Gail Niebrugge's Blog
Breakfast at the Westward Look Resort in Tucson. What a change from -22 degrees in Alaska. Yesterday we spent the morning with our old friends at Arizona Lithographers, we’ve been doing business with them for more than 20 years. It was so much fun to reminisce with the owner, John Davis, and put a face [...]
After three days of shredding files my shredder bit the dust, it will only run in reverse spitting wads of confetti sized paper out the top. One of the pitfalls of a home office is that unless we fix broken stuff ourselves, no one else will. The remote phones are not holding a charge, so [...]
Yesterday another blizzard, I watched from the upstairs studio windows only able to discern objects that were close, the distance blurred by white haze. Our chairs at the end of the dock nearly buried, iron sentinels in a white landscape. A good day to catch up clearing out file cabinets, shredding paper, filling five big [...]
“Scarlet Sky” giclee art print Click on link to go to “Scarlet Sky” and order today or tomorrow for 25% savings using Discount Code Holiday, sale ends December 5, 2011. All Niebrugge Studio prints on sale until Monday December 5. Shopping on the web is easy and saves time, especially during inclement weather.
“Cotton Grass Bear” 9″ x 13″ limited edition print signed & numbered Five days left for the 25% discount on Niebrugge fine art prints and giclees, sale ends December 5. Use the Discount Code Holiday when ordering on the web site or call the studio in Alaska at 907-746-3256. To order on the web site [...]
Fireweed Meadow 14″ x 19″ Giclee Print with hand torn edges Fireweed Meadow 20.5″ x 27.5″ Giclee Print with hand torn edges 25% savings on Gail Niebrugge Prints until December 5, 2011, order now in time for Christmas and enjoy a big discount. Enter the Discount Code Holiday when ordering to reduce purchase price. [...]
“Playful Springs” Limited Edition Art Print Regular Price $40.00 25% Discount until December 5, 2011 $30.00 This limited edition print of a mama Grizzly and her spring cub with Mt. McKinley in the background is found on the web site under “Fine Art Prints and Giclees’ on Page 2 under the category “Wildlife”. This 7″ [...]
“Wishing Well“, mini art print matted 8″ x 10″ Until December 5, 2011, all Gail Niebrugge Fine Art Prints and Giclees are Discounted 25%. Enter Discount Code Holiday when ordering to receive reduced price. The Fine Art Prints and Giclees can be found under the heading “Fine Art Prints and Giclees” and are sorted by [...]
“Christmas Cabin” 9″x11.5″ limited edition, signed and numbered 25% Discount begins today on ALL Niebrugge Studio Fine Art Prints and Giclee’s through December 5th, 2011. On the Niebrugge Studio home page use the drop down box “Fine Art Prints and Giclee’s” and prints will be listed under catagories; Boats, Flowers, Glaciers, Historic Places, Landscape, Mini [...]
All artwork, original or prints, is subject to fading. Many color pigments in artist paint are fugitive and will fade in direct sunlight. Therefore, as a rule of thumb, we advise collectors to never hang artwork where it will be in direct sun. Another consideration is fluorescent bulbs, those that contain high levels of UV [...]
We’ve had some difficulty over the last three weeks with the shopping cart on this website, all is now well and working again. To make a purchase simply click on the image and the shopping instructions will be at the bottom, follow all the prompts and the order will be sent directly to Niebrugge Studio [...]
The time is here to clean, polish, stock, and hang artwork in our booth at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. Most of the buildings have been moved from storage and placed in their designated spaces, ours is on the Red Trail next to the Halibut Hut kitty-corner from Vagabond Blues two spaces from Pioneer [...]
A new giclee art print “McKinley Trail is now available in two sizes, a mini art print 5.8″x7.8″ for $30.00, and a larger size 12″x16″ for $105.00. This pointillism painting of the highest mountain in Denali National Park, Alaska shows my favorite hike in the park; the McKinley Bar Trail, and was inspired during my [...]
We are now offering this image, “Common Loon”, as a mini Giclee print 6″x8″ for $30.00 US. It can be ordered on our website niebruggestudio.com, by phone 907-746-3256, or purchased at our booth at the Alaska State Fair in August. Gail Niebrugge, Alaska artist
The second day of meetings with the Alaska State Council on the Arts in Juneau, Alaska, was jam-packed. We met in the beautiful Juneau Arts & Humanities Council building and were surrounded by paintings from a recent juried art show, the Alaska State Teacher of the Year, Lorrie Heagy, gave a moving and inspirational presentation [...]
May 16, 2006 I posted my first blog and wondered if I could think of enough topics to post something once in awhile. Well, the rest is history. My collectors, fans, friends and family have all contributed ideas, encouragement, and subject matter for me to share, from my long experience as an artist, with the [...]
Here is the new website, all updated and merged with my Art Blog! The fruit of seven weeks of labor by my webmaster and myself, a perfect project that kept me occupied during my recovery from rotator cuff surgery. Since each entry is now in blog format there are a lot of opportunities for reader [...]
Saturday we attended the opening reception of the new Anchorage VA Outpatient Clinic and did a tour of all of the beautiful Per Cent for Art installed in the building. It is an impressive collection! In the upstairs lobby south wing my painting “Grassy Wetlands” graces the wall. Another painting “Backwater” hangs in the prosthetic [...]
Tomorrow marks three weeks since surgery on my right rotator cuff, my shoulder is still immobile, my arm in a sling, and I’m slowly learning how to manage with my left hand. One thing for sure, I will not be painting or drawing left-handed, at the moment I can barely scrawl out a legible signature, [...]
Gail Niebrugge (Knee-brew-ghe) born and raised in California has pursued art since childhood, winning a poster contest on the Johnny Jet television show at the age of twelve. Gail began her career as an illustrator for the US Navy and Marines in San Diego, and later established the Instructional Media Center for the Grossmont High School District in La Mesa, California. The Niebrugge family fell in love with Alaska while on vacation in 1976 and never returned home, instead they established a residence and studio in the remote interior settlement of Copper Center where the artist painted … [Read More...]
Wikipedia defines pointillism as; "a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors." It goes on to say that the mind and the eye mix the color spots into a full range of tones and that it is closely related to Divisionism. Divisionism was practiced by Georges Seurat during the Neo-Impressionism period. He broke his color into basic elements and painted very small and regular dots. His dots are carefully placed as to not touch each other, so the white under painted canvas shows around all of the dots. I call my painting technique pointillism, but technically it is incorrect according to Wikipedia. The difference between my technique and true pointillism is that I use … [Read More...]