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]]>Beto Valencia aka Beto Val’s career as a collage artist started as a happy accident after he stumbled upon a bank of vintage illustrations in the public domain. He decided to start experimenting with them as a way of combating the stress of his daily life, and his hobby quickly grew into an obsession and a full-time job.
Val wants his collages to immerse us in a surreal world plagued by eccentric beings, without sticking to a single theme or style.
“His passion is exploration, play, and fun in all its expressions where each new collage suggests a world completely different from the previous one and yet all of them bear the perfectly recognizable stamp of the author,” explains the artist on his official website.
Val is best known for his hybrid animal collages, featured in his book The Great Book of the Imaginary Animal Kingdom. He also created collections of collages called Wild Aristocracy and Amazing Machines, and we’re looking forward to their equally mind-blowing follow-up.
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]]>The post These Intriguing Acrylic Paintings Look Like Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Royce takes the idea of collages and translates them to canvas. His paintings are a mix of weird figures, abstract scenes, and objects that seem like they have no place there. But this is what actually makes them fascinating.
Each of Royce’s paintings prompts the viewer to spend time exploring the work and try to find an underlying common thread between all the different things they see in a single frame.
“Characters swoop and swim through various tableaux as references from van Eyck and Dürer clang against Bugs Bunny and Lisa Frank, all the while attempting to cohere in their own off-kilter logic,” Royce shared in a recent interview.
Royce is currently a teacher in the art department at Virginia Commonwealth University. In the past years, he received multiple awards and recognitions for his works, including David Wurtzel Memorial Fellowship. His paintings were also displayed in galleries across the U.S., most recently at Headstone Gallery in Kingston and Ada Gallery in Richmond.
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]]>The post Toon Joosen Creates Quirky Collages From Old Photos appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Joosen has amassed an impressive social media following thanks to his quirky collages that he creates from vintage photos, magazines, and other material. Most of the time, he combines everyday scenes in a way that delivers an unexpected twist.
For example, one of his collages combines a figure of a woman cleaning with a photo of a crowded beach. The result is a scene in which the woman is actually wiping out the crowd with a piece of cloth.
“My ideas are based on daily observations and ordinary objects,” Joosen explains on his website. “I use magazines, postcards, paper, streetjunk, own photography and own drawings to create tongue-in-cheek scenarios with a vintage feel.”
He also isn’t a stranger to including famous paintings in his collages. For example, he combined a long receipt with Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter to create an unexpectedly amusing work.
Joosen regularly shares his newest creations on Instagram while also running a successful Etsy shop where he offers prints, mini books, and other items featuring his collages. Check out more of them below.
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]]>The post Argentinean Collage Artist Creates Strange Portraits Using Vintage Illustrations appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>MUMI uses cutouts from vintage prints to create strange and often surreal portraits. The way she combines illustrations of flowers, organs, animals, objects, and faces is quite fascinating, and you can hardly take your eyes off her pieces.
The longer you look, the artwork becomes more intriguing and bizarre. You discover subtle details and peculiar ways that different layers interact with each other.
According to MUMI, she enjoys the fact that making collages is an “organic process” that allows her to express her creativity in the best way possible.
“There are endless possibilities when I cut an image,” she explained in a recent interview. “I take it out of its context, its direct meaning, or its origin, and I give it a new surreal environment.”
MUMI shares her artworks on Instagram, where she has close to 50K followers. The artist also runs a webshop on which she sells the prints of her creations. You can check out more of them on her social media or by scrolling down and discovering our favorites.
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]]>The post Artist Collects Vintage Photos, Books, and Magazines to Create Whimsical Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Wheatcroft’s collages are usually centered on a single person that has their face covered with all sorts of seemingly random images. This way, you get a feeling that you are seeing through the person in the photo and into their thoughts, dreams and fears. This element of Wheatcroft’s works is actually what makes them so unique.
When it comes to his creative process, Wheatcroft prefers to take it as it comes. He chooses one particular photo and then works on it by adding photos and cutouts of different sizes. He lets the layout dictate his next move, allowing for unexpected outcomes.
“Often, the initial image won’t feature in the final piece, but it’s been invaluable as a starting point,” Wheatcroft explains on his official website.
You can check out more of Wheatcroft’s works on his website and social media. Also, continue scrolling to see more of our favorites.
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]]>The post Katie McCann’s Collage Art Is Uniquely Bizarre appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>According to McCann, a constant theme throughout her work is the female face. Often placed at the very center of her piece, her heroine is surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies, acting as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world that surrounds her.
Entirely self taught, McCann’s collages are cut out and arranged not unlike a jigsaw puzzle. According to McCann, she owns a large collection of antique books, prints, and pages from which she cuts out images, categorizes them, and, eventually, pieces them together. Her work consists mainly of paper, but McCann also embellishes some of her art with lace, beads, and fabric, which add some dimension and flair.
Her inspiration comes from nature and fashion, especially haute couture. “Putting the two together is like making strange paper dolls,” she observed in an interview with Medium. “I can see a lady in a bird hat, wearing a cut-up Alexander McQueen dress, with a lobster claw arm and spindly, deer legs. Somehow the juxtaposition of beautifully beaded couture dresses and bony, bird-like creatures is inspiring.”
McCann adds that she can actually spend quite a while flipping through old Vogue magazines and imagining how she can transform old dresses into an actual living thing.
Based in Berkeley, California, where she works from her home studio, McCann sells her collages online, through her Etsy shop. You can also follow her work via Instagram.
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]]>The post Helena Pallarés’ Collages Have a Surrealist Edge to Them appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Much like her chosen medium, her techniques are diverse and include digital and handmade collage work, or a mix of collage and drawing. Pallarés enjoys cutting various materials out and overlapping them, with the end result both graphic and minimal (unlike other collage artists, Pallarés’ collages aren’t excessive in nature).
“I think that my handmade works can be considered as illustrations from an esthetical point of view,” she explains. “They are close to this field because of the final result and compositions but I also like to see them as collages themselves, independent works made with a technique that is not really usually related to illustration, even though it has recently started to gain ground.”
Often time, her collage pieces add up to reveal a face. Using cuttings of papers to complete the portrait, features like eyes, nose, and mouth are added to a colorful background. Her collage portraits often feature icons in pop culture, with nods to giants like Brigitte Bardot and David Bowie.
According to Pallarés, her work is inspired by Dadaism and Surrealism (mentioning artists like René Magritte and photographer Man Ray). “I’ve always been interested in the Dadaism and Surrealism since I came across some photomontage artists when I was at the university,” she relayed. “I think these movements had a lot of influence on me, not only like an artist, but also as a way of learning how to observe and perceive art in general.”
Scroll down to see recent highlights from her Instagram page and follow her for more.
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]]>The post Photographer Uses Old Images to Create Photo Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>After winning an important prize for her creations, she was encouraged to step up her artwork. As she explained in a post for Bored Panda, she has a big photo archive of various photographs, which she uses to create her storytelling animal artwork. And she loves it!
“The animals I have portrayed during my 20-year career as a photographer tell their fairy tales in surreal collage art. They live in landscapes that I’ve photographed over the years,” Bloema said.
Her most recent project, titled Wondrous Goose, is synonymous with wonder, imagination, and the power of stories.
“Animals depict human characteristics, dreams, and idiosyncrasies,” she continued. “I live with my wife and dogs in the countryside. I still like to play outside, just as our dogs do.”
She only recently started sharing her creations on social media, so her following has just started to grow. However, we’re sure that soon she’ll be more in the public eye.
Scroll down and the images below. Did you like what you see?
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]]>The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art Has a Nostalgic Flair to It appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Using fragments of vintage ephemera, often with reference to film and TV, Rivans creates a mash-up of Surrealism meets Pop-Art aesthetic. Describing the process as piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle, Rivans assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods and making alteration after alteration until the collage begins to take shape.
“I just tend to go for it, by working straight into a collage,” she further explained in an interview with For Arts Sake. “I use my iPad for noting down ideas and inspirations. Sometimes I come up with a theme or the ideas develop from the images that I collect. Mainly I just play around and have fun with the making process.”
Being a collage artist also means having an extensive collection of vintage ephemera, mainly antique books and retro magazines, which she finds in second-hand shops and at market stalls.
“I go to boot markets, charity shops, and often people will donate material to me,” says Rivans. “It’s an exciting process, when I come across something I can use I pretty much get it back to the studio and begin cutting and using the images in the latest collage I am building.”
Continuously fascinated with cultures of the past, Rivans often references different film and TV genres. From vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, she reinvents existing films to her liking.
“I watched a lot of TV in the 70s as a kid,” she admits. She then added that shows like Planet of the Apes, The Time Tunnel, The Fantastic Journey, Land of the Giants, and Star Trek will keep popping up in her work.
The end result, both nostalgic and original, is worth taking note of. Scroll down to see some recent highlights from her Instagram page!
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]]>The post Joe Simpson’s Digital Collages Celebrate the Retro Style appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>In a world where the entertainment media constantly feeds us dark and cynical films about various forms of the apocalypse, this is actually a refreshing new take on things.
“So much of today’s fiction about the future is a pessimistic dystopian vision, it’s post-apocalyptic, zombie-ridden, natural disaster or a pandemic,” Simpson says, as quoted by Creative Boom.
His idea was to create an antidote to that gloomy perspective. His idea of a happier future comes from a nostalgic view of the past, where everything looked exciting and full of possibilities.
The artist currently lives and works in London. His work has been shown in many venues, nationally and internationally, and if you want to see more of it, you can visit his website or Instagram page.
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]]>The post Beto Val’s Surreal Hybrid Animal Collages Will Blow Your Mind appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Beto Valencia aka Beto Val’s career as a collage artist started as a happy accident after he stumbled upon a bank of vintage illustrations in the public domain. He decided to start experimenting with them as a way of combating the stress of his daily life, and his hobby quickly grew into an obsession and a full-time job.
Val wants his collages to immerse us in a surreal world plagued by eccentric beings, without sticking to a single theme or style.
“His passion is exploration, play, and fun in all its expressions where each new collage suggests a world completely different from the previous one and yet all of them bear the perfectly recognizable stamp of the author,” explains the artist on his official website.
Val is best known for his hybrid animal collages, featured in his book The Great Book of the Imaginary Animal Kingdom. He also created collections of collages called Wild Aristocracy and Amazing Machines, and we’re looking forward to their equally mind-blowing follow-up.
The post Beto Val’s Surreal Hybrid Animal Collages Will Blow Your Mind appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>The post These Intriguing Acrylic Paintings Look Like Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Royce takes the idea of collages and translates them to canvas. His paintings are a mix of weird figures, abstract scenes, and objects that seem like they have no place there. But this is what actually makes them fascinating.
Each of Royce’s paintings prompts the viewer to spend time exploring the work and try to find an underlying common thread between all the different things they see in a single frame.
“Characters swoop and swim through various tableaux as references from van Eyck and Dürer clang against Bugs Bunny and Lisa Frank, all the while attempting to cohere in their own off-kilter logic,” Royce shared in a recent interview.
Royce is currently a teacher in the art department at Virginia Commonwealth University. In the past years, he received multiple awards and recognitions for his works, including David Wurtzel Memorial Fellowship. His paintings were also displayed in galleries across the U.S., most recently at Headstone Gallery in Kingston and Ada Gallery in Richmond.
The post These Intriguing Acrylic Paintings Look Like Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>The post Toon Joosen Creates Quirky Collages From Old Photos appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Joosen has amassed an impressive social media following thanks to his quirky collages that he creates from vintage photos, magazines, and other material. Most of the time, he combines everyday scenes in a way that delivers an unexpected twist.
For example, one of his collages combines a figure of a woman cleaning with a photo of a crowded beach. The result is a scene in which the woman is actually wiping out the crowd with a piece of cloth.
“My ideas are based on daily observations and ordinary objects,” Joosen explains on his website. “I use magazines, postcards, paper, streetjunk, own photography and own drawings to create tongue-in-cheek scenarios with a vintage feel.”
He also isn’t a stranger to including famous paintings in his collages. For example, he combined a long receipt with Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter to create an unexpectedly amusing work.
Joosen regularly shares his newest creations on Instagram while also running a successful Etsy shop where he offers prints, mini books, and other items featuring his collages. Check out more of them below.
The post Toon Joosen Creates Quirky Collages From Old Photos appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>The post Argentinean Collage Artist Creates Strange Portraits Using Vintage Illustrations appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>MUMI uses cutouts from vintage prints to create strange and often surreal portraits. The way she combines illustrations of flowers, organs, animals, objects, and faces is quite fascinating, and you can hardly take your eyes off her pieces.
The longer you look, the artwork becomes more intriguing and bizarre. You discover subtle details and peculiar ways that different layers interact with each other.
According to MUMI, she enjoys the fact that making collages is an “organic process” that allows her to express her creativity in the best way possible.
“There are endless possibilities when I cut an image,” she explained in a recent interview. “I take it out of its context, its direct meaning, or its origin, and I give it a new surreal environment.”
MUMI shares her artworks on Instagram, where she has close to 50K followers. The artist also runs a webshop on which she sells the prints of her creations. You can check out more of them on her social media or by scrolling down and discovering our favorites.
The post Argentinean Collage Artist Creates Strange Portraits Using Vintage Illustrations appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>The post Artist Collects Vintage Photos, Books, and Magazines to Create Whimsical Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Wheatcroft’s collages are usually centered on a single person that has their face covered with all sorts of seemingly random images. This way, you get a feeling that you are seeing through the person in the photo and into their thoughts, dreams and fears. This element of Wheatcroft’s works is actually what makes them so unique.
When it comes to his creative process, Wheatcroft prefers to take it as it comes. He chooses one particular photo and then works on it by adding photos and cutouts of different sizes. He lets the layout dictate his next move, allowing for unexpected outcomes.
“Often, the initial image won’t feature in the final piece, but it’s been invaluable as a starting point,” Wheatcroft explains on his official website.
You can check out more of Wheatcroft’s works on his website and social media. Also, continue scrolling to see more of our favorites.
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]]>The post Katie McCann’s Collage Art Is Uniquely Bizarre appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>According to McCann, a constant theme throughout her work is the female face. Often placed at the very center of her piece, her heroine is surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies, acting as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world that surrounds her.
Entirely self taught, McCann’s collages are cut out and arranged not unlike a jigsaw puzzle. According to McCann, she owns a large collection of antique books, prints, and pages from which she cuts out images, categorizes them, and, eventually, pieces them together. Her work consists mainly of paper, but McCann also embellishes some of her art with lace, beads, and fabric, which add some dimension and flair.
Her inspiration comes from nature and fashion, especially haute couture. “Putting the two together is like making strange paper dolls,” she observed in an interview with Medium. “I can see a lady in a bird hat, wearing a cut-up Alexander McQueen dress, with a lobster claw arm and spindly, deer legs. Somehow the juxtaposition of beautifully beaded couture dresses and bony, bird-like creatures is inspiring.”
McCann adds that she can actually spend quite a while flipping through old Vogue magazines and imagining how she can transform old dresses into an actual living thing.
Based in Berkeley, California, where she works from her home studio, McCann sells her collages online, through her Etsy shop. You can also follow her work via Instagram.
The post Katie McCann’s Collage Art Is Uniquely Bizarre appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>The post Helena Pallarés’ Collages Have a Surrealist Edge to Them appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Much like her chosen medium, her techniques are diverse and include digital and handmade collage work, or a mix of collage and drawing. Pallarés enjoys cutting various materials out and overlapping them, with the end result both graphic and minimal (unlike other collage artists, Pallarés’ collages aren’t excessive in nature).
“I think that my handmade works can be considered as illustrations from an esthetical point of view,” she explains. “They are close to this field because of the final result and compositions but I also like to see them as collages themselves, independent works made with a technique that is not really usually related to illustration, even though it has recently started to gain ground.”
Often time, her collage pieces add up to reveal a face. Using cuttings of papers to complete the portrait, features like eyes, nose, and mouth are added to a colorful background. Her collage portraits often feature icons in pop culture, with nods to giants like Brigitte Bardot and David Bowie.
According to Pallarés, her work is inspired by Dadaism and Surrealism (mentioning artists like René Magritte and photographer Man Ray). “I’ve always been interested in the Dadaism and Surrealism since I came across some photomontage artists when I was at the university,” she relayed. “I think these movements had a lot of influence on me, not only like an artist, but also as a way of learning how to observe and perceive art in general.”
Scroll down to see recent highlights from her Instagram page and follow her for more.
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]]>The post Photographer Uses Old Images to Create Photo Collages appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>After winning an important prize for her creations, she was encouraged to step up her artwork. As she explained in a post for Bored Panda, she has a big photo archive of various photographs, which she uses to create her storytelling animal artwork. And she loves it!
“The animals I have portrayed during my 20-year career as a photographer tell their fairy tales in surreal collage art. They live in landscapes that I’ve photographed over the years,” Bloema said.
Her most recent project, titled Wondrous Goose, is synonymous with wonder, imagination, and the power of stories.
“Animals depict human characteristics, dreams, and idiosyncrasies,” she continued. “I live with my wife and dogs in the countryside. I still like to play outside, just as our dogs do.”
She only recently started sharing her creations on social media, so her following has just started to grow. However, we’re sure that soon she’ll be more in the public eye.
Scroll down and the images below. Did you like what you see?
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]]>The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art Has a Nostalgic Flair to It appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Using fragments of vintage ephemera, often with reference to film and TV, Rivans creates a mash-up of Surrealism meets Pop-Art aesthetic. Describing the process as piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle, Rivans assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods and making alteration after alteration until the collage begins to take shape.
“I just tend to go for it, by working straight into a collage,” she further explained in an interview with For Arts Sake. “I use my iPad for noting down ideas and inspirations. Sometimes I come up with a theme or the ideas develop from the images that I collect. Mainly I just play around and have fun with the making process.”
Being a collage artist also means having an extensive collection of vintage ephemera, mainly antique books and retro magazines, which she finds in second-hand shops and at market stalls.
“I go to boot markets, charity shops, and often people will donate material to me,” says Rivans. “It’s an exciting process, when I come across something I can use I pretty much get it back to the studio and begin cutting and using the images in the latest collage I am building.”
Continuously fascinated with cultures of the past, Rivans often references different film and TV genres. From vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, she reinvents existing films to her liking.
“I watched a lot of TV in the 70s as a kid,” she admits. She then added that shows like Planet of the Apes, The Time Tunnel, The Fantastic Journey, Land of the Giants, and Star Trek will keep popping up in her work.
The end result, both nostalgic and original, is worth taking note of. Scroll down to see some recent highlights from her Instagram page!
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]]>The post Joe Simpson’s Digital Collages Celebrate the Retro Style appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>In a world where the entertainment media constantly feeds us dark and cynical films about various forms of the apocalypse, this is actually a refreshing new take on things.
“So much of today’s fiction about the future is a pessimistic dystopian vision, it’s post-apocalyptic, zombie-ridden, natural disaster or a pandemic,” Simpson says, as quoted by Creative Boom.
His idea was to create an antidote to that gloomy perspective. His idea of a happier future comes from a nostalgic view of the past, where everything looked exciting and full of possibilities.
The artist currently lives and works in London. His work has been shown in many venues, nationally and internationally, and if you want to see more of it, you can visit his website or Instagram page.
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