Gail Niebrugge's Blog
Gail incorporated this design into the large outdoor mural in Seward’s Kawabe Park downtown, the mural is 8′ high and 32′ long. “Iris, Forget-me-not & Fireweed” is now available as a miniature digital ink jet giclee print on acid free paper with fade resistant inks, matted 8″x10″ with acid free silver gray black core and acid free backing, each print is hand-signed by the artist. Price $30.00 US, to purchase please click on this link, or call Niebrugge Studio (907) 746-3256.
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...]
Beautiful! We were hoping to make it up to Alaska this year on a cruise but it looks like that vacation will have to wait until next year. Seward is one of the stops so hopefully it will still be there next tourist season.
Kendra;
Thanks for the nice words. Yes, the Seward mural should be around for quite a few years. Hope you can make it up here next summer, if you do please give us a call and come visit the studio in Palmer.
Gail