When I first saw this old man, I thought how well he could do as a portrait. I first went into the filters menu and clicked Extract, then chose the old man and the beige-y wrap behind him.

I decided to eliminate the blue in the lower left corner. I did that by using the lasso tool to carefully draw around it, then I selected the stamp tool, set the brush size to 400, alt-clicked on the man's chest, then clicked inside the lasso-ed area to eliminate the blue and continue his chest.

Next, I went to his head to clean up the scalp line and the beige wrap behind his shoulder using the same technique with a stamp size of 20.

Then I selected the blur tool and went to work on his face - striving for a painterly look. I then moved to my Wacom tablet so I could use my stylus and vary my effects by pen pressure. I took my time and worked over the old gentleman's face, still wanting a painterly effect. I then used a larger brush size and worked over the wrap over his left sholder.

Then I used Bridge to search through my backgrounds and I found one called texture14, which is a woven blanket. I pasted it into the background, and moved it around until I liked the dark and light areas against his skin. I then went to the Filters menu; Pixelate; Mosaic. I liked it, but wanted more movement in it and color, more of an organic feel. I went to Filter; Distort; Polar Coordinates and I loved it. But there was an area at the bottom that was just too light, so I again used my Stamp tool, and selected areas in the middle and stamped over the area in the bottom until I liked it. I was happiest with the brush size of 400.

I then used the blur tool again to blend the man and the background together until I was happy with the result.