Critique

The end result is pretty much what I envisioned when I started working on it. I feel like it is not super "high effort" compared to some of the other projects, but at least it can hold the viewer's intention for a while. In particular, the area separating the painting and the ad is something that is interesting to look at. It was sort of present in the original work, but by applying the magic wand algorithm to it at a specific tolerance, I was able to create the tear-like appearance.

My final project is composed of two separate works. One is darker with cool colors and has an advertisement for art prints. The other is bright warm colors and has an ad for phone service.  I like both of these in different ways, since the art prints ad is more relevant to the likely audience, but the Verizon ad is clearly just faceless corporate advertising. They send a different message- the first is more subtle, and the second is very obvious with the theme. I made a third, but it was also an art advertisement, and didn't really add anything beyond the first one, so I did not include it.