In the Galleries

Birdies Came Home / Dance-Sing Flowers

When the time came for the Winter Flowers Art Exhibition at the local art gallery, all but one of the “Birdies” came home. “Lady Sparrow” found a new home with a local patron of the arts.

It’s fun to see my work appreciated and am looking forward to more opportunities of sharing my work locally. A curator for another local gallery is excited for future showings of my artwork, location and dates to be announced soon. Nine new paintings were accepted by the Gilmer Art Gallery for the “Winter Flowers Art Exhibit” showing through February 2025. Painting flowers for this exhibit while the temperatures are cold outdoors brought me a lot of joy. I believe the joy came across in each one of this series that I call “Dance-Sing.”

After the Rain, (Tall Coneflowers blowing in wind)

Acrylics w Palette Knife to wrapped canvas, 16x24x2”, $248

Bee a Sunflower, (Large sunflower head w bee against sky)

Acrylics w Palette Knife to Panel, framed to 11x14x1”, $182

Sunshine in the Rain, (Sunny Yellow coneflowers in field)

Acrylics w Palette Knife to Wrapped canvas, 11x14x2”, $182

Dancing in the Rain, (A field of Coneflowers dance in the rain)

Acrylics w Palette Knife to Birch Panel, 10x10x1” framed, $96

Tiny but Fierce, (Close-up of Coneflower blooms)

Acrylics w Palette Knife to Birch Panel, 10x10x1” framed, $96

Delightful Joy, (Fuscia Hollyhocks on green)

Acrylics to paper under glass, framed to 14×18,” $122

Fenced Posers, (Red Roses along vintage picket fence)

Acrylics to Paper under glass, framed to 14×18,” $122

When the Mountains Sing, (Deep blue iris and wildflowers)

Acrylics & Glaze to wrapped canvas framed, 16x24x1,” $280

Where the Mountains Sing, (Deep blue iris and wildflowers)

Acrylics & Glaze to wrapped canvas framed, 16x24x1,” $280

For the Birds-2, (Tanager in tree boughs),

Acrylics to wrapped canvas, 16x24x1”, $179

For the Birds-3, (Abstract Wren in tree boughs),

Acrylics to wrapped canvas, 16x20x1”, $179

Song of Dawn, (Chickadee in tree blossoms),

Acrylics to birch panel, 8x8x2”, $96

SOLD Lady Sparrow, (Sparrow in field of Queen Anne Lace),

Acrylics to birch panel, 8x8x2”, $96

Long Shadows, (Chickadee in golden light),

Acrylics to birch panel, 8x8x2”, $96

Little Birdie, (Titmouse peers over shoulder),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

Lonesome Night, (Titmouse perched in berries at dusk),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

Reality Check, (Rufus Towhee in grass),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

Simon Says, (Titmouse peers down),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

Sorrowful Morn, (solitaire Chickadee in cherry tree),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

SOLD The Way Home, (Titmouse perched on branch),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x2”, $54

SOLD Whoo Goes There? (Owl in autumn woods),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x1”, $32

Redbird Eve, (Male Redbird on ground),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x1”, $42

SOLD Lady Cardinal, (Female Redbird on branch),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x1”, $42

Serenity Snap, (Sparrow in Tallgrass), Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x1”, $32

Blue Dazed, (Titmouse in Berries),

Acrylics to birch panel, 6x6x1”, $32

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2025 Is Full of Potential

October 2024 Apple Arts Festival in downtown Ellijay via Gilmer Arts Center

As an artist: Do you have a bucket list?

I didn’t realize until now that I have had a bucket list for each year of my art journey. I am happy to say this past year was a very eventful year for it!

Several items were marked off my list of firsts:

  • Sell art in a gallery show
  • Sell art via a local festival/fair
  • Start offering Private Lessons to Students
  • Series of Paintings (3 or more similar paintings)

So now what? In 2025, I have planned a few more new things to accomplish as far as my art journey goes. One must have is a place to steer like-minded budding-artists toward, and this past year I had the opportunity to make a few more art contacts to move in that direction.

In November, the local Art Gallery invited local Art Guild members to show art during an exhibition for Small Works. I’m happy to say: one of my bird paintings sold in the first week of the show. How exciting to see others appreciate my love for painting birds.

I’m enjoying working with the local Art Gallery by teaching acrylic classes on the regular, that was a thing I added to my journey two years ago. Before that I taught randomly at a few local antique shops. Because of my connections at the Gilmer Art Center, I was able to man and share a booth with a few other local artists and enjoyed selling art to the mass audience that the local Apple Festival in our county brings. It was the best fair/festival sales experience I’ve ever had! And after the let down of weather interference during the Art Walk and cancellation of events in a town north of our community, I was happy all my work wasn’t for nought. The Festival sales experience surprised me because of the items that were popular. I learned a lot about my art audience and had some amazing conversations with customers, some of my students were visiting locally.

One of my long term, Acrylics 101 students, had to move from taking classes publicly to receiving private lessons because of a family situation. It was a special request, but I was happy to offer her private lessons in her home art studio. She lives in a lovely mountain community surrounded by gorgeous views of trees and mountains. Another first checked off the list! She mentioned my name to a friend who owns a business locally with an art gallery inside a beautiful wine bar downtown. Another great contact which has led to me meeting my first goal for 2025, sooner rather than later.

On the horizon this year, 2025:

  • Be curated by local gallery for sales opportunities
  • Publish a workbook for acrylic art students
  • Stretch my ability by creating larger pieces of artwork—goal is 30 x 30”
  • Participate in a juried art show locally
  • Paint more series of works, by themes—subject & color palette
  • Create a lesson plan for painting from Still Life Settings

Let me know what you have on your Bucket List for 2025. I’d love to compare notes.

Article written by the founder of Becca’s Green Craft Studio: R. Shuler