Adding a paint can to a hand by drawing a cartoon into a photograph

I write articles about how to teach young children drawing and painting on programmes such as MS Paint and Photoshop My latest effort is called Creating Mood and Atmosphere
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The picture above is a small one I created when I needed to have a picture of Mary MacKillop holding a spray can. I was making this for a book cover. All I did was take a picture of the saint and scan it into Photoshop. I then cropped the hand right down to a managable size and then copied and pasted it into Paint.

I drew the can in place with the Line Tool and the Pencil Tool- coloured it and then copied it - pasting it back straight on top of the other picture.

Once it was in place in photoshop I just cleaned it up with an eraser and it looks fairly real.

When I was looking for texture so that I could make the brick wall she was spraying paint on I found a link to a Photoshop Tutorial site called Painting Realistic Graffitti on a Brick Wall in Photoshop http://www.photoshop.0tutor.com/archive/17/Painting-realistic-graffiti-on-a-wall-in-photoshop.shtml

When I have entirely finished the whole picture I will post it here with a link to the article