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"Still Life with a Painting" copyright 2011 by Carol Skinger an assemblage 18" x 9" x 9", mixed media Autumn of 2011 has been a busy time in the best way! I had some art work accepted for exhibit in Pittsburgh's Arbor Aid 2011. Being an environmentally conscious tree-hugger type person...

I will have three pieces of my art work at Irma Freeman Center for Imagination (5006 Penn Avenue) in their exhibit titled Pittsburgh by Pittsburgh Artists. My piece above is titled "East Liberty /Liberty Green (80 green roofs for East Liberty)". It illustrates a concept of adding 80 green roofs...

See more examples of my House Portrait 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Outspoken, an all bicycle themed art show, was a big success as part of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's April 2011 Gallery Crawl. Most people I spoke to made a beeline for it of all the events they planned to attend that night. Could be they are fans of BikePGH which Sixty Forty...

Hello friends, This is to let you know that the next Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl is Friday April 29, 2011. That is a live link and gives the map and list of events and locations. If you have never done a Gallery Crawl before, it happens only 4x a year,...

  Even I send out a greeting card now and then! I got my start in making greeting cards of my art when Ben and Jerry both said to me (in VT when we were all just getting started) "Make some greeting cards of your art work and sell them!"...

Greeting cards of my silly ink drawings of Pittsburgh are here. They are usually in stock at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts shop as well as Visit Pittsburgh at 5th Avenue Place downtown. I now offer 8 1/2 x 11" prints on archival paper of my ink drawings here. In...

I am a fan of Rachel Carson! This is my pastel of her childhood home near Pittsburgh. Contact me through my website if you would like to purchase greeting cards of this image. The original sold. Tonight 2/8/2011 Squirrel Hill Historical Society presents a free talk at 7:30 PM by:...

When was the last time you went to a dance party, and what are you doing on February 14th anyway??? This is THE place to be! This year regional artists were asked to screen in and so I am going to be an artist and vendor at the 5th annual...

I recently learned people are interested in my drawing process so I am showing a progress drawing as well as the final drawing. This is what the development of the drawing looks like at first. I keep the buildings on different layers of vellum and move them around until it...

It's hard to know what to do when you have lost track of the color of the year! But I just realized--I am totally ready for 2011! I have a group of watercolors inspired by sunrise and sunset on the river largely done IN PINK!!! Oh thank goodness! It may...

December 2010 Issue of PSA Voice. This is the quarterly newsletter for Pittsburgh Society of Artists. My article is titled Handmade Nation. Last I Made it Market thing I was in was December 3

Heard from a wonderful client who commissioned a house portrait this fall: ..."Also, am going to want at least one more house portrait. My kids are fighting over the one you already did! Don't need it before Christmas, just let me know when you have time"... Laura Horner More examples...

"Peace to Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon" This is my watercolor, a diptych I am exhibiting at PSA Annual Members exhibit. My words on the piece and my thinking about the title for it are below. (more…)

On December 4th Chatham University Alumni Assosiation decided to pilot a new tradition to go with their annual holiday luncheon. Working with local arts organizations like Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, they invited artists, makers and crafts people to participate in the first ever event. I exhibited my original art, prints...