Aside from working on commissioned illustrations, Kövecses enjoys exploring small quiet scenes that portray parts of her everyday life. Living in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her inspiration comes from living by the Mediterranean Sea, growing up in Eastern Europe, and being a mother of three small kids.

“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 described her creative process in an interview with Papirmass. “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 notes “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea.”

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” admits Kövecses. “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.”

When not working on commissioned projects, Kövecses creates drawings with oil pastels, experiments with clay and paints with her kids’ tempera. She also enjoys baking fresh bread in the morning, picking oranges, and growing veggies in their garden. An ideal lifestyle if you ask us.

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“I’m restless, very curious and I’m really open to mistakes,” he described himself in an interview with Another Fine Mess. An artist and an image-maker, he creates imaginary worlds from torn pieces found in the real world. “Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he reflected. “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.”

His process seems to be working, with his work having been exhibited in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also worked with brands such as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures, providing his signature collage work for commercial and editorial projects.

“I love to work with limits,” Tuja says, describing his creative process. “Most of the times 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. Limits are boosters of creativity and I love working with them.” According to him, “in commercial work this is not always possible because of time and concept limits. In commercial work the brief is at the same time the limit and the inspiration. You have to make the most of the story that someone else wants you to tell.”

Take a look at some of his creations (commercial and otherwise) in the gallery below:

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Originally from England and currently based in Berkeley, California, McCann’s creative passion sparked early on, taking to painting, drawing, cutting, and reading from a very young age. “I ended up going to fashion school and working in the industry for a little while but after I moved to the USA with my family I started painting again and taking art classes,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Now, armed with just a pair of scissors, she creates her intricate, hand cut collages, which she admits reflect her Victorian obsession with faeries, flora, and fauna. Those are collected from her large collection of books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she explains on her website.

A common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. She can be surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents her prison or her liberation.

Here are some highlights from McCann’s rich portfolio:

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Aside from working on commissioned illustrations, Kövecses enjoys exploring small quiet scenes that portray parts of her everyday life. Living in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her inspiration comes from living by the Mediterranean Sea, growing up in Eastern Europe, and being a mother of three small kids.

“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 described her creative process in an interview with Papirmass. “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 notes “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea.”

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” admits Kövecses. “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.”

When not working on commissioned projects, Kövecses creates drawings with oil pastels, experiments with clay and paints with her kids’ tempera. She also enjoys baking fresh bread in the morning, picking oranges, and growing veggies in their garden. An ideal lifestyle if you ask us.

The post The Digital Collage Art of Anna Kövecses appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I’m restless, very curious and I’m really open to mistakes,” he described himself in an interview with Another Fine Mess. An artist and an image-maker, he creates imaginary worlds from torn pieces found in the real world. “Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he reflected. “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.”

His process seems to be working, with his work having been exhibited in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also worked with brands such as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures, providing his signature collage work for commercial and editorial projects.

“I love to work with limits,” Tuja says, describing his creative process. “Most of the times 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. Limits are boosters of creativity and I love working with them.” According to him, “in commercial work this is not always possible because of time and concept limits. In commercial work the brief is at the same time the limit and the inspiration. You have to make the most of the story that someone else wants you to tell.”

Take a look at some of his creations (commercial and otherwise) in the gallery below:

The post Finding Order In Chaos: Max-o-matic’s Collage Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Originally from England and currently based in Berkeley, California, McCann’s creative passion sparked early on, taking to painting, drawing, cutting, and reading from a very young age. “I ended up going to fashion school and working in the industry for a little while but after I moved to the USA with my family I started painting again and taking art classes,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Now, armed with just a pair of scissors, she creates her intricate, hand cut collages, which she admits reflect her Victorian obsession with faeries, flora, and fauna. Those are collected from her large collection of books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she explains on her website.

A common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. She can be surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents her prison or her liberation.

Here are some highlights from McCann’s rich portfolio:

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