Shelby Lyn Photography & Artistry

09/07/2025

Double Art Features 🤍✨️Blessed with my recent artistic opportunities!

09/06/2025

📖🎨Orion Art Center Gallery & Orion Township Public Library presents: The Art of Storytelling🎨📖

Presented in partnership with the Orion Township Public Library , this unique show invites artists to read Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin and create an original artwork inspired by the memoir. Each piece must also incorporate at least one element from the Library’s Makerspace.

Included artists:

Haley Byrd-Locey
Bailey Bain
Rene Tuhoy
Rebecca Chapman
Emily Parkanzky
Leigh Ann Charpie
Shelby Lyn Healy-Drake
Alaina Kraus
Cindy Howard
Laura Gabriel

✨️Opening reception is tonight from 6-8PM. Come enjoy a night of conversation, creativity, egg rolls, and drinks! We look forward to seeing you tonight to unveil these 10 amazing pieces!

09/06/2025

🎨✨ Little Crafters Club is officially underway! Excited for a season full of creativity and fun. 🖌️ Want to join in? Send me a message for registration details!

🚍✨ Today was the first day of Little Crafters Club and we had so much fun! We read a story together and created our very own school buses 🖍️✂️🚌

Next week’s theme is Kindness, and we’ll be making beautiful Kindness Trees 🌳💛. We can’t wait to see our little artists back in action!

Register for upcoming sessions here: https://bookeo.com/orionartcenter?type=41551PXE7TH19861802680

09/06/2025

✨ After a couple of years away from creating, I’m so excited to share that I’ll be in my first art show tomorrow evening at 6pm at the Orion Art Center in Lake Orion!

The exhibition, The Art of Storytelling, is a partnership with the . Each artist read a book and created a piece inspired by it.

For my piece, Becoming, I was inspired by Curtis Chin’s memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, which explores themes of identity that deeply resonate with me.

My work layers color, texture, and imagery to represent the messy, evolving process of discovering who we are in a world shaped by social media. I used acrylics, watercolor, ink, pencil, dried flowers, makeup, and even coffee to build a piece that reflects my questioning mind and ongoing journey of self-discovery.

Just as Curtis explores what it means to embrace his true self, I often ask: What do people see when they look at me “on paper” or online? And why does that matter?

🌿 I hope this piece sparks reflection in you, too—about who you are, who you’re becoming, and the beauty in that unfolding.

04/18/2025

04/17/2025

Did a little session today at home with whatever we could time. Happy Spring Time! 🩵🌷

11/06/2024

Playing in the leaves. 🍁🍂 Happy Fall!

10/23/2024

Finally got a chance to go to a parking garage for some photos!