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Fireweed Giclee Print-Fiery Leaves Fiery Leaves 20″x30″ giclee art print on paper Limited Edition 150 $470.00 US Original painting “Fiery Leaves” 24″x36″ acrylic on Masonite SOLD The wildflower Fireweed is stunning during all phases of its life, once the magenta blossoms have faded the leaves of the plant turn various shades of red, gold, chartreuse, [...]
Flower Art Print – Blue Poppy 9”x 12” Giclee Print Open Edition $65.00 US Original acrylic on canvas painting 18″ x 24″ SOLD. I love to garden and our Alaska climate is perfect for growing the Himalayan Blue Poppy. These perennials grow two to three feet tall and re-seed like weeds. My studio garden is [...]
Fine Art Print – Monarch 9”x 12” Giclee Print on paper Open Edition $65.00 US Original acrylic on canvas painting 18″ x 24″ please call for price and availability. Traveling through New Zealand I found this colorful Monarch butterfly in the botanical gardens of the beautiful town of Christchurch. To me, butterflies are magical and [...]
Fireweed Giclee – Vintage Valley Original acrylic painting 13″ x 18″ commissioned for Teeland Middle School Library, Wasilla, Alaska 9” x 12.5″ Giclee print 200 Edition $140.00 14” x 19″ Giclee print 200 Edition $240.00 This beautiful original painting by Gail Niebrugge “Vintage Valley,” featuring the wildflower fireweed against a weathered historic wooden wagon wheel [...]
Giclee on Canvas – Sunflower 24″ x 32″ Giclee on canvas 150 Edition $615.00 Original “Sunflower” painting acrylic on canvas 36″ x 48″ SOLD. Sunflowers grow well in Palmer, Alaska. Gail’s often sprout from a stray seed cast from the bird feeder. This mini giclee art print of the original painting “Sunflower” is of the [...]
Giclee on Canvas – Sunflower 16” x 21.5″ Giclee on canvas with mirror wrapped edges 200 Edition $320.00 Original “Sunflower” painting acrylic on canvas 36″ x 48″ SOLD. Sunflowers grow well in Palmer, Alaska. Gail’s often sprout from a stray seed cast from the bird feeder. This mini giclee art print of the original painting [...]
Mini Giclee Art Print – Sunflower 5.4″ x 7.25″ Mini Giclee Art Print on paper Open Edition $30.00 Original acrylic painting on canvas 36″ x 48″ SOLD. Sunflowers grow well in Palmer, Alaska. Gail’s often sprout from a stray seed cast from the bird feeder. This mini giclee art print of the original painting “Sunflower” [...]
Wildflower Art Print – Tiger Swallowtail 4″ x 12″ Offset Lithograph Open Edition $30.00 U.S. To purchase Original please call for price and availability. The butterfly and wildflower Fireweed are typical sights of a splendid Alaskan summer. Gail has depicted, in her image “Tiger Swallowtail”, this beautiful butterfly in a deciduous forest, along with the [...]
Wildflowers 9”x 12” Giclee Print Giclee Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $65.00 US Original painting 22″x30″ acrylic and watercolor on rag paper, call for price and availability. I found this beautiful vegetation while exploring the coastal areas of Kodiak Island, Alaska, where the landscape is lush with wildflowers. Nature made a perfect garden mixing [...]
Wildflower Art Print – Showy Iris 14.5” x 21.5” Giclee print 80 Edition $215.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 14″x20″ SOLD In early June a stadium-sized fields of wildflower iris fills the wetlands and can be seen from Alaska’s highways. This beautiful Giclee art print of the wildflower Iris printed on heavy rag paper with hand-torn edges [...]
Giclee Print – “Showy Iris” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting “Showy Iris”, 14″x20″ SOLD The wild Iris grows in large areas the size of football fields in the Eklutna Flats along the Glenn Highway near the Knick River bridge between Peters Creek and Palmer, Alaska. In the [...]
Pansy Art Print – Recycled 7” x 9.75” Offset Lithograph 600 Edition Current Value $50.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 13″x18.25″ SOLD During a visit to Skagway, Alaska, artist Gail Niebrugge spotted these wonderful worn hiking boot flower pots resting in the sun. This charming painting of Pansies has been carefully reproduced as a fine art print.
Mini Giclee Print – “Iris, Forget-me-not & Fireweed” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 16″x18″ SOLD Artist Gail Niebrugge incorporated this design using Wild Iris, the wildflower Fireweed, and Alaska’s state flower Forget-me-not, into a large outdoor mural, 32 long by 8 high, located in Kawabe Park downtown [...]
Mini Print – “Iris & Forget-me-not” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 14″x18″, framed 20″x24″ SOLD Artist Gail Niebrugge incorporated this design, using Wild Iris and Alaska’s state flower Forget-me-not, into a large outdoor mural, 32′ long by 8′ high, located in Kawabe Park downtown Seward, Alaska. More [...]
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...]