Digitally reconstructing a painting

In graphics we was asked to chose a still life painting that had several objects in it, which we liked, to try and digitally interpritate on photoshop.

Painting I chose to recreate, by Georges Braques.

My digital version.

First of all I found images on the internet of each individual object in my chosen painting and also something to use for the background.

 

Then using the magic wand tool I selected the background from these images and deleted. Sometimes in was not possible to select all the background so I used the eraser tool to rub out some small parts. 

I knew that there was no background to an image as it shows as a checkered background on photoshop. 

Now that I had my chosen objects for the painting I need to edit each object to make it look as similar to the painting as possible. 

I firstly did the skull and took screen shots to show how I did it. 

 

For the skull I went into the filter gallery and chose the filter named Paint Daubs.

Then using the ordinary standard paint brush tool as well as some of the other brushes I painted around and onto different parts of the skull to make it look like the one in the painting by Braques. Finally I again went into the filters gallery and chose the Texturizer tool to give the texture of the skull like it is in the painting. 

I was really pleased with how my skull turned out and I also found it quite easy and next I went onto the cross. 

I opened the cross up in the filters gallery and again used the Paint Daubs filter. 

Then using another paint brush tool I added on the brown marks.

 Next I again used the Texturize tool in the filter gallery. 

The cross was again quite simple and easy to edit and it didn't take much time either. 

I then moved on to my final object of the green plant/vase.

This object was quite difficult to find on the internet and then also quite difficult to crop out its background. However I eventually did it and then edited it by using the Poster Edges filter. 

Next using a paint brush tool I painted on the yellow marks. (I'm not sure why the screen shot is in black and white.) 

Next using the I brought down the brightness and slightly increase the contrast.

Overall I found this object quite difficult to make in comparison to the other two as it was quite an unusual shape to reconstruct.

I opened up the original painting in photoshop and changed its size so that it would fit nicely onto an A4 page. Then one by one I added each object (including the back ground) on top of the original painting. 

Next using the paint brush I used varies colours and painted in the different paint marks and splatter around the objects and then merged all the layers together ti make it into one image. 

I am pleased with my overall image and apart from the green object I found reconstructing and edited the images quite easy and fairly fun. However I prefare creating my work by hand rather than on a computer as sometimes I get frustrated when I forget or can't do what I want.