My name is Monica Carvalho and I love creating photo manipulations to confuse your brain.
Coming up with impossible photo montage to give people a double take has been my passion for the past 5 years. All of my digital artworks are produced with Photoshop, using my own creative photos (no stock images).
In my inspiration process, I try to find similarities between photos in terms of color, texture, and shape. For example, two mountain peaks I shot in Greece reminded me of an upper lip; a path in Oxford had the same color as my skin; a pouch zip evoked eyelashes.
Other times I also like playing with sizes while photo editing - my miniature friends 'buried' in my hand; the Empire State Building turned into a giant candle.
The titles of my creative photography pieces tend to be either puns or weird/unrelated words to puzzle people even more.
I hope you enjoy my crazy fantasy worlds!
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C'est La Vie
Ohh this is epic! The pic was loading slowly and I initially thought it was an image of the reflection of trees in water and then I saw the Swan making the pic way more beautiful than what I initially thought it would be.
Eye Got You
A Mountain Latte Please
"I Shut My Eyes In Order To See" - Gauguin
Go Where The Road Takes You
Das Ist Mir Wurst
This could be the cover to a book about sexual assault/harrassment of women and the inferiority of women making them feel invisible. It's a beautiful pic with a beautiful message. Sort of like your own protest against the inequality in the world.
Empire State Candle
Fiz De Propósito
Anticlimactic Cough
Terrace Guilt
I Walk A Lonely Chord...
Your Words Move Mountains
Love Is The Swanswer
Fancy Apartment
Preheat The Oven
I Know You Like The Back Of My Sand
'The pathways of numerous individuals etched in the sands of time like the veins on the back of my hand'
Mouldy Plum Cake
Real Eyes Realise Real Lies
Bald Paragraph
Diamond Treason
Buried In The Shand
“We Are Captives Of Our Own Identities, Living In Prisons Of Our Own Creation” T.b.
Acoustic Heartbeat
Aladdin's Carpet
Pickled Money
Controversial Appearance
A Forest For Rest
This one is so serene. It's childhood imagination and wonder captured in a really cool image
Stir Well
Thanks so much, it means a lot <3
Load More Replies...Further evidence that photoshop is an art and not just a marketing tool. :D
Artists like you are the BEST and most amazing talent! (in MY opinion) I envy you SO much! You are capable of seeing the world in and ENTIRELY different way than ANYBODY ELSE! Your mind is so incredibly unique and complex! Love, love, love your work!!!
OMG dying of love with your comment!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! That means the world to me <3
Load More Replies...Thank you! I blend my photos on Photoshop :)
Load More Replies...I really love these! I am an aspiring artist and I am practicing Photoshop and these are really inspirational. I love the deep meaning and symbolism, but also the absurdity and randomness (that's my brain any day XD) I like how you just do anything anywhere and it makes sense, because the IS art. And the random titles-- it makes you think. I feel like if I tried hard enough, I could make a connection between the random titles and the photos XD
Thank you for your comment, I really appreciated it <3 Glad you like my random titles/surreal images combination!
Load More Replies...You've done a beautiful and thoughtful job. A true artist. I hope this is your profession. If not you need to be pursuing it. Well done you.
You're so sweet, thank you so much for your comment! <3 It is my dream to be able to live from my art, maybe one day who knows xD <3
Load More Replies...Thank you! Haha the titles are intended to make you even more confused xD
Load More Replies...These photos are very inspiring to at the world in a whole new way
HAHAHAHAHAH so funny - you made my day! <3
Load More Replies...You truly are a great artist! To create these beautiful images you must have a incredible mind !
I love these but a lot of the titles don't make sense to me. Some do but most of them don't. Great work regardless.
Thank you! My titles are not intended to make sense - that's the whole point xD Why give titles that make sense if the artwork doesn't? <3
Load More Replies...Thanks so much, it means a lot <3
Load More Replies...Further evidence that photoshop is an art and not just a marketing tool. :D
Artists like you are the BEST and most amazing talent! (in MY opinion) I envy you SO much! You are capable of seeing the world in and ENTIRELY different way than ANYBODY ELSE! Your mind is so incredibly unique and complex! Love, love, love your work!!!
OMG dying of love with your comment!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! That means the world to me <3
Load More Replies...Thank you! I blend my photos on Photoshop :)
Load More Replies...I really love these! I am an aspiring artist and I am practicing Photoshop and these are really inspirational. I love the deep meaning and symbolism, but also the absurdity and randomness (that's my brain any day XD) I like how you just do anything anywhere and it makes sense, because the IS art. And the random titles-- it makes you think. I feel like if I tried hard enough, I could make a connection between the random titles and the photos XD
Thank you for your comment, I really appreciated it <3 Glad you like my random titles/surreal images combination!
Load More Replies...You've done a beautiful and thoughtful job. A true artist. I hope this is your profession. If not you need to be pursuing it. Well done you.
You're so sweet, thank you so much for your comment! <3 It is my dream to be able to live from my art, maybe one day who knows xD <3
Load More Replies...Thank you! Haha the titles are intended to make you even more confused xD
Load More Replies...These photos are very inspiring to at the world in a whole new way
HAHAHAHAHAH so funny - you made my day! <3
Load More Replies...You truly are a great artist! To create these beautiful images you must have a incredible mind !
I love these but a lot of the titles don't make sense to me. Some do but most of them don't. Great work regardless.
Thank you! My titles are not intended to make sense - that's the whole point xD Why give titles that make sense if the artwork doesn't? <3
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