Fur collage gone too far -- times four by mcsiegle

Fur collage gone too far -- times four

I went a little far with my collage experiments using outtakes of Peanut the cat that showed only fur. Here's the first one I did and posted:
http://365project.org/mcsiegle/alternates/2015-10-05
You'll have to believe me on this one that it started out as photography. It has morphed into something else. I may as well tag it for my get pushed challenge from Kathy Boyles, since that's where it started. "You can either give me an interesting portrait of Peanut or another cat, or do a colorful abstract of any subject."
@kathyboyles Help! Went too far and can't find my way back to the photographs! :-)
October 8th, 2015  
pam
very impressive
October 9th, 2015  
@mcsiegle well, it certainly is an interesting colorful abstract! I don't know how you got those men out of fur but that doesn't matter in an abstract. Poor Peanut! Great job.
October 9th, 2015  
A fun project! I see ghostly skulls inside each square, thought you were getting into the Halloween spirit.....
October 9th, 2015  
@aikimomm I am, I am -- though I didn't have it in mind to begin with. As I played with the collage, the face (scull or demon of some sort) appeared and it appealed to my sense of the macabre. So I just heightened it with the color and contrast and by the time I was finished things were reduced to stark red and black and so abstracted as to be unrecognizable for the fur it started out as. Each of the four quadrants -- 2 each of two very slightly varied designs -- is made up of 16 pieces (4x4).
October 9th, 2015  
@mcsiegle Thanks for the background on this! (Some day I would like to hear the story behind your intriguing profile shadow photo.)
October 9th, 2015  
Wow...I would never have guessed what these started out as, creative idea.
October 9th, 2015  
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