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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Grant St Pittsburgh illustration

A whimsical black and white ink illustration by Carol Skinger of Pittsburgh’s Grant Street at the Intersection of Fourth Avenue. You can tell because the street signs say so. People walking to work, a boy with a yo-yo, a car with a kayak, additional cars and busses and a cluster of street signs can be seen. A traffic helicopter is overhead. What appears to be two workmen walking up a fragment of a brick wall carrying a piece of wood or steel is a temporary painted sculpture by Robert Qualters in 1980s. On the left in the foreground is HOK’s Oxford Center from 1983, purchased in 2024 by Shorenstein Properties LCC. Just beyond it is Daniel Burnham’s Frick Building 1902. Across Grant Street Carol inked H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse of 1888 and next to it is Henry Hornbostel’s City County Building of 1917. Rising up over this scene is BNY Mellon Center completed in 1984. Copyright Carol Skinger www.carolskinger.com
Grant Street Pittsburgh

A whimsical black and white ink illustration by Carol Skinger of Pittsburgh’s Grant Street at the Intersection of Fourth Avenue. You can tell because the street signs say so. People walking to work, a boy with a yo-yo, a car with a kayak, additional cars and busses and a cluster of street signs can be seen. A traffic helicopter is overhead. What appears to be two workmen walking up a fragment of a brick wall carrying a piece of wood or steel is a temporary painted sculpture by Robert Qualters in 1980s. On the left in the foreground is HOK’s Oxford Center from 1983, purchased in 2024 by Shorenstein Properties LCC. Just beyond it is Daniel Burnham’s Frick Building 1902. Across Grant Street Carol inked H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse of 1888 and next to it is Henry Hornbostel’s City County Building of 1917. Rising up over this scene is BNY Mellon Center completed in 1984. Copyright Carol Skinger www.carolskinger.com

It is one of a series of 5 ink drawings I call Silly Ink Drawings.

Silly Ink Prints are available in 3 sizes.

Large  $100   +- Paper dimension  27” wide x 20” high

Medium    $55       +- Paper dimension  15 1/8” wide x 11” high

Small   $25   +- Paper dimension  11” wide x 8 1/2” high

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The Point (Pittsburgh)

A black and white whimsical ink illustration of Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers shows the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers, to form the Head of the Ohio River at The Point. My drawing emphasizes the Acrisure Stadium formerly named Heinz Field, and The Point. Activities in the drawing are tailgating, roller blading, fishing and boating. One figure is kayaking and a Ducky boat is shown, while in the foreground crew boating is depicted by two figures sculling. A helicopter s overhead. The stadium is the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers, the University of Pittsburgh Football team. Nearby is the Carnegie Science Center. Lewis & Clark began their westward voyage here near the point on August 31, 1803. It is one of a series of 5 ink drawings I call Silly Ink Drawings. Silly Ink Prints are available in 3 sizes. Large $100 +- Paper dimension 27” wide x 20” high Medium $55 +- Paper dimension 15 1/8” wide x 11” high Small $25 +- Paper dimension 11” wide x 8 1/2” high
The Point, Pittsburgh PA. Head of the Ohio. Confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers

A black and white whimsical ink illustration of Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers shows  the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers, to form the Head of the Ohio River at The Point. My drawing emphasizes the Acrisure Stadium and The Point. Activities in the drawing are tailgating, roller blading, fishing and boating. One figure is kayaking and a Ducky boat is shown, while in the foreground crew boating is depicted by two figures sculling. A helicopter s overhead. The stadium is the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers, the University of Pittsburgh Football team. Nearby is the Carnegie Science Center.  Lewis & Clark began their westward voyage here near the point on August 31, 1803. It is one of a series of 5 ink drawings I call Silly Ink Drawings.
Silly Ink Prints are available in 3 sizes.
Large  $100   +- Paper dimension  27” wide x 20” high
Medium    $55       +- Paper dimension  15 1/8” wide x 11” high
Small   $25   +- Paper dimension  11” wide x 8 1/2” high

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‘Helenium autumnale’ Print $35

Helenium autumnale Commonly 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 Print $35.

Native Plant: Helenium autumnale. Commonly called Sneezeweed. Illustration by Carol Skinger

$35. Giclee Print on textured cold press paper 18 1/2″ w x 8″ high, includes 1/2″ border.

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‘Sharpsburg Skyline’ yellow green Print $35

Hitchhiker Brewery Sharpburg, PA (yellow and green sky) by Carol Skinger
Hitchhiker Brewery Sharpsburg, PA (yellow and green sky) by Carol Skinger

The church spire is the Grace Methodist Protestant Church. It closed in 2010 as Grace United Methodist Church, a year after Sharpsburg’s First Evangelical Lutheran Church closed.  Both churches had connections to the Heinz family, but Grace is the one most important in the life of H. J. Heinz, his wife and their children. At one time it was the congregation of H. J. Heinz (Harry) and his wife Sarah (Sloan Young). Once established at Grace, they became fixtures of the congregation.  Harry taught Sunday School and eventually became Superintendent.  Even after he moved from Sharpsburg and became fabulously wealthy, Grace was important to him.  In fact, he attended the Sunday service there a week before his death in 1919.  (Notes Provided by historian Frank Kurtik) 

The art deco building is Hitchhikers Brewery, once home to Fort Pitt Brewing Company, it was historically the brewery boiling house.

$35.  7.5″ x 11″ archival PRINT (includes 1/2″ white border)

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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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