Original Art, Prints and Cards
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge“Rare White Fireweed” 14×20 acrylic on rag board, framed under glass 21×27 Original Painting SOLD The following is a quote from artist Gail Niebrugges book Alaska Wildflowers; “Dwarf fireweed, the stubby cousin of common fireweed, carpets the sandy riverbed below my studio during the summer with its magenta-colored blossoms. On one of [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Sound of Silence” 11.5×12.25 acrylic/watercolor on rag board, framed under glass 17×18 Original Painting SOLD Niebrugge painted “Sound of Silence” in 1993 from research gathered in the coastal town of Valdez, Alaska. The artist is drawn to the light, early morning or late evening is best, most of her paintings are [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Meadow Brook” 18×13 acrylic on Sintra panel Original Painting SOLD, Commissioned by Alaska Percent for Art at the Teeland School Library “Meadow Brook” is one of a five panel commission installed in the Teeland Middle School Library, Wasilla, Alaska. Artist Niebrugge depicted one of the many small brooks and streams that [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “I Love Fireweed” 12×17 acrylic on rag board, framed under glass 18×23 Original Painting SOLD The wildflower fireweed is the subject of many of artist Niebrugges paintings, she professes to love this plant. In the summer fields and fields of dazzling pink and fuschia blooms will literally carpet the landscape. “I [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Shooting Star” 14×20 acrylic on rag board, framed under glass 21×27 Original Painting SOLD During research for her book Alaska Wildflowers, Niebrugge spent a lot of time exploring the back roads and byways of her new home, the Matanuska Valley. The milder weather, gentler than the extremes of the Copper River [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Wolf and Roses” 14×20 acrylic on rag board, framed under glass 22×27 Call for Price and Availability Taken from the journal of artist Gail Niebrugge; “I stood on a bridge in Denali National Park and contemplated shadows cast by the sun on the landscape. Out of the corner of my eye, [...]
Original Painting by Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “St. John’s Church” 22 x 30 watercolor/acrylic on rag paper This historic log building, the Colony Church/Theater, built in 1936-37 served as one of the three original colony churches in Palmer, Alaska. The building was moved to the Alaska State Fairgrounds in 1975 as part of a bicentennial [...]
Original Painting by Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Downtown Chisana 1989″ Original Painting 22″ x 30″ watercolor and acrylic on rag paper To purchase call for price and availability. Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge served as Artist-in-Residence for the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park after its establishment in 1980 for nearly a decade. One of her favorite settlements [...]
Original Painting by Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Above the Wrangells” Original Painting 18″ x 24″ acrylic on Masonite Panel To purchase call for price and availability. The research for the painting “Above the Wrangells” was done during a flight in a small single engine airplane over the Wrangell Mountains to a remote bush settlement of [...]
Original Painting by Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge “Wasilla Barn” Original Mini Painting 6″ x 8″ acrylic on rag board To purchase call for price and availability The first day after a new snow Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge explores nearby country roads in search of subject matter for paintings. The pristine fresh snow in Wasilla, Alaska, [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge Original Painting Niebrugge Original Mini Painting “Denali Evening” 4″ x 6″ acrylic on Sintra Panel To purchase call for price and availability. Late one summer evening in Denali National Park, Alaska, artist Niebrugge watched the last rays of sun light the peak of Mt. McKinley. The time was near midnight in [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge Original Painting – “Timberline” 10″ x 14″ acrylic on Sintra panel, framed 17″ x 21″ To purchase call for price and availability Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge painted this scene depicting the beautiful rolling hillsides that dominate the region before the Savage River along the Denali National Park road. This [...]
Alaska Artist Gail Niebrugge Original Painting Original Painting “Alaska State Flower” 11″ x 14″ acrylic on canvas with mirror wrapped edges To purchase call for price and availability Another in the Alaska wildflower series by artist Gail Niebrugge. The Alaska State flower is the tiny, blue forget-me-not and is abundant growing under larger plants along [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge Original Painting – “Narcissus Flowered Anenome” 14″ x 20″ acrylic on rag board, framed under glass 22″ x 27″ To purchase call for price and availability. During research for her book, Gail Niebrugge’s Alaska Wildflowers, Gail discovered many varieties of small, white flowers throughout the state. The artist found [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge Original Painting – “Mascot Saloon” 18″ x 24″ acrylic on Sintra panel To purchase original call for price and availability Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge spent a great deal of time in the scenic historic coastal town of Skagway during planning and installation of a Federal Art-in-Architecture per-cent for art [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge “Fire and Ice” original watercolor/acrylic painting 10″ x 14″ framed under glass 22″ x 25″ Call for price and availability of original painting. Accessible by road, the Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska, is a short walk to the face of the ice. Hiking trails lead from the base of [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge “Homer View” by Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge Original watercolor/acrylic painting on rag board 11″ x 15″, framed under glass 17″ x 21″ Call for price and availability. Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge painted this view of the Homer Spit from high up on the mountain in late evening sunshine near [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge Pointillism Painting “Twilight”by Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge Original acrylic painting on rag board 8″ x 11.5″, framed under glass 19″ x 22″ Call for price and availability This sweet little pointillism painting depicts a scene from the Old Trunk Road, Palmer, Alaska, of alpen glow on the distant mountains. [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge Alaska landscape painting “Copper Center Trail” Original acrylic painting 15.5″ x 22″ on rag paper, call for price and availability. Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge discovered this original painting in the bottom of a forgotten file drawer, hidden underneath children’s drawings, folders full of old proposals and submissions, and other miscellaneous [...]
Original Painting by Artist Gail Niebrugge “Ice Giant” Mendenhall Glacier Painting by Gail Niebrugge Original acrylic painting on hot press rag board 11.5″ x 25″ framed under glass 20″ x 31″ Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge believes that the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau is one of the most people friendly glaciers in Alaska, with sand bars [...]
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...]