For the first exercise we cloned the provided photo of a building. This started with picking up the color on the photo and then continued with painting with the tracing paper turned off. Various brushes and wind direction were used. The painting was made using quite a few layers. I took a little additional license by adding flower baskets to the columns after eliminating the cars and recognizable people.

For the next exercise we cropped a portion from the provided photo and then cloned it. I first did a pencil sketch and then used various brush variants. I decided to leave the sketch lines in. I can't remember why I made the wall portion on the right darker other than I didn't want to focus on it. I don't really like how it looks. For that matter, I don't really like this painting with the sketch lines as it looks like a coloring book painting.

For my third painting I took a cutout from my second painting - before any paint had been applied. Since it was so small I placed it on a larger canvas. I added several layers and splashed paint on them. Then I added a layer below the painting and added some more paint. This resulted in the edges of the original cutout painting being visible which I didn't like. I then added a layer above the cutout, but below the splashes that went over the edges. I used the fine camel variant and one of the colors to create the rough border around the cutout. Again, I think this would look better if the pencil sketch were not so visible in pencil. Hmmm, probably could have lowered the opacity on that layer!

I'm hoping to use some of my own photos to do some more practicing with this lesson.