Painting Portrait- photoshop

This week we are working with pre twentieth century paintings and making a replica in our own interpretation. I chose the painting Maude Adams a Joan of Arc 1872-1953 by Alphonse Mucha (Czech) shown below:

I started the process by creating a color swatch of all the basic colors in the painting:

From there I found, downloaded and imported other image I thought could be useful and save me time in the long run. So I decided that the lilies on the outside of the 'frame' would be a good choice to find an image for. Also, the grass along the bottom and the cherry blossoms that placed around the painting make for a long time painting in photoshop, so I imported images for those as well.

Part of this assignment is to interpret the image as what we see in our minds, so I've added a good amount of color in this particular interpretation. I placed borders around the image to help build the suspense of what it contains. While placing these images I used overlays and layer masks to show, hide and detail the different images to fit my cause. Using my pallet I pulled in a color fill for the background to give the project a similar feel to the painting I started with.