Carol Skinger

Mt. Mansfield

This is painting of Mt. Mansfield from the Stowe, VT side. It's a frontal view showing the profile of Mt. Mansfield, above tree line, where it's white (snow) with black accents. Below tree line you can see the tops of several snow covered ski trails. The sky above is a brilliant deep blue cascading in sheets, almost imitating the northern lights.
Mt, Mansfield copyright by Carol Skinger

Mt. Mansfield Print 8 1/2″ x 19 1/2″ print includes a white 1/2″ border.

Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper $50 includes packing and shipping shipping in US.

Prior to the mid-eighteenth century, the mountain was known by its Abenaki name, Mozôdebiwajok which translates to Moosehead Mountain.

Painting of Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, VT

I developed the original art by first painting the sky with Dr. P.H.Martin’s archival ink. Specifically the sky is painted with a pigment based “Ocean Fountain Pen Ink‘, a lightfast, archival, brilliant, fine artist pigment liquid color on watercolor paper.

When dry, I free-hand painted a winter scene of the profile of Mt. Mansfield in Holbein Acrylic Gouache, a water based paint which is of professional quality, lightfast, finely ground pigment plus acrylic binder.

What you mostly see of Mt. Mansfield is the part above tree line and you also see the tops of several ski trails coming from both the Octagon and the Cliff House. If you look closely you can see the blue coming through where I scratched through the black gouache, to get some forest like dimension.

People have said the way the brilliant blue sky is painted reminds them of the Northern Lights. The original painting is now in Wyoming after it was auctioned in June 2025 as part of a fundraiser for the Stowe High School Alumni Group at an alumni banquet. The owner of the painting is Mary Beth Quinn, who was from Stowe, ski raced for Mount Mansfield Ski Club, Burke Mountain Academy and UVM where Marilyn Cochran was her coach. As Ski School Director at Virginia’s Wintergreen Resort she was quoted in the Washington Post in 1998 . Congratulations Mary Beth. I know how much you hoped to have the painting!

I’m showing this print along with several other original paintings of Mt. Mansfield in a group show of The Pittsburgh Group in Sewickely, PA in Feb and March 2026 at Sweetwater Center for the Arts.

I wrote about that show and the paintings here if you want to see them.

The BEST painting I ever saw of Mt. Mansfield titled The Belated Party on Mt. Mansfield was painted in 1858 by Jerome Thompson. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing to see it.

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Paintings of Mt. Mansfield

Paintings in blue and white and black by Carol Skinger of two frontal views of Mt. Mansfield in Winter. watercolor, gouache, archival ink. Copyright @Carol Skinger

The artworks I have selected to exhibit with the Pittsburgh Group Sewickley, PA at the Sweetwater Art Center from Feb 5 – March 27, 2026, are autobiographical re: the landscape of my childhood. The season is winter, and Pittsburgh will transition from winter to springtime during the show.

The opening for the art show was Thursday February 5, 2026 from 6-8PM.

Sweetwater Art Center 200 Broad St. Sewickley, PA15243

Regular Hours: Open weekdays 9-5. Closed weekends. 412-741-4405 call ahead to check for weather closings

My pieces to be exhibited are part of an exhibition by The Pittsburgh Group, a group of 17 women artists and will be on the Mezzanine level of Sweetwater Center for the Arts. We each submitted 3 or 4 pieces.

Here is a list of Exhibiting members in this show.

The artworks I am exhibiting were painted in shades of blue during and after a 2024 ski trip with my husband to Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. On one of our ski days, I joined my sister Erica who was a member of the US Alpine Ski Team 1968 and 1969 to ski together on what I now call the big, beautiful backyard of my childhood. It had been a VERY LONG TIME since we skied there together. We loved our runs on Mt. Mansfield! It’s great to be able to share this landscape more with my husband now that he is retired. Growing up, my family lived close enough to the bottom of Mt. Mansfield that we could ski home after a day of skiing. My sisters and I spent so much time on the mountain in all seasons. Spring, summer and fall was for hiking. It left an indelible memory, and I feel lucky and happy to be able to revisit it now a couple times a year. When I was in the early grades of elementary school in Stowe our house was also a ski lodge which I’ve written about here.

Painting Copyright by Carol Skinger with Deep Blue sky over Mt. Mansfield in winter.

Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield #1 was completed in 2025.The original painting found a home in Wyoming, but I have prints available for sale. Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper Original media: Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Permanent Ink. 19 1/2” w. x 8 1/2” h. (+-) including white border. Read more and see price

Title of artwork: Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, VT #2
Medium: Watercolor Dimensions (H × W × D): 21” h. x 29” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? NO (but I will have it scanned for prints after the show ends)

Painted in the rental unit after a day of skiing; just painted on two pages of my watercolor notebook at night from memory. The traveling watercolor set is by Derwent Intense watercolors, permanent when dry – doesn’t washout like watercolor. Layer up intense vibrant colors. The red dot is the Octagon, a restaurant at top of chairlift, now painted red. Here’s a picture of me in the bathroom as I painted this picture:

Title of artwork: Watercolor Study for View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions (H × W × D): 14”h. x 11” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): YES
Sale price (if applicable): $250. SOLD

Note: People responded a lot to this when I posted it on social media when done.

Title of artwork: View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions (H × W × D): 24 ½” h. x 21 ½” x 2”d
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): NO
Sale price (if applicable): NFS

View East from Mt. Mansfield (Acrylic)
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions (H × W × D): 48” h. x 36” w. x 2”d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): Yes
Sale price (if applicable): $1500.

For scale I am standing with the painting:

Acrylic painting 36" x 48" with white snow in foreground, liine of trees and then rolling hills in distance painted in blues. Ble ski and white clouds.

I am a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. I was pleased to be invited to join the Pittsburgh Group in 2024. Education: California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA) now called California College of the Arts; additional studies at Instituto Allende, Mexico, Boston Architectural Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

The Art Award I’m proudest of was from Juror Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I received one of her Best of Show awards at Intr[au]spective exhibition, in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival. 

Sweetwater Center for the Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary recently by planning for a spectacular renovation described in this Pittsburgh Magazine article . I learned that Alice Snyder, Trudy Hetherington and Smokey Jack were the founding mothers. While Sweetwater Center for the Arts currently has exhibition space on two floors, it exciting to see the future in the architectural rendering below. Fundraising is ongoing.

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Illustrated Native Plants of Western PA by Carol Skinger

$40 per one Print
Size including border is 18 1/2″ wide x 8″ high.

Original was painted in watercolor, gouache, and archival inks. Archival print on textured paper. There are 11 images in the series

Passiflora incarnata, commonly called Maypop, purple passion flower, wild passion vine
Passiflora incarnata, commonly called Maypop, purple passion flower, wild passion vine.

 

Helenium autumnaleCommonly called Sneezeweed $40 Print Size including border is 18 1/2" wide x 8" high. Original was painted in watercolor, gouache, and archival inks. Archival print on textured paper. 
Helenium autumnale,
Commonly called Sneezeweed

 

left: Echinacea, commonly called Coneflowerright: Monarda didyma, commonly called Red Bee Balm or Bergamot. It is a hybrid of the wild Monarda.
left: Echinacea, commonly called Coneflower
right: Monarda didyma, commonly called Red Bee Balm or Bergamot. It is a hybrid of the wild Monarda.

 

Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan) and Echinacea (Cone Flower)
Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan) and Echinacea (Cone Flower)

 

Vernonia fasciculata Commonly called Ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata
Commonly called Ironweed

 

Onoclea sensibilisCommonly called Sensitive Fern
Onoclea sensibilis
Commonly called Sensitive Fern

 

Vernonia fasciculata illustrated in summer and in winter. Commonly called Ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata illustrated in summer and in winter. Commonly called Ironweed

 

Rudbeckia illustrated in summer and in winter is commonly called Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia illustrated in summer and in winter is commonly called Black Eyed Susan

 

Native plant illustrated in summer and winter is Monarda fistulosa, commonly called Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm
Native plant illustrated in summer and winter is Monarda fistulosa,
commonly called Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm

 

Native plant on left is Echinacea, commonly called Coneflower.Native plaon right is Polygonatum biflorum, commonly Solomon's Seal.
Native plant on left is Echinacea, commonly called Coneflower.
Native plant right is Polygonatum biflorum, commonly Solomon’s Seal.

 

Native plant illustrated is Helinium autumnale, commonly called Sneezeweed or Helen’s plant. This coloring is a cultivar of the native yellow version.
Helinium autumnale (Sneezeweed or Helen’s plant)

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Snow Shadows

Trees cast long shadows on snow, ski tracks and footprints in snow, deep blue hill and russet foliage beyond, Winter sky has yellow glow and viridian green. 12” x 12” Soft pastel on paper by Carol Skinger
Snow Shadows by Carol Skinger. Soft Pastel on paper.

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Stain and Flow Abstract Ink

Imaginary Landscape 10
Imaginary Landscape 10

New abstract works on Arches paper. Water plus archival inks.

Working title ‘Don’t Look Up’ series. These are quite small in scale so far.

Horizontal abstract painting in blues, reddish brown and an ochre-like yellow on white paper. It’s a ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style, showing much flowing of color into each other or into white areas. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 07 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 3 zones on paper. Above the horizon is mostly pale sepia flowing to darker brown, including small bits of bright orange. Next zone at the center area is white. Below the white zone a mostly deep cool green and deep blue color flowing into white area at center. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water below it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 05 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting on paper. Above the horizon a mostly pale light beige color flows into smaller amount of darker brown. Below the horizon is mostly darker, then lighter blue with white flowing into it. The white area appears as a flowing white zone in center horizon. It’s a ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style, showing much flowing of color into each other or into white areas. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 02 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting on paper. Above the horizon is mostly blue with white flowing into it. Below the horizon a mostly pale light beige color flows into smaller amount of darker brown. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 02 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 3 zones on paper. Above the horizon is mostly blue with white flowing into it. Next zone at the center area is white. Below the white zone is mostly darker brown with pale sepia flowing into it with small bits of bright orange. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 04 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 2 zones on paper. Above the horizon is white paper with diagonal yellow orange rectangular shape intruding. Below is stained din eep blue in shades from lighter to darker blue flowing color. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 08 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 2 zones on paper. Above the horizon is a pink, brown and white flow. Below is stained in dark brown to lighter brown, to very pale. A thin horizontal zone of white separates the upper and lower zones. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com
Imaginary Landscape 09 by Carol Skinger

Imaginary Landscape 11 by Carol Skinger

Imaginary Landscape 12
Imaginary landscape 12

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