal collages with an amazing effect to any onlooker.

Award-winning artist and art director Mohanad Shuraideh is the said artist.

Using old photographs from decades before, Mohanad crates scenes that would arguably make for the perfect posters for fantasy movies that most of us would be dying to watch or rent during the ’80s and the ’90s.

To see more of Mohanad’s works, be sure to scroll down below.

The post Artist Makes Surreal Collages Using Vintage Pics appeared first on MobiSpirit.