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Online Art Gallery #247

Out with the old. In with the new.

This week’s online art gallery looks both backwards (one last Christmas piece; the final full moon of 2024) and forward (pondering the new year).

That’s the way we roll. No matter what 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, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.

This feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Just email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled — taken Christmas Eve at Elijah Kellogg Congregational Church in Harpswell Maine (Bonnie Scott Connolly, Staples ’67)

“Through the Eyes of a Child” — illustrated composite digital piece (Ken Runkel)

“Pondering the New Year” — acrylic/light impasto on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“PEM Reflections” (Tom Doran)

“Southport Harbor” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

Sloop Wachiwi, a Nathaneal Herreshoff  Buzzards Bay 30 (47 feet overall), built in 1902 — photographed in 2017 on Fishers Island Sound (Peter Barlow)

“Westport Country Playhouse” (Duane Cohen)

Untitled — collage (Cohl Katz)

“Westport Faces” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Three Little Maids Are We” (Martin Ripchick)

“Sunil’s Fisherman Casting at Compo, Circa 12/6/24” (Steve Stein)

“My New Year’s Resolution: Remember Hiker’s Rule # 5: Look Before You Squat. You Get the Point!” (ike Hibbard)

“Last Full Moon 2024” (Karen Weingarten)

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Online Art Gallery #246

As it does nearly every week, today’s online art gallery welcomes a couple of first-timers.

They’re not “new” artists. They’ve been creating works for quite a while. But this marks their first appearance in our regular Saturday feature.

If you need a New Year’s resolution, here’s one: Submit your art to our gallery.

Don’t be shy! This feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

No matter what 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, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.

Just email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled (Maj Kalfus)

“The Welcoming Tree for the New Year 2025” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Marianne Honeycutt)

“Our Town” — acrylic impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Night, The Dreamers, The Dancers” (Tom Doran)

“There Are No Mistakes” (Holly Tashian)

“Best Friends” (Cohl Katz)

“Molly” — Celeste LaCroix’s dog’s birthday is today! (Jo Ann Miller)

“Burying Hill Sunset” (Duane Cohen)

“Pantouf, a Samuel Crocker-designed Ketch From the ’30s” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Missy Greenberg)

“Listening Intently” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Nativity Bell” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

Untitled — Sharpie and colored pencil (Jon Nicholson)

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Online Art Gallery #245

Two submissions this week include “festive” or “festival” in their titles.

Other artists also offer holiday-themed works.

But no matter what 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, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.

This Saturday feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Festival of Light” (Karen Weingarten)

“Festive Farm Life in New Milford” (Patricia McMahon)

“Christmas memories” — oil on canvas (S. Guccione, at Westport River Gallery)

“Spirit of the Season” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Roseann Spengler)

“Winter Woodlands” — acrylic embellished with gold (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Woman in a Hallway” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Jo Ann Miller)

Untitled — acrylic (Missy Greenberg)

“I’m 117 Years Old. Wanna Race?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Zentan” (Ellen Horowitz)

“Cascade” — acrylinc painting on Masonite (Peter Barlow)

“The Protester” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Aargh” (Martin Ripchick)

“Kim’s Chanukkiah and Steve’s Dreidels” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #244

This week, several newcomers join our online art gallery. Welcome!

A reminder: This Saturday feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

No matter what 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, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Adoration of the Magi” — mixed media on canvas (Brian Whelan)

“Pure Joy” — acrylic pouring embellished with handwork (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Valerie Fischel)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Fallen Maple Leaf on Maple Board” (David Fales)

Photographer Mike Hibbard asks, “Which of these vegetables and fruits have you eaten?”

“Egret at the Dimes Marina” (Matt Murray)

Untitled — acrylic (Missy Greenberg)

“Big Brother” (Martin Ripchick)

“Seahors: Not for Use in Water Polo” — watercolor and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Random Sketches from a Walk Downtown” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #243

We open this week’s online art gallery with a Christmas work, and end it with “the last leaf of fall.”

In between: our usual assortment of submissions, in a wide variety of mediums and offering a broad range of themes.

No matter what 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, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“A Christmas Carol” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“From Away” — watercolor (Linda Bruce)

“Fola in Harlem” (Patricia McMahon)

“A Long Walk to the Mailbox” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Cherry Blossom as Winter Arrives” — pouring acrylic gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Pity (A Useless Emotion”) (Tom Doran)

“Exploding Spirits of Fire — Just the Beginning!” — taken from a plane (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Matt Murray)

“Off-Season Scape” (Peter Barlow)

“Spot On” (Martin Ripchick)

 

Eric Bosch writes, “Like one of Santa’s elves, I’ve been building, painting and adding fun bright colors to winter’s gray. I call this ‘Farmer Milking Cow Whirligig’ and the ‘Cottages Birdhouses.'”

“In the Sauna” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Last Leaf of Fall” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #242

Lots of drawings this week. Colorful, black-and-white, using different implements, in a variety of styles — they all make our online art gallery as pecial as ever.

No matter what 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, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Roses” (Tom Doran)

“Litchfield County” — digital painting, based on a digital photogaph (Ken Runkel)

“Argentina Roast Lamb: Giving Thanks for the Bounty of the Ranch” (Mike Hibbard)

“Early Racing Class in Eastern Connecticut” (Peter Barlow)

“AI: Peril or Panacea. Is it in the Balance?” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Bored in Class” (Aerin Licthman, age 13)

“Love at First Sight” (Martin Ripchick)

“Matriarch” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #240

This week, we welcome 2 new artists to our online gallery.

There’s always room for more!

And no matter what 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, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“African Elephant Matriarch Sheds Tears Over the Loss of Her Kind” — Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Africa currently hosts about 402,000 elephants. Because of poaching, only about half that number will be left by the end of the decade.”

“Passage Under I-95 Westport” — acrylic on canvas (Cindy Wagner)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Willows in the Night” — impasto gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Lily and Her Entourage” (Andy Millard)

Untitled — digital (Tom Doran)

“New Directions in Gardening?” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Lightning Strikes Twice” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Homework” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #239

There’s always something new in our online art gallery.

This week: a couple of new mediums.

But no matter what 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, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Dear, I Love You More Than All the Red Leaves on all the Japanese Maple Trees in the Whole World!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — eastern side of the Fairfield mill pond — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

“Squash & Squalls” — oil on linen (Werner Liepolt)

“A Bench with a View” (Fred Cantor)

“The Queen Mary” — Carl Addison Swanson says, “It took 2 cranes $10,000 to move this from next door when Joey Karmonsky (Staples High School Class of 1941) died.”

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Boat Contrasts” — a 61-foot Army Q boat built in 1918 by Luders Marine in Stamford, and an inflatable Zodiac runabout (Peter Barlow)

“Homes” — wood (Tom Feeley)

“Bright Light” — impasto acrylic gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Time’s Up” — digital compounding (Tom Doran)

Acrylic dot art mandala (Faith Vicinanza)

“Is it Pop Art or Kindergarten/Refrigerator Art?” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“They’re Almost Gone!” (Karen Weingarten)

 

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Online Art Gallery #237

Fall and floral fun continues, in our online art gallery.

But no matter what subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Decorative Gourds” (Werner Liepolt)

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

“Tulip” (Ulla Hehenberger)

“Meditation” — Photographer Mike Hibbard calls this “peaceful beauty a perfect visual for Beethoven’s ‘Midnight Sonata.'”

“The Poppy Field” — impasto; oil paint on aluminum (DorothyRobertshaw)

“Underground” (Tom Doran)

Needlepoint pillow (Ginny Gallagher)

“Birdhouse” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Body Parts” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Sounding the Shofar — And Down Went the Walls of Jericho” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #236

It’s a fall festival, here in our weekly online art gallery.

But no matter what subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, digital, 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 a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Autumn Leaves” (Duane Cohen)

“Life is Gourd” (Patricia McMahon)

“Morning Walk” — Photoshop-enhanced and composited digital photograph (Ken Runkel)

“A Lot of Susans” (Peter Barlow)

“End of Summer” — acrylic pouring on canvas, manipulated by blowing through a straw (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — on view at Westport River Gallery (S. Guccione)

“It’s Always Fun Hanging Out With Pals” — collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Islands in the Sea” — Newport, Rhode Island (Bruce Borner)

“Roar Lion Roar!” — charcoal with computer colorization (Aerin Lichtman, age 12)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“The Tree of Knowledge: Pomegranate?” — watercolor. Artist Steve Stein writes, “In Exodus, the Tree of Knowledge fruit represents the mixing of good and evil together. The Forbidden Fruit was probably not apple — indigenous to Asia. Possibilities are thought to include pomegranate, fig, pear, quince, carob, etrog, apricot and tamarind — all indigenous to the Middle East.”

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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