Florals · Skull Gardens · Tangible Toys
Original paintings by Pittsburgh artist Keith Schmiedlin. Florals built up in molding paste, skull gardens in heavy black line, and the toys we grew up with, cut from board and sealed under poured resin.
01 · Florals
Bold flowers in vibrant pinks, purples and greens, drawn in heavy black line. Every painting is an original, and every one is the only one.
Florals · 2025
This one grew the way a real garden does — one bloom at a time. Every petal is built up in molding paste before any color goes down, so the big purple dahlia at the center actually rises off the canvas. Run your eyes along it in afternoon light and the whole surface casts its own little shadows.
Florals · 2026
The title is literal. This one started as a day trip to Phipps Conservatory — Schmiedlin with his wife, his daughter and her grandmother, three generations of one family taking in the garden together. What came home was this: the giant lily pads with their turned-up rims stacked up the board like stepping stones, an orange fish slipping between them, and the garden crowding in from every edge.
02 · Skull Gardens
Skulls growing among the blooms: beauty with a little brutality. Along with the florals, these are the paintings I'm best known for.
Skull Garden Series
A garden that has grown over everything: roses, daisies and wild blooms in thick black line, with skulls looking back out from the centers of the flowers. Part of an ongoing series of skull-themed originals.
Skull Garden Series · 2024
Existence: a skeleton crowned in palms and plumeria, holding the center of a garden of roses, vines and thorns while smaller skeletons creep in from both sides.
Skull Garden Series
One of my favorites: a totem of skulls stacked tall, with a pelican on top and a toucan, palms and hibiscus growing up through the bones.
03 · Hometown
The city I live and work in, painted the way it feels: crowded, loud, proud and full of the places everybody knows.
Original · Acrylic on canvas
A ten-foot original: Primanti Bros., Kennywood, Eat’n Park, the Terrible Towel, PNC Park and Iron City Beer, packed edge to edge in heavy black line around the city’s name in black and gold.
04 · Murals
Large-scale work painted on site. Sunflower Fields wraps a corrugated Quonset hut in giant sunflowers, drawn in the same heavy black line as the paintings.
05 · In collections
Where the paintings live now: homes, restaurants and The Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. If you own a piece, I would love to see it on your wall.
06 · The artist
Keith Schmiedlin is a Pittsburgh painter and graphic designer with more than 20 years in design.
His paintings pair bold graphic imagery and heavy black line with vibrant pinks, purples and greens: flowers and skulls, beauty with a little brutality. The florals are built up in molding paste before any color goes down, so the petals rise off the canvas. The toy and Rudolph pieces are painted on hand-cut board and sealed under poured resin.
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