Gail Niebrugge's Blog
Wildlife Art Prints – Spring Cubs To purchase Original please call for price and availability. 8.5” x 11″ Ink with Watercolor Open Edition $20.00 While in Denali National Park, Alaska, doing research for paintings, Gail was fortunate to be able to observe a sow Grizzly bear with twin spring cubs. This art print of Grizzly [...]
Wildlife Art Prints – Musk Ox To purchase Original please call for price and availability. 5.5” x 14″ Ink Drawing Open Edition $19.00 Gail found these baby Musk Ox at the Palmer Musk Ox Farm, Alaska, and enjoyed watching them gather together standing very close to one another side by side all in a row. [...]
Digital Print – “Lunch Break” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original watercolor/acrylic painting 10″x14″ SOLD The Sea Otter lives in shallow water areas along Alaska’s shores and usually do not migrate and are members of the weasel family. They are gregarious and may become concentrated in an area, in rafts [...]
Brown Bear Mini Print – Itchy Bear Brown Bear Mini Print 4”x 6” image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic painting SOLD. Appearing agitated this brown bear was insatiable as he wrapped his body around Denali’s Toklat River bridge sign in every conceivable contortion, writhing and twisting, leaning and scraping. [...]
Brown Bear Painting – Pushy Bear 4”x 6” image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 US Original acrylic painting SOLD. One evening at Toklat River bridge in Denali National Park, Alaska, a brown bear appeared and immediately began to push and paw the sign nearly tearing it from the ground. As we watch [...]
Fine Art Print – “Steller Quartet” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 14″x20″, framed 21″x 27″ call for availability and price. The Steller Sea Lion in Alaska is listed under the Endangered Species Act, although the populations have been on the increase since 1980. They can be found [...]
Digital Watercolor Print – “Acappella” 4″x6″ image matted 8″x10″ Giclee Print Open Edition Signed $30.00 Original acrylic/watercolor painting 14″x20″ framed matted under glass 21″x27″ Call for price and availability. The Steller Sea Lion in Alaska, summer on exposed rocky outcroppings in traditional rookeries to breed and pup, and migrate to spend winters in protected areas. [...]
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...]