Gail Niebrugge's Blog
We’ve done 4 wheel drive trips into the wilderness most of our lives, in the early years we drove our own 4 wheel drive International Scout down the Baja Peninsula and traveled all over the Southern California Deserts. We fit right into the wilderness of Alaska when we moved there 35 years ago, and wore [...]
Pyrah’s well-known U-Pick vegetable farm in Butte, Alaska, has been enhanced with excellent signage throughout the fields. The explanations were a necessary addition for student tours where they found many children had no idea where vegetables came from, had never had their hands in dirt before, and thought food came from supermarkets. The newest addition [...]
On the Mat-Su Farm Bureau Farm Tour last week the highlight of our day was an Alaska Farmers Lunch at the Little Pitchfork Ranch and a tour of the buffalo herd. Owner Todd Pettit led our bus up the mountain, through gorgeous fertile green fields flanked with fuchsia colored fireweed wildflowers to the range where [...]
We had a lovely visit with guests from Entree Alaska Custom Tours the other day, they arrived via Rusts Flying Service float plane at our dock. The limo was on stand-by as our guests toured the studio and joined us for lunch. We said good bye as they departed in the limo to catch a [...]
From left to right; Don Texter from Luxury Limousines in Anchorage, Suzanne Teng the Product Manager for North America and Europe with Abercrombie & Kent the original luxury travel company, myself, and Michele Glass the Senior Account Manager for Entree Alaska Tours a company that specializes in exclusive, extraordinary custom travel in Alaska. During their [...]
As you can see in the photo, we dressed warm for our boat trip to the Knick Glacier. From left to right are; Bob Shuster, Arlene Shuster, me, and my husband Bob. Gathering research for future paintings is one of the best parts of the job as an artist who specializes in the Alaska landscape. [...]
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...]