Afternoon Downtown 2 | 84″ x 66″ x 3.75″ | ink & acrylic on canvas | by Brooke Harker | SOLD
original painting by Brooke Harker, 2012. Made from a series of sketches live in historical downtown Los Angeles. Click here to see an image with these paintings at LGOCA (Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art).
Read MoreAngels in the City | 40 x 26 | ink & acrylic on canvas | SOLD
original by Brooke Harker I have met many angels in the time I have spent in Los Angeles. This painting contains two of them. I met Kevin Lynn of KLL Video Productions one day while sketching. He shows up in this painting as the man on the left with the video camera. The man on the right with the bike helmet is Patrick, a kind citizen who spends his retirement riding around downtown LA looking for people to help, he guarded me the day I met him for hours as I sketched. The frame of this painting is from my perspective on a day when I met up with both of them while working on a video project...
Read MoreVenice Town | 24″ x 36″ x 1.75″ | ink, acrylic & oil on canvas | by Brooke Harker
original painting by Brooke Harker, 2013. The inspiration for “Venice Town” came from a sketch I made near the boardwalk in Venice, California. The sketch, “Before a Venice Sunset” attempted to capture the scene in the 15 minutes I had from starting the sketch til the moment the sunlight dropped beneath the ocean horizon behind me.
Read MoreSister Chinatown | 50″x 33″ x 2.75″ | ink, oil & acrylic on canvas | by Brooke Harker | SOLD
original painting by Brooke Harker. Artist’s Description: I painted Sister Chinatown upon my return from painting in the southern city of Dongguan, China. Although the scene depicts San Francisco, a life long fascination with China influenced this work. Sister Chinatown is the companion piece to “Chinatown Skies.”
Read MoreTanzania Terraces | 48″ x 36″ x .75″ | ink, oil & acrylic on canvas | by Brooke Harker | SOLD
original painting by Brooke Harker, 2012. I have had a long time fascination with the way laundry looks hanging on a line, or how people live in apartments and hang laundry on lines outside their windows. A couple years ago, a childhood friend contacted me about my paintings. She let me know that they reminded her of her trip to Tanzania…I asked if I could see photos…I fell in love with several of the images and asked if I could paint them. The inspiration for this painting came from one of those photos by Naila Jean Meyers, who is now a sports writer for the New York Times. It...
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