Green Archives - Carol Skinger

‘Schenley Park Map’ Print Lge $120 Small $50

ILLUSTRATED MAP OF SCHENELEY PARK. SHORT HISTORY ON THE SIDE. COLOR IS GREEN WITH RED BORDER — **Illustrated Map of Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, PA**

Large print $120. Dimension is 30″ square

Small print $50. Dimension is 19″ square

A charming vintage style map showing a bird’s eye view of Schenley Park in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Golf Club and Schenley Park Golf Course are shown along with the roads, forests and trails of the park. Shades of green prevail making the topography of Panther Hollow and Junction Hollow clear. Once Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central Park in NYC, every city wanted to have a grand park and Schenley Park was Pittsburgh’s response. In the 1980s doing park research, found this beautiful illustrated “pictorial” map from the 1930’s, which was a black & white line drawing, possible drawn by Ezra Stiles. I added color and historical information. 3D drawings of buildings are shown including Carnegie Library Main Branch, Carnegie Music Hall and Carnegie Museum as it was in the 1930s. Also seen: Phipps Botanical Conservatory, the Cathedral of Learning at University of Pittsburgh, and early buildings on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Panther Lake is a brilliant turquoise blue to stand out from the greens. Along the top of the map are delightful vignette drawings of activities you can do in the park. The map includes some unbuilt projects such as an amphitheater and an elaborate pool which is where the skating rink is. Four bridges are drawn: the Greenfield Bridge, Schenley Bridge, Panther Hollow Bridge and the Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge. I changed the street names to the current names. Copyright with my changes and additions by Carol Skinger

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2022 New Work

January 16, 2022

January 2022 begins with some abstract works on paper using archival colored inks

Horizontally divided abstract painting on paper. Above the horizon is mostly blue with white flowing into it. Below the horizon a mostly pale light beige color flows into smaller amount of darker brown. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com — Imaginary Landscape 02 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 3 zones on paper. Above the horizon is mostly pale sepia flowing to darker brown, including small bits of bright orange. Next zone at the center area is white. Below the white zone a mostly deep cool green and deep blue color flowing into white area at center. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water below it dries. www.carolskinger.com — Imaginary Landscape 05 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting in 3 zones on paper. Above the horizon is mostly blue with white flowing into it. Next zone at the center area is white. Below the white zone is mostly darker brown with pale sepia flowing into it with small bits of bright orange. It’s a flowing ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style. The media is not watercolor but rather it is done permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com — Imaginary Landscape 04 by Carol Skinger

Horizontally divided abstract painting on paper. Above the horizon a mostly pale light beige color flows into smaller amount of darker brown. Below the horizon is mostly darker, then lighter blue with white flowing into it. The white area appears as a flowing white zone in center horizon. It’s a ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style, showing much flowing of color into each other or into white areas. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com — Imaginary Landscape 02 by Carol Skinger

Horizontal abstract painting in blues, reddish brown and an ochre-like yellow on white paper. It’s a ‘wet-in-wet watercolor’ style, showing much flowing of color into each other or into white areas. The painting is done in permanent archival inks. The colored inks separate much like watercolor. The large amount of pigment in the colored inks move beautifully in water before it dries. www.carolskinger.com — Imaginary Landscape 07 by Carol Skinger

Green in color

Looking for artwork that is primarily the color green? First two are my paintings of contemporary sculpture at Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden. Originals and prints are available.

green abstract background, pink, blue sculptures — 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’

12″ x 12″ archival glicee print on watercolor paper. White paper border surrounding image is 3/4″ . Contact me

$55 per one print.

$85. for 2 -12″ x 12″ prints.

green abstract background, reddish brown sculpture — Nature Worship by Carol Skinger (Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden)

12″ x 12″ archival glicee print on watercolor paper. White paper border surrounding image is 3/4″ .

$55 per one print.

$85. for 2 -12″ x 12″ prints.

A very reasonable way to frame these two 12″ x 12″ prints – Ikea has a 19 3/4″ x 19 3/4″ Ribba frame (materials non archival) with generous white mat for $14.99 at this time of writing in white or black

They each fit perfectly in this simple contemporary frame. Contact me

Can be printed larger.

Schenley Park Illustrated Map – Contact me

19″ x 19″ -$50

30″ x 30″ – $120

Fake Urban Plan for East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA

June 9, 2010

My Fake Urban Plan for East Liberty is art and not a real urban plan. You can tell because I did not have one meeting, ask for anyone’s input, or work with any neighborhood groups. I just did it. If reality were to be inspired by the vision in my artwork- I believe Pittsburgh would become #2 nationally in green roofs.

My piece received a Juror’s award from Kathleen Zimbicki at “Urban Dreams” at Fein Art Gallery June 2010 exhibit of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists. I painted on top of an archival print of a satellite photograph, (archival printing thanks to Heiko Spallek). My urban vision featured 80 green roofs, organic gardens, pools and a lazy river moat ride around ELPC- East Liberty Presbyterian Church (architect Ralph Adams Cram).

A large outdoor film screening theater and stage is right in the middle of things. I titled the film area “Chris Ivey Summer Film Festival”. He’s been doing interesting work making documentaries about the people who live there, or lived there- and who were in many cases relocated there because of historic urban renewal and are now having reactions to the latest changes (NY Times recently described East Liberty as coming out of a 40 year coma with Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Google as tenants) in East Liberty. He’s a professional filmmaker giving people a voice. I decided to give him a big stage and a screen. Who knows, he made need to host a film festival one of these days.

A poem titled Urban Renewal by Yusef Komunyakaa is written on the frame. I also wrote words about the really big real estate snowball that plopped into Thomas Mellon’s lap with his marriage to Sarah Jane Negley-not exactly a coincidence, and this too“cows will not graze again on the liberty (English usage: a liberty is free land for grazing) but birds, butterflies and insects would graze on 80 green roofs of East Liberty, while storm water run off, building insulation and outdoor air quality would be improved by living green rooftops. East Liberty becomes Liberty Green”

This is a bit like starting a rumor- maybe hearing about 80 green roofs will become 80 green roofs!
Makes me wonder what other fake stuff I could propose that could become a reality.

Chicago is considered the leader in the US for “green” roofs.
If you take even the quickest look at this site that fact is very apparent.
Then select “map” and you see a map of Chicago with all the green roofs! It would be hard to catch them.

My thinking about green as relates to my art piece:

East Liberty and contiguous lands were once green before all the subdivisions first created by first Jacob Negley (laid out East Liberty in 1810) and then Thomas Mellon his son-in-law.
Liberty itself used in the British usage meant free place to graze (not from the Revolution as I had always imagined) – so I’m thinking historically it housed a bucolic cattle grazing place (apparently there was also originally North Liberty, South Liberty and West Liberty). Since now there is only East Liberty- maybe now a name change can be considered to go with the “greening of East Liberty- hence “Liberty Green“
“Green = $”– When thinking of the financial engine that the land Thomas Mellon acquired (as a result of his marriage to Jacob Negley’s daughter Sarah Jane) became,’ it’s impressive how it fueled the many other business ventures he is more associated with.
Green the way we think now… sustainable, energy conservation, recycled and recyclable

Contact me to purchase original or a print of it. I have an excellent high resolution scan of it.