From Telegraph Hill
San Francisco as seen from Telegraph Hill at the Base of Coit Tower, looking up Greenwich Street toward Saints Peter and Paul Church and the rest of North Beach.
12”x16” Watercolor on 300 lb. Arches Cold Press Paper
San Francisco as seen from Telegraph Hill at the Base of Coit Tower, looking up Greenwich Street toward Saints Peter and Paul Church and the rest of North Beach.
12”x16” Watercolor on 300 lb. Arches Cold Press Paper
San Francisco as seen from Telegraph Hill at the Base of Coit Tower, looking up Greenwich Street toward Saints Peter and Paul Church and the rest of North Beach.
12”x16” Watercolor on 300 lb. Arches Cold Press Paper
Behind the Painting
Looking up Greenwich Street from the top of Telegraph Hill, I lost myself in the rooftops and the balconies and the palm trees.
I sat on a stone ledging searching for patterns in the hills, sharp tree shadows, backyards planted green, transparent church steeples, blank roads with crosswalks dotted yellow.
A guy from the Coit Tower grounds crew walked down the hill and stopped beside me.
“You paint around the city a lot?”
I told him I was visiting from New York. It was my first time painting San Francisco. The colors were different.
“Yeah, you probably don’t get that pink pastel much. But the colors are there to compensate for it always being gray.”
“You ever take the BART in from SFO? It’s a great view coming in, all the houses on the hills. You know that song from the 50s, Tiny Boxes? Yeah, that’s what it was about. You should paint there.”
I put Malvina Reynolds on my headphones and walked up the street I’d just painted.
