STEP THREE:
Photoshop them together. I am
not good at freehanding. Few
people are. Instead, I prefer to
rely on an image to base my art
off of. For this piece, I decided
to take the Narcissus figure
from the painting and overlay it
into my nature photo. With a
free online photo editor
(Pixlr.com) and a few YouTube
tutorials, I created this...
STEP FOUR:
Choose a medium. The Photoshop wasn’t perfect, but don’t
worry. One can see that this is a going to be a complicated
piece with a lot of color variety and detail. I decided upon
acrylic paints as I was relatively familiar with them and
had some on hand. I could have also probably done pastels,
colored pencil, or ink. Make sure you check the Graphic Art
guidelines to make sure your medium is legal.
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