Distorted Photography

I developed a process in Photoshop to turn photographs into strange painterly abstractions, and no, I won’t tell you how it’s done! I basically found a way to distort and blend an image into itself over and over. Many times the final product is uninteresting, just a mess of pixels, but every so often you get a real winner. This was a simple photograph of tree bark. Now it looks like some dark and haunting painting.