Landscapes

My next project was the landscape assignment. In this assignment we first watched the movie The Fellowship of Ring to get inspiration for our landscapes. I then began working on the landscapes

This was a quick painting I made in painter, while watching Lord of the Rings.  I tried to give it a blurry snowy look but I never really perfected it.

This was my Surrealism landscape. I learned that Surrealism was a cultural movement in the early 1920s that involved the element of surprise and objects that didn't seem to make sense together.  I tried to incorporate this style into my landscape.  I learned how to use advanced image search to find high-resolution images and distort them in photoshop to create a background and foreground. I used cotton candy for the clouds and coffee beans for the ground. I learned how to use the clone-stamp tool in this assignment to create the trees and mountains. The trees are a combination cat fur and strawberries. of  I also learned how to cast shadows in photoshop.  

In this landscape, I learned how to create clouds and grass in photoshop. I used the brush creator and the impressionist brush to create grass. I tried to create an African Savannah in this landscape and I was pretty happy with how it came out. I also used it to create the two images below. 

On this picture, I learned how to use the water rake tool to make my landscape look like a painting.

On this picture, I attempted to use the auto van-gogh tool. I had a hard time getting this assignment to work and I was never really happy with it. I thoght it ended up looking too grainy and it not look very aesthetically pleasing.