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Painting of Lady Gaga by Karen Sperling from a photo at http://www.lady-gaga.net featured in the March 2010 issue of Artistry Tips and Tricks http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/tipsmarch10.html

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-30-2010
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This is a painting from my Painting for Photographers book from a chapter about painting photorealistically in Painter. http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/sperlingbookcontents.html

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 04-29-2009
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This is a painting I did from a photo by Anita Morrison for the April 2009 issue of Artistry Tips and Tricks. The issue shows how to paint backgrounds for portraits. http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/tipsapril09.html http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/directorytipscd.html

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-30-2009
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Another painting from "Painting for Photographers." http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/bookexcerpts.html

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-26-2009
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This is a painting I did from a photo by Evan Agostini for my Painting for Photographers book. It's for the chapter on painting backgrounds. http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/sperlingbook.html Karen

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-12-2009
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This is a detail of the painting. I used Painter 11's Acrylics' Real Wet Brush, Pencils' Real 2B Pencil and Blenders' Real Stubby Blender (and a few other brushes) to paint. What fun they are to use!

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-05-2009
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Painting from the March 2009 issue of Artistry Tips and Tricks by Karen Sperling from photos by her and by Alfred Burgess.

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 03-04-2009
Painting by Karen Sperling from a photo by Michelle Lamberth for the February 2009 issue of Artistry Tips and Trikcs

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 02-03-2009
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This is from the chapter on how to draw pastel landscapes from photos from my Painting for Photographers book. http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/bookexcerpts.html It was from a photo I took in England a zillion years ago and was great fun to do!

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 10-24-2008
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This painting is from another one of the photos that I took at Butterfly House in Topanga, CA. It's for a chapter in my Painting for Photographers book about Impressionism. I had a great time painting it!

Posted to Karen Sperling's Gallery (Gallery) by Karen Sperling on 10-12-2008

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