Brian Dettmer is the artist behind the wonderful carved into the z-axis of a book above. He transforms those old books in art, as dioramas. More of his art works at Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery, Toomey Tourel and Aron Packer Gallery. (via Coudal Partners)

Mia Mäkilä is a Swedish artist who creates dark and disturbing images, on in her words, horror art & collages. Her work has influences of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the elder, Francisco de Goya, Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Frida Kahlo and René Magritte, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Haneke, John Waters and Tim Burton, among others.

I paint my demons. I paint nightmares. To get rid of them. I paint my fears. I paint my sorrow. To deal with them. The motifs of my artworks are scary and macabre, but they also have a dark sense of humour. I love to use humour in a weird and strange way. You can see that in my artworks with the women who’s shitting stars and fire. I call my artworks “neo-victorian horror art”, because of the haunting quality from the victorian era I use in them. The style is nightmarish and dark, like a language of my inner demons and my sorrow. They are also inspired by the Lowbrow art movement.

She has a new blog The Wonderland of Mia Mäkilä, where she shares paintings, news, videos, curiosities and vintage things, in Swedish, By the way, the site and the blog are NSFW, but of course it depends of where you work. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

When someone makes a fabulous work, as Peter Clark does, even collages of dogs can get my attention. Peter uses a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette which are coloured, patterned or textured by their printed, written or worn surfaces, with this media he ‘paints’ his collages.[...] His pieces use mark-making in an innovative and humorous way to create a collection of beasts and clothing which exude character and wit. (via The Seven Deadly Sinners)

Gilbert Garcin: French photographer, French artist. Garcin born in La Ciotat in 1929 and lives in Marseille taking pictures, creating photo-montages, collages, art. His image in those pictures is a constant, as a picture, a shadow or a multiple of himself. He is the character that gives the motto to the pictures, while he plays with backgounds, textures, symbols, allegories and photo titles. (via PCL LinkDump)

Art-e-zine: Welcome to artezine, this online zine is for everyone that’s interested in playing and having fun with paper, paints, inks and stamps, and any other exciting mediums. Due to the huge number of pages, I suggest start exploring the site for the new stuff page. Other idea is explore all the links at contents – many of them go to external pages. And my last suggestion, if you are not in the mood for collage, but wants to see vintage images, go to the Vintage resources page.

Finished today one more contest of Worth1000 which them was Reality Cartoons – Real live cartoons! Neat and funny images are among the works. But what made me post this was one of the winners of other edition Reality Cartoons, actually the image above. I loved watching El Kabong, he is the best hero ever! Or do you know another superhero that save the world with a guitar?

I don’t like to do this, but I didn’t find the page of the original artist. This post has 5 cool (or bizarre?) images of cat women, dog man and dog woman. Yes, I know, sounds very strange, but I think that the image above has a good example of how weird they are. The blogger found the images on this Russian site (NSFW ads there!) where the images are a bit bigger. Does anyone know who is the artist that made those works? (via Unscathed Corpse)
Update: the artist that made the prosthetic make-up is Bill Turpin (at the Ads session) and the pictures were taken by Rankin (Advertising session). Both sites are highly recommended with great works, take a look. (Thanks Marnie and Suzanne for the links!)

The French artist Gerard Bertrand has a new series of collages about literature after L’Album de Franz Kafka. His new photomontages L’Album de Marcel Proust, as the title says is related to Proust’s life and works. He says about the work of “recomposed photographs” : I tried, in this series to restore the spirit of this period of time as well as the spirit of the characters from “In Search of Lost Time – A la recherché du temps perdu”. I associated those spirits to Proust, the narrator and­ the author. Very nice work with a vintage atmosphere.

If you live at Bruxelles here is a good option of activity: go to the Galerie Pascal Polar and visit the current exhibition Karl Waldmann & Constructivisme Russe. This German artist made more than 900 works dating from 1915 to the 50’s, most of which are collages or photomontages.

His early pieces are abstract but soon after, his other works turn to echo constructivism, Dadaism and even surrealism.
The forms derived from constructivism, with a destruction of the classical image, VERB! in a dynamic vision. But the state of mind of the photomontages is close to the Dadaists by the will of integration of the social facts of his time in an acid and politic vision.

There is an online version of the exhibition here. More information about him can be found at Karl Waldmann Museum, including his works.

Hillegon Brunt creates some disturbing photo collage images, with images of people and animals. He has also some works of sculptures (papier maché sculptures with photos), drawings and paintings. (via Pez)