Congratulations...

Congrats again BW

hahahaha.. great job on this

thank you all...

Nice work!

Nice surrealism here.

Thank you guys!

Nice and great title for this art work = )

Thanks, Emik!

Very nice, good luck!

Thank you!

This is great..nice composition and effect.

Nice job

Thank you Bruce and Chuck!

Excellent!

wonderful texture and windows

That´s a really beautiful image!!!
I saw it also at:
http://www.photoshopcreative.com.br/mostratrabalho/galeria-39319.html
Good work

Congrats!!

congratulation...

Thank you guys! You are amazing!

Wow ! I love this VERY VERY creative concept. I've had a similar idea tumbleing thru my head for weeks. I love the way the painting breaks thru the plane at the elbow joint, to join reality. I get lots of different feelings I could apply this image. AWESOME concept and set up. Paint make - up....nice touch. And btw, Step 2 is drop dead gorgeous.
Good luck.........JB

Thank you so much. This is the best comment I've received yet. I had the idea stuck in my head all day at work and couldn't wait to come home and create it. That happens a lot when you really get into photography. It was difficult becase two costumes and two setups were required and I'm one person working alone. I was very pleased by the final result. Thanks again for the kind words.

Totally agree with jbillitteri! Awesome work, Amazing! Adore it, love it,

This is smart.

yes this is a very smart idea, nice execution

Great image. Took me a while to notice the hand and when I did it just added to the overall wow of the image! Wonderful!

A little late for advice I know, but it think it would have been much better had you made the fingers in the background seem to be overlapping the foreground hand, just a little erasing and shadow may have given it more "wow"....great image all the same

I see what you mean and I thank you for the suggestion. I was trying to make it look like she was reaching for the brush, like she wanted to finish or paint herself out. It didn't line up perfectly with the brush though because it was a slight guessing game for where my artist hand was. I'm not expert enough with the puppet warp to trust it would have detail after the warp. I can't resubmit for this contest but I will try you're idea at some point.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

Beautifully executed Self portrait!

nice work...gl

Congrats for your third place!

Thanks!

It seems to me like your image isn't fully desaturated (it might just be me) but the work you put into this is very good

I see a lotta color...

great idea, but I see color on her lips and in her hair. gl

I fixed the desaturation issue.Special thanks to ponti55, CMYK46, and 1wkdwmn for thier valueble inputs.cheers.

thats great!

Great pic, I think you should keep the pupils black.

changed the color of the pupils to black.Thanks to richieMB...

Hey.. I remember this from the old zipper contest ... what an excellent Idea.. good luck auther.. great work

Congrats

that's really creepy, but it has color...the execution is good!