Rows of Lettuce (Posterized Photo)

Rows of Lettuce (Posterized Photo)
Originally uploaded by randubnick

This image began with a photograph that I took on Thursday afternoon. I was at the Food Project (at Long Hill Gardens in Beverly, MA) for the weekly pick-up of produce. On my way over to the field to pick cherry tomatoes, I saw some lettuce growing. I liked the shapes, colors, and most of all the pattern of the rows of lettuce, so I took a picture. Tonight I used Painter's digital pastel to clean up the leaves. I also used digital pastel, along with some cut-and-paste to simplify the background and do a little digital weeding. Then I posterized the image and cropped it to get this composition.