When you combine many techniques together -- composites, blend modes, filters, color and contrast adjustments -- you can end up with something that doesn't resemble a photograph at all. That's what happened here. I started with a nude study in which the model wore a hat and mask, and I photographed her against a white backdrop. Then I composited a painterly texture with the original and melded the two images together with the 'multiply' blend mode. I then added clarity, changed the hue, added contrast, and introduced the watercolor filter in the Topaz Impression suite of filters. This is the result of doing all of those changes. Sometimes I preconceive an image, and sometimes I just play -- like I did here.
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