Purple Skies

Purple Skies. Oil on panel, 8" x 8". $175. Click to buy.

Last weekend was Yuletide, and what a great show! So many original paintings, giclées and books found new homes. I'm so grateful to everyone who came and supported me and the other amazing artists.

But many paintings are still looking for their forever homes, and I've been promising for a while that small original works would be available online. So starting with Purple Skies, above, a new painting will appear each day here and on Daily Paintworks.

All of the paintings are done in oil on masonite panels, and are ready to frame. Please be aware that the color may vary from monitor to monitor. For instance, Purple Skies looks over saturated on this blog (on my monitor)---the background is really a muted periwinkle blue.

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Aviation & Mixology Book Release

Aviation. Oil on panel, 12" x 12". ©2014 Sheila M. Evans.

It's a wrap! I've resurfaced to announce that my art and cocktail recipe book, "Mixology: the Art of Classic Cocktails" is finally finished.

Aviation is one of nineteen vintage recipes represented in the book along with the original paintings they inspired. The book is available for online order here.

The official book release party is tonight, and after that I have a week to get ready for Yuletide, a holiday arts and crafts festival at Spokane's Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. After that, at long last, paintings will begin to appear on Daily Paintworks. And they will be for sale.

It takes a long time and an unbelievable amount of effort to assemble a complete new body of work along with a book. It's a relief to finally feel caught up (sort of). But I can't wait to get started on the next book!

Vesper

Original oil on panel, 12" x 12".

Born in a 1953 Ian Fleming novel, Vesper is the "newest" drink featured in my book. I decided to include it because 1. it is a delicious drink and 2. it gave me an excuse to paint Paul's awesome mid-century-esque rocket shaker. 

Just like its namesake in Casino Royale, Vesper the painting proved a bit treacherous. The Lillet label was a beast, but since it looks like it hasn't changed in 100 years and I like that, I persisted. I even switched out one of the shot glasses in frustration halfway through. The new shot glass ended up looking much better in the end. I love how it reflects the lemon's cute little pointy butt.

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Candy Store

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Candy Store. Original oil on panel, 6" x 6".

After a week away at a plein-air pastel landscape workshop, I was feeling a bit out of touch with my oil still life series. The only thing that appealed this morning was this collection of modern glasses. They didn't look like much on their own, so I started filling them with odd combinations of liquids. I was almost done painting when I realized there wasn't a real focal point. Enter the cherry, which gave the whole thing a candy-like feel.

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Moon Shot

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I think there are about eight shakers in my collection at the moment. My husband Paul only has one: the world's most awesome shaker, in the shape of a retro-futuristic rocket. I'm pretty sure he still has me beat. I thought the little onion looked like the moon.