The strongest piece of my art is my blending. I used the mixer brush to blend my colors to make it look like a real painting. The mixer brush really helped me to make my project look realistic. One piece of my art that could be improved is the eyebrows, I feel like I made the eyebrows look really skinny. I got too carried away on the mixing when it came to the nose.

The tools I sued were the paint brush, eye dropper, layer masks and mixer brush tool. I used the paint brush to sketch over the actual image for any change of colors. I used the eye dropper to get the exact color that was on the original image. I used two layer masks one for drawing and another for painting.  

The easy part about this project was choosing the picture. I recently just took that photo of my niece and really loved. The difficult part of the project was keeping a steady hand when painting and drawing the outlines of the image.

I demonstrated the objective by using to using the paint brush tool, eye dropper, and mixer brush tool to execute my painting accurately.  My colors are blended well; there are shadows, highlights, and a high level of detail. If I could do this project again I would paint a picture that I drew instead of using a picture that I took on my phone. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate myself a 10 because I really tied hard on this project. I think this project took me the longest to complete. I tried my best to really make the picture look realistic.