Gail Niebrugge's Blog
Denali Mini Print – “Perennial Favorites” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 22″x30″ SOLD On a clear day in Denali National Park, Alaska, Mt. McKinley dominates the scene flanked by patches of hot pink Fireweed. During July and August this superabundant wildflower adorns the tundra throughout the state. [...]
Denali Art Print – “Mirror Image” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 15″x22″ SOLD At an elevation of 20,320 feet, Mt. McKinley is the highest mountain on the North American continent. Because the mountain creates its own weather, visitors to Alaska’s Denali National Park rarely see this impressive [...]
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 [...]
Christmas Wishing Well – Wishing Well 4”x 6” image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic/watercolor painting 10″ x 14″ Wishing Well SOLD. This charming structure of a wishing well is decorated with colorful lights for the Christmas season. I found it one night during a snow storm and as the [...]
Mini Giclee Matted – Bountiful Earth 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic painting 30″x40″ SOLD One of Gail’s favorite views in Alaska is looking at the Klutina River as it flows toward the Wangell Mountains and joins the Copper River. The artist featured Mt. Drum, a centerpiece in the [...]
Fine Art Print – “Discovery” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 10.75″x15″ SOLD The road through Portage valley to Whittier, Alaska, is gilded with glaciers. The artist, Gail Niebrugge, hiked the foot path near Portage Glacier to the Byron Glacier to find this stunning scene to paint. This [...]
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...]