Collage Recreation

For the painting recreation assignment, my intention was to get it as close as possible to
the original artwork but still being realistic but also still having a slight painterly feeling to it.
The problem or challenge I was experiencing the most during this assignment was trying to
add the bridge and the greenery that were in the original painting. I could not find a bridge
that looked exactly like the original, so I had to use a random bridge and change it a lot. I
could not figure out how to recolor something, so I just painted over the bridge with the
paint brush tool and tried my best to color match it to the original painting. And for the
greenery it was super hard finding pictures for greenery, so I decided to drag down the
greenery in the background to hide some of the water that was there. I also could not find
photos I needed, like for the grass in the water or just tall green grass in general. I
personally think I mostly fell short of getting it as accurate as possible. In the future I will try
my best to make things more accurate by trying to find more photos and taking more time
to cut them out of the photo they are in. Overall, the feedback I received was positive;
People said my painting recreation looked good. The only negative feedback I received was
about the bridge shadow being off and the bridge being too dark compared to the original
painting. I really disliked this assignment. I do not know why it was so difficult for me, but it
was. I guess because I wanted to get it as close to the original artwork as possible and I feel
like I somewhat achieved that but certain objects from the original artwork I just could not
do for the life of me, and I do not know why. I also could not find any photos of certain
things that I needed to make it look like the original painting. But getting good feedback
and knowing it was not a failure at all makes me somewhat feel better about it.