i continued to use the collage method, now trying different ways of taking the idea. i got given a sheet of black and white cats faces by a colleague and started using those as characters, almost. I made lots of experimental A3 and sketchbook-sized collages using thee cat heads in differing scenarios. i experimented with dreams, abstraction, putting the cats in human-like scenarios and also plain surrealism. not all of them worked amazingly, as with everything some were better than others, but i kept toying with ideas to see what i could make of it:

i prined out a cityscape and thought the cats would look really good in a GODZILLA sort of way. huge 'things' roaming around cities destroying things. with explosions and also surreal elements. i did one and felt that i had found a path; a continuable style which i felt was pleasing and enjoyable to create.

towards the end of my collaging my studio space looked like this:

the collages of cats destroying cities really reminded me of old B-Movies like godzilla and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, where hollywood was starting to play around with green-screen and making scale sci-fi films. i felt that the perfect way to tie the project together would be to create a poster in the style of that era of film-making. i found a blog that posts a new b-movie poster everyday and found lots of inspiration for the project http://randompictureday.blogspot.com/search/label/movie%20poster%20month

final arrangement: