Thursday 1st, 2015 

The strongest technical aspect of my work would be my water, the tools i used made it look like i didn't even go over the water. I used a low opacity which put a light shading over the water and used a darker color behind the palm tree to create a type of shadow making it look more realistic. i think if i didn't feel so rushed i would've done a better job. I had to redo my work multiple times and if i had more time i would have worked more on my palm trees making the palms look more defined. i had some trouble bringing the hardness back in to create a darker shadow on the palms and even the edges of the mountains when switching the brush type. The easiest part of this activity was choosing the type of picture i wanted for this assignment. I love all things tropical and going and working on a picture i love helps a bit. the most difficult part of this assignment was having the paint over all the back rounds to the front pictures i couldn't do it or figure it out. i wanted to repaint over the sky but the palm trees were in the way and i thought i could have ruined the palms since I'm not too familiar with photoshop. I demonstrated the objective in this by editing the photo through painting and using blending modes.  if i were to do this art activity again i would've chosen a completely different picture and started with something easier to work on and start off with.