This was a vase of flowers a gardener had placed in an old Victorian greenhouse, to remove all traces of photographic detail I opened this shot up in paint shop pro, and gave it three passes of edge erode, then straight into E4 and painted in detailed watercolour using the Seurat brush, followed by soft cloner to bring back some detail in the petals and vase, then I softened the whole image, and back into psp to apply a border.
children paint because they don't know they can't - so what happens as we become adults? - Me
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some, and to do it by every artifice possible - truer than the truth. - Jean Anouilh 1910-87