Art News and Info

New Art Show at Community Center in Smyrna

There is a new art show up at the Community Center in downtown Smyrna, sponsored by the Smyrna Arts Council.  I have four recent paintings in this show. It’s a new show that will continue until the end of November,

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New Website for Buying Shelly’s Art and Prints

There is a new website for buying my art! It offers original, ready to hang artwork and the opportunity to get that artwork in the form of prints. The website is Fine Art by Shelly.  There is still going to be new art here, the site of my primary Gallery

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Decision Making in Painting

Our New Year’s Art Sale continues on Fine Art south through February! Art is more than an interesting thing to look at. Any finished painting – of any genre – is the culmination of a series of decisions, big and small. Artists read and write articles about how and when

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How Color Affects Us

I’m not an expert on formal color theory, but I do know how color affects me and makes me “feel”.  Color is tied closely in our psychology with certain feelings and moods. A piece of art that focuses on color can have a very primal connection to the  person viewing

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On Artists Having a Style

Do you know artists who have a recognizable “style”? Many artists paint the same way, or in a similar way, using the same type of tools and materials, for most of their professional artistic life. They probably do this because they have been told that having a consistent look to

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Collecting Art You Value

It’s not always easy to know what art you should collect. Should you buy something you don’t like? Is the art “high quality” enough to pay a lot for it, and what does that mean?  Are “quality” and “value” a measurable thing in art, or should other factors be involved?

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Sewell Mill Out and About Atlanta Art Show

“Out and About” at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Arts Center is a new group art show running now through January 7, 2020. This is an exciting art display sponsored by the Atlanta Artists Center. Fine Art South’s artist Shelly Leitheiser has a painting in this show titled “Out There”.

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