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Paintings of Sculpture

January 7, 2020

2020 I started the year with a month of art making on the theme of including a sculpture, or what I think is sculpture in each artwork. Perhaps because my father was a sculptor and metals artist I have quite a lot of sculpture and I have an appreciation for sculpture. Here is the group of what I completed on this theme in January 2020.

The show in February 2020 was at CDCP Project Space317 S Trenton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221. Just before COVID 19 shut everything down.

About the venue: Casey Droege of Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP) expanded from the still current Small Mall space 5300 Butler St Lawrenceville into the former Percolate Gallery space Wilkinsburg in summer of 2019. The director of Percolate Gallery Space Carolyn Pierotti stayed on as a key partner in Droege’s Wilkinsburg expansion named CDCP Project Space.

You might know Casey for her programs mixing 5 minute artist presentations with chefs in various locations titled Six x Ate. You can subscribe to her Six x Ate eblast here so you won’t miss one. lor and Gouache. El Anatsui design for façade of Carnegie Museum of Art 2013-14, Carnegie International. Made and installed in Pittsburgh by Dee Briggs and community. Richard Serra’s Carnegie 1985.

Goat paintings

January 12, 2019

My paintings of goats were inspired by visits to Goat Rodeo Farm and Dairy . Their goat cheese is amazing and I learned how personable goats are. I created the paintings for a 2 day event in Feb 2019 at Artist Image Resource. The unframed original paintings (not prints) are for sale. Those already sold begin with SOLD under the image. Just send me a message if you would like to purchase one of them through my contact page .

My facebook page ‘Carol Skinger Artworks’ which I invite you to like also has a full album with dimensions and prices.

**SOLD** $150. 12″ X 18″ – ‘Minds Meeting’ pastel on paper.

**Available** **$200**.-14″ x 17″- ‘Two Goats in Snow’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**SOLD** $200.-12″ X 12″ – ‘Snow Goat’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**SOLD** $250.-12″ X 16″- ‘Four Goats at the Fence’

**Available** $200.-12″ X 16″ -‘Camoflage Goat’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $200.-8 1/2″ X 8 1/2″- ‘Goat family’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $200.-12″ x 12″- ‘Goat on a Summer Day’ watercolor & gouache on paper. itv was a rectangle when i posted this image. it is now a square with goat centered.

**Available** $175.- 7″ x 10″ – ‘Goat & Paintbrushes’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $175.-9″ x 11″ – ‘Man kicks Goat’ watercolor on paper

**Available** $175.-11″ x 14″ – ‘Goat Kicks Man’ watercolor & gouache on paper

**Available** $200.-12″ X 12″- ‘Sculptural Goat’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $175.-16″ x 16″- ‘Pat the Goat’ watercolor on paper.

**Available** $150.-12″ X 18″ – ‘Minds Meeting’ pastel on paper.

**$150**.-12″ x 16″- ‘Meeting of the Minds’ watercolor & ink on paper.

**SOLD** $350 -12″ X 18″- ‘Herd on the Move’. Prints of this are **available** as a 12″ x 16″ archival print on watercolor paper with a 3/4″ border white paper all around. It is $75. Check here for print.

**SOLD** $200.-12″ x 12″ – ‘Goats in the Forest’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**SOLD** $175. 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ Brown goat on green & blue. Watercolor, gouache, ink.

**SOLD** $200.-12″ X 16″ – ‘Goat near Barn’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $200.-12″ x 15 1/2″ – ‘Goat at Low Tide’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**SOLD** $175.-12″ X 12″- ‘Gray Goat’ watercolor on paper.

**Available** $350- 22″x 22″ – ‘White on Blue Goat’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

**Available** $175.-12″ x 12″ – ‘Three blues’ watercolor & gouache on paper.

Carol Skinger with the Goat paintings (mostly goats) painted January 2019.

**Available** $200.-12″ X 18″ – ‘Mid Century Lamp on New Years Day’ pastel on paper.

I did this on the first day before I realized I wanted to make art about goats all month.

**Available** $200.-12″ x 18″ – ‘Abstract totems’ watercolor on paper. (a couple days I needed a break from goats)

Mid Century Lamp Pastel Still Life

January 2, 2019

1/1/2019 New Years day pastel. First artwork of the year.

Pastel of Mid Century floor lamp with with bittersweet in a vase.

It’s here in my studio if you are interested. send me a message via my contact page.

I got the bittersweet on a bike ride on Thanksgiving morning.

Bicycle Art Fundraiser for Pittsburgh’s MS Society 12/7/2018

November 10, 2018

Cycling Across the Allegheny River, Watercolor and Gouache by Carol Skinger to be auctioned this coming Friday Dec. 7, 2018 Art of Cycling, A Benefit for Bike MS at the Wigle Distillery in the Strip District Pittsburgh MS fundraiser between 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Wigle Whiskey Distillery 2401 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222. Proceeds benefit the National MS Society, PA Keystone Chapter & Bike MS. Join us for cycling-themed cocktails, Blue Sparrow Food Truck and an auction of cycling-themed artwork by Pittsburgh artists including two paintings by me. They will be unveiling and auctioning the first-ever Wigle Whiskey cycling jersey, produced locally by Aero Tech Designs. Between now and then my two Art of Cycling paintings are on display with 2 others (one by Baron Batch) at Kindred Cycles, 2515 Penn Avenue in the Strip District.

(Here’s my other auction item) 2401 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

Take a closer look at both my paintings now before the auction at Kindred Cycles 2515 Penn Ave, Strip District Pittsburgh

Bicycle Art Fundraiser for Pittsburgh’s MS Society 12/7/2018

November 10, 2018

Camping and Biking, Watercolor and Gouache by Carol Skinger to be auctioned this coming Friday Dec. 7, 2018 Art of Cycling, A Benefit for Bike MS at the Wigle Distillery in the Strip District Pittsburgh MS fundraiser between 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Wigle Whiskey Distillery 2401 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222. Proceeds benefit the National MS Society, PA Keystone Chapter & Bike MS. Join us for cycling-themed cocktails, Blue Sparrow Food Truck and an auction of cycling-themed artwork by Pittsburgh artists including two paintings by me. They will be unveiling and auctioning the first-ever Wigle Whiskey cycling jersey, produced locally by Aero Tech Designs. Between now and then my two Art of Cycling paintings are on display with 2 others (one by Baron Batch) at Kindred Cycles, 2515 Penn Avenue in the Strip District.

And here is my other auction item. 2401 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

Take a closer look at both my paintings now before the auction at Kindred Cycles 2515 Penn Ave, Strip District Pittsburgh

Robert Burns dinner coming up. Should we go?

January 19, 2018

Phipps Conservatory and Robert Burns sculpture Pittsburgh, PA

Ink drawing by Carol Skinger. An 8 1/2 ” x 11″ print for $25 can be purchased here.

Each year the St. Andrews Society of Pittsburgh hosts a Robert Burns dinner including traditional piping in the haggis, Taste of Scotland Buffet, traditional toasts, and Burns recitations. Membership in the St. Andrew’s Society of Pittsburgh is open to men and women of all ages. The St. Andrew’s Society of Pittsburgh offers several classes of membership including those have no ancestral ties to Scotland, but have an interest in Scottish life and heritage.

It sounds sort of interesting since I have never done it before. I am not Scottish (WOOPS I forgot, turns out I am partly Scottish) and neither is my husband.

We do like scotch though and we did meet at a bar in Boston (really Brookline) called the Tam O’Shanter or simply the Tam which closed in the 90’s And later I did draw a tam o’shanter on Robert Burns head in my silly ink drawing of Phipps Conservatory and the Robert Burns statue in Oakland which is the university area in Pittsburgh.

Finally what I hope brings me to Scotland itself one day is to see at least some of or even all of the route of my mom’s bicycle trip there in August 1938 with her college roommate Jean. Her photo album of the trip includes the map and diary. Bucket list stuff…

Paintings of Sculpture

Goat paintings

Mid Century Lamp Pastel Still Life

Bicycle Art Fundraiser for Pittsburgh’s MS Society 12/7/2018

Bicycle Art Fundraiser for Pittsburgh’s MS Society 12/7/2018

Robert Burns dinner coming up. Should we go?

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