Shelly Leitheiser has a passion for all kinds of visual art, including photography.  Shelly has combined her professional and personal interests into an art practice that reflects her interests, including the beauty of nature, the colors of the universe, portraits and more. About half of her art practice is abstract paintings, the rest a variety of landscapes and portraits. The subject matter of Shelly’s art is as varied as what she imagines and sees in the world. Today she fuses traditional art skills and techniques using oil, watercolor, and acrylic with current technologies and digital art. She has been displaying her art in many art shows in Georgia and Minnesota, where she used to live, for most of her life.

Lindy Blosser is an award winning soft pastel artist. She specializes in both portraiture and animal art and accepts commissions.

I am Gabriela Landaverde and I make paintings and textile artwork. I create free-flowing art inspired by nature and feminine themes, incorporating a contemporary take on the Dominican painting style. I honor my heritage by using loose brushstrokes and bright colors. My art style has daydream qualities with mystical imagery that make the natural appear unnatural. I make paintings ranging from ink, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. My textile artwork includes weaving, crochet, sewing, and embroidery.

Unique and whimsical art, intertwining fantasy with the natural world. Acrylic on canvas, gallery wrapped.

“Fallen Angel”

20×20

Acrylic on Wood in Wood Frame

$400

Candy Rain is a depiction of a beautiful red elephant against a graffiti backdrop. The vibrant colors, loose brush strokes, and dripping colors create a beautiful pop art effect.

This work, display a group of beautiful koi’s surrounded by roses and lilly pads. Koi’s are a special breed of fish which originated in China. While koi are often associated with Japan, their origins are actually in China. The common carp, from which koi are bred, is believed to have been domesticated in China as early as the 4th century BC. However, the specific colorful koi varieties, like the ones we see today, were developed in Japan, particularly in the Niigata Prefecture.

  I am a self-taught artist whose work explores empathy, identity, and the human experience, intricately woven through social justice and introspection themes. I examine the stories of everyday life, offering a lens through which we can confront challenging questions about race, equity and the state of shared humanity.

    My master’s degree in reading education and thirty years of reading aloud to children and being read to by children from storybooks where picture and text go hand-in-hand have influenced my creative choices. The daily interactions with children and the moment-by-moment immersion into their concrete thinking rests on my canvas via vivid colors, text, simple lines, shapes, and textures set into a narrative.

    My practice is guided by the belief that art can foster empathy. My compositions often juxtapose vulnerability with strength, aiming to dissolve the barriers that separate people from one another; urging viewers to engage with the artwork and the issues it represents.

Patty, my wife, and I have been residents of Cobb and Paulding for over 35 years. For 6 years we owned Hiram Bookstore, and for the last thirteen years have been poll managers at the Paulding Senior Center. I am a published author and composer having published 25 books to date and written around 100 musical pieces. We are the parents of two grown children, Shelley Pritt, and Jeremy Powell. the grand-parents of seven grown grand-children, Reagan, Madison, Lincoln, Harrison all Pritts. And Victoris, James, and Jacob Powell. We are also the proud great-grandparents of three of the sweetest great-granddaughters in the world. Rory, and Aurelia Warriner, and Paisley Powell.

As an artist, I have had success painting and selling my artwork, and am looking forward to what the Lord has in store for my future here at SCAA.

For me color symbolizes the mood of calmness in our minds, spirits,and our souls. It’s brings harmony, that’s pleasing to the eyes. It is the universal language of conversation to all of us. I try to tell a story through the vibrant colors that will speak to everyone’s heart. “So as I paint for you – Live your life in Full Color.

The fine art of Miles Davis spans an array of subject matter from spiritual figurative to politics, funky florals, and whimsical illustrations. His paintings borrow aesthetics from mass media, calling back to his generation’s culture of comic books and video games. The subject matter often portrays the contradictory impulses of people’s moral compasses and animal instincts, whether happy, remorseful, or brutal. Due to the diverse scope of emotion and transcendental qualities available in his pieces, Miles’s work has connected and resonated with a wide audience. In the end, he hopes the viewer can take from the work a sense of the universal human condition and possibly look inside themselves and evaluate their own spiritual sensitivities.

The artwork of Miles Davis has been embraced by thousands of people, worldwide. His paintings are included in corporate and private collections throughout the United States. Amid exhibiting in various local and regional galleries and shops, Miles also teaches art classes and private lessons to children and adults and is creator of the highly anticipated children’s books series Butterpup & friends™. Miles resides in Smyrna with his wife Merissa and their vivacious puppy Pica.