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Here are few examples:
The loose free painting style with figures drawn with a stick is a favorite way to work!
Most mornings on the outer Cape this is pretty much our bike ride. After you open the link I suggest clicking “large” , selecting Sat for satellite, then zooming out few clicks to see it all.
It’s a little over 20 miles. Check it out in both map and satellite mode. John likes the Portuguese Bakery in Provincetown a lot. It’s a good goal when you are thinking about NOT doing the ride. I am a little resistant though their fig squares are hard to resist, so I get one every few days! I used to get up from a deep sleep, put on bike clothes, get water and go. Now I have a coffee and granola and blue berries before I go, so I am not always ready for pastry. But I do stop and look at things- architecture in Provincetown and nature in Province Lands, which is way out at the end of Cape Cod and a contrast to Provincetown. I totally LOVE them both!
Province Lands is 3,500 acres of national parkland on the other side of Route 6 from Provincetown itself. The tract was named the Province’s Lands in 1691 when the Massachusetts Bay Colony became a royal province as it absorbed Plymouth Colony and the land that had belonged to the Pilgrims (and absorbed Maine as well). It’s a geological and biological wonder that stands in relative obscurity and is unknown to 1000’s who visit Provincetown.
If I am really thirsty for a soda and need air conditioning and a great bathroom when I am out biking in Provincelands I go to the Provincetown Airport, right in the heart of Province Lands. I used to always transition to the 7 mile Province Lands Bike Trail after Provincetown but since we get up early not many are on the road yet so now I just go on the roads all through Province Lands. I still love the bike trail though! It’s a roller coaster through the dunes, and recently repaved. It gets no where near as much bike traffic as on many bike trails you may have tried because it is challenging, hilly, fast and it’s like biking in a desert climate because it IS! If you cannot do it, and you do not know someone with a 4 wheel drive vehicle and an oversands beach driving pass, I recommend Art’s Dune Tours.
Some good stuff here about poet Mary Oliver and P-town and P-lands.
2011 was the 5oth anniversary of President Kennedy creating the Cape Cod National Seashore.
Carol Skinger holds her drawing of Dollar bank, standing on the steps of Dollar Bank Photograph by Renee Rosensteel
Tonight I presented at Pecha Kucha Vol 8 in Pittsburgh at Nina Barbuto’s space assemble! Pecha Kucha was started in Japan by two Australian architects (I think). Architects are long winded, they ought to know- therefore each presentation is limited to 20 slides and the presenter can give 20 seconds of chit chat per slide. Period. You are DONE! In no way is it for architects only. It is wide open to anyone to submit an outline of their talk and a few images for consideration. Appeals to artists, graphic designers, writers, comedians, and actors and well- the list might go on and on. There were 8 presenters, and it was well attended. Pretty good entertainment for $5! Thanks to AIA and AIGA Pittsburgh for hosting and to graphic designer Greg Coll receiving our power points, lining them up and operating all the visual effects- so everything runs smoothly!
I was so blown away by the presentations! I look forward to seeing the work of my fellow presenters develop and to following their work in real time and on the internet. Pecha Kucha read and see more.
After you have been accepted for making a presentation, you create a power point of 20 slides and send it in via YouSendIt . Then they have it projected on a big sceen. You are off and running! A little over 6 minutes later you are done.
I used the silly ink drawings I create of street scenes to tell a story about how I started drawing them and why I do them. Contrasting my silly non-conforming drawings of buildings of crazy perspective with the precise work I execute in interior design and space planning was the core of the presentation. Seeing illustrator Alice Blodgett draw our house for a brochure when I was in first grade was like magic, and having our art teacher in 8th grade give us pen and ink and tell us to just walk to over to Main Street in Stowe, VT and draw the buildings was another piece of luck. When Ben & Jerry set up their first ice cream place in a former gas station in Burlington, VT they hung my drawing of Church St. on the wall. When I returned from a trip they told me it was something everyone wanted a copy of and that is when I began printing them.
Tonight at Pecha Kucha people especially liked seeing a drawing in process where I use drawings of the buildings on tracing paper and move them around to get a good arrangement.
This is Sixth Avenue in Pittsburgh
Then I showed the work of 5th graders at Grandview Elementary School where I photographed facades of their main street, Warrington Avenue and they created artwork based on the facades. Their artwork was shown in the storefronts of Warrington Ave. Watch a short multi media slide show on that project by Annie O’Neill and Diana Nelson Jones.
It’s my mission I guess to share the possibility of drawing your street!
Photographer and blogger Renee Rosensteel was all over the Three Rivers Arts Festival 2011. She took some wonderful photographs of kids painting prints of my Dollar Bank VERY silly ink drawing. Here is a slide show of the kids at work and her blog about it for Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Finally one of my photographs of one of the kids who had a blast painting my Dollar Bank drawing.
I just donated one of my prints Homage to Rachel Carson to the Rachel Carson Homestead Association AUCTION and in doing so I met the new executive director Joy Braunstein. She is doing so many dynamic things to make the Rachel Carson Homestead a real destination! I am a big fan of Rachel Carson and am so proud she was from our area. Big BIG things are in the works at the homestead and on Saturday June 11th the next big thing is the Rachel Carson Homestead auction at the homestead in Springdale PA.
Read more about that, and more, and more.
The auction is one of many fundraising events which will result in a visitor center and museum about a year from now, on the site of the Rachel Carson Homestead. Modifications will be made to the homestead to make it more in keeping with how it was when she grew up there.
So, very cool Pittsburgh!!
Here is more about my donated artwork titled Homage to Rachel Carson:
Media: Digital print on heavy satin paper. Carol’s altered photographs are copyright Carol Skinger. Approximate Size: 17″ x 17″
This print is part of Carol Skinger’s Homage to Famous People of Pittsburgh series.
Skinger’s piece titled Homage to Rachel Carson combines her images of Carson’s childhood home in Springdale (a few miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh) mixed with images of smoke stacks from power plants there. At the time Skinger created this piece in 2010, an environmental battle involving new scrubbers proposed by then owners of one of the power plants, RRI out of Houston, TX was in the news. RRI proposed scrubbers that would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions but increase lead and mercury emissions. High school students and others in the region became active and mobilized to demand a better solution, an example of citizen action to recognize and protect the environment that Rachel Carson would have been proud of.
A smaller version of Homage combining the original images and combined with writing was shown, written about by Tribune Art Critic Kurt Shaw (and sold) at a spring 2010 Pittsburgh Society of Artists exhibit at Borelli-Edwards gallery in the Lawrenceville area of Pittsburgh.
Read more: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_677507.html
My painting started out like this. In 2015 I unframed it and continued painting and now it looks like this.
I admire David Hockney’s work and I decided to take off on a painting he did pictured on the cover of his 2004 book “Hockney’s Pictures; a Definitive Retrospective”. Hockney’s piece is titled Maelstrom, Bodo, 2002 and is 72″ x 36″ painted on 6 sheets of paper. Mine, using his vision and colors, is painted on one full sheet 30″ x 21″. Just reading about the size of his piece and the number of sheets of paper makes me think much bigger than I normally do. I am now searching for a subject I want to do at that scale.
But I like his idea of using several sheets of paper for a painting so I have fooled around with one of Panther Hollow Bridge in 2015 here on two sheets. I found it was interchangeable.
I painted it to be this presentation.
But I might prefer this layout.
Pittsburghers call it a semi-detached house. Other people know it as a duplex. Andy Warhol spent most all of his early life through the end of college growing up in this house located in Pittsburgh, PA.
Oakland, the university area where the neighborhood is located placed Andy and his siblings in walking distance of the public schools they attended. For Andy that included being identified as artistically gifted, therefore attending Saturday art classes at the Carnegie Museum. Also in walking distance of the Warhola home was the college Andy attended Carnegie Tech, now called Carnegie Mellon University. The Warhola home on Dawson St. is privately owned and is not a museum.
The Andy Warhol Museum on Pittsburgh’s northside is a great place to visit. It is one of the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh. My greeting cards of these images of his home are available for sale at the Warhol Museum and also in my shop.
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