Ski Prints and Ski Posters Top 10 by Pete Caswell.
Okay well its not so much a top 10 as a top 30 ski prints and posters.
There are just too many to choose from and I managed to narrow the list down to 30.
The ski prints and posters are all based on Pete Caswell’s famous ski paintings from the top ski resorts around the world including France, Italy, Switzerland Austria, USA and Canada.
The Prints are printed by Fine Art America so you can order them from any country around the world to get local shipping rates.
I’ve been missing the snow so much that I had to create a set of painting to get deep into the skiing feeling, the cold, the ice, the snow.
Not forgetting snowboarding but it doesn’t rhyme as well but they are there as well, blasting through the powder but then stuck on a flat spot of deep powder, whoops didn’t see that coming. Can’t see a bloody thing. Am I going up hill or down? On your butt, upside down in a hole of powder is the best guess.
The colourful paintings really capture the life, the vibrancy, the fun and laughter of skiing, the excitement, the exhilaration.
But what I was missing was not this. Over a year with no skiing. It wasn’t the fun, the speed, the laughter, the excitement I was craving. It was the early January ski weather, cold, bleak, so cold it can suck the colour out of even the most fluorescent ski jacket. Stone dead black and white, grey, freezing blues. Ice hangs in the air, full of crisp and frost. Breath plumes and mists across your face, fingers tingle, toes numb. Nothing to hear but the wisps of blowing snow, the wind in the trees the lulling clanking of the lifts in the distance and the pure silence of falling snowflakes.
Exiting the lift, the wind picks up, the snow blows hard, the ice pricks your cheeks, and all ahead is nothing to see but snow, heavy snow, blowing football size flakes dancing and melting on on the top of your nose, one way then another, swirling dancing and then melting on the end of your nose.
White fills the air and the ground, snow and mist and more some. Tracks covered, drifts crossing, only poles to follow one at a time. Going uphill or downhill it all feels the same with soft snow under feet. No idea where you are, moving or stationary, then bump and crash…..yep definitely was moving but not now. Now which way up am I? Ice and snow wedged up your top and down you trousers, inside gloves and down your boots.
Its an assault on the senses of the coldest and snowiest kind, cold creeping in from toes and fingers to chill to the core. So cold it blows right through you. Even the trees are shivering. Not sure why it feels so good, why I miss it so much but maybe it is the hot chocolate, coffee and or rum at the end of this piste , the anticipation, the imagination, which is creating the wonderful warm glow inside to keep me going.
Skis off, shake the snow off like a fluffy dog. Feet deep in powder and find the door to open, brushing the fresh snow with it and then into the warm glowing chalet, fire aglow and drinks awaiting at the bar. Thanks. Clothes off to warm and dry toasting by the log fire. Mine is a coffee, a large caupacino.
And all this talk over coffee is the anticipation of how much, how deep and will we be able to see a bit more in the afternoon as the clouds lift to peak the light of the sun and pale blue skis to allow a blast of turns through cold dry and fluffy pristine powder. More snow tomorrow they say.
Does it get any better?
Its all about a feeling not seeing, the inner feeling as snow obliterates the sights these paintings are trying to capture the bit you can’t see. Its all inside out feelings trump the seeing as you sense each turn as vision fails and turns guided by the feeling of the snow underfoot brings a special sensation, a very beautiful sensation. But that is as long as you don’t get a rude awakening and crash headfirst into a pile of cold, freezing cold powder.
This set of 10 very snowy ski prints and posters was my way to try and capture this immense and thrilling feeling of the cold, the snow, the bleakness to try and recreate that wonderful inner glow of the sheer beauty of a landscape devoid of colour dissolved by the coldness and made at peace by the endless snow fall descending silence to the slopes reflecting the beauty onto the inside where all resides and where feelings trump seeing. This set of paintings are all painted on 38cm x 46 cm heavy weight (290 gsqm) canvas linen texture paper with a white mount.
These are very simple charcoal and pen sketches to keep the simplicity of the scene where snow ice and mist prevails. Some people have called them sophisticated compared to my normal crazy colourful scenes, some called them stylish, even subtle……but I call them cold, dam cold, freezing, icy with the air full of snow and mist without a colour daring to peak out of the canvas to show itself.
You can buy the ski and snowboard prints and posters on the ski print site in this special ski printsection.
Cult ski artist, Pete Caswell has been painting the Breuil-Cervinia Valtournenche ski area and Zermatt this winter which are now available as ski prints and ski posters. You can also buy Pete’s ski art as original ski paintings off his main website. These 3 original paintings are all from Breuil-Cervinia Valtournenche. There are many more paintings from Zermatt on the website also.
Pete fell in love with this amazing ski area especially Cervinia with its high snow sure peaks, fantastic Italian food and wonderful pockets of powder stashes.
Pete Caswell cult ski artist has started to create some new ski prints and ski posters from a ski resort he visited a long time ago in his youth, Soll in the Austrian Alps.
So far Pete has produced just one painting which is high on texture and style and really captures the beautiful gondola and some off piste skiing.
You can buy Pete’s ski art as original ski paintings on his main website www.petecaswell.co.uk
You can buy the ski prints and ski posters on his Ski Prints site
So far Pete has produced just the one painting from Soll but more are on the way. There are lots of other paintings on the website from some other beautiful ski resorts.
Ischgl and the Silvretta Arena ski area are featured in some of Pete Caswell’s Ski Art. Pete is a cult ski artist from the UK who paints ski art from your favourite ski resorts around the world.
Take a look at some of the paintings from the Ischgl and the Silvretta Arena ski area which are available as ski prints and ski posters or original ski art as original paintings.
There are many more ski paintings on the website of other ski resorts so take a look round and use the zoom with mouse over to see all the amazing textures and colours.
Saalbach Hinterglemm ski art by cult ski artist Pete Caswell is now available from the very beautiful ski resort and ski circus of Saalbach Hinterglemm with some wonderul ski paintings of this stunning area.
You can see all of Pete Caswell’s ski art on his main website if you want to look at the originals ski art or you can buy ski prints and ski posters from the print site
Ski Art from Pete Caswell’s a cult skiing artist from the UK. He painting skiing art from all your favourite ski resorts around the world.
His artistic talents capture the feeling and movement and intense energy of skiing in the mountains, the snow and the sun. From chair lifts, to drags, cable cars and off piste, busy pistes and wooded pistes there is some ski art in there for everyone. Take a good look through the skiing art website and see all the amazing paintings.
You can buy the ski art as original ski paintings on the main website or as ski posters, prints and canvases through the print site.
Take a look at the ski posters and ski prints from Vail and Beaver Creek, my favourite resorts in Colorado along with Aspen.
I love the wooded glades and the scale of the mountain and above all the wonderful food on offer.
I love the powder and I love the Blue Bird days. Its a wonderful place to ski and snowboard and even more wonderful for me to have the privilege to paint.
It was a few years ago I painted the Ski Poster of the Harakiri Piste in Mayrhofen. These super steep pistes always make a great spectacle to paint for my ski poster collection. The ski posters are also available as ski prints and canvases.
I really love to ski Mayrhofen for its wonderful Austrian ambiance and ski area. Most of all the Harakiri piste, or piste 34, caught my eye for a ski painting to make into a ski poster and at 78% this is one of the steepest pistes there are and the steepest in Austria. I love to ski these steep pistes in fresh powder but when they get icy on my snowboard then have to say I will normally cut up the edge of the piste where the snow is still soft. Boards, steep pistes and ice are not a great combination.
I bought the Zillertaler Superskipass covering the entire Zillertal with 530km of pistes in the Ziller Valley and the Hintertux Glacier to explore. There are a couple more paintings to come from this area for a ski poster of the Hintertux glacier and the very top of the Harakiri piste where I love to watch those new to this very steep piste teetering on the edge ready to go or not.
Posters from Whistler Blackcomb in Canada of skiing and Snowboarding in the epic ski resort.
Pete Caswell is a UK artist who paints his favourite ski and snowboard resorts from around the world. You can buy his ski and snowboard paintings as posters on his international print site.
The Peak 2 Peak Gondola is a favourite subject for the ski paintings and Pete is currently working on a new ski painting which will be released as a ski and snowboard poster soon.