Wendy MacNaughton is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Juxtapoz, GOOD, 7×7 and she is a Staff Illustrator at Longshot Magazine. She has a website and blog. You can reach her here.
So good. In fact, it’s my favorite, excluding the chess players.
cindy
Oh Wendy: You rock! So amazing, Can’t wait to see you tommorrow at the party for JR & Ali. Celebrate that ‘new’ friend of yours. You are our FOREVER favorite and talent to the max!
I didn’t realize this was one specific bar at first. Seems like it could be a portrait of bars in general. Nice.
Claudine
This is magnificent!
DudeG
Awesome, I like the portraits and the cash registers. But I’m impressed that the theater was showing a Beatles movie in 1930(I realize that’s probably when it was built, not when that movie came, but it’s still funny).
Beverly
love this
wilhemina
Moving piece. Wonderful drawings. Not much of a drinker myself, but this makes me want to check out the Mission bars. Even the toilets there.
I love your work, and I just love how you use the “page” of the browser. You own it, and I love that. It makes such a difference to getting inside these wonderful pieces. Thank you!
Kulia
Is that @Isaac Fitzgerald in one of the portraits?
Conviviality. Can you use that in a sentence please?
Sure. “I remember conviviality.”
Definition?
Conviviality. That which you thought was a productive and life enhancing activity before your life was truly enhanced. A quaint memory, but nothing as good as kids and grand-kids.
This is amazing work. Love the mixture of ink and watercolor. The migratory patterns diagram made me laugh because it’s so true… I too have my favorite 3 or 4 bars in the Mission and am a slave to habit.
I love this so so much, more even than a good night of barhopping.
Ellen
Love the diagram of the migration from bar to bar. You are extremely talented!
Dancing Laughter
Ahh… wonderful! As if I weren’t already homesick enough, sitting so far away from the neighborhood, and, of course, the bars I love so much.
Victoria
I’ve just found your site and I’m loving it. This is wonderful! I enjoy how each painting embodies this sort of tunnel vision glimpse of the surroundings and personalities you see. You capture what is important and tell a story while doing so. Great work!
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I love this so much!
brilliant. I love the faces at the end.
love all of this, especially the color and faces at the end…and the simplicity of the lines…and..and..all of it
Gorgeous! Ah, the cash registers! The faces…the glasses…extraordinary.
This makes me so happy…and makes me wanna go to the bar.
you make me want to live in your drawings.
I was a mission bartender for years and If I could go back and change all of it, well, i wouldn’t. Thanks for the sweet memories. xo
I want to be a Mission bartender now. Brilliant.
So good. In fact, it’s my favorite, excluding the chess players.
Oh Wendy: You rock! So amazing, Can’t wait to see you tommorrow at the party for JR & Ali. Celebrate that ‘new’ friend of yours. You are our FOREVER favorite and talent to the max!
Super fantastic.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the internet.
I love it.
I could say similar things about being a barista, but it’s quite the same as being behind the bar. Habits, nonetheless.
So wonderful. I am grateful you did Mission Bars and not the Nob Hill circuit – you can have my regular stool any time. Jan
I didn’t realize this was one specific bar at first. Seems like it could be a portrait of bars in general. Nice.
This is magnificent!
Awesome, I like the portraits and the cash registers. But I’m impressed that the theater was showing a Beatles movie in 1930(I realize that’s probably when it was built, not when that movie came, but it’s still funny).
love this
Moving piece. Wonderful drawings. Not much of a drinker myself, but this makes me want to check out the Mission bars. Even the toilets there.
drunk with love for this one.
@ale It actually is about different bars.
I love your work, and I just love how you use the “page” of the browser. You own it, and I love that. It makes such a difference to getting inside these wonderful pieces. Thank you!
Is that @Isaac Fitzgerald in one of the portraits?
Love, love, love
Conviviality. Can you use that in a sentence please?
Sure. “I remember conviviality.”
Definition?
Conviviality. That which you thought was a productive and life enhancing activity before your life was truly enhanced. A quaint memory, but nothing as good as kids and grand-kids.
Fantastic!
Really, really wonderful, Wendy. I think this is the best entry in the series yet.
This is amazing work. Love the mixture of ink and watercolor. The migratory patterns diagram made me laugh because it’s so true… I too have my favorite 3 or 4 bars in the Mission and am a slave to habit.
Too rad.
I love this so so much, more even than a good night of barhopping.
Love the diagram of the migration from bar to bar. You are extremely talented!
Ahh… wonderful! As if I weren’t already homesick enough, sitting so far away from the neighborhood, and, of course, the bars I love so much.
I’ve just found your site and I’m loving it. This is wonderful! I enjoy how each painting embodies this sort of tunnel vision glimpse of the surroundings and personalities you see. You capture what is important and tell a story while doing so. Great work!
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