Surreal Collage: Mixing People, Animals & Fashion into One Figure

Let’s get creative with magazine collage art!

In this fun and surreal cut-and-paste project, I combine human features, animal parts, and high-fashion elements to create a dreamlike figure. This unique technique is great for mixed media artists and anyone who loves handmade collage and surreal art.

🎨 What you’ll learn:

✅ How to mix and layer different elements

✅ A fun way to explore surreal and abstract composition

Materials

• Magazines

• Scissors

• Glue

• Sketchbook or sheet of paper

Instructions

• Cut out random images that catch your eye

• Start playing with the different images

• If you find the right ones, you can cut them out into more detail

• Start assembling the image

• If you want a background for your character, this would be the time to make one. I'm usually more of a gut person, so I play as I go, and when the character is ready, I make the background. That's fine too, but note that it can be a messy situation if you don't start with the background first ;)

• Glue the pieces of the character to the page

• Make the next one, because you probably have enough body parts and accessories left. And of course because it's highly addictive ;)