Carol Skinger

Historic Schenley Park Map with 2013 changes!

I am so excited about my latest changes to Schenley Park Map.  I started to realize that people were pairing it with the Frick Park map for framing purposes which makes sense.  Then I realized I can do something to make the Schenley Park map  more like the Frick Park map by filling in the blank text box with the history of the park (surely what the blank box was always intended for) and by adding a red border .

Here is the existing Frick Park map (available at Frick Art and Historical Center) which shows text in their box as well as a red stripe at border.

The new Schenley Park map will be available at Friday evening January 25th 2013 Gallery Crawl Project POP UP III. Post Gazette is writing about it now. AND it will also be available at IMI Mine! Feb 2, 2013 Southside Works. It is always for sale, available in two sizes on my website .

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I Made it! Mine at Southside Works 2-2-2013

 February 2, 2013 I will be  vendor at I Made It! Mine and it’s WARM INSIDE . At 2PM Pittsburgh City Councilman Bill Peduto will be presenting a proclamation  declaring Feb 2 as Creative Entrepreneur Day in Pittsburgh! Come on down and meet the councilman! He is running for mayor .

Find these sweet talents offering lovely wares at I Made It! Mine at the SouthSide Works on Saturday, February 2nd from 12 – 5 pm.

This event is INSIDE the corner space formerly occupied by Joseph Beth Bookseller at 510 S. 27th Street. I am looking forward to joining a big group of creatives for another IMI event!

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A gift from a mom

photo of subject

Ranch House

The houses I am commissioned to paint are often quite special,  historic to some degree and do catch your eye in the first place,  full of detail and character as they sometimes are. And I have done a McMansion or two which I am not unproud of, much as we debate this style and what it means.  But one of my favorite exercises which I am nearly done with is shown here, a modest brick ranch house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Recently when I was showing my work at I Made it! For the Holidays at Bakery Square – someone said “Oh I wish I liked my house well enough to have one done by you!”. And I do know what she meant.

But I love that this young couple’s mother who commissioned me to paint this house portrait as a Christmas gift, realized that a home that contains love and warmth is worth celebrating and memorializing. It’s really not about the square feet,  curb appeal, or historic charm. It’s not about the house of our dreams. It’s about the lives that take place here and now in the place we live now, showing appreciation and love for the people within.

Shelter and home is a great thing to have, whether owned or rented, built of brick or wood or stone. A ranch, or a four square, art and crafts bungalow or a trailer, a tudor, colonial, midcentury modern, apartment  or a Victorian pile.  All places where people live and the list could go on… tent cities, shelter made of cast offs.

It’s interesting what paths I learn about and think about with something as simple as a house portrait! More examples and pricing here.

I say anyone with a roof over their head- owned or rented or trailer is doing well!

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I Made it! for the Holidays 2012- Nov 30 and Dec 1

This is a sample of one of my  Custom House Portraits.

More examples and pricing information here.

I will be vendor again for the 3rd time at I Made it! for the Holidays at Bakery Square.

Friday Nov 30   5-10pm

Saturday Dec 1  11 am-6pm

Indoors at  @ Bakery Square  6425 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Good thing about it- FREE indoor parking!

There are many vendors, over 90 (!!) and a couple of my TOP favorites will be there too. Amber Coppings and her x mittens (stylish and artful warm cozy things) and Paul Roden & Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Workshop with their fantastic woodcuts. So many others too who I love…just come and see.

What I will be selling:

Schenley Park Prints: Medium size $90. Large size $175. (more $ for framed ones). I will take print orders, and they take 2 or 3 days to print. Also they can be ordered through my website: $90. size and the $175 size. If you can’t spring for framing I can have them mounted to foam core with a wall hanger.

Framed Cycle Pittsburgh print $25 and $35 framed. This has been so popular since I made it for a Bike Pittsburgh event at Gallery Crawl! It’s West End Bridge n’at.

Boxed set 6 of my Silly Ink cards with envelopes of Pittsburgh. Over 80 notable folks from Pittsburgh printed on back of each card. Can be ordered through my website here.

I will bring Starry Night Sleigh , my first painted furniture (or toy) and have it for sale and to display cards on! It’s the right time if year for it! There is even  You Tube about it.

And other stuff! Hope you come and see all the interesting artists, makers and crafters at Bakery Square. It is at street level inside the former Nabisco factory, now home to Google Pittsburgh.

 

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Pittsburgh in Ink! Silly Ink

Set of 6 drawings of Pittsburgh which I call my silly ink drawings. They are printed as cards, come with envelopes, and postage needed is one regular stamp. Many people choose to frame them as a set. As prints each drawing is on 8 1/2″ x  5 1/2″ paper.

Scenes drawn are Phipps Conservatory and Oakland, The Point with Heinz Field, Grant St, Fourth Ave (Dollar Bank with the Lions on Pittsburgh’s wall Street), Sixth Avenue, Station Square.  There is an extensive list of famous people from the region printed on the back of each one.

Each set is $20.00. Two sets are $30.00. Go through my contact form and shoot me an email if you want to order.

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Art Created from Salvaged Wood

Art Created from Salvaged Wood

See my YouTube on the whole process: finding the LL Bean Sleigh at the dump to finished piece.

I found a beautiful wood LL Bean sleigh at the Fox Chapel dump, held aside by the fellow who manages the dump for anyone who might want it.

I have so many happy memories of childhood in Vermont in both the Lake Champlain Islands and in Stowe, places where my parents moved from NJ & MA after WWII to live out their married life bring up a family. I have early memories of seeing the northern lights from the most northern part of the Lake Champlain Islands where we lived in my early childhood, just a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. That memory of a night sky alive with color and movement combined with my love for Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night became the motivation for my painting for the found LL Bean Sleigh. I thought if I were a toddler what would I love to look at on my sleigh?

The paint is acrylic on canvas, which has layers of thinned gesso layed down first.

 

 

 

 

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