The Watercolorist - Mary Poppins

Source photo: still of "Mary Poppins" featuring Julie Andrews.

Let's get an abstracted image using "The Cartoonist".

Abstracted image after quantize.

Let's run "The Watercolorist" and see what we get.

Watercolor image obtained from the abstracted image after quantize.

Yeah, it 's quite clear that when you use a quantize abstracted image for portraits, the effect can be quite harsh and not very pleasing. Let's see if we can soften the painting by combining it with a watercolor rendering where the input image is not the abstracted image after quantize but the abstracted image after oabf2 ("abstracted_image_after_oabf2.png").

Abstracted image after oabf2.

Let's run "The Watercolorist" and see what we get now.

Watercolor image obtained from the abstracted image after oabf2.

You don't get the edge darkening between shades this time and this rendering doesn't look half bad on its own, to be honest. What I am going to do is load up the 2 paintings as layers and put the 1st painting on top of the other, add an alpha channel to the 1st painting, use the eraser tool on that 1st painting in areas where I think the transitions between colors should be smoother and simulate wet-on-wet watercoloring.

Watercolor rendering resulting from the combination of the 2 previous watercolors.