I've played with G'MIC>Artistic>rotoidoscope quite a lot but didn't ever think it would produce anything useful but when I tried it on a photo of a canal the result inspired me to produce this. I kind of wanted to add some fairies and tried the sparks brush, beautify and rodillius filters but couldn't pull it off so I left it like this.

Still looks pretty cool the way it is.

erisian: it's amazing what that filter does sometimes! i agree this has an enchanted look about it - it would make a great title page for a book.

Thank you all.