Bad Habits Abstracted (Painter IX) Please view large & see the original image. Thanks

I'd like to say these are abstract flowers, but it is not so. Above is the photo I started with. Playing in Painter, having a ball. Please view large to see the detail :) Amazing what a program can do Hours of play! :)

Thanks for looking, it's a whole new world out there :) Please be

brutal with your critiques. Learning is my only goal! Thanks

Well you took something that is pretty disgusting, in my book, and turned it into something that is intriguing to look at. That's perhaps an interesting commentary on the habit. Disgusting but alluring? I don't know, I don't smoke. Is that what you intended? In any case I like the final image. There are a lot of places one could take that but now that I have seen the original it keeps coming back to that one.

Cheers,

Bill