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Online Art Gallery #253

Posted on February 15, 2025 | 1 comment

Happy Valentine’s Weekend!

And winter still lingers.

We’re celebrating both in our online art gallery this week. 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 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.

“A Burst of Love” — acrylic impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Rowene Weems)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Pier-ing Through” (Patricia McMahon)

“Kuhli Moo” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Cooper, A Beloved Pet” (Roseann Spengler)

“Bull Chasing Bitcoin” — oil on canvas, at Westport River Gallery (Mona)

Mike Hibbard’s caption: “When you have a long, wet tongue, you don’t need a tissue.”

“My Kitchen Drawer” (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Turning Yellow” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Collected Images” (Peter Barlow)

“Automation and AI — Humans Need Not Apply!” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #252

Posted on February 8, 2025 | 1 comment

Surprisingly, there are no real Valentine’s Day submissions for this week’s online art gallery. (Though one work is titled “Love Birds.”)

So just a reminder: Presidents Day is next.

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 — impasto; silver, copper and gold paints (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Head Gardener” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“A Treat for Brandi” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Love Birds” (Martin Ripchick)

“Catboat ‘Katerina'” (Peter Barlow)

“The Lion of Judah with 10 Commandments” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Taking a Breather” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #250

Posted on January 25, 2025 | 2 comments

It’s no surprise: Nearly half of today’s online art gallery submissions portray winter scenes.

Hey: It’s January, and we’re freezing.

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 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.

“Winslow Park 12/25/24” (Kevin McCaul)

“Winter View” (Peter Barlow)

“Ice on Deadman Brook” (Pamela Docters)

“Winter Wonderland” — encaustic wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Jaime Black’s Red Dress Project screams in outrage for the huge number of Indigenous girls and women in Canada and the United States that are raped, murdered, and victims of human trafficking each year.”

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Trapped in Space — But Not in Time” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Ships at a Distance Have Every Man’s Wish Aboard” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #249

Posted on January 18, 2025 | 6 comments

Many of our online gallery’s favorite artists return. They offer their usual — but always new and fresh — works, to entertain “06880” readers on a cold winter morning.

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 (Tom Doran)

“The Winter Waterscape” — encaustic wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Ludlow Dreaming” (Rowene Weems)

“Credit Card Collage” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Georgia on my Mind” (Michael Tomashefsky)

“Dew Drops Off of Hillspoint by Schlaet’s Point” (Matt Murray)

“Herreshoff S-boat ‘Tonic’ — oil on Masonite (Peter Barlow)

“Yankee Baseball” — at Westport River Gallery (Fazzino)

“Happy Hour” (Lawrence Weisman)

“A Polar Bear Scene at Compo” — pencil and charcoal (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

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Online Art Gallery #248

Posted on January 11, 2025 | 4 comments

Today’s online art gallery includes, as usual,  faces, pets, and the world around us.

As well as — for the first time ever — the New York Mets.

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.

“(Wow!) What is That?” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Puffina” — acrylic abstract (Patricia McMahon)

Untitled — impasto acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Untitled — hand-painated, mixed media, in acrylic display case at Westport River Gallery (Fazzino)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Vintage School in Eastern Connecticut, With Sunlight and Approaching Storm” (Peter Barlow)

“I’m Peeking at Mi Papa Leading Hikers up Into the Andes.  Te Amo, Papa!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Drama” — multi-media composition (Maj Kalfus)

“Not Happy About Being Given a Timeout” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Teddi” — acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

“Are We There Yet?” (Martin Ripchick)

“A Very Rare Septopus” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #247

Posted on January 4, 2025 | 1 comment

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

Posted on December 28, 2024 | 3 comments

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

Posted on December 21, 2024 | Comments Off on 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

Posted on December 14, 2024 | 2 comments

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

Posted on December 7, 2024 | 1 comment

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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