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Let’s vote! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-25 15:52:47
Imported:
2026-10

Poll

Let’s vote!

  • 1 300
  • 2 77
  • 3 104
  • 2025-08-25
  • 481 votes
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Content

Thank you for submitting photos in the chat. Here are the top 3! Vote in the poll below for the picture you want us to paint together live this week.

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Ann Marie

This was hard, I want to do all 3!!

Tamera Leyva

I like the colors in the first one!

Dianne

The colors in the first one win. The second photo was a close one for me.

Beverly

They are all beautiful but I wonder if they are AI generated and not really real. Maybe that’s doesn’t matter to people though.

Roxanne

This is a difficult decision because I love the settings and colors in all of them.

Kristin Rambo

the challenge of painting a foreground and background that are equally sharp and crisp yet vibrant and muted, seems fun. Does that make me weird? 😀

Jennifer

1 is beautiful, but 3 would challenge me the most and I’d love to learn how you would paint it!

Tracy Litterer

I can't decide! They're all beautiful!

Ruth

Agreed! Maybe when the vote is counted, we can have a class on the photo with the most votes first, then the following month we can have a class with the 2nd place votes, and then the third place vote after that. Wishful thinking on my part.

Melodee Skiles

It’s an interesting question. I prefer to paint from real photos, also. But also consider that photography is an art form and many photographers use editing to capture their subject better. For example, most Milky Way photos are edited because they have to have a long exposure to record the light from the sky, but then the foreground is overexposed. Often photographers will stitch together two photos—one of the sky, one of the land, exposed for different lengths of time, so that they look like what you actually see with your eyes. You and I probably couldn’t take a photo like that without equipment and training, but it could be the work of an artist and not AI. The only one of these that I think maybe feels most like AI is number one because I don’t think you could get that much color saturation on the flowers on such a misty day. But I still voted for that one because I want to practice both the mist techniques and the cottage garden/overflowing flowers. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Amy

Love 1. To where will that path lead us.?

Leslie Young

These are all gorgeous! So excited about these choices.

Leslie Young

Spoken as an intense amateur photographer, it's easier to get great colors when it's cloudy/misty. I think it's an actual photo, probably with the saturation boosted just a bit. We all edit our photos, that's how we get them to look how we want them! But all three of these look like actual photos taken by people, and then edited by those same people. At least to me.

Beverly

I just prefer raw real photos and specifically look for those because I want to turn that photo into art rather than have a photographer do it and I copy their work - I’m not saying I’m correct though- just my opinion - I can flow with the group :)

Leslie Young

I actually think the mountain in the 2nd is Mt. Saint Helens and the 3rd is Glacier National Park....

Dreamer

Such a tough choice! All three 🫣

Beverly

I replied in wrong place I think lol

Leslie Young

Never mind - the second is Rainier, which was my second thought. 😂😂

Gina Shirey

Yes, tough choices. For me, #3 is a close 2nd! 😄

Michaela D.

I love number one but will paint anything as long as Kristin shows me how 😉

Wilma Voermans

I dont like the pictures, so I cant make a choice this time. Urban would be nice, but thats not the question.....

Terri Benyon

Me too! I originally voted for all 3. Maybe the other two can be tiny paintings?

Beverly

I put response in wrong place - I was saying that I look for raw real photos so I can turn the mundane or typical into art rather than have a photographer do that for me and copy their art. But that’s just my opinion- not saying I’m correct . It’s up to each individual.

Tabi

Love them all, but #1 is different from anything we've done. Imho

Patricia A Compton

Is there anyway to get thumbnail shots of the past 67 tiny paintings, like a contact sheet?

marielle

Love this idea!

Karen Drake

These are real photos. # 3 is a pic from Glacier National Park. The others are real too.

Kay

Love the first one

Becca Marvin

The desert one that isn't listed here was my favorite

Melodee Skiles

You aren’t going to believe this, but I have lived in Montana for my entire life—42 years!—and I have never been to Glacier. Isn’t that disgraceful?! We are hoping to take our kids next year. 😁

Melodee Skiles

Thanks, Leslie! I agree—I have absolutely no problem with photographers editing their photos and I think it is a beautiful art form!

Cynthia

Do we choose with the radio button? If so how to we enter our choice after doing that?

Kathi

#1

Echo

1 please

marielle

You choose with the radio button.

Cynthia

Hi Marielle, I chose with the radio button but my choice remains black because I don’t see a way to submit the choice. Every time I leave the page and come back it shows what I chose but doesn’t go back to the main community page where all the radio buttons are unselected. That makes it look as though my selection hasn’t been entered.

marielle

My radio button stays black too. I think that’s ok? It seemed to register my selection (I did it really early and saw the number increase).

Beverly

Love your honesty

Cynthia

Oh okay. Good to know! Thanks

Beverly

Shame on you! Lol I haven’t been and am wanting to go - I live in NV

Beverly

But I think that one might have had tulips growing in the desert- edited maybe ? Not sure

Beverly

I don’t know much about photography and I take awful photos but I’m wondering can you change just parts of a photo in color or saturation and leave others and generally just alter the photo in many ways from what the true scene looked like ? Or that’s not done? Thanks for you any info you can explain

Karen Drake

You gotta go!!! We go every September in the last 4 years. This time I'm going to paint something hopefully and I can't wait. You know it's the little thing!

Karen Drake

Also yes you can edit different parts of your photo in an editor like photoshop etc. There are tons of editors you can choose from not just photoshop. Did that help?

Leslie Young

Yes, you can alter a photo in many ways with editing, especially if it was taken RAW (no camera data added on top). Generally cameras actually capture less color and contrast than the eye so photos look flat and bland if you don't edit them at all. I generally try and edit mine to look as much like my memory of the real scene as possible, but every photographer has different goals with what they are trying to portray. These all seem very true to life to me, with the possible exception of the Glacier one as it's almost certainly two exposures (one of the sky and one of the mountain) superimposed on each other. I spent several years wondering why mine never came out that way....and then realized it's because I was starting with one photo and trying to get both pieces at the same time and that's just not possible with light, exposure and a camera filter.

Melodee Skiles

I can't wait to see what you paint from this year's trip, Karen!

Susan

#1