Ipod Photo to a Corel Painting

The other day I took a photo of my girlfriend Yvonne, with my IPod touch... The file was less than one megapixel in size.. I loaded it into photoshop  and upsized it to 8x10 so I could paint it in my Corel Painter Essentials 4 program:

Then I loaded it into Corel Painter program and did a clone impressionist painting.. Followed by blending with the just water brush to smooth out the skin tones..For just a snapshot I thought it came out really nice. (Click to enlarge)

See you next month.