Gail Niebrugge's Blog
“TEKLANIKA BEARS” Mini Print Teklanika Bears 5″ x 7.5″ giclee on acid free paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Teklanika Bears” 23.5″x35.5″ acrylic on Masonite, call for price and availability. Two young Brown Bears ambling along the Teklanika Riverbed near the Teklanika Campground in Denali National Park, Alaska. While staying at this campground [...]
“MOOSE TWO” MINI PRINT Moose Two 5″ x 7.4″ Giclee Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Moose Two” 5″ x 7″ acrylic on canvas SOLD. During fall rutting season in Alaska large bull moose are often visible parading, thrashing antlers, and establishing their dominance in an effort to impress cows. Smaller [...]
COMMON LOON MINI PRINT Common Loon 6″x8″ Giclee Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Common Loon” 8″x10″ acrylic on canvas SOLD. The beautiful haunting call of the Common Loon is music to artist Gail Niebrugge during the arrival of migrating waterfowl in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Gail looks forward to the [...]
MCKINLEY TRAIL MINI ART PRINT “McKinley Trail” 5.8″x7.8″ mini Giclee print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “McKinley Trail” 22″x30″watercolor/acrylic on rag paper framed under glass 32″x40″. Call for price and availability. During Gail’s Artist-in-Residence at Denali National Park, Alaska, she discovered the McKinley Bar Trail part way down the road to the Wonder [...]
WING DANCING FINE ART PRINT Wing Dancing 6″ x 8″ Giclee Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Wing Dancing” 48″ x 60″ acrylic on canvas. Call for price and availability. The Sandhill Cranes are one of the largest birds of flight in the world and migrate to Alaska during the spring. [...]
Giclee Print – “Silent Travelers” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting “Silent Travelers”, 22″x30″ framed matted under glass 32″x40″ Call for price and availability Herds of caribou quietly migrate each year through Denali National Park, Alaska, grazing, always moving, sometimes in a long line marching like soldiers on [...]
Giclee Print – “Cotton Grass Bear” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting “Cotton Grass Bear”, 14″x20″ SOLD Brown bears are common in Alaska, Gail painted this grizzly as it grazed on vegetation surrounded by the wildflower Cotton Grass. Titled “Cotton Grass Bear” this image is available as a [...]
Glacier Art Print – Juneau’s Glacier Mendenhall Glacier Painting – Juneau’s Glacier 5.6”x 7.5”mini Giclee print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Juneau’s Glacier” 30″x40″ acrylic on canvas. Call for price and availability. The Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska, is a people friendly area and trails abound along the edge of Mendenhall Lake. Views of [...]
TRUMPETER SWAN FINE ART FINE ART PRINT CATALOG: WILDLIFE Trumpeter Swan Art – Trumpeters with Young Trumpeter Swan Art 5.8”x 7” Mini Giclee Art Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic painting “Trumpeters with Young” SOLD. After hours of hiding in the brush watching Trumpeter Swan on Chitina Town Lake, Alaska, and [...]
SUN RAVEN GICLEE MINI PRINT Raven Mini Print – Sun Raven 5”x 7.75” Mini Giclee Art Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic painting “Sun Raven” on rag paper 10″x15″ matted and framed under glass 17″ x 22″, call for price and availability. I chose to place the dark, ebony colored raven [...]
Northern Lights Print – Northern Lights 6″ x 8″ Giclee print on paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original painting “Northern Lights” 18″x24″ acrylic on canvas SOLD This beautiful pointillism painting of the northern lights by artist Gail Niebrugge, depicts the aurora borealis in a multi-hued, very active phase. The artist used snow laden spruce [...]
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” [...]
Sunset Landscape Print – Scarlet Sky Sunset Landscape Print 5.3”x 7.5” Mini Giclee Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic painting “Scarlet Sky” SOLD. The views of the landscape along the Turnagain Arm from Anchorage to Girdwood, Alaska, are unequaled in beauty. Driving home late one evening we witnessed this spectacular sunset [...]
Print of Painting – Creek Street Creek Street 5.5”x 7.5” Mini Giclee Art Print on Paper Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original 11″ x 15″ watercolor/acrylic painting “Creek Street” SOLD. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Creek Street is not a street at all but a boardwalk perched on pilings over the water serving as access to a [...]
Mt. McKinley Print – The Great One 5.6″ x 7.5″ mini art print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US The Mt. McKinley or Denali “The Great One” in Denali National Park, Alaska, is the highest peak in North America at a height of 20,320′. Gail painted this view of Denali as seen from a hike south [...]
Pen & Ink Giclee – Salty Dawg Saloon 8″ x 10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $25.00 Original pen and ink drawing 6.5″ x 8.5″ framed 11.5″x13.5″ SOLD. This historic Alaska landmark, the Salty Dawg Saloon, is located near the tip of the Homer Spit and is famous as a raucous, wild, crazy bar. This [...]
Pen & Ink Print – Cafe Cups 8″ x 10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $25.00 Original pen and ink drawing 6.5″ x 8.5″ framed 11.5″x13.5″ SOLD. Cafe cups is a charming, eclectic restaurant in Homer, Alaska. Gail used the techniques of crosshatch and stipple to create the shapes and values in this pen and [...]
Historic Fine Art – Nugget Creek Truck 8×10 Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $25.00 US Original pen and ink drawing 10″ x 14″ framed 18″ x 22″ Call for price and availability Another vintage truck from my research in the Copper River Basin, Alaska, found during a week exploring the Nugget Creek Trail in the [...]
Historic Fine Art – Wasilla Tractor 8×10 Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $25.00 US Original pen and ink drawing 10″ x 14″ framed 18″ x 22″ Call for price and availability I didn’t have to forage through Alaska’s wilderness to find this rusty treasure, this antique tractor is parked at the Alaska Museum of Transportation [...]
Historic Fine Art – Coupe at Chitina 8×10 Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $25.00 US Original pen and ink drawing 10″ x 14″ framed 18″ x 22″ Call for price and availability During one of my expeditions along the boackroads of the Wrangell-St. Elias region of Alaska, I found this relic stashed in the willows [...]
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...]