Here are two pieces of "abstract" art that I did using Gimp and G'mic. I am new to all this, and am just playing around with various settings, etc. being applied to several photographs I've recently taken.
Hope you like them.

very nice, the top one looks like silk screen to me and the bottom on looks 3-D

They are both nice. I love to play as well, but I usually forget what I did when I get interesting results.

Thanks for looking at my "art". I've never done anything artistic before, other than taking photographs. Basically, what I did to create them was take a photo I had (one was my house, the other was a macro shot of flowers) and run the G'mic cubism filter on it. I would then do FX-Foundry's Color: Lasm's LAB Wow, sometimes inverting the colors afterwards. Then I'd apply various curves, adjust contrast. And in the one picture I created a new layer on top, ran the G'mic Black&White: Hough Sketch, reduced opacity to @80% with a Mode: of either Value or Hard Light. Anyway, I was just playing around, and the preview helped guide things.

You have come a long way in a short time. Your work is lovely.

Thanks for the positive feedback Molly. Here's one I just did of a flowering bush in the front of our property.

Here are another two. Let me know if you all are getting bored by these.

Nice Work, Charlie! I like all the color.

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Love your Avatar Tux.
Nice Charlie! ... It looks like Origami folded up and dipped in ti-dye.
Then unfolded and dried.

Very cool!

Batik perhaps? Nice!

Rod,
I loved your description of my artwork as origami dipped in tie-dye, unfolded, and left to dry! That is exactly what it appears like.

And thanks to everyone else for your kind words and encouragement.

I like this 3D one in GOLD. And with animation.

Wow, thanks for the wonderful compliment!

And Bar, very interesting use of my artwork, very creative.

I took a photo of colored easter eggs in a jar, ran the G'mic artistic filter Pastell Art, and then added the Black & White filter Hough Sketch (with adjustments on opacity and Mode:).

Anyway, here it is:

Here's another one. (I think the first one I posted is better)

those are really cool Charlie

I've said it before - I love your use of colour!

As usual, thanks again for the positive feedback.

Here's one more before we go get dinner!

Here's one with some other G'mic filters being used:

Here's two photographs of a dandelion, backlit by the sun, with several filters applied in Gimp and G'mic. The first image is an abstract version of the second one.