Realistic water painting effect

Step:1

Open a photo document in  Photoshop. Make a copy of the background layer and convert into smart object.Then make a couple of copy from this layer.

Step:2

Then rename all the three layers as cutout, dry brush, Median.Hide the dry brush and median layer.

Step:3

In cutout layer add a filter effect. Go to filter ->Artistic -> Cutout Filter. Then chane the blending mode from normal to luminosity

Step:4

Then turn on the dry brush layer and add a dry brush filter. Go to Filter -> Artistic -> dry brush filter and change the blending mode from Normal to Screen.

Step:5

Turn on the Median filter and add a filter. Go to Filter -> Noise -> Median and change the blending mode from normal to soft light.