Backgrounds

Here are some backgrounds I worked on. A friend of mine went to Ireland last year and is about to go back again soon. I was browsing through her photos and loved them, so I used them as references.

This one was driving me nuts... I didn't like the drawing very much and I painted the background with watercolor (not very well) and the foreground digitally in photoshop, just to see the outcome. blah...
I liked certain parts of it, so I broke it up into two compositions...