Original Art, Prints and Cards
Artist Gail Niebrugge was commissioned in 2006 through the State of Alaska Per Cent For Art program to create five paintings for the Teeland Middle School Library, Wasilla, Alaska, with subject matter reflective of the landscape in the Matanuska-Susitna valley. The panels appear from left to right in this order; “Cow with Calf” 18″ x [...]
Saturday we attended the opening reception of the new Anchorage VA Outpatient Clinic and did a tour of all of the beautiful Per Cent for Art installed in the building. It is an impressive collection! In the upstairs lobby south wing my painting “Grassy Wetlands” graces the wall. Another painting “Backwater” hangs in the prosthetic [...]
Here I am carrying one of the big bird paintings up the Palmer courthouse steps ready to be installed. Our trusty helpers, Seth Blanchard and Shane McGraw from Sign Co, Anchorage, installing the last two Sandhill crane paintings in the lobby. Seth and I checking out the view from the scissors lift. What are all [...]
“Wildflowers” 8′ x 32′ mural from the “Mural-in-a-Day” project, Seward, Alaska. After more than a year of waiting, my mural “Wildflowers” was installed on September 14, 2007 in Kawabe Park, downtown Seward, Alaska. It looks fantastic and was well worth the wait! Seward is working hard to become known as the Mural Capitol of Alaska. [...]
The Prospectors Trail” acrylic painting on Sintra, a ten panel multi-dimensional artwork 12′ wide and 9′ tall. The painting commemorates the rugged terrain of the historic Chilkoot Trail used by prospectors during the 1897-1898 stampede from Skagway, Alaska, to Canada’s Klondike gold fields. The technique of pointillism employed on Niebrugge’s smaller works is modified for [...]
“Pioneer Peak” acrylic painting on Sintra, four panels each 18″ wide by 46″ high. Pictured from left to right; Bob Niebrugge, artist Gail Niebrugge, Kristan Cole, and Brad Cole. The four narrow panels were designed to fit a curved wall above the entry stairway. Niebrugge Studio produced a limited edition print of this beautiful art [...]
The art selection committee asked for a fall scene of Juneau, Alaska. Artist Niebrugge scouted the few back roads and historic sites in this tiny community, choosing to paint a location that was different from the familiar view of the city along the waterfront. Gail was attracted to this spot on Basin Road by the [...]
Alaska Per Cent for Art Commission for the Lower Kuskowim School District, Atmautluak School. Read about artist Gail Niebrugge’s experiences in the Yupic village of Atmautluak while painting this artwork in her Blog entries titled Atmautluak Commission. This scene shows race day in the village, and event that all the residents participate either as entrants [...]
State of Alaska Per Cent for Art Commission for Seward Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC), Alaska This painting captures the massive mountain range of the Kenai Fjords National Park rising behind the small city of Seward, Alaska, showing the dramatic seasonal changes.
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...]