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Alumni of the Artistry Painting for Photographers Retreats are submitting paintings they created from photos based on the lessons in the classes.

Here’s what they have sent to me.

Lori Hansen, M.D.

Hi, Karen!

I wanted to write and tell you how great the Artistry Painting for Photographers Retreat was.

I have gone to medical meetings on a national level for 25 years and if I could ever come home from one of those learning as much as I did at your Artistry Retreat, I would be SO thrilled.

I left feeling like I really COULD do this and I’m sending you my first attempts to show you. Two of them I worked on during the 3 days we were together and one is a friend of mine’s grandson who just died and they had no good pictures of him except one crummy, incomplete snapshot that was cut away from his girlfriend.

Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Lori Hansen, M.D.

Marilyn Peck

Hi Karen,

I?m doing a project on the bridges of Conde McCullough (he made a lot of them during the depression all over Oregon and most with arches). I wanted to show you how far I’ve gotten, thanks to you. Your book [Painting for Photographers] is very useful and of course your class [Artistry Painting for Photographers Retreat] was great. I’m coming along in applying gel and paint on the canvas. I apply all paints and varnish first and stretch at the very end.

After putting over 1000 landscape photographs on the web (we’ve stored about half as ~50Mb files and the rest have been matted and framed headed to the buyer), it is GREAT fun to be working on a painterly rendition of landscapes. I’m sure it will take me several more years to really conquer this style, but I am buzzed about trying to do my best.

Sincerely,
Marilyn Peck

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