Preparing for Emil Nolde

With a photography workshop at Nolde's garden coming up, I've been reviving my idea of painterly effects. I was experimenting with layering sharp shots onto unsharp shots of the same subject in Photoshop when I ended up with the following result of a Geranium flower (best viewed large!):



I pretty much like the combination.
This is without any "post-merge" processing, but you can still bring more detail of the flower to the fore, if you wish.