Chinatown Balcony Canvas Print

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What a colorful balcony. This bright scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown reminded me of a painting. The cheerful bright colors everywhere in Chinatown certainly caught my eye when I visited there.
San Francisco’s has four recognizable Chinatowns within the city. The oldest known Chinatown in North America established in 1848 and has the largest Chinese population outside of Asia. The Dragon Gate entrance on Grant leads to the area that caters primarily to tourists. The other main street, Stockton Street, offers a more authentic Chinese style and feeling, with mixed use buildings with shops on the street level and residential living quarters in the upper stories of the buildings. A major tourist attraction, Chinatowns are a microcosm of the Asian cultural world, complete with herbal shops, fish markets, restaurants, stores, temples, pagoda roofs and hospitals, parks and post offices.
The Chinatown area was completely leveled in the 1906 earthquake, as was most of the city of...

Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and purpose. My mother painted when i was young and encouraged drawing and painting and handcrafting in all forms and my father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result, i have been a lifelong student of both mediums. Formal training of my eye and technique has been with the wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson. i hope you will enjoy these images as much as i enjoyed their creation.