The Canal -Edited by Garrett Marrotta

            I believe the strongest technical aspect of my work was the simplicity of painting. I didn't use an overkill of paint or colors, but I did change enough where you can't tell if its original or not. I purposely left some things alone to give that authentic look and feel to the work. Although simplicity is nice, I could have improved on the technical aspect of the sky the I revised. It's a little bland and I could have made it look like there were maybe some clouds or even a sunset off to the distance to the right side of the photo. An idea for next time maybe.

            What was easy about this activity was that there were very free guidelines to follow. I painted my entire photo without someone telling me what to do every step of the way. it was very independent. At the same time as well, that made it difficult. you need to have creativity if you're going to revise and entire photo to your own standards. Although you can make your own decisions, its the fact of making that decision and making it the right way. If you didn't manipulate the picture the right way it would come out looking bad.

            I demonstrated the objective in this art activity by editing the photo using the paint brush tool and the blenders. Once I put the desired color in, I would edit it by changing the opacity of the color to high or low depending on my preference. After editing layer by layer, I created a whole new image and made it my own. If I could do this again I would take full advantage of blending tool within layers. I would have added more flavor to the sky and maybe added some clouds or birds of some sort.