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  I'm going to describe best practices for framing here but caution you that using these methods is expensive. I myself sometimes use these methods for art in my own home and sometimes I don't. Not everything needs to be handled this way. Not everything needs to last for 100...

A few of my custom house portraits. Contact me for an estimate. I use watercolor and gouache which is opaque watercolor.  

In January 2020 I completed 21 new artworks, mostly watercolor and gouache and rushed 12 of them to the printers. For the next 90 days I am so happy to say I am one of the new artists and makers who will have work for sale at Casey Droege's Small...

Orange in the Woods 8 x 8 Carol Skinger 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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

"Aspinwall" original painting by Carol Skinger  24″ x 31″ "Aspinwall" a painting of the rooftops of Aspinwall from Route 28 is original painting by Carol Skinger. It is a watercolor, gouache & ink painting on 400 lb watercolor paper, $500. It was created for my 10 month solo art show...

Thanks to Fox Chapel Living (August 2017 issue) editor Lisa Corna for featuring my solo art show in the magazine.  My solo show at Cooper Siegel Community Library was on display for 18 months ending March 15, 2018. As artworks sold people took them home the same day.  The library...

My watercolor & gouache painting titled Rustbelt Kayaking is part of my solo show of 40 works at Cooper Siegel Community Library 403 Fox Chapel Road in Pittsburgh (Fox Chapel) 15238. On the walls from May 14, 2017- March 15, 2018 , a public reception was held  Saturday June 24, 2017. ...

“Aspinwall” a 24" x 31" painting of the rooftops of Aspinwall from Route 28 is original painting by Carol Skinger. It is available for purchase $500.  It is a watercolor, gouache & ink painting on 400 lb watercolor paper. Prints available 11″ x 14″ printed on watercolor paper $55. Larger prints suitable for...

Carol Skinger's watercolor of the playground sculpture/ slide at Aspinwall Riverfront Park. Sculptor: Tom Otterness Solo art exhibition of 40+ works by Carol Skinger at  Cooper Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel,  PA YEAH and THANK YOU! Cooper Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel has asked me to keep my...

Sixth Avenue- Pittsburgh by Carol Skinger A 22" x 30" archival print of my ink drawing of Sixth Avenue- Pittsburgh has been purchased this spring of 2016 by the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh. Prints of this pen and ink drawing on archival paper 8 1/2" x 11" can be purchased here. Contact...

So many many things going on! I will be an art  vendor at  Phipps May Market on the big front yard of Phipps for two days. May 6, 2016  Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.; and May 7, 2016  Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please come and enjoy the whole...

Healing art. Pictorial map from the 1930s of Schenley Park in Pittsburgh.

Kate Morris of Staghorn Garden Café and I have at times been neighbors at Carrie Nardini’s I Made it Market events where artists and makers of all sorts come together for one or two days to sell directly to the public. Kate has told me more than once she would...

I was excited when the quarterly magazine Western Pennsylvania History Magazine contacted me about using my Schenley Park Map (on the left) to illustrate a stunning and thorough 14 page article (125 citations!) about Mary Schenley titled "What's in a Namesake" by Jake Oresick. It was published in Fall of 2015. Their publications...

I cannot believe hearing the news that another of the wonderful generation it seemed would simply always be there, has gone, Dawn Hazelett. She and her family were always there when I was growing up in Stowe. Weekend in and out you knew you would see Dawn and her husband Bill somewhere on...