Attempting Surrealism

Here is my first (rather quick) attempt at photographic surrealism:

To achieve this image I combined three images to create this one image:

1. a wine glass
2. a photo of a young boy with his hand pressed against a glass, trying to escape (albeit, looking rather happy)
3. a bubbly background texture to finish the image (the texture was a free texture download)

Individually and in their the images looked like this:

I began with the glass image, added the image of the boy, then the texture. Then I darkened the edges to tie in the whole shot. I distorted the original image of the boy so that he looked curved to suit the wine glass, as opposed to just flat. I did this using the manual correction facility of the lens correction options in Adobe Photoshop. The image was converted to black and white.

I think this image is rather average, however it does qualify as an image that fits within the surrealism genre.

I learned that my photoshop skills have improved incredibly, and yet I acknowledge that still have a long way to go before calling myself a digital artist. Next time I may spend time to learn about the Photoshop mapping (?) feature where I can adjust the contours of the layers so that they match better.