Inkscape 0.46 may be used to simulate oil-painting. The new path tools in version 0.47 will make drawing the paths which hold the gradient-fills and gradient-blends faster and more flexible. More paintings like this one are part this blog's short-term plans.
The following Gimp features and filters were used to alter the smoke pattern:
Gaussian blur, dodge duplicate layer, invert, desaturate, despeckle, treshold, merge layer down. Various Gimp tutorials entitled this affect "perfect masking using a highpass."
See, for example, http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Perfect-masking-using-a-highpass/28768 and http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Sketch_Effect/
The JPEG source from which this pattern-fill is constructed is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27668445@N03/3191145019/, by lostandtaken.
The photo comes from Caleb Kimbrough who produced a set of "Four Silky Smooth Smoke Textures" and made them available on his textures blog.
Inkscape and the Gimp were both used to achieve this watercolor-style painting of a river gorge.
This painting is an attempt to simulate a watercolor style using Inkscape.
The effects are achieved using many small and blended gradients.
The water is still cold in the streams fed with snow-melt, like the one pictured below. The snow is just now diminishing above tree-line in the part of the West where this photo was taken.
Inkscape was used to highlight aspects of tracings of the photo.
The detailed shot above flows through the gorge pictured in the digital painting below (modeled on one of my photos).
The following inset shows the relative scale of the detail -- this mountain gorge is huge.
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