My fumbling simulation

Using two of the tools, Smudge and Clone, in iPad app ArtStudio, here's my first attempt to somewhat accurately transform a photo into what resembles an oil painting. I find the process to be intriguing and frustrating. Intriguing as a shortcut for someone who knows nearly nothing about painting with real oil paint. Frustrating because of the big limitations of my skills and of the app's capabilities. But I want to try it a few times. This kind of painting simulation is not at all a one shot algorithm that many photo editors and other apps have. This is a slow one stroke at a time process somewhat like real painting in that it's a repetition of matching colors and lines, or purposely choosing different colors and lines from the same areas in the photo one is working directly on a copy of to transform or translate it. I can see areas that could use improvement and I could probably do it, but at this point I've run out of energy here and think this is not too terrible for a first attempt.

 

Here's the photo I tried to copy in a painterly way with the ArtStudio iPad app:

www.flickr.com/photos/ratfacemalone/8299805890

 

Done