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I love San Francisco. It is the city through which I entered the United States back in 1984. For whatever reason, the moon was huge that evening. I thought that in America even the moon was magnificent! San Francisco has got to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
You've seen these houses in postcards, right? According to Diana Hollingsworth Gessler's Very California: Travels through the Golden State, hippies in the 1960's began painting some of the Victorian houses in Alamo Square in wild colors (up to 20 on one house), thus the great nickname.
I meant to paint the above scene for years, but didn't. The assumed difficulty in architectural drawing was the reason. I can be such a chicken sometimes. Yesterday I finally felt brave enough to do it. That's the beauty of having a goal of working on a series. It really gets you motivated. "Painted Ladies of San Francisco" is No. 3 in my new series-"California Colors." California, here I come.
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