Enviro Art News
2026 is here and a new focus for Enviro Art! Joining Sue is her longtime partner Jim Ralston an avid Bird and Nature Photographer. Sue and Jim will focus on creating new artwork and photography that captures the beauty of wildlife and nature. Enviro Art will exhibit at many regional events in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and exhibit at local galleries. Come visit us!
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What's New with Jim - 2026
Summer is here already!
The 2026 Winter and Spring included wonderful trips to Big Bear California, Red Rocks Canyon Nevada and Pulaski, New York. I added a nice Great Horned Owl couple portrait to my Owl Metal Collection. I also discovered a mother Coot feeding her baby duckling, two cute Coots!
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Happy 2026!
We were blessed again to visit Finland over the holidays. Now back in USA and hunkered down in a snow storm. We are looking forward to Spring and preparing for our events. Check out our schedule!
Jim
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2025 was an exciting time of travel within the US and to Finland! Our trip to Florida last winter revealed spectacular birds including Spoonbills, Egrets and a grand Great Horned Owl on a nest with two of her chicks. In July we visited Finland which boasted fantastic coastal landscapes and unusual (for us) birds including a Eurasian Eagle Owl! Stop by one of our Fall shows to experience the beauty from these exotic locations.
Jim
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Sue's Past Art Classes
Bethel Park Community Center
Art Explosion Spring 2024 Classes
Wake Up with Art, it’s Springtime
(Ages 4 - 7)
Join us for a fun six-week session exploring the wonderful season of Spring, what is happening outside, letting this amazing season inspire our artwork. Children will explore plants and seeds, how they wake up. We’ll have fun creating a spring forest, even adding a dinosaur or two to our drawing. We’ll learn about artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his soft use of pastel colors and Paul Gauguin with his strong use of color. We’ll let both these artists, their artwork inspire our spring collage and drawings. Children will use a variety of materials like markers, paints, colored pencils, pastels, and model magic to name a few. All materials are included, children will take home their artwork at the end of every class. Come join us as we have fun learning about our world and the wonderful world of art.
- Dates: Mondays March 11 - April 15
- Time: Mondays 5:15 - 6:15pm
- Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center
- Ages 4 - 7
- Cost - $65
- Instructor - Sue Ralston
Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
Celebrating the Season of Spring with Art
(Ages 6 - 13)
Join us for a fun six-week session where children will explore what is happening outside in the springtime, letting it drive our artwork. Children will explore plants, seeds, how they wake up, creating drawings in a small journal they’ll work on throughout the session. We’ll learn about artist Sophie Munns letting her soil level artwork inspire our spring collage. We will learn about artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his beautiful use of soft pastel colors and Paul Gauguin with his strong use of color. Letting both these artists and the spring season inspire our spring forest and spring still life we create. Children will use a variety of materials like pastels, watercolors, markers, colored pencils, tempra paints, model magic to name a few and children will take home their artwork after each class. Come join us as we have fun learning about our world and the wonderful world of art.
- Dates: Mondays March 11 - April 15
- Time: Mondays 6:30 - 7:30pm
- Location: Bethel Park Community Rec Center
- Ages 6 - 13
- Cost - $65
- Instructor - Sue Ralston
Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
What's New with Sue - 2026
2026 What We Have Been Up To
Sue – So many ideas, so many pieces to try and put together and finish…
This summer has been a season of finishing and updating pictures I’ve been working on for a while. Our off season is always a time to look over my artwork and think about the direction I want to go, lately I have been thinking about how important it is that all artists use their voice to let their artwork speak.
The importance of our environment and its diversity on our health and the health of our planet have always been an issue close to my heart. I am currently adding an endangered animal or plant to this season’s artwork. These items will be done in graphite hoping to bring to light if we don’t change these animals, plants will be no more. I have so far completed a miniature pond picture and am currently working on a larger version with broadleaf cattails and a painted turtle, I’m adding the blue spotted lizard to this picture. I’m also doing a second rose picture, this time with yellow roses and I’m adding a Sweetbay Magnolia to this one. Also in the queue is my pigeon picture inspired by our trip to Finland. Hopefully I will have all of them plus a couple others for the upcoming fall season.
I am also keeping busy experimenting with painting on slate for an upcoming fundraiser for the Pleasant Hills Library later this summer. What a wonderful summer enjoying our world and the wonderful world of art.
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After finishing up our Spring Show Season in May I have taken time to enjoy my garden, a wonderful vacation with my daughter and helping my son move. Even with all that going on I did have time to work on some artwork. This has been a summer of swallowtail butterflies, watching them in my flower garden and drawing them. I am currently working on a picture with the Black Swallowtail and the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail along with their host plants, Tulip Poplar, Parsley and Queen Anne’s Lace. What a fun picture, complicated and taking time, but fun. I am hoping to have this picture completed for the Fall Shows. I have also spent time going back into a previous swallowtail and mothman picture, brightening the colors, I think it looks bolder, brighter, better. I have a couple more pictures I’m working on, another swallowtail, the pipevine swallowtail and a rose picture. I’m excited about both of these pictures, more to come about this.
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Watch Ms. Sue's Butterfly Art Class featuring Vincent van Gogh
During this challenging time Bethel Park Community Center graciously video recorded Sue's Vincent van Gogh's Butterfly Art Class! Check Bethel Park's Community Channel schedule for viewing on your cable TV or watch the class on Bethel Park's YouTube's channel here:
Watch Ms. Sue Show How to Make Art with Common Recycled Materials
Check Bethel Park's Community Channel schedule for viewing on your cable TV or watch the class on Bethel Park's YouTube's channel here:
Art & Craft Shows & Events
Upcoming Art & Craft Shows & Events
Discover our latest artwork and photography. Come meet Sue & Jim!
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Fall 2026
Sept 4th - 7th (Labor Day Weekend)
Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Labor Day Festival
https://www.familyfestivals.com/labor-day-festival
Westmoreland Fairgrounds
Greensburg, PA
Saturday, October 4 (9am to 3pm)
35th Annual Arts & Crafts Show - Resurrection Pariah
St Thomas More Church
https://resurrectionpgh.org/arts-craft-show
126 Fort Couch Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15214
November 6th to 8th
2026 Christmas at the Highlands
Highlands Sports Complex
https://kcproductionswv.com/christmas-at-the-highlands/
225 McCormick Way
Triadelphia, WV. 26059
November 14th
Glenshaw Century Club Holiday Craft Fair
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
https://glenshawcenturyclub.org/events/
1719 Mount Royal Blvd
Glenshaw, PA 15116
November 20th - 22nd
29th Annual Greater Pittsburgh Arts & Crafts Holiday Spectacular
Monroeville Convention Center
https://www.familyfestivals.com/holiday-spectacular
Monroeville Mall - Convention Center
209 Mall Plaza Blvd
Monroeville, PA 15146
December 4th - 6th
46th Annual EJ Thomas Christmas Arts & Crafts Show - Akron Ohio
http://www.raabenterprises.com/index.html
E.J. Thomas Hall
University of Akron
198 Hill Street
Akron, OH 44325
Spring 2026
March 13 - 14
Spring Arts & Crafts Show (Wooster, Ohio)
https://festivalnet.com/1847/Wooster-Ohio/Craft-Shows/Wooster-Spring-Arts-and-Crafts-Show
Greystone Event Center
50 Riffel Road
Wooster, OH 44691
March 20 - 22
Pittsburgh Arts & Crafts Spring Fever Festival
Monroeville Convention Center
https://www.familyfestivals.com/spring-fever-festival
Monroeville Mall - Convention Center
209 Mall Plaza Blvd
Monroeville, PA 15146
March 27 - 29
Wheeling Home, Life & Garden Expo
https://kcproductionswv.com/spring-craft-show/
Highlands Sports Complex
225 McCormick Way
Triadelphia, WV 26003
Saturday April 4 (9am to 4pm)
Morgantown Armory Spring Craft Show
https://www.facebook.com/events/862073543448095/
90 Army Band Way
Morgantown, WV 26508
May 1 - May 2
Spring Craft - Mylan Park Morgantown, WV
Ruby Community Center
500 Mylan Park Lane
Morgantown, WV 26501
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Art for Sale
Date Palm
Swamp Milkweed
Hackberry Tree
Aster
Aloe Vera
Graphite Cactus
Persicari a Longiseta
Call Sue at 412-217-4745 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
Nature Photography by Jim Ralston
Visit Jim Ralston's Photography https://jralston.myportfolio.com/
for more!
Visit https://jralston.myportfolio.com/
for more!