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Karen Sperling
Todays guest is Karen Sperling who is a Los Angeles-based portrait photographer and artist.
She's been painting commissioned portraits since 2003 and has exhibited her fine art work in New York's Chelsea Art Section and her work is held in private collections internationally.
Karen is also an expert in the software program Corel Painter.
She has been writing books and teaching the program longer than anyone.
She wrote the first several Painter manuals when the software debuted over 20 years ago. And, she is the author of many how-to Corel Painter books, including the popular Painting for Photographers Series.
Karen, Welcome to the podcast..
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Karen Sperling talks about how she started in the Corel Painting Art
Karen Sperling talks about her previous career as a journalist, editor and writer
Karen Sperling shares the life she lived before she pursued the life as an artist
Karen Sperling shares about writing for a software manual and a painter manual
Karen Sperling loves how diversified her artistic career is
Karen Sperling shares about how she had always been interested in a variety of clubs, activities and fields back in her school days
How Karen Sperling feels about Photography and what it means to her personally and profesionally
Karen Sperling teaching photographers turn their photographs into paintings
Karen Sperling painting commissioned portraits from photographers and directly from clients
Karen Sperling taking photography lessons to formalize her skills in photography to improve her output in painting
Karen Sperling works on improving her photography in her interest in pursuing more direct client portraits
Karen Sperling talks about the similarities and differences of taking photographs and making paintings
Karen Sperling talks about how painted portraits can either be traditional, conservative, photorealistic or modern, impressionistic
Karen Sperling talks about the process of turning photographs into paintings
Karen Sperling shares how painted portraits are now being popular in the United States
Karen Sperling shares the details about Photography Labs that do printing for painted portraits, either canvass or paper
Karen Sperling shares how learning to paint or hiring someone to do the painting for the commissioned portraits are subjective to the photographer's interest and preference
Karen Sperling talks about the importance of being honest to clients about the type, method and materials used in painting commissioned portraits
Karen Sperling talks about the signifance of knowing the art history and the art theories in addition to knowing the technical aspects of the software
Karen Sperling shares about how some photographers get intimidated when she paint for them and what she does to appease them
Karen Sperling talks about whose artistic vision is being depicted when she paints for photographers
Karen Sperling talks about how she doesn't argue with clients or photographers hiring her abou the outpt that they want
The lessons and key points Karen Sperling learned through the years of painting commissioned photographs
Karen Sperling talks about how the client always has the last say about the output that they want
Karen Sperling works on her abstracts when she wants to fulfill her creativity visions
Karen Sperling shares about her views and experience about not taking credit for the art she does
How much it takes for Karen Sperling to finish an artwork or painting
Karen Sperling talks about how much the photographers make with the finished output of commissioned portraits that she works for them with
Karen Sperling thinks that the acceptance for digital art is growing in the market
Karen Sperling spills the story behind the artistic TV covers
Karen Sperling talks about a hobby she is very passionate about - Writing for Movies
Karen Sperling dreams about having her written works produced in the future
Karen Sperling talks about her self-published painter books
Karen Sperling talks about her future projects she feels passionate about doing
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QUOTES
"I don't know if anyone else can relate to this. But when I'm paiting, I wanna be writing. When I'm writing, I wanna be paiting." -Karen Sperling
"It's a crazy kind of a thing and that's what keeps it interesting. There's never a dull moment, focused on one thing to get bored to death." -Karen Sperling
"I've always had a camera and I've always had art materials for as long as I can remember." -Karen Sperling
"Turning photographs into paintings - the better the source photograph is the better the ultimate painting will be." -Karen Sperling
"The photography and the painting are similar in the sense that in both you want to know about tones and you want to know what makes a good portrait in terms of the ligthing and what you're seeing and how to depict it." -Karen Sperling
"It's nice to have a painting, a traditional painting, that's the artist interpretation of the people that's, you know, very artistic but not everybody goes for that. Some people just want it to look like them." -Karen Sperling
"I wouldn't discourage a photographer because I feel it's real important that we're talking to clients and we're looking to make clients happy." -Karen Sperling
"They'll make the time. If they love it so much they're gonna find a way to do it themselves." -Karen Sperling
"The reason that one person's photo is so much better than someone else's is because they've paid attention to time-mannered photography theories about lighting and posing. It's the same thing with art." -Karen Sperling
"I do feel that anybody who has a mind who thinks they can paint, they probably can with learning the art theories and practice." -Karen Sperling
"I'm really just here to serve and this is just a skill that I'm offering you. I have worked many years on this skill. But it is just a skill that if somebody is interested in learning how to do it they can." -Karen Sperling
"I can't do something if the client isn't gonna like it." -Karen Sperling
"Portrait painting is commercial art. It's really trying to satisfy the person who is hiring you." -Karen Sperling
"If somebody is paying for something I think it's really important that they're happy." -Karen Sperling
"Like anything, the longer something is around, the more accepted it becomes." -Karen Sperling
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LINKS
Karen Sperling Website
http://www.artistrymag.com/
Karen Sperling's Artistry Online Classes
http://www.artistrymag.com/artistry-online-classes
Karen Sperling's Corel Painter Book
http://www.artistrymag.com/corelpainterbook
Karen Sperling's Commissioned Custom Hand-Painted TV Covers
http://www.artistrymag.com/TV-covers
Karen Sperling Art & Photography
http://karensperling.com/
Karen Sperling's Books on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Karen-Sperling/e/B001K8JW2S
Karen Sperling - Corel Painter Master
https://www.corel.com/content/painter/masters/pKarenSperling.html
Karen Sperling on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/karen.sperling.58
Karen Sperling on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/karenlsperling
Karen Sperling on Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/karensperling/
Karen Sperling on TWitter
https://twitter.com/karensperling?lang=en
Painter Website
http://www.painterartist.com/en/
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MENTIONS
Karen Sperling's Painting for Photographers: Steps and Art Lessons for Painting Photos in Corel Painter 12.1 and Adobe Photoshop CS5
Karen Sperling's Painting for Photographers Volume 2: Steps and Art Lessons for Painting Children�s Portraits from Photos in Corel Painter 12
Karen Sperling's Painting for Photographers Volume 3: Painting Portraits, Landscapes and Composites in Corel Painter