First Attempt At a Surreal Look

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/stylish-surreal-portrait.html

Here is the link to the tutorial which I learnt how to do this from.

This is the original image I used.  I chose it because it's colourful and felt the paint would add even more of an artistic look to the final image.

I only experimented with a couple of brushes because I didn't like how the image was coming out so I left it.  This was my first attempt at a surreal look.