That's great! Can you post the original photo and a quick how to?!
Sure! All I did was take the raw file and open it in photoshop. Selected the dogs face with the magic wand tool before inverting the selection so I had the background highlighted. I added a little gaussian blur (filter > blur > gaussian blur) to ensure the head stood out. Then I Selected the whole image and went to filter > oil paint, and literally just messed around with the settings. It literally took me all of 2 minutes to do.
You should have a go and see what you come up with! I'd love to see what other things can be made with such simple settings. I have minimal photoshop experience so I imagine you can do some pretty spectacular things with it!