The making of painting to photo 2_483b45489b, step by step...

step 1 of 4

The cow was masked off with a layer mask and some of the white around the ears was removed using colour selection

step 2 of 4

The sunflower was extracted

step 3 of 4

Centre of another flower was exctracted

step 4 of 4

The centre was darkened and lightened using curves and layer masks to get the differences between the rings of seeds

final result