Cat, Kilt, Brother collage continued

These are the results I'm happiest with now after re-working with the images from the previous post.  I rearranged, cropped, pasted, added color, removed color and generally spent an afternoon happily obsessing.  Also cropped some more abstract images I might make into larger paintings.

Lyle

I've been missing my brother this holiday season, so I decided to work on the image of him in his kilt.  First I transferred (process only worked partially) a photo of him over a muddy monotype, then pasted on some clippings of a cat, his face and him as a baby at La Jolla Shores.  Didn't like this, so cropped it.  The faint
transfer of his face is spooky. 
Then I photo-edited some other images, printed them, chopped them up and made a collage of the black cat, baby Lyle and the kilt. I colored the image of him at the beach and when I scanned it to post here, it looks like he has red streaks on his body. I like the collage better in black and white. I'll have to stare at these for awhile to see what, if anything, to do next.  Right now the lower left hand side isn't working for me.
If you click on the images, they will enlarge.

 I also juxtaposed the baby image over the kilt image with some photo manipulation and came up with this odd result.  I think Lyle would be amused.

Seven Beginnings

The colored ones are photo images I printed over some muddy monotypes.  I used a digital ground on the monotypes so they would absorb the printer's ink jet.  The fourth one, a black and white collage of a family photo was done by gel transfers, printed pasted photos covered with a transparency film with the image printed on it again.  The last one is chopped up photo paper from a photo of poppy pods.  (I expecially like the paper clip I left in while scanning it)  I'm going to be gone for a week and hope to work on some of them during that time.   

Photo manipulation (mutilation?)

Using a computer photo editor I cropped the image, flipped it around, and then printed other photo images over the first one.  Will probably continue  now with paint, ink and papers.

Collage image mess

Sometimes the challenge of creating collages is to pull them together so they work (or not--I have my share of doomed projects). The one pictured here is one of nine I'm currently working on. I think we would agree it isn't done yet. I'm experimenting with image transfers. Some of results are Frankensteins.
I'll post the process of the work as I go along.