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When you are new to a city, what you notice is often not the iconic images of the city. This is what I noticed when we moved here from Boston. I walked by it every day to the bus stop on the way  home after work. It is Dollar Bank in Pittsburgh. To me it is a...

Illustration of Main St. Stowe, Vermont by Carol Skinger I am so pleased to do my part in helping out with the Cochran Ski Area End of the Year Celebration and Silent Auction!! It is happening this weekend Saturday April 6th, 2013  5-9pm at the Monitor Barn, Rt 2, Richmond,...

 Carrie Furnace by Carol Skinger Price, dimensions & order form of my altered photograph of here I was recently talking to a professor here in Pittsburgh who told me although they don’t have a lot of money to spend, they really would like to buy some original art. He is busy with...

I am an artist myself and lover of nature and hiking. I found no decent map of Schenley Park  when we moved here from Boston in the 80's, so  decided I would illustrate it myself having discovered acres of wonderful hiking trails many of them former bridal trails, just by being curious. My research...

I am so excited about my latest changes to Schenley Park Map.  I started to realize that people were pairing it with the Frick Park map for framing purposes which makes sense.  Then I realized I can do something to make the Schenley Park map  more like the Frick Park map by filling in the...

 February 2, 2013 I will be  vendor at I Made It! Mine and it's WARM INSIDE . At 2PM Pittsburgh City Councilman Bill Peduto will be presenting a proclamation  declaring Feb 2 as Creative Entrepreneur Day in Pittsburgh! Come on down and meet the councilman! He is running for mayor ....

Ranch House The houses I am commissioned to paint are often quite special,  historic to some degree and do catch your eye in the first place,  full of detail and character as they sometimes are. And I have done a McMansion or two which I am not unproud of, much as we...

This is a sample of one of my  Custom House Portraits. More examples and pricing information here. I will be vendor again for the 3rd time at I Made it! for the Holidays at Bakery Square. Friday Nov 30   5-10pm Saturday Dec 1  11 am-6pm Indoors at  @ Bakery Square  6425 Penn Avenue,...

Set of 6 drawings of Pittsburgh which I call my silly ink drawings. They are printed as cards, come with envelopes, and postage needed is one regular stamp. Many people choose to frame them as a set. As prints each drawing is on 8 1/2" x  5 1/2" paper. Scenes...

LL Bean Sleigh with painting by Carol Skinger

Two of my paintings were selected for exhibit in the juried 47th Pittsburgh Society of Artists Annual. Exhibition dates- October 5, 2012 to November 2, 2012 Fein Art Gallery (Northside) 519 East Ohio Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Hours at Fein Art Gallery Mon - Fri 9:30 - 5 :00 and...

“What the Pilgrims Saw I & II” I did two paintings in Province Lands in August 2012. They are related  to a history of the landscape of outer Cape Cod, as well as a nod to its place in US contemporary art history though only obvious to me.  One painting is...

Sunday June 24, 2012  10AM-4PM  3rd Annual yART Sale on the lawn at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA). This year in my tent at booth #6 I am adding an experience. After you pick out some of my cards or just one card, you are invited to sit down...

Pile it on. We Vote!       watercolor/collage by Carol Skinger I am a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists along with nearly 300 other members. I am inviting you to an art opening where I am pleased to say one of my pieces will be shown. Pittsburgh Society of Artists will...

There is a very warm uplifted way you feel when you get something to work in a painting. Moments of doubt can lift sometimes after you think the painting was lost.  I hope (and I think) I captured that spirit in this photograph of my cousin Margaret with her watercolor painting...

  Last year was the first time I attended the party (art, food, music) and fundraiser called Love of Friends. They raise funds for  Planned Parenthood (among other causes they support).  It is ALWAYS on Valentines Day...has a DJ, folks with HULA hoops, a great group of people. Artists and craftspersons...

Winter scene on an island showing a red house and a boat house That's the description and this is the back story of  a very recent painting commission  (see more examples).  Sometime in November I sent an email invitation to a bunch of my friends and acquaintances to come and...

Finally it is this weekend!! The fifth (drum roll) "I Made It! for the Holidays". Pittsburgh's City Paper gave it a #1 in it's short list of what's up this weekend!!! I will be a vendor and have original art, prints and greeting cards of my art. Hope you come...

St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church- Pittsburgh church that Andy Warhol(a) and his family attended photograph by Carol Skinger Makes a nice opening image, word of god and all but my altered photograph above is not in the Word of God Exhibit at the Warhol. BUT...it is available as a notecard...

I am happy to announce these two pieces of mine were accepted for the "2011 Pittsburgh Society of Artists Annual Exhibition". Of 138 art pieces submitted by 75 PSA artist members, juror Janet McCall, Executive Director at the Society for Contemporary Craft, selected 46 pieces for the exhibit. I am...