Brooke Haarer

Please visit my website at:
www.brookehaarer.com

Since I could remember, my family shared a broad range of talent. Between drawing, wood working, photography, music, sewing, and other crafts, we explored it all! Now that I finally have the chance to build a website, other members of the family will have pages displaying their talent as well.

I have been told that I am an artist since I was very little. My dad always laughs as he tells the story about how I sold sketches of Pokemon characters on the side of the road, while the other neighborhood kids were selling lemonade! I kept practicing and practicing on my own and by the age of 13, my parents signed me up for classes with the “Art Institute” (you will find some of my homework assignments in the Gallery). Before long, my talent quickly blossomed and my work started appearing in school and city galleries. By the time I was 15, I drew my first military print (a personalized print for CPL Roger “Buddy” Butler, you may remember he and his wife Nikki as the first couple to win a “Destination Wedding” thrown by the Today Show). Then at 16, my first oil painting was displayed in the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Tennessee.

Since then, I have just finished my freshman year at one of the best art colleges on the planet “Ringling College of Art and Design”, where I am studying to be an illustrator! Sometimes you will see some of my work proudly on display. Even more exciting than that, I now have a precious little baby girl named Mylee Sable, who quickly steals the heart of everyone she meets and definitely has her Grandpa wrapped around her little finger! Still loyal to my art, every chance I get I am drawing and painting, and hold a special place in my heart for the men and women in uniform as I have been an “Army Brat” since I was in diapers!