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So you want to be an artist? Here's how one woman made it work

Gainesville artist Connie Reilly paints in Gallery on the Square Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Reilly has climbed her way up to painting high school portraits to being commissioned by royalty in Bahrain. - photo by Scott Rogers

01042018 ARTISTS 4.jpg — Gainesville artist Connie Reilly paints in Gallery on the Square Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Reilly has climbed her way up to painting high school portraits to being commissioned by royalty in Bahrain. - photo by Scott Rogers

Working as a professional artist for 45 years, Connie Lynn Reilly of Buford has climbed her way from painting high school portraits to being commissioned by the royal family of Bahrain. And it has been a climb — not a walk or a stroll or a takeoff.