Mon cours d'été de dessin en extérieur à l'AUA, San Francisco (1ère partie : Powell Street)

This summer I am excited to be teaching Location Drawing and Painting for
Academy of Art University, San Francisco. My students and I will be sketching and painting at
points of interest all over town and even in the East Bay. Everyone starts with
a brand new sketchbook and will fill at least 100 pages with observational
drawings and sketch reporting by the time the class finishes in seven and a half
weeks. I will be posting mine here. For our first day, we discussed perspective and then drew up and down
Powell Street (where the Illustration Department is headquartered) and in nearby Union Square. The top piece here is the view looking up Powell St. from in
front of the Westin St. Francis Hotel where they fly a different international
flag each day and also apparently don’t like people to sit on the sidewalk
and sketch. I was asked twice to move, once by a police officer who was quite
nice and understanding and reminded me that there is a law against sitting on the
sidewalk, but said I would be ok as long as my bag was not in the way of
traffic, and next by a guy from the hotel who was not quite as easy-going about it. More
soon! Next: Yerba Buena Gardens.