This is the first project for Digital Painting class. For this assignment, it required taking a photograph and recreating it as a digital image in Photoshop. The theme was assigned; fruit or fish, or both. Frankly, I'm not much interested anymore in this sort of still-life style imagery, much less fruit. At least the fish could be somewhat the beginnings of a monster-creature concept. If I had my druthers, I would have painted a futuristic city, robot, or vehicle of some sort. Overall, it was enjoyable to reacquaint to Photoshop in a creative way, as opposed to simple gamma/color correcting for print production. This painting was fun to work on once enough color and shading went down. I utilized some of the textured brush sets in the program, along with gradients, analogous and complimentary color selection. The painting has been altered very little from the original photograph, although I attempted to add painterly artifacts and creatively licensed touches to make it look more like an airbrush and gauche paints had been used.