Thank you @raymonjohnstone!
In regards to your question, my artworks are never digitally edited. They are either oil, or acrylics, on board of canvas, or they are digitally hand-painted, from scratch, which is just another medium of painting. In this case, as with many of my artworks from 2012 and 2013, it is a digital painting. No photographs, no editing, no filters or anything of the sort, everything is painted by hand.