Painter practice

Just getting my feet wet again after two years away from digital art (or any kind of art, actually). Thought I'd start by taking a striking image (thank you, =CathleenTarawhiti) and run it through the usual process of filters, then clone/paint in Painter. This is how I worked for years, but I don't plan to use the old techniques going forward. Just having fun with the old tried and true. I put this under Photomanipulation, since it's not really a painting. It just sort of looks like one.