“Seasons End” original watercolor painting by Gail Niebrugge purchased for the permanent collection of the Valdez Museum, Alaska.
As I poked around the side roads of Valdez, a beautiful coastal town located in the Wrangell-St. Elias region of Alaska, searching for subject matter to paint, I came upon this jewel; a beautifully kept fishing boat stored in a yard where all of the out buildings were decorated with fishing floats and buoys. What a great way to store these colorful baubles. I even enjoyed keeping the ever present blue tarp in the scene. In this case it serves as a shed door, but often they are used as a roof, or to cover wood piles, boats, equipment, etc. The blue tarp is a staple in the rural Alaska yard. Most of the time they look offensive and I eliminate them from the scene, but somehow this one works just fine in this painting.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, paintings of boats
