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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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Online Art Gallery #235

Two “eyes” — one literal, the other metaphorical — lead off this week’s edition of our online art gallery.

Other submissions are a bit more seasonal. Some pay homage to autumn; others, to the Jewish New Year.

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.

“The Eye” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Three Corners of a Coin” — compounding of photos by Teslariu Mihai (Tom Doran)

“Harvest Commons” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“A Lone Rose” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Fallen Branches” (Karen Weingarten)

“Wolf with Crescent Moon and Violin” (Brian Whelan)

“Quattro Amici” (Patricia McMahon)

 

“Dunes Behind Jennings Beach, Fairfield” (Kathleen Burke)

“Beach View” (Duane Cohen)

“Hauling Time — Sloop SAWA” (Peter Barlow)

“Prayer at the Kotel (Wailing/Western Wall) — Yom Kippur in Jerusalem” — collage and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein says: “This is all that remains of the first Hebrew Temple (built in 10th century BCE, later destroyed by the Babylonians) and second Hebrew Temple (built in 6th centruy BCE, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE). The largest stones are 44 feet long and weigh over 570 tons. It remains a place of prayer and pilgrimage.”

“To the New Year” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #234

Happy autumn! Happy Jewish New Year! Happy Saturday, and another edition of our online art gallery.

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.

“Cornetto Ischitano — Fatto a Mano” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled — oil on aluminum impasto style (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Towards Compo Cove” — part of artist Jason Pritchard’s current solo exhibition “Riverbanks to Shorelines: The Art of Waters’ Path” at the Green’s Farms Congregational Church gallery.

Untitled — watercolor on paper (Kathleen Burke)

“Elysian Light of Autumn” — digital painting (Ken Runkel)

“The Art of Determination” — Photographer Linda Doyle says, “This sunflower grew out of the brick chimney off our front porch. It’s still there!”

“Just the World” (Tom Doran)

“Simple Abstraction with Reality” (Peter Barlow)

“Crispy Critters (Guinea Pigs)” — popular street food in Cusco, Peru (Mike Hibbard)

“Praying for a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year —  Rosh Hashanah 5785” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #233

This week’s online art gallery ping-pongs between 2 seasons: the summer that just passed, and the autumn we now look forward to.

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.

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Seasonal Transformation” — collage assemblage (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Watch Hill Lighthouse” — oil on canvas, at Westport River Gallery (L Miceli)

“Palm Leaf Skyline” (Tom Doran)

“Concert Confusion” (Les Dinkin)

Untitled — Compo Beach, South Beach (Cindy Nigro)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Flotsam Art” — found at Compo Beach, weathered at home for about 10 years (Jerry Kuyper)

“Four Outboards, Nicely Designed, Get You Home!” (Peter Barlow)

“Psss! Wake Up! Chilean Fire Brigade Celebration!” (Mike Hibbard)

“40 Winks” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Autumn — When the Lollypop Trees Are Made!” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Harvest Moon” — last week’s full moon, Lake Dupuis, Quebec (Scott Brodie)

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