The Bunkhouse Woodpile
“Snowshoe Habitat” original painting acrylic on canvas by Gail Niebrugge. Sold.
Outside Caribou Cabin, next to the Klutina River, was the bunkhouse and woodpile. The bunkhouse was clearly a summer use cabin, the chinking between the thin vertical logs was all but gone. Oddly, to me it was an attractive structure and I painted several versions of it from my easel outdoors plein air. This particular version was inspired by two things; the tree shadow designs cast across the bunkhouse logs and roof, and the snowshoe hare that kept disappearing and reappearing from the woodpile. What doesn’t show is the crisp, cold late afternoon autumn temperatures that drove me inside after freezing my fingers and turning my brushes into icicles after being dipped in water.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska Artist
