I am working on some new skills. Compositing, painting with photoshop brushes, and using Ipad apps for more creative options. Here is a major experiment photo-painting inspired by the group How We Grow Our Food. I wanted to include a cow/milk/barn. I love old barns, and couldn’t resist including one in this painting. The first picture is my final version (I think) and then following are older versions to share the process of creating the painting.
In this version I pulled in two of my images of a calf and the vintage milk container. I used an object selection tool to add them. 
This version is where I painted the cow and the milk container, grass.. 
in this version I painted the cow, trees, sky, etc using photoshop brushes and added the chickens, sheep, and bluebird. 
In this version I worked more on the sky. 
This layer has an added texture layer/paper
