New Original Pointillism Painting of a Raven
Beginning sketch by artist Gail Niebrugge, and the start of pointillism painted with acrylic on the background around the raven.
During my summer journeys to southeast Alaska I couldn’t help but notice that ravens were everywhere. These birds are an important symbol in the native culture of southeast Alaska, and represent several legends, one is the legend of the sun. The story simply tells about a time when sun was stolen and placed in a box and how a raven rescued the box using trickery and saved the sun.
Finished pointillism painting titled “Sun Raven” 10″x15″ acrylic painting by Gail Niebrugge.
I chose to place the dark, ebony colored raven against a brilliant sunny background of the wildflower Forget-me-not, to further emphasize the connection between the raven and the legend of the sun. This is a relatively small painting for me, and small paintings are much harder to execute using the technique of pointillism. I really like to paint big and plan a series of new larger works, but sometimes I need small things. Hence, the “Sun Raven”.
Gail Niebrugge, Pointillism Paintings
September 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I love the gorgeous amount of detail you have put into the feathers. I think this background for a raven is very unique. I wonder what he is thinking about. ;~)
September 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Thanks Dorothea;
The idea of painting a raven is a novel one for me. Most of my experiences with ravens revolve around the era when we owned the Glennallen Tastee Freez, every night we would have to go all over the neighborhood cleaning up the trash that the ravens spread from ravaging our dumpster.
Gail