Rare Bird Art Studio in Brandon

Could you be more artistic? Yes. This lady right here says you absolutely can. She is Lori Miller. And if you don't believe her, come in here and she'll make you a little more artistic than you started out being. Rare Bird Art Studio, Brandon. Now, I love this story of entrepreneurship because any fellow entrepreneur out there will know you can't give up easily. Absolutely not. Sometimes you have to start over. Sure do. Sometimes you have to start over more than once. Yeah. So you started this whole concept. This is yours, not a franchise. Correct. In Maine. Yes. You're a Mainer? I am a Mainer, for sure. Yes. I started back in 20, well, 2018 as mobile. Until 2020, opened up my first studio. And the goal was a little extra cash for the kids and the family. You were trying to avoid the nine to five corporate world. Sure. that you were part of for a very long time yes but you opened it in january of 2020 yes and we all know what happened in march yes we sure do so not great no it turns out turns out you and your husband decided to relocate to florida in 2023 yes and you have this decision do i do i try to create this from scratch all over again yes yes i um i love what i did i loved wanted to bring it down here i was like there's nothing in this area that's not a franchise that people can go to. And I decided that's what I was going to do. I was going to redo this again and bring what I love to other people. And you did. Congratulations. Thank you. Three years in now. So tell me about what you have to offer here, because it's a little it's a lot to offer for a lot of different groups. Yes. So we offer kids events, adult events that paint, craft kids, adults, sorry, kids painting and crafting, toddlers, sensory events, blacklight, sea glass projects, resin, ceramics, anything you can think of, we've done it. Absolute beginner, somebody who has, is even intimidated by holding a paintbrush, you can teach them how to discover their inner artist. The cool thing about it is that any painting that you see on the wall or I create, I create a tracer for it, so I put it on the canvas for you so that you don't have to worry that your shapes are going to look right but if you are an artist yes you offer expert level classes sure do sure do so we are currently right now um and we'll be in the future offering um classes for like portrait classes learning how to paint skin tones of all different colors and doing it from the three colors like red yellow blue all the all the cool things there's something artistic happening here almost every night of the week sometimes during the day too check out rare bird Art Studio.com. In Brandon, Charlie Belcher, Fox 13 News.