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You must choose a culturally significant portrait (painting) from the late 19th or early 20th Century as the basis for your project, and keep a copy of the unmanipulated, original artwork as an unseen layer. The goal of this assignment is for you to place YOUR FACE into the artwork you have chosen. In order to do this successfully (in order to get a good grade on this assignment), your final art must match the style (color, brush pattern, film grain, etcetera) of the original art; or your final art must match the style of the celebrity/public figure you have chosen.
Here is one way to achieve a Van Gogh like brushstroke appearance.
A link to the Photoshop file
A link to the Photoshop file
Notice the use of masks to achieve non-destructive editing.
The top layer of Van Gogh is made black and white with an Adjustment Layer, and the Overlay Blending Mode is used so that only the shading and the texture of the brush strokes appear on the final image.