Bright and graphic, her work consists of organic shapes and limited color palettes. “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,” said the Hungarian born, Cyprus-based illustrator in an interview with Papirmass.

In order to spark creativity, her work environment is equally important. “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 explains. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea.”

Living in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus also helps when it comes to creative inspiration. Amongst her sources of inspiration Kövecses notes the Mediterranean Sea, her childhood in Eastern Europe, and being a mother of three small kids.

The post Take it Easy with Illustrator Anna Kövecses appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “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.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

The post Max-o-matic Continually Experiments with Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from 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 writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

But though his background is in painting, his passion lies in collage making. Like most passions, it was discovered by chance. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he wrote in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “I am lucky to have a good studio, but in the winter months it is so cold in there that I wanted to find a way of working at home in the evenings, but without destroying the house with paint.”

His solution was collage art. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”

He hasn’t looked back since. His artwork is a colorful (sometimes overly-colorful) exploration of textures and shapes, forming eye-popping images out of paper cuttings. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he explains.

Take a peek at some of his work in the gallery below.

The post The Eye-Popping Collages of Patrick Bremer appeared first on TettyBetty.

In these circumstances, his artistic style was formed. Jump forward some years later, and with more than 20k fans on Instagram, Geiman is well on his way to artistic stardom. Previously employed as an Interpretive Naturalist for the USDA Forest Service, Geiman seeks to combine his interests in art-making with his studies of biology and American history.

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite his viewers sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. These narratives are formed out of found materials that include anything from reclaimed wood and salvaged metal to vintage papers.

“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,” says Geiman. His pieces include elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, as well as a plethora of mixed media works, with each piece taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete.

We recommend you follow his creative journey through Instagram.

The post Something Old, Something New: Dolan Geiman’s Mixed-Media Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Baltimore, and based in Brooklyn, New York, Adams’ art is relevant and thought-provoking, exploring the ways in which African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism. “I’ll always admire black American artists before me who maintained a steady practice, even when no one was giving them the coverage they deserved,” he once said in a conversation with Interview Magazine.

Treating his art as a form of therapy, his pieces are often layered – a collage not only of images and materials but also of different types of sensory experiences. “When I’m in a space that has restraints, or conditions that will not allow me to operate in the way that I operated last week, I think of the work not as art-making, but as a form of therapy,” he stressed.

And as his art grows so does his focus shift. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” says Adams. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Derrick Adams Treats Art-Making As a Form of Therapy appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I work with paper to balance form, tactility, and color in an image,” she told Ape on the Moon. “My process relies heavily on being resourceful with scrap materials made of anything from paper, wood, cardboard, plexiglass, transparency film, or styrofoam.”

“Everything starts being constructed on my messy desk, finding stability with a hot glue gun, wire, and masking tape, until it’s ready to be photographed on my clean desk,” she explains.

“It may seem like a lot of time and energy for one illustration but it feels like play. There’s so much opportunity to get your mind off of things and forget about your surroundings.”

Take a look at some of her paper creations.

The post Angela Rio’s Art Begins With a Messy Desk appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I have several different projects going at once, but within each one there is usually an unintentional theme,” shared Hoeckel with Frankie Magazine. “For example- my point of view collage series is about people interacting and reacting to the power of nature as well as getting lost in a daydream.”

“I think a lot of it is about losing touch with reality in a good way”, she said. And indeed, there’s a fear of getting lost in one of her collages (but in a good way).

With a passion for collage art, she admitted that “the one disadvantage of collage is that sometimes the papers are very old, and can disintegrate or tear easily. The advantages are that the colors and quality of the paper are very beautiful, they are simply not made that way anymore.”

Enjoy her wondrous works in the gallery below and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Beth Hoeckel’s Collages Pack a Punch appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I’ve been very into indoor plants lately,” he told the Urban Outfitters blog. For a long time, I had been focusing on flowers and blooms when looking for images but recently I’ve been inspired by the green foliage plants.”

“I started making paper collage work when I began taking art classes in college,” he explained. “But before that I had been doing a lot of digital collage in high school, mostly for band merch.”

Apart from his creative ventures he also has an artistic day-job, running a lifestyle brand, Valley Cruise Press, that creates art-focused accessories, apparel, and home goods. Talking about his hectic schedule, he shared: “on a normal day, I’ll get into the studio, answer some emails and start digging into some old books. I usually have 5-10 projects going at once so I’m always sourcing a lot of imagery.”

His music project, Monster Rally, blends together exotica with tropicalia and hip hop. Which, if you think about it, sounds exactly like his collage art. Take a look for yourself.

The post Ted Feighan’s Art and Music Will Inspire You to Go on a Vacation appeared first on TettyBetty.

After studying at Boston University’s School of Fine Art and Parsons School of Design (NYC), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1992, she began working as a freelance Illustrator in New York. She has been doing this ever since.

“I grew up in a converted barn on Long Island,” she told AI-AP. “My parents weren’t artists by trade but they were definitely latent artists. They were pretty unconventional and had a reverence for art and artists—they both hung around with the Pop artists in the 60s and went to art openings all the time before I came along and ended that party. We had a lot of art around the house and I spent a whole lot of time drawing.”

“Once, in kindergarten, my friend asked me for my autograph on a drawing I made for her,” she shared. “Drunk on power and fame I decided I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. Since then it’s been all power and fame (or all drunk—I can’t remember).”

When talking about her creative process, Goodman said: “I really dig the process of not being able to plan ahead too much and not knowing what I’ll find to use next. It’s really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Take a look.

The post These Collages Are the Meaning of Eye-Popping appeared first on TettyBetty.

Bright and graphic, her work consists of organic shapes and limited color palettes. “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,” said the Hungarian born, Cyprus-based illustrator in an interview with Papirmass.

In order to spark creativity, her work environment is equally important. “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 explains. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea.”

Living in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus also helps when it comes to creative inspiration. Amongst her sources of inspiration Kövecses notes the Mediterranean Sea, her childhood in Eastern Europe, and being a mother of three small kids.

The post Take it Easy with Illustrator Anna Kövecses appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “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.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

The post Max-o-matic Continually Experiments with Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from 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 writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

But though his background is in painting, his passion lies in collage making. Like most passions, it was discovered by chance. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he wrote in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “I am lucky to have a good studio, but in the winter months it is so cold in there that I wanted to find a way of working at home in the evenings, but without destroying the house with paint.”

His solution was collage art. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”

He hasn’t looked back since. His artwork is a colorful (sometimes overly-colorful) exploration of textures and shapes, forming eye-popping images out of paper cuttings. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he explains.

Take a peek at some of his work in the gallery below.

The post The Eye-Popping Collages of Patrick Bremer appeared first on TettyBetty.

In these circumstances, his artistic style was formed. Jump forward some years later, and with more than 20k fans on Instagram, Geiman is well on his way to artistic stardom. Previously employed as an Interpretive Naturalist for the USDA Forest Service, Geiman seeks to combine his interests in art-making with his studies of biology and American history.

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite his viewers sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. These narratives are formed out of found materials that include anything from reclaimed wood and salvaged metal to vintage papers.

“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,” says Geiman. His pieces include elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, as well as a plethora of mixed media works, with each piece taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete.

We recommend you follow his creative journey through Instagram.

The post Something Old, Something New: Dolan Geiman’s Mixed-Media Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Baltimore, and based in Brooklyn, New York, Adams’ art is relevant and thought-provoking, exploring the ways in which African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism. “I’ll always admire black American artists before me who maintained a steady practice, even when no one was giving them the coverage they deserved,” he once said in a conversation with Interview Magazine.

Treating his art as a form of therapy, his pieces are often layered – a collage not only of images and materials but also of different types of sensory experiences. “When I’m in a space that has restraints, or conditions that will not allow me to operate in the way that I operated last week, I think of the work not as art-making, but as a form of therapy,” he stressed.

And as his art grows so does his focus shift. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” says Adams. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Derrick Adams Treats Art-Making As a Form of Therapy appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I work with paper to balance form, tactility, and color in an image,” she told Ape on the Moon. “My process relies heavily on being resourceful with scrap materials made of anything from paper, wood, cardboard, plexiglass, transparency film, or styrofoam.”

“Everything starts being constructed on my messy desk, finding stability with a hot glue gun, wire, and masking tape, until it’s ready to be photographed on my clean desk,” she explains.

“It may seem like a lot of time and energy for one illustration but it feels like play. There’s so much opportunity to get your mind off of things and forget about your surroundings.”

Take a look at some of her paper creations.

The post Angela Rio’s Art Begins With a Messy Desk appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I have several different projects going at once, but within each one there is usually an unintentional theme,” shared Hoeckel with Frankie Magazine. “For example- my point of view collage series is about people interacting and reacting to the power of nature as well as getting lost in a daydream.”

“I think a lot of it is about losing touch with reality in a good way”, she said. And indeed, there’s a fear of getting lost in one of her collages (but in a good way).

With a passion for collage art, she admitted that “the one disadvantage of collage is that sometimes the papers are very old, and can disintegrate or tear easily. The advantages are that the colors and quality of the paper are very beautiful, they are simply not made that way anymore.”

Enjoy her wondrous works in the gallery below and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Beth Hoeckel’s Collages Pack a Punch appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I’ve been very into indoor plants lately,” he told the Urban Outfitters blog. For a long time, I had been focusing on flowers and blooms when looking for images but recently I’ve been inspired by the green foliage plants.”

“I started making paper collage work when I began taking art classes in college,” he explained. “But before that I had been doing a lot of digital collage in high school, mostly for band merch.”

Apart from his creative ventures he also has an artistic day-job, running a lifestyle brand, Valley Cruise Press, that creates art-focused accessories, apparel, and home goods. Talking about his hectic schedule, he shared: “on a normal day, I’ll get into the studio, answer some emails and start digging into some old books. I usually have 5-10 projects going at once so I’m always sourcing a lot of imagery.”

His music project, Monster Rally, blends together exotica with tropicalia and hip hop. Which, if you think about it, sounds exactly like his collage art. Take a look for yourself.

The post Ted Feighan’s Art and Music Will Inspire You to Go on a Vacation appeared first on TettyBetty.

After studying at Boston University’s School of Fine Art and Parsons School of Design (NYC), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1992, she began working as a freelance Illustrator in New York. She has been doing this ever since.

“I grew up in a converted barn on Long Island,” she told AI-AP. “My parents weren’t artists by trade but they were definitely latent artists. They were pretty unconventional and had a reverence for art and artists—they both hung around with the Pop artists in the 60s and went to art openings all the time before I came along and ended that party. We had a lot of art around the house and I spent a whole lot of time drawing.”

“Once, in kindergarten, my friend asked me for my autograph on a drawing I made for her,” she shared. “Drunk on power and fame I decided I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. Since then it’s been all power and fame (or all drunk—I can’t remember).”

When talking about her creative process, Goodman said: “I really dig the process of not being able to plan ahead too much and not knowing what I’ll find to use next. It’s really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Take a look.

The post These Collages Are the Meaning of Eye-Popping appeared first on TettyBetty.