B R E N L U K E

Paparazzi Mobile

2012-01-20T21:26:00.002+11:00

George's Soul Music Cafe, Akasaka, Tokyo

2012-01-11T18:40:00.002+11:00

Ink on paper

Kadokko Restaurant, Tokyo

2012-01-04T20:54:00.001+11:00

ink on paper

opening title to the movie "Ghostworld"

2011-12-22T19:25:00.001+11:00

ink on paper 17x27cm

Badlands

2011-12-07T01:18:00.002+11:00

Ink and acrylic on paper. 17x29cm

Scene from "Buffalo 66" (#2)

2011-11-23T01:04:00.001+11:00

Graphite pencil on paper 17x22cm

Scenes from "Buffalo 66"

2011-11-17T19:22:00.002+11:00

Graphite pencil on paper

Mars Bar Corner, NYC

2011-11-15T17:26:00.003+11:00

Disc Jockey

2011-10-20T19:01:00.002+11:00

Ink on paper
Commissioned drawing

Canning Street, Carlton

2011-09-06T19:51:00.003+10:00

Ink on Paper, 20x45cm

Commissioned drawing

Detail

Bianchi bike girl

2011-07-27T23:32:00.004+10:00

ink on paper 12x12cm

"Travel Agent, Collins Street, Melbourne"

2011-07-21T15:21:00.003+10:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen)
14x23cm

Giclee prints of eight selected drawings now available to purchase!

2011-07-08T20:10:00.019+10:00

I have a very limited run of superior quality Giclee prints of eight selected drawings (shown) available for purchase. Each drawing has been professionally scanned, printed (and lovingly cared for) by Rae & Bennett Fine Art Printers on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Very nice indeedy!

All prints are 21x29.7 cm, signed and numbered.

AU$180 per print, unframed.

To make purchase, please email me at: bren.luke@gmail.com

Satisfaction is guaranteed.

Red Brick Gallery Ballarat, Small Works Prize

2011-07-05T13:13:00.003+10:00

My four recent "1980's Melbourne" drawings, as well as "Delicatessen" have been entered into the Red Brick Gallery Ballarat Small Works Prize. The exhibition opening is this Saturday afternoon, so if you're in the Ballarat area, please come along! The drawings are being framed as we speak and there will be some very fine quality giclee prints of these and other selected drawings available for purchase next week. Stay tuned...

1980's Melbourne: State Library of Victoria

2011-06-28T11:41:00.002+10:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen)

1980's Melbourne: Shot Tower and Melbourne Central Building Site

2011-06-20T21:01:00.001+10:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen)

1980's Melbourne: Corner of Russell and Little Lonsdale Streets

2011-06-16T18:51:00.002+10:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen) 16x28cm

1980's Melbourne: City Square

2011-06-10T13:45:00.001+10:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen)

Sketch of my Dad; Mick Luke (1930 - 2011)

2011-05-22T20:22:00.003+10:00

2011-05-09T20:34:00.001+10:00

Wipplegong

2011-03-30T14:13:00.010+11:00

Ink on paper, Commisioned by Frances Gibson for Stephen O'Neil

"Traffic & Trams"

2011-03-10T16:21:00.002+11:00

Ink on paper (rapidograph pen)
18x40cm

Swanston Street Sketch

2011-02-14T16:25:00.003+11:00

Delicatessen - Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

2011-02-08T22:21:00.002+11:00

Classical Music Fan (hardcore)

2011-02-02T19:34:00.002+11:00

Jazz 3: Steve Reich

2011-02-01T21:20:00.002+11:00

pencil on paper (10 x 11 cm)

Jazz 2. Abbey Lincoln

2011-01-28T15:02:00.002+11:00

pencil on paper

Jazz 1, NYC

2011-01-25T10:35:00.002+11:00

Hotel Australia

2011-01-24T12:34:00.001+11:00

Delivery Van

2011-01-24T12:32:00.001+11:00

When Bears rode the Bumpercars

2011-01-14T17:38:00.003+11:00

More Drawings from my Dad's (Mick Luke) sketchbook

2011-01-05T10:04:00.025+11:00

Thanks to sis Trish Luke for the lend of this sketchbook.

Felix n' James

2011-01-04T22:20:00.004+11:00

Commisioned by James Dutton for Miranda Picton-Warlow's birthday.

Tokyo Story and some other Ozu film scenes

2010-12-22T15:21:00.003+11:00

stressed

2010-11-30T21:29:00.002+11:00

downpour

2010-11-26T16:25:00.000+11:00

peloton

2010-11-26T16:10:00.011+11:00

1927 Alcyon Tour De France

Caminargent Bordeaux-Paris, ca. 1939

1949, Giro Bartali

Bianco Track Bike, Georges Baudin, 1950's

1974 Eddy Merckx/De Rosa

last days of Tokyo

2010-07-17T11:25:00.001+10:00

Record Press, Berlin 1930

2010-04-15T21:49:00.001+10:00

Melbourne Central Train Station

2010-04-15T21:10:00.003+10:00

Smallish (1mx3m) mural commisioned by Melb Central early March.

Yes, I have been drawing

2010-03-01T17:39:00.002+11:00

Some cheeky bugger stole Kylie's computer a couple of months back, so I haven't been able to post some new drawings of late....I have been busy though and will hopefully have the newbys on here soon.

Today I have been working on a mural commissioned by Melbourne Central thanks to Chewy and Tim at No Vacancy Gallery. I'm working on the finishing touches tomorrow from around 10am, at the foot of the big shot tower, beneath the glass cone roof.

2009-12-23T03:16:00.002+11:00

Something old New Again

2009-12-23T03:09:00.000+11:00

An old drawing

2009-11-19T11:11:00.002+11:00

Footy, Footy, Footy!

2009-10-09T12:44:00.012+11:00

A couple of commisioned works kept me busy late September.....

The first is a drawing/painting of Western Bulldogs forward and The Age columnist, Robert Murphy. The Age sports journalist, Peter Hanlon, kindly asked me to capture 'Bob' in the old fashioned Footscray uniform, which he is fond of. The drawing is to be presented to him as a thank-you present for his great articles scribed over the past 3 years for the newspaper. As a passionate Bulldog supporter, I was more than happy to draw my favourite player!

The second drawing is for Footy Almanack writer Stephen Cooke, a mad (and very happy) Geelong Cat's fan. He asked me to capture the pivotal moment in this year's Grand Final - the "toe-poke" by Matthew Scarlett to Gary Ablett in the final tense moments of the game. I'll be making prints of this for any Cat's fans still glowing after this year's triumph.

Limited edition of 20, signed and numbered.

A3 size digitally printed on 210gsm paper.

AU$40 including postage.

If you're interested in purchasing a print, feel free to send me an email or leave a comment below.

lonsdale house

2009-09-07T16:44:00.001+10:00

gettin' noticed

2009-09-03T11:42:00.005+10:00

Time out from the drawing board to scribe some updates.....

I'm delighted to report that my work has been recently featured in Ballarat's THAW magazine, spring edition. Muchos Gratsias to Rohan, who happened across this here page and decided to include me in the 'we just love this' section.

Check out Ro's blog page 'the daybook exchange' HERE

Also chuffed to have some of my footy drawings posted on the famous FOOTY ALMANAC website for the AFL Finals Series. Many thanks to John Harms and Paul Daffey for accommodating my football nerdishness on their wonderful and entertaining page!

~last year's almanac cover by Jim Pavlidis

Check out my drawings at the Footy Almanac HERE

book illustration

2009-08-27T16:17:00.005+10:00

I have my profile page up on the StyleFile website as part of the Australian Society of Authors....check it out HERE

my favorite hoody hangs on the door

2009-08-27T11:39:00.001+10:00

dishes

2009-08-25T17:17:00.003+10:00

Motel, Mt. Gambier

2009-08-21T12:22:00.001+10:00

view from motel window, Takamatsu

2009-08-14T12:17:00.001+10:00

postcard

2009-08-13T10:02:00.000+10:00

Kyoto corner crossing

2009-08-06T12:36:00.000+10:00

drawings for loki and zeki

2009-07-16T12:06:00.000+10:00

drawing for felix

2009-07-14T17:10:00.000+10:00

rooftop gig

2009-07-09T13:23:00.001+10:00

motorcycle

2009-07-01T12:44:00.001+10:00

brunswick

2009-06-30T10:20:00.002+10:00

alleyway illustration no.2

2009-06-27T13:47:00.002+10:00

commuter

2009-06-18T09:10:00.000+10:00

the new world

2009-06-15T14:43:00.001+10:00

a jarmusch corner

2009-06-12T10:03:00.001+10:00

Homage to Truffaut

2009-06-05T14:50:00.002+10:00

2009-05-30T15:51:00.000+10:00

2009-05-28T16:44:00.000+10:00

2009-05-19T12:34:00.001+10:00

chuck's radio tv & record store

2009-04-25T11:42:00.003+10:00

waiting for curly

2009-04-01T08:18:00.001+11:00

stop making a scene

2009-03-25T17:47:00.001+11:00

Joan

2009-03-21T18:53:00.002+11:00

Charles Thompson

2009-03-15T17:55:00.002+11:00

60's crossing

2009-02-26T15:14:00.001+11:00

Drawings from my Dad's sketchbook

2009-02-24T19:57:00.006+11:00

Five of Mick Luke's sketches which were drawn around 10 years ago at the kitchen table in Mt Clear, Ballarat, not long after a hospital stay for a stomach operation. These drawings continue to amaze me.

rocker

2009-02-07T10:36:00.000+11:00

Morning walk in Dotonbori, Osaka

2008-12-12T23:41:00.002+11:00

Sketchbook pages from my recent visit to Japan

2008-12-04T17:11:00.006+11:00

Osaka shop with boxes and bike

salary-man riding bike and texting

street carnival, Takamatsu

K.B. relaxes at Muji

Osaka Ashtray

2008-11-21T16:18:00.000+11:00

Some cafes and house with car

2008-09-08T19:48:00.003+10:00

Akihito's 18th birthday

2008-08-27T16:25:00.001+10:00

"good shepherd" and "wooller kicks away"

2008-07-11T12:49:00.005+10:00

Alleyway illustration

2008-07-11T12:36:00.005+10:00

snow people

2008-07-08T11:04:00.005+10:00

Comic strip artist Frank King at his drawing board, circa 1925

2008-07-04T10:05:00.006+10:00

Creator of the masterpiece comic strip Gasoline Alley.
The following is a letter written by 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schultz to King dated October 19,1962:

Dear Frank,

The more I read your strip, the more I am convinced that you are the best comic strip artist working today. You seem to be the only one who really understands the medium. Each daily episode amazes me, and you continually build up interest with little stories that are completely beyond the scope of any cartoonist or writer working in any other medium......

duck-lamp

2008-06-21T20:22:00.002+10:00

Robert Murphy

2008-06-13T17:48:00.003+10:00

Sketches of a couple and Merce Cunningham

2008-05-29T16:17:00.000+10:00

shoes off

2008-05-29T15:33:00.000+10:00

John Harmes scribes a great yarn about indigenous footy experiences up north....

http://www.abc.net.au/grandstand/unleashed/stories/s2253794.htm

May 08' Sketch of the Teddy Whitten Statue

2008-05-27T20:23:00.000+10:00

View of the Teddy Whitten Statue at the front of the Western Oval, Footscray - facing west.

May 08' Drawing of Allan Hopkins

2008-05-22T12:30:00.000+10:00

My drawing of Footscray great, Allan Hopkins.

(Ink and acrylic on paper, 56.5x27.5cm).
He was one of the cleverest and most brilliant centremen in VFL history. Born and bred in Footscray, he was the son of Con Hopkins who was a stalwart for the club in earlier years. His brainy, cool and clever play was put to best use in the centre. He did not look fast, but could pace it with the best of them and he assumed a heavy workload for his struggling team. He often had to charge downfield and shoot for goals because he had so little support. He never conceded defeat and his bandy legs were pumping just as hard at the end of his days as they had been at the start. Nicknamed "Banana Legs", he ran close to the ground in the style of so many champions and his awkward gait confused opponents. He captained Footscray in 1926 and four years later was captain-coach. He played for Victoria 20 times, earning a Big V in his first year and in his last. Oddly, he won Footscray's best and fairest only once, but was equal second in the 1929 Brownlow, lost on a countback in 1930, was second in 1931 and fourth in 1934. The VFL awarded him a retrospective medal in 1989 for his efforts in 1930 and a delighted Hopkins received his just deserts. After leaving Footscray he coached Yarraville.

Some Old(er) Drawings

2008-03-26T16:46:00.000+11:00

An interview with Sam Prekop - Painter, Photographer and Singer/Guitarist in Chicago band 'The Sea and Cake'.....

2008-03-16T21:44:00.000+11:00

Click on the text above.
Interviewed by By David Elfving for Gapers Block http://www.gapersblock.com/

March 08' Drawings

2008-03-04T11:14:00.000+11:00

Feb 08' Drawings

2008-02-08T14:05:00.000+11:00

2008-01-31T16:22:00.000+11:00

2008-01-31T16:08:00.000+11:00

Drawings Sept 07' - Jan 08'

2008-01-24T15:05:00.000+11:00