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Date of event: May 23, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Pamela Rhodes is a skilled portrait and landscape artist and her graphite, colored pencil and watercolor work is owned by clients throughout the US, Mexico and England. As the founder and director of ARTroads, Pamela has taught drawing, portrait and watercolor classes for numerous organizations and in workshops in Italy, Mexico and the States. Her signature class, “Learning to Draw so You Can Paint”, is offered year round in San Francisco, ann …

Date of event: May 16, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Jess Zepeda, grew up in Tulare County in Central California and has been interested in has been drawing since a young child. Excelling in High School and eventually he moved to San Francisco where he attended  The Art Academy University and received his MFA. The artist credits Sidney Kittenger of Auberry, California who inspired him to pursue drawing and painting. switching frequently from one medium to the next using graphite pencils …

Date of event: March 14th, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Drawing and painting came easily to Rhoda. While encouraged by teachers to pursue school vs art, she returned to it at age 30 and has been making up for lost time. Rhoda draws in a variety of styles, mediums and venues and her favorite subject is the female nude, especially a zaftig (full-figured) one. Gesture drawing, capturing the essence of a pose in just a minute or two. Her goal is to retain the fresh energy of quick studies in h …

This was our first mural experience, from October of 2012. We have since moved from the Market Street store, where this was adjacent to our back parking lot. Following our departure and the demolition of the building, taggers hit this mural hard and the construction obscured the view. Now these photos provide a link to the past, when this piece of art was featured in 7x7's article  The Best Hidden Murals in San Francisco. In 2004 Herakut came together, finding a magic synthesis …

Date of event: August 23, 2014, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Kelly Avery is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, who enjoys working in mediums that include graphite, ink, watercolor, acrylics and oil paints. She began as a landscape painter and has included the portrait and figure in her work, and is now rarely seen without a sketchbook in-hand. "My love for drawing started when I was very young. My grandma worked for a paper supply company in San Francisco and …