still trying to make art

In the past couple of weeks I have taken about hundred pictures of textures with my Canon point and shoot to combine with previous pictures hanging around in my catalog that I just haven't gotten around to deleting.  I am amazed how I have transformed these crummy pictures by combining pictures of a variety of different textures.  I have spent hours walking around taking pictures of grass, dirty windows, leaves, mold and splattered paint to name a few.  Now that I have a good idea what I am doing in photoshop I am ready to set out and start the process of deliberately making art from the ground up.  I want to do a shoot with a model and then build the textures around the shot.  So far I have only randomly combined textures with pictures that never made it to my portfolio.  Time to set out and come up with some cool art...I'm getting closer.