At the corner of Mission and 17th Streets...
...there are a huge collection of art studios on the top floor of the large building that houses Thrift Town.
Some of them are simply cubicles but the lucky ones have streetside spaces...
...with beautiful light.
There is an institution in San Francisco called "Open Studios" every year in the autumn...
...where literally hundreds of artists in San Francisco open up their working spaces in their homes and studios over the course of three or four alternating weekends.
This Saturday afternoon the crowd was quite lively at Mission & 17th.
People were even buying art off the walls (after measuring it).
One of my favorite painters from the "old" space...
...has moved with two other artists down the hall where they built themselves lovely, swanky new studios.
The artist is a Brazilian named Sidnea D'Amico (pictured above)...
...and as you can see, she is not afraid of color.
I'm not even sure why I like her paintings so much, but I do.
They have an element of the Spanish painter Joan Miro...
...but they are completely her own.
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