Painting Alaska
Hello! I am Anchorage-based artist, Bailey Gamble. I create oil paintings inspired by Alaska wilderness and compile resources for everyone interested in painting and learning about Alaska art.
Recent Posts
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Paint Like Sydney Laurence – A Gathering
This post describes an online gathering hosted by UAF for fans of historic Alaska painter Sydney Laurence. Participants paint in the recognizable Laurence style for five afternoons over the course of a week.
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Alaska Artist-in-Residence Programs
Alaska Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programs offer a focused time to create while immersed in unique and often remote settings. As an absolute Denali fiend myself, the highly competitive Denali National Park residency program is high on my list of dreams, though the program is suspended while the road is under repair at Polychrome Pass. I think…
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Alaska Landscape Artist: Sydney Laurence
No other artist captures the presence of Denali across the mountain’s many moods and seasons quite like Sydney Laurence. Most recognizable are his paintings of Denali’s southern aspect from the banks of the Tokositna River. Although born in New York in 1865, he moved to Alaska in 1904 and eventually became known as Alaska’s premier…
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Something to Paint On
This post describes three options for panel surfaces to use for painting, whether getting started on a budget or stepping up to higher quality.
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A Landscape Limited Color Palette
A light bulb illuminated in my head while participating in an online painting course by Scott Christensen (Adventure of Painting). He was illustrating the color harmony of a limited palette, where all colors in a painting relate to each other because they are mixed from a few base colors. Applying this strategy to my own…
