Recreation of Arnolfini

First I used the dimensions of the original for my new document, found a source for wooden floors and distorted it and used perspective tools to match the painting.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1002650

Found a suitable dress fabric from a model thanks to dreamer531 on DeviantArt. I used warp to get the general shape of the dress.

• 1: http://dreamer531.deviantart.com/art/brenda-second-green-dress-015-62121300

Located a source for the terrier in the painting, and used the pen tool to cut a path around that spikey fur.

• 1: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:u0hlrUjioU02SM:http://bp3.blogger.com/_8kXsPIEkJZI/RzgK2BatmtI/AAAAAAAAASU/gOT4lsS3p
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I used a lot of warp and liquify to force the dress into a similar folded pattern as the original.

I used an image of hair/fur for the fringe around her dress, cutting it out with the magic wand because it's going to be scaled down anyway.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/965833

Used more fringe and pieces from the dress for the limbs, used hue adjustment to match the blue.

I reused the fur source to make the gentleman's coat, but used different blending modes to get the shade I needed.

Using warp and distort I pieced several of the strips of fur together to get the ribbed pattern of the coat.

I found a big black hat that I could warp into the weird shape that dude is sporting.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/983833

I reused the dress source to create the bedding in the background, again more blending modes to adjust the color, and warp/liquify to get the desired shapes.

Adding in several sources for the girl, the chandelier, and masking out the backgrounds.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/752396
• 2: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/263465

Additional sources, more masking. I'll use pieces of the gold frame to create the round mirror.

The background wall was created by blurring a concrete texture.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/986778

Masked out these feet that matched the pose of the man, and worked on piecing together the shape of the mirror from the frame. Thanks to dragon-orb from DeviantArt for the source.

• 1: http://dragon-orb.deviantart.com/art/CT-Renaissance-Faire-41-66885843

Pieced together limbs from the fur source for the gent, and masked out his hand. Started thinking more about the light/shadow situation and used multiply layers to darken areas.

Masked out another hand and duplicated it to get the open palms like in the painting.

Added in a rug and worked on more of the background. Began to piece together her bonet from dress pieces, changing the color again with blending modes.

Added in one last hand, thanks to Simbarb from SXC.

• 1: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/963183