Out There Watercolors
Original fine art & San Francisco watercolor classes
Find your way in. San Francisco watercolor classes and outdoor expeditions.
Take an expedition
Paint outdoors in local gardens, parks, and remarkable city corners. Especially welcoming for beginners, these guided watercolor workshops are designed to help you slow down, look closely, and make something with your own hands.
Explore classes and expeditions
Bring the outside in
Shop original floral portraits and prints inspired by real plants, light, and place. Sketched in nature and finished in the studio, each piece brings the richness of the natural world into your space.
Shop art and prints
Create something together
Let’s collaborate on a custom floral portrait or meaningful watercolor piece—art that reflects your story, your space, or someone you want to honor.
Explore commissions and collaborations
What you’ll find out there?
Out There Watercolors isn’t about getting it perfect. It’s about showing up, looking closely, and staying present with what’s in front of you. These sessions invite you to slow down, step outside, and reconnect with nature, creativity, and the quiet clarity that comes from paying attention.
Whether you’re new to watercolor or returning to it with fresh eyes, there’s room here to begin where you are. We sketch and paint in living places, from gardens and sidewalks to city corners full of light and rhythm. Along the way, you’ll learn approachable techniques, grow more confident with the medium, and discover how much more becomes visible when you truly pay attention.
You don’t need to be an expert. You just need to begin.
About Marco Flavio
I trained in Rome in classical painting, discovering that vision must lead before thought—that painting begins in presence, in front of what you see. Context, light, proportion, and perception became my guides. What matters most to me is being there: responding to the shifting reality of the subject, rather than working from photographs. That way of seeing the world has carried me through residencies in Japan and Canada, and into collaborations with museums, cultural institutions, designers, and private clients across the Bay Area.
I bring more than 20 years of experience to what I do—but what matters most to me is staying present. Noticing what’s growing, changing, blooming. Out There Watercolors is where all of that comes together: tradition, intuition, and the ongoing practice of making art that feels alive.
Selected Collaborations & Residencies
