First go at "Smudge Painting" a portrait (also a first portrait).

great work paul, looks very good.

That looks great Paul! I saw it last night at the BCG meeting. I really like the smudge effect. It really does look like a painting.

That looks great. Thanks for sharing. Id like to add that the look you created with the technique reminds me of "The Kramer"

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nice.

The first one kinda looks like Chelsea Clinton.
Pretty cool effect.

Opened the thread without paying too much attention to the subject heading (as you do...), thought, what a beautiful girl, what's he done to her? Then caught on to the whole painting effect and realised you did good dude, this is for the wall!

Good effort, gives the image an oil painting quality to it.

Holy cow! I'd totally forgotten about this thread. Thanks everyone. I've become a bit more adept at doing these things lately and they're still a lot of fun.