The Office at Kennicott
“The Office” original ink/watercolor drawing by Gail Niebrugge, sold.
Back to the series on my early days living and painting the Wrangell-St. Elias. One of my favorite buildings at historic Kennicott Copper Mine in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the small log building that served as the managers office. It is a simple little structure, dwarfed by the surrounding mill buildings, but charming in its own way. It is especially attractive when fireweed are in bloom, a great patch of the wildflower extends from the side yard down the cut bank and adds a nice touch of color to the building when viewed from below. I enhanced this pen and ink drawing with watercolor and while it was still wet and sprinkled it with table salt. The individual specks of salt absorbed the pigment and created a pattern of random white dots, sort of a forerunner to the technique of pointillism, a style that I developed several years later.
More tomorrow.
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska Art