painting

when we first got internet access and email at work, my friends started sending me photos of naked women. i guess this is a natural thing for guys to do.
anyway... right about that time, i had discovered a very crude photo-editor program - which was included with microsoft's windows-nt operating system at the time.
i had had an interest in visual art for a while, but i couldn't paint and i couldn't afford to get into photography.
i quickly realized that this crude little photo-editor was a doorway into the world of creating visual art. it was a tool that i could use to manipulate shapes, colour and light. so i started playing with it.
i took a photo of a naked woman that my friend don had sent me and manipulated it every way i could... just trying out all of the possibilities. eventually, i discovered that if i "selected" a section of the photo and then pasted it in somewhere else, that it was much like dipping a paintbrush into coloured paint and painting. so that is how this image was created. it took a lot of manual work. i had to blur each blob that i pasted in. but doing it the hard way made me really appreciate photoshop, years later.
this picture looks absolutely nothing like the original photo (which was of a woman eating grapes while sitting on the floor... her face and hair looked very different from this).
at some point, the image started looking like a painting of a real woman... one with a personality. so i stopped. and here it is.