As the snow flew last weekend — and many Westporters lit fires, sipped coffee and hunkered down — our artists and photographers went to work.
They gathered their brushes, picked up their cameras, and created even more beauty and wonder out of all that lay around.
And while many of us grappled with the horrific news from the day before in Minnesota, some channeled their emotions into their work.
Today’s online gallery begins with nature, makes a brief stop for Valentine’s Day, and ends with humanity.
As always, we invite you to be part of next week’s exhibition. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, mixed media, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.
Just email a JPG to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside!” (Pat Saunders)
“A Long Winter’s View” (Cohl Katz — Available for sale; click here)
“Tired of Snow Yet?” (Copyright Ted Horowitz)
Untitled (Jerry Kuyper)
“Aurora Borealis” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)
“Frigid Cold Water’s Edge”– impasto crafted with lace for the clouds; acrylic landscape on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for sale; click here)
“Burnt Sienna” — acrylic and resin on 24 x 36 canvas (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)
“Blue & Orange Color Splash” — acrylic on plastered wood panel (Eric Bosch)
Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for sale; click here)
“Landscape, Possibly” — digital (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)
Untitled — collage made from all the “love” words in Westport Lifestyle magazine’s February issue (Frannie Faith Southworth)
“Angel Valentine Tree” (Lauri Wieser)
“Peaceful Panoramas” — acrylic (Ari Shervinrad — 2nd grade, One River Art student)
“Beneath the Rush” — under the I-95 Saugatuck River bridge (Nancy Breakstone; Available for purchase; click here)
Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “A blissful watering hole? No! It’s a hundred hippos farting non-stop. Do not light a match downwind of these beasts.”
“It’s Never Too Late to Get a COVID Shot!” — watercolor (Steve Stein)
“Boo Hoo” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Passport on I.C.E.” — sculpture (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)
“Enough is Enough” (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)
(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)
Tremendous talent!