Annual 12+ Days of Specials!
’Tis the Season to be Painting!

It's the holidays once again (I don't know where the time goes) and once again, it's time for my annual Artistry 12+ Days of Specials on my Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop instructional materials, brushes and backdrops!

Continuing today, December 20, 2025 and proceeding for the next 12+ days, you'll find the best prices of the year on my most popular Artistry videos, webinars, ebooks and brushes for painting based on photos in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. These savings will go away at the end of each day and are only available to the first 20 people who order them, so you don't want to miss out on these great specials!
 

If you have wanted to learn how to turn photos into paintings in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop, but you've been putting it off till that "right time," well, the right time has arrived!
 

One of the questions I get most often from the members of the Artistry Academy is how to paint backgrounds. Whether it's for people portraits, paintings of pets or still lifes, painting the backgrounds seems to be the big question mark for many people.

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The answer to the question of how to paint backgrounds is:

• Paint them lighter or darker than the subject

• Use muted tones of the colors in your color scheme.

• Paint.

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And today, December 20, 2025, I'm offering two of my brush collections for painting backgrounds, the Artistry Corel Painter Brush Collections Volumes #2 and #3, for $58.50, which is a 25% savings off the usual $78 price ($39 per brush collection). 

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You could paint backgrounds with any of Corel Painter's brushes, but it you would like unique results, then these brushes are for you. With around 20 brushes in each volume, you can paint strokes, textures and shapes like you see in these new paintings on this page whose backgrounds I just painted with these brushes.

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As for compatibility, these brushes are compatible with all versions of Corel Painter.

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Click here for more information about the Artistry Volume #2 brushes and click here for more details about the Artistry Volume #3 brushes, including free videos that show all the variants in the brush collections in action.

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Then, to order at today's special savings rate, come back to this page.

New this year: Apply the first $29.99 you spend during the 12+ Days of Savings Event toward your first month of Artistry Academy membership ($29.99/month). Join by midnight of the last day of the event to lock in this offer!

Click here to visit the Artistry Academy of Painting for Photographers page and to enroll!

The Artistry Academy of Painting for Photographers shows you how to turn photos into paintings in either Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop with step-by-step video lessons and hands-on webinars.

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The Artistry Academy of Painting for Photographers receives rave reviews like this:

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Super excited!
I signed up for Karen Sperling’s Artistry Academy of Painting for Photographers. I have studied with Karen for several years now and she knows how to do anything you want in Painter. And now, she is teaching painting in Photoshop too, so that’s a major plus for me. Super excited! - Katie Katsenis

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Click here for more reviews.

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Below you will find the schedule for the upcoming Artistry 12+ Days of Specials so that you can plan ahead to get in on these great savings on my videos, webinars, ebooks and brushes. These offers are one-day only and just available to the first 20 people who order.​

Take advantage of these savings and get better at Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop, one day at a time! 

Click here to email Karen Sperling with questions.