Painting to Digital Painting

(above is an example of a finished painting)

(this is an attempt to follow the same "rules" of transparencies, non unique parts, etc common in my painting practice using digital paint program.  Both the image and the approach in the program was much more clear, the conversion to jpeg seemed to have lost some of the nuances.  The end result either way however was that the program seemed more useful for sketching my idea (as far as color choices, frequency, range, etc)  rather than a finished product.