Sheila M. Evans

First Friday is upon us once again! This time it brings the Tinman Gallery‘s traditional Best Of show, with a collection of small works from several of the gallery’s regular artists.

I’ll have six pieces in the show, all pastels, including Heat Lightning Study, left. Want to see more of my pieces from the Best Of 2011? Click here.

If you can make it up to the Garland District this Friday night, please stop by, we’d love to see you!

Here are the particulars:

Best of 2011
(Small Works Show)
Tinman Gallery
811 West Garland Avenue
Spokane, Washington
Opens Friday, December 2, 2011, 5 – 9 p.m.

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I’m jealous.

Two more of my pastels are traveling without me. No sooner did two pieces return from their working vacation in France, than two more are packing for California. Costa Mesa, to be exact. Half an hour from my birthplace and my friend Vicky‘s college town, Long Beach.

This is all Vicky’s doing, in fact. She suggested that I enter some of my little pastel sketches in the Randy Higbee Gallery 6 Inch Squared show coming up in December. There were only a few days left before the jury deadline, but I jumped at the chance. This would be my first opportunity to get some feedback on my new landscape work, jury style. And, without the risk of applying with untested work to a bread-and-butter art fair.

I didn’t have to wait long. This jury had the fastest turnaround ever—results posted a day and a half after the entry deadline. I wish all shows could do that! Today I found out that Foggy Walk Study (above) and Canoe Trail Study will be in the show. A nice bit of validation for my new little project.

If you are lucky enough to be in So Cal during December, and you happen to be in the Costa Mesa area, here are the show details:

6 Inch Squared Show
Gala Aritsts’ Reception: December 3rd From 5:00 to 9:00pm
Exhibition and Sale: December 3rd-December 23rd
Randy Higbee Gallery
102 Kalmus, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714.546.2156
Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 to 5:00 pm

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This First Friday night you can find me, a selection of my paintings—some brand new—and Sue Bradley from the Tinman Gallery all hanging out at the Roberts Mansion in Browne’s Addition.

If you are familiar with Browne’s Addition, the mansion is located one block directly north of The Elk, and just over two blocks east of the MAC. If not, here is a map. It is an impressively restored Victorian house, definitely worth a visit in its own right.

I’m bringing new oil paintings, including Bellaluna, above, as a preview for my upcoming solo show at the Tinman this March.

If you are out and about this First Friday, be sure to stop by. We’d love to see you!

First Friday
Roberts Mansion
1923 West 1st Avenue
Spokane, Washington
November 4, 2011, 5–8 p.m.