Rock Sculpture

     The strongest technical aspect of my work is the way the rock stands out from the background. This is because I used the color history brush, but the colors were too similar to the background, so I had to use the dodge brush to lighten it. The aspect that I could improve on is having the focal point stand out a little better, because the colors are still similar but you can tell that the rock is the focal point. 

     The easiest part of this activity was changing the image to be desaturated and then color it back to its original colors. The difficult part of this activity was trying not to have the colors from the background appear near the focal point. 

     I demonstrated the objective of this activity by having a focal point, and having everything else in the image black and white, or desaturated. If I could do this activity again, I would choose another image, one that has a more colorful and interesting focal point. 

Bricks

     The strongest technical aspect of my work are the colors I used to create a pattern on the bricks because the colors make the individual bricks stand out more than they did in the original image. The technical aspect I can work on is the blending of the colors as they get farther away in the image. To fix it I could look at the original image and try to figure out when the bricks end. 

     Painting the bricks that were closer was the easy part about this art activity. That is because I could see where on brick ends and another one starts. The The difficult part of this activity was painting the bricks that were farther away in the image. That is because as the bricks get smaller, they get more blended together and harder to see. 

     I demonstrated the objective in this art activity by having layers, and using different filters of the paint brushes. If I could do this activity again, I would choose a different image and colors.