Experimenting With New Ideas

I went to pick up my computer last night. I thought all was back to normal, but when I turned on the computer, my 23-inch monitor was not working, and my speakers were not working as well. Looks like that lone lightning strike did more damage than I thought. Arggggh...that monitor was expensive....I am hoping that it is just the power box that is blown and not the monitor itself. We will see.....

I had Corel Painter IX installed at the computer shop. I am learning to mix Corel Painter and Photoshop to make my photos a little more "art" like. The above was my first experiment. What do you think? There could be some real cool effects I can get with this...never ending fun.