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Online Art Gallery #268

Posted on May 31, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #268

If you missed last week’s Fine Arts Festival — no problem!

As always, kick off your Saturday with “06880”‘s online gallery.

And as always, we invite readers to submit art. 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 can contribute.

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

“Blooming” (Karen Weingarten)

“Quiet Spring” (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bulldog” (Mary Treschitta — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Karen Schlansky — Available for purchase; click here) 

“Smooch” (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Joan Micale — Available for purchase; click here)

“Spotty Rain” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Just Planted and Too Close Together” (Peter Barlow)

“Very Bad Boy!” (Mike Hibbard)

“The Kissing Chalice from a Palace” — ink and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Tickled” (Lawrence Weisman)

 

 

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #267

Posted on May 24, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #267

It’s a record!

Over 20 artists are featured in today’s online art gallery. What a great way to kick off Westport’s Fine Arts Festival. As every artist must know, it runs today and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Main Street, Elm Street and Church Lane.

See you there — after, of course, you check out the works here.

And don’t forget: “06880” readers are always welcome to submit art. 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 can contribute.

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

“Magnolia Tree Bloom in the Fog” (Bonnie Connolly)

“Sunshine Blooms” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Hope Garden” — Westport Senior Center (Laurie Sorensen)

“Black-Eyed Susan — Coming Soon to Your Lawn or Garden” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Joan Micale — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bernie the Service Dog” (Missy Greenberg)

“Standing Tall and Gnarly” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Mike Hibbard says, “Crown of sharp needles locked around the slave’s head until blood flows. Any disobedience and master hits the metal crown harder to drive the needles deeper. Slavery is still rampant in our world!”

 

Untitled — wall sculpture; calla lily wrapped in fall leaf, resin, mounted on found cored circular scrap metal (Maureen Estony — Available for purchase; click here) 

“Smooch” — abstract digital image, produced in Midjourney and Photoshop (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)

“Virgin Gorda” — 3 paintings, oil on panel, each 12 x 16 (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“Ghost of Drowned Keeper Frederick Jordan at Penfield Reef Light in Fairfield, CT Still Helps in Rescuing Mariners” — original oil on canvas, 11 x 14 (L. Miceli — Available for purchase; click here)

“Above the Mown Patch” — watercolor, 15 x 22 (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase — click here) 

Untitled (Karen Schlansky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Standing Proud” — oil and cold wax on cradled board, 24 x 30 (Helen Rolfe Ham — Available for purchase, $695 plus shipping; click here)  

“Under the Sea” — painted horseshoe crab shells, mounted on wood (Eric Bosch)

“Mishegas, Bedlam and All Sorts of Chaos” — India ink and watercolor (Aerin Lichtman, 13 years old)

“Ready for a Memorable Memorial Day at Compo” (Steve Stein)

“Strawberry” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Alyssa’s Mom” — digital (Mary Treschitta — Commissions upon request; click here)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #266

Posted on May 17, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #266

Come on in! The gallery’s open!

And don’t be shy. All “06880” readers are welcome to submit art. 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 can contribute.

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

Untitled (Eric Bosch — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)“From Coast to Coasters” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Reclining Brood” — abstract paper collage (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Imaginary Landscape” — acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase, 16 x 28, $385 — Click here)

“Some Trees in May” (Peter Barlow)

“Scenery” (Karen Weingarten)

“A Westie in the Wind” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Fields of Color” — digital photograph converted to oil painting via Photoshop — Available for purchase; click here)

“This is What Happened When I Left My Gummy Bears in a Warm Car” (Amy Schneider)

“Jelly Fish” — Compo Beach (Patricia Auber)

“WARNING: Strawberry Poisonous Dart Frog of Central America — Do Not Touch/Do Not Lick” (Steve Stein)

“Thougtful” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #265

Posted on May 10, 2025 | 1 comment

Artwork is coming out of the woodwork.

Nearly a dozen and a half pieces are shown today. As they do each week, they cover a wide range of mediums, styles and subjects.

All “06880” readers are welcome to submit art. 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 can contribute.

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

Untitled — Newman Poses Preserve (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Joanie Landau — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Steven Parton)

Untitled (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Stillness, Inside And Out” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Peck’s Ledge” — watercolor on Fabriano paper (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Tony the Two Tone Pony” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“L’artichaut (The Artichoke) — acrylic on canvas (Moira Ratchford; Available for purchase, $650 framed; click here)

“My Abstact Quilt” — abstract digital painting (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Enjoy a Pretty Pot” — watercolor and pencil (Ellin Spadone)

“Between the Birch Trees” — encaustic wax, handmade embellished frame (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

“The Three Stages of Retirement” — oil paint pens on canvas (Will Luedke)

“Early Spring, Boatyard, Prop, Rudder, Poppets” (Peter Barlow)

“Tree in the Lava Field From Mt. Aetna” (Matt Murray)

“Love to All” (Lauri Weiser)

“Mom’s Love Tree?” — watercolor and inkblock (Steve Stein)

“Post Road Art Installation” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #263

Posted on April 26, 2025 | 3 comments

Last week’s announcement that artwork posted on our online gallery is for sale was greeted with excitement — by art-lovers and artists alike.

If an artist wishes to sell a piece, there’s a link in the caption. Clicking it brings up an email to the artist. Buyers arrange the purchase — price, original or print, framed or unframed, shipping or pickup, etc. — directly with the artist. Happy shopping!

Meanwhile, a reminder about our works: We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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 can contribute.

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

“Assumption Sunday” (Duane Cohen; For sale — click here)

“An Early Walk in Spring” (Peter Barlow)

“Ground Control to Major Levon” (Patricia McMahon — For sale; click here)

“Norwalk Lighthouse” (Eric Bosch — For sale; click here)

“Spring Flower Collage” — using PhotoTangler app (Amy Schneider)

“Wildflowers” — digital art (Ken Runkel — For sale; click here)

“Happy Easter” (Ellen Wentworth)

“A Lifetime of Memories … Find the Heart” — acrylic and charcoal on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (June Whittaker — For sale; click here)

“4.23.25.1” (Tom Doran; For sale — click here)

Untitled — watercolor on Fabriano hp paper (Kathleen Burke — For sale; click here)

“The Bassoonist” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Minimalist Portrait” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #262 — And Now Our Art Is For Sale!

Posted on April 19, 2025 | 5 comments

You asked for it.

Now you’ve got it!

In the 5 years since we started our online art gallery — in the first month of the pandemic, so artists could share their work, and “06880” readers would feel less isolated — many have wondered if they could any works were for sale.

Starting today, they are.

Artists who wish to sell their pieces will let me know. I’ll add a link to the caption. Clicking the link brings up an email to the artist. Potential buyers can arrange the purchase — price, original or print, framed or unframed, shipping or pickup, etc. — directly with the artist.

It’s that simple!

Of course, artists can also send buyers info on their other work.

Artists will give “06880” a 25% commission. It’s a win-win-win: for our online gallery artists, our readers, and us. Happy shopping!

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Meanwhile, a reminder about our works: We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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 can contribute.

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

“When Lightning Strikes” (Patricia McMahon) – For sale; click here

Untitled (Duane Cohen) — For sale; click here

“Too Soon?” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel) — For sale, $125; click here

“Our Computer’s Passover Seder Plate” — pencil, watercolor and computer (Steve Stein)

“Squash and Squalls” (Werner Liepolt)

“Flower Power” (Ellin Spadone)

“Mill Pond” — acrylic on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw) — For sale; click here

“Surf at Compo” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke) — For sale; click here

“Sea Lion” (Amy Schneider)

“Up Close on Fishers Island Sound” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Tom Doran) — For sale; click here

“Double Double Eage Power to Women” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fair Maiden” (Martin Ripchick) For sale — click here

“Cuisine” (Lawrence Weisman)

 

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #260

Posted on April 5, 2025 | 1 comment

Every week, it seems, we welcome a new artist.

Today it’s Jack Stein. If the last name is familiar: He’s the brother of Steve Stein, a regular watercolor contributor.

Jack works in a different medium. Enjoy!

As always, we invite submissions from all “06880” readers (and siblings). 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 can contribute.

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

“Spring Has Sprong” (Bob Weingarten)

Untitled — burl wood cut and beach stone bird (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Road Less Traveled” (Patricia McMahon)

“Recently Unemployed” — Ken Runkel calls this “a tribute to the thousands of federal civil service employees that are losing their jobs right now.”

“The Boys” — wood cut ink block print (Jack Stein)

“What is Earth’s Future?” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider)

“The White Nosed Twins” (Tom Doran)

“Lazy Summer Daze” (Duane Cohen)

“Seaweed Washed up After a Storm at Compo Beach” (Kathleen Burke)

“A Ketch with No Name” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “The great designer Nathaniel Herreshoff did not favor the ketch rig, but his son L. Francis Herreshoff made it his specialty, often on a double- ended boat.”

Photographer Jerry Kuyper shot these 2 scenes a few hours apart, on Rayfield Road.

“Cape Cod Summer Rental: Water View, Cozy, Rustic Woodwork, Excellent Ventilation” (Mike Hibbard)

“She Ain’t What She Used To Be” — watercolor and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“I Didn’t Believe it Myself” (Martin Ripchick)

“Hilltop Town” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #259

Posted on March 29, 2025 | 1 comment

“06880” is “where Westport meets the world.”

And today’s online art gallery resembles (as it often does) a globe.

With artwork inspired by Alaska, Japan, China — and of course Westport — we hope to inspire all of our readers.

Wherever you are.

We hope our gallery inspires your inner artist too. We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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 can contribute.

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

“O-torri Gate in Miyajima, Japan” (Caroline Walshon)

 

“Thank You, Beavers!” — Alaska (Mike Hibbard)

“Ned Dimes Marina” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

Photographer Peter Barlow says of this house at Avery Point, Connecticut: “Built starting in 1902, and still there. It was the home of Morton F. Plant, one of the good guys among millionaires, when he wasn’t out in one of his 100-foot schooners.”

“Male Black Winged Red Bishop” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Spring is Here” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Spring-y” — encaustic wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Rainbow Mountains of Gansu Province, China” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Imagining a Place to Love, Far From Here” (Tom Doran)

“Irresistible Grace” (Patricia McMahon)

Unttitled (Duane Cohen)

“Lt. Gen. Thomas H. Miller (USMC) and Senator John Glenn” (Steven Parton)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“The Collector” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #258

Posted on March 22, 2025 | 3 comments

Today’s online art gallery marks 2 milestones.

We’re beginning our 6th year of this feature. It started in the very early days of COVID. The goal was to encourage homebound residents a chance to paint, draw or photograph their feelings about the pandemic.

It quickly evolved into a gallery for art of all themes, and all genres. Submissios poured in, from Westporters and “06880” readers far away.

When the immediate crisis eased, we kept going.

Now — 5 years later — today’s edition includes the most number of works ever: 17.

Thanks to all who are represented today. And all who have helped make this a valued and much-anticipated feature of “06880,” every Saturday morning since March of 2020.

So, to reiterate: We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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 can contribute.

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

“Go Outside and Play!” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Take Down These Barriers and Get Out of My Way!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Psychedelic Seahorse” — abstract acrylic (Patricia McMahon)

“A Helpful Friend’s Golden Retriever” (Eric Bosch)

“We the People” — fluorescent paint on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Sheep Waiting for Spring” (Laurie Sorensen)

“First Signs of Spring” (Fred Cantor)

“In Your Easter Bonnet” (Ellin Spadone)

“Town Hall Steps” (Michael Chait)

“Cannonball at Keeler Tavern” (Amy Schneider)

“House at Avery Point” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Dinner Time” — etching (Franklin Lockenour)

“The Lonely Lightouse” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Four Hands” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

 

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Online Art Gallery #257

Posted on March 15, 2025 | 5 comments

Home is where this week’s heart is. We lead off our online art gallery with a couple of intriguing visions of “home.”

Of course as always, we invited submissions from all “06880” readers. 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.

“Weir Farm National Park” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

“There’s a Red House Over Yonder” (Patricia McMahon)

“Spring Has Sprung” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — acrylic paint and pastels on watercolor paper (Carol D’Amico)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Little Vigilant” — Photographer Peter Barlow describes it as “a 70-foot steel-hulled motor sailer, said to have the lines of a Maine sardine carrier. Note: ‘sailer’ is spelled with an ‘e’ when it’s a boat.”

“Mother and Child” — Carrera marble (Alan Goldberg)

“More of Those Dang Drones!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Gentoo and Chinstrap Porpoising” (William Strittmatter)

 

“Out of the Shadows” (Lawrence Weisman)

“David’s Flower: Keeping Freedom Alive!” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery. But please consider a donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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