Matte painting

Matte painting was one of the areas where my modification skills got tested. I faced my limitations because i was not particularly strong at extensions and so i focused my matte painting on modification and clean up as i am good at that. I started with a Leeds City museum Picture and i cleaned up the parts where i thought was appropriate and added many artifacts on to them primarily by using various brushes in Photoshop and at last i needed an eerie sort of look which i was looking forward to for creating a ghostly feeling and i was able to accomplish that by the final color correction.The Ivy which is shown on the front doors and the golden statues were obtained from www.gettyimages.com.

I have used mostly brushes for creating the grass and Ivy on top of the building and also some of the dirt brushes i obtained from http://www.photoshopisland.com/ and http://midnightstouch.deviantart.com/