Building 989 in the Presidio

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1989 Long Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94129 United States Get Directions
Building 989 is in the Presidio (behind the bathrooms next to the Warming Hut). Building 989 doesn’t actually have a street address (the Presidio can get pretty confusing – most of the buildings don’t have addresses!) It’s at the intersection of Long Avenue and Marine Drive, If you’re using mapquest or GPS, the best thing would be to navigate to the Warming Hut at 983 Marine Drive. Navigate to the Hamilton St. Parking area at the end of Mason Street Walk toward the bridge. Pass the Warming Hut Bookstore and Cafe and the bathrooms. 989 is the last building before the long stretch of road leading to Fort Point. We will put up a sign at the 989 building entrance and near the parking lot to point you in the right direction. In 2020, part of Mason St. will be closed. You can find detour information here.

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  • How to use Watercolor Pencils with a Waterbrush (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Watercolor Pencils are a great way to add color to your field sketches. Applying the pencils is intuitive and the waterbrush makes field application easy. However, watercolor pencils can perform in unexpected ways that can be frustrating. In this workshop, you will learn how to work with watercolor pencils to get a variety of effects Read More

  • A Waterbrush is a Field Sketcher’s Best Friend (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    The waterbrush is an amazing little tool that revolutionized the way I paint, sketch, and journal. They make the logistics of watercolor, watercolor pencils, water-soluble pencils, or water-soluble pen washes easier in the field. In this class, you will explore techniques with watercolor and soluble pens and pencils that will help you quickly add color Read More

  • Watercolor Pencils for Botanical Painting with Claudia Stevens (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

      Join Botanical Illustrator Claudia Stevens and the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5-hour workshop.  Through step by step demonstrations, you will learn foundation techniques and skills to carry into their next level of your art.  Bringing art to science: observation, attention to detail and plant structure, measurement, recording data, and accuracy.  Learn how to Read More

  • Safari Sketching (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Before the Nature Journal Club field trip to Tanzania (or your visit to the zoo), let's take a look at a few last details (not covered in our April class) that will help you draw African animals and landscapes. This is a bit of a grab bag of ideas. Even if you are not off Read More

  • The New Bird Drawing System (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    For years I have taught the same system to quickly sketch birds in the field. Over the last few months my approach has changed radically. I think I can now get you drawing better birds with fewer lines. This refined system will help you get the basic bird shapes with less trouble and will avoid some Read More

  • Intentional Curiosity (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Curiosity is not a trait you are born with. It is a skill that you can develop and refine with practice.It is more essential than any Read More

  • Fast Sketching: Mammals (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Learn techniques to quickly and accurately draw mammals in the field. This workshop will focus on understanding key points of mammal anatomy that help you pose and draw mammals from any angle.  Learn how to: Understand basic mammal skeletal structure and the key differentiations between major groups. Simplify complex muscle masses to essential lines. Rotate Read More

  • The Color Purple… Color Theory that Works (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Let's reinvent the wheel in this hands on color mixing workshop. If you learned that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors you have been sold a bill of goods that is guaranteed to make muddy colors.  Learn a better color triad that will help you easily mix the colors you want when you Read More

  • Sandhill Cranes: Using shape, structure, and light to draw what you see (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    his workshop is not about drawing Sandhill Cranes. It is about how your ability to draw anything improves when you understand what you see and train your eye to capture critical negative shapes, gestures,  and angles. We will start with a detailed look "under the hood" of the Sandhill Crane so we all have  a Read More

  • Splash and scribble: wet watercolor and aquarelle pencils (San Francisco)

    Building 989 in the Presidio 1989 Long Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Working with wet watercolor and aquarelle will help your journal sketching become more lively and spontaneous. Instead of carefully drawing lines and then coloring them in, we’ll invert the process, splashing down loose watercolor and then drawing into it to define shapes. We’ll also explore some special effects you can get with wet-on-wet watercolor. This approach Read More