Sheila M. Evans

Bend, Oregon is where you will find me and my art this weekend. Art in the High Desert starts this Friday at 10:00 a.m.

AHD is a wonderfully juried little show in a beautiful—yet convenient—setting. Art booths wind alongside a stream just a few steps from the Shops at the Old Mill in Bend. Since it falls on the weekend before Labor Day, many artists do this show on their way to the Sausalito Art Festival or in my case, Art in the Pearl. So if you can’t make it to either of those famously top-notch shows, you can find many of the same amazing artists in Bend.

I’ve made some new work especially for Bend this year, including some of my ponderosa pine images like Storm’s Passing (above). I’ve also made some new miniature works, including a few landscapes and a tiny pine. Come see these and all of my work this weekend!

Art in the High Desert
When: August 26 – 28, 2011
Where: The Shops at the Old Mill, 661 Powerhouse Drive, Bend, OR
Hours: Friday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
What I’m bringing: Pastels and Oils
Booth #26c

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Yet again, I am wishing I could be two places. This time it’s Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival and the French Pastels Salon International going head to head.

While I am required to attend the first one, I can’t really afford to go to the second one, so it all works out. Plus, Sun Valley is one of my perennial favorites. Ketchum feels a bit like a second home with all the little traditions that have evolved around the show. I’ll bring pastels and oils once again this year, including Moonflight, above—appropriately based on a small pastel that makes its debut in Dordogne this weekend. Souhaitez moi bonne chance!

Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival
When: August 12- 14, 2011
Where: Atkinson Park, 900 3rd Ave., Ketchum, ID
Hours: Friday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
What I’m bringing: Pastels and Oils
Booth # G-9

Pastels Salon International
International Exhibition Hall
24410 Saint Aulaye
Dordogne, France
August 13 – 28, 2011
Free admission daily from 10am to 12:30 and 2:30 to 7

This weekend is the Salem Art Fair and Festival! I’ve never done this one before, but I’ve heard glowing reports. There are some serious art fair rock stars showing in Salem, including pastelist Victoria Ryan, weaver Kim Morris, and painter Marla Bagetta. I can’t wait to see everyone again and kick off the summer circuit. Time to do the last-minute show-packing scramble. Hope to see you out there!

Salem Art Fair and Festival

When: July 15 – 17, 2011

Where: Bush St & High St, Salem, OR

Hours: Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

What I’m bringing: Pastels and Oils

Booth #219

At the moment, it’s craziness. The building where I paint is undergoing some major changes, and it’s keeping me very busy. More on that later, but let’s just say I’m being pulled in a lot of directions. I’m also working to promote the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour, which I suspect will be here before I even know what happened!

Thankfully, I do have a few shows coming up to keep me focused on painting. The Salem Art Fair and Festival is just three weeks away. Two weeks after that the Bellevue Arts Museum Artsfair. And, that same Friday (July 29) opens the Tinman Gallery‘s Peter Pan Invitational. I’ve used the Peter Pan show as an excuse to try painting a subject that has always fascinated me: insects. Which probably doesn’t make a lot of sense on the face of it, but for me, nothing conjured up visions of fairies better than cicada wings. Never having painted insects before, I tried a sketch before starting my piece for the show. The result: Cicada Study, left.

The cicadas were a fascinating challenge, and I may work with them more in the future. In the meantime, Cicada Study will be available at an art fair this July. I hope to see you out there!

Artfest begins this Friday at Noon!

After months of creating and framing new art, and one more week of last-minute details like matting new miniature pastels, I will be so ready for art fair season to start. Come on down and see my latest work in both oil and pastel, including my new 6″ x 6″ pastels in silver plein-air frames. Here are the details:

Artfest

When: June 3 – 5, 2011

Where: Coeur d’Alene Park, 2nd & Chestnut, Spokane, WA

Hours: Friday 12 p.m. – 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

What I’m bringing: Pastels and Oils

Booth #E-11

Click here for an artist list and booth map of Artfest.

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I’m not sure what happened, but it’s nearly art fair season!  The last of the jury notices have come in, and I’ve finalized my schedule.

As it turns out, all of my 2011 shows will be in the Northwest. And with gas at $4/per gallon, I’m happy not to be pulling a fully loaded trailer on any 2,000 mile round trips! I’ll be doing some of my usual shows: Artfest in Spokane, Bellevue Arts Museum artsfair, Sun Valley Center Arts and Crafts Festival, and Art in the High Desert in Bend, Oregon.

I’ve also made some changes. I’ll be trying the Salem Art Fair and Festival for the first time in 2011. And, I am excited to announce that I will appear for the first time at Art in the Pearl in Portland, Oregon! I’ve heard wonderful things about this show and have been wanting to try it for years. It’s exciting, yet bittersweet—to appear at the Pearl, I made the difficult decision not to do the Sausalito Art Festival for the first time since 2007. With so few really excellent shows in the Northwest and northern California, why do two of the best have to be on the same weekend?

Whining aside, I can’t wait to get started on this year’s shows! Only three more weeks to wait… hope to see you out there!

This weekend the galleries of Cannon Beach, Oregon hold their annual Spring Unveiling Art Festival. Not the usual tents-in-a-park festival, this is a series of special events and featured artists held by the many beautiful galleries of Cannon Beach. My own Cannon Beach representatives, Northwest by Northwest Gallery, will host me for a brief talk at the gallery this Sunday. Here are the details:

Night Flight Study, my latest pastel, is France-bound. It is one of three pieces created for the Pastels Salon International in Saint Aulaye, Dordogne, France, opening this August. But before it embarks on its journey, I hope to use it as a study for a larger oil painting to take on the road a bit closer to home.

This past week another pastel, Raintree No. 4, found a permanent home in a beautiful, historic craftsman home on Spokane’s South Hill. It looks absolutely perfect in its perch against the William Morris wallpaper, above the oak and art tile mantel! “Read more” to see Raintree No. 4 in its new home.

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