Welcome to Year 5 of our online art gallery!
We began this feature in the early days of the 2020 pandemic. It served a few purposes — for instance, a chance for people, stuck home for a long time, to be creative.
And with actual galleries closed, it was a way for artists to showcase their work.
Plus, it provided a bit of inspiration and joy to all of us, during a frightening, miserable time. (Click here to see that very first online art gallery.)
I thought the online art gallery would be something fun, for a few weeks. But the submissions kept coming. The range of themes widened; so did the mediums.
So — like COVID — the online art gallery is here to stay.
Unlike the coronavirus though, we’re happy it’s hanging around.
So remember: No matter what your theme, or medium — and whether you’re a first-timer or oldtimer: We welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.
Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.
Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.
“Curtain Twitcher.” Artist Ken Runkel says: “It was inspired by one of my Nextdoor followers, who shared his story of a ‘curtain twitcher’ he remembered as a kid. I took it from there, and created this in the style of Norman Rockwell.”
“Imagine” (Patricia McMahon)
“Spring is Coming” (Ellen Wentworth)
“Sunset” (Karen Weingarten)
“Cousins House” (E. Bruce Borner)
“Another Red Barn” — artist Steve Stein says: “The reason barns are red is because early farmers painted them with a protective coating of linseed oil mixed with animal blood or ferrous oxide, to prevent weathering and the growth of mold and fungus.”
“The Koi Pond Getting Ready to Surface” (Dorothy Robertshaw)
Untitled (Tom Doran)
“Schooner in the Jungle” — acrylic painting (Peter Barlow)
“Let the Sleeping Cat Lie — You Can’t Run Fast Enough” (Mike Hibbard)
“A Hard Day on the Front Line in Ukraine” (Lawrence Weisman)
(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)