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Mt. Mansfield

Mt, Mansfield copyright by Carol Skinger

Mt. Mansfi e ld 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.

Paintings of Mt. Mansfield

January 23, 2026

Paintings in blue and white and black by Carol Skinger of two frontal views of Mt. Mansfield in Winter. watercolor, gouache, archival ink. Copyright @Carol Skinger

The artworks I have selected to exhibit with the Pittsburgh Group Sewickley, PA at the Sweetwater Art Center from Feb 5 – March 27, 2026, are autobiographical re: the landscape of my childhood. The season is winter, and the show is in the winter.

The opening for the art show was Thursday February 5, 2026 from 6-8PM.

Sweetwater Art Center 200 Broad St. Sewickley, PA15243

Regular Hours: Open weekdays 9-5. Closed weekends. 412-741-4405 call ahead to check for weather closings

My pieces to be exhibited are part of an exhibition by The Pittsburgh Group, a group of 17 women artists and will be on the Mezzanine level of Sweetwater Center for the Arts. We each submitted 3 or 4 pieces.

Here is a list of Exhibiting members in this show.

The artworks I am exhibiting were painted in shades of blue during and after a 2024 ski trip with my husband to Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. On one of our ski days, I joined my sister Erica who was a member of the US Alpine Ski Team 1968- 1969 to ski together on what I now call the big, beautiful backyard of my childhood. It had been a VERY LONG TIME since we skied there together. We loved our runs on Mt. Mansfield! It’s great to be able to share this landscape more with my husband now that he is retired. Growing up, my family lived close enough to the bottom of Mt. Mansfield that we could ski home after a day of skiing. My sisters and I spent so much time on the mountain in all seasons. Spring, summer and fall was for hiking. It left an indelible memory, and I feel lucky and happy to be able to revisit it now a couple times a year.

Painting Copyright by Carol Skinger with Deep Blue sky over Mt. Mansfield in winter.

Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield #1 was completed in 2025.The original painting found a home in Wyoming, but I have prints available for sale. Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper Original media: Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Permanent Ink. 19 1/2” w. x 8 1/2” h. (+-) including white border. Read more and see price

Title of artwork: Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, VT #2
Medium: Watercolor Dimensions (H × W × D): 21” h. x 29” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? NO (but I will have it scanned for prints after the show ends)

Painted in the rental unit after a day of skiing; just painted on two pages of my watercolor notebook at night from memory. The traveling watercolor set is by Derwent Intense watercolors, permanent when dry – doesn’t washout like watercolor. Layer up intense vibrant colors. The red dot is the Octagon, a restaurant at top of chairlift, now painted red. Here’s a picture of me in the bathroom as I painted this picture:

Title of artwork: Watercolor Study for View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions (H × W × D): 14”h. x 11” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): YES
Sale price (if applicable): $250. SOLD

Note: People responded a lot to this when I posted it on social media when done.

Title of artwork: View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions (H × W × D): 24 ½” h. x 21 ½” x 2”d
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): NO
Sale price (if applicable): NFS

View East from Mt. Mansfield (Acrylic)
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions (H × W × D): 48” h. x 36” w. x 2”d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): Yes
Sale price (if applicable): $1500.

For scale I am standing with the painting:

Acrylic painting 36" x 48" with white snow in foreground, liine of trees and then rolling hills in distance painted in blues. Ble ski and white clouds.

I am a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. I was pleased to be invited to join the Pittsburgh Group in 2024. Education: California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA) now called California College of the Arts; additional studies at Instituto Allende, Mexico, Boston Architectural Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

The Art Award I’m proudest of was from Juror Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I received one of her Best of Show awards at Intr[au]spective exhibition , in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary recently by planning for a spectacular renovation described in this Pittsburgh Magazine article . I learned that Alice Snyder, Trudy Hetherington and Smokey Jack were the founding mothers. While Sweetwater Center for the Arts currently has exhibition space on two floors, it exciting to see the future in the architectural rendering below. Fundraising is ongoing.

Herd of Goats going back to the barn through a snow covered field — ‘Going Home’ by Carol Skinger

$75 Archival Giclee Print 12″ x 16″ on cold press paper

A 3/4″ border white paper all around.

A herd of goats in a snow-covered field return to the barn. Colors are gray and white, with pale yellow at horizon. Rust red barn and fence at horizon.

21 House Portraits by Carol Skinger

July 29, 2020

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

2020 Paintings of Sculpture

January 7, 2020

Orange in the Woods 8 x 8 Carol Skinger

Joe Skinger’s fiberglass & wood sculpture 12 x 16 Carol Skinger

Joe Skinger’s wood & copper sculpture 12 x 16 Carol Skinger

Elbert Weinberg’s sculptures titled Procession at Rodef Shalom Temple 12 x 12 Carol Skinger

Frog Sculpture at North Truro Library 12 x 9 Carol Skinger

Forest of Forms by Carol Skinger (Thaddeus Mosley’s sculpture)

Carol Skinger painting of one of John Youngerman’s series of three sculptures titled ‘Totem Lamina Limbus’ (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden)

More Joy Please by Carol Skinger (Cantini’s sculpture, East Liberty)

Weekend Wanderers at Frick Pittsburgh by Carol Skinger (sculptural trees)

Guyasuta in Sharpsburg (so much more to know about this sculpture) by Carol Skinger

Wherefore Art Thou by Carol Skinger (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden) One of sculptor John Youngerman’s series of three sculptures he titled ‘Totem Lamina Limbus’

Purple Henry Moore by Carol Skinger (entry Carnegie Museum of Art)

Geometry by Carol Skinger (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden) Sculptor David von Schlegell’s ‘North Light’

Nighttime in the Artist’s Kitchen by Carol Skinger

Crunch by Carol Skinger, a portrait of CMOA at 57th International 2018/2019. Facade of CMOA a temporary installation y El Anatsui

Robert Burns, Neptune, Phipps, Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh by Carol Skinger

Brush drawing of Joe Skinger’s wood and steel sculpture 12 x 9 Carol Skinger

shades of green fiberglass sculpture with wood structure. abstact. white background — Orange in the Woods 8 x 8 Carol Skinger

Joe Skinger’s fiberglass & wood sculpture 12 x 16 Carol Skinger

Joe Skinger’s wood & copper sculpture 12 x 16 Carol Skinger

Elbert Weinberg’s sculptures titled Procession at Rodef Shalom Temple 12 x 12 Carol Skinger

Frog Sculpture at North Truro Library 12 x 9 Carol Skinger

Forest of Forms by Carol Skinger (Thaddeus Mosley’s sculpture)

Carol Skinger painting of one of John Youngerman’s series of three sculptures titled ‘Totem Lamina Limbus’ (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden)

More Joy Please by Carol Skinger (Cantini’s sculpture, East Liberty)

Weekend Wanderers at Frick Pittsburgh by Carol Skinger (sculptural trees)

Guyasuta in Sharpsburg (so much more to know about this sculpture) by Carol Skinger

Wherefore Art Thou by Carol Skinger (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden) One of sculptor John Youngerman’s series of three sculptures he titled ‘Totem Lamina Limbus’

Purple Henry Moore by Carol Skinger (entry Carnegie Museum of Art)

Geometry by Carol Skinger (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden) Sculptor David von Schlegell’s ‘North Light’

Nighttime in the Artist’s Kitchen by Carol Skinger

Crunch by Carol Skinger, a portrait of CMOA at 57th International 2018/2019. Facade of CMOA a temporary installation y El Anatsui

Robert Burns, Neptune, Phipps, Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh by Carol Skinger

Brush drawing of Joe Skinger’s wood and steel sculpture 12 x 9 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 lot of sculpture and I have an appreciation for sculpture.

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.