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Online Art Gallery #338

Posted on October 3, 2026 | Leave a comment

A couple of familiar Westport scenes lead off this week’s online art gallery.

We introduce a new artist too. Peter Gold — a Representative Town Meeting member and Westport Transit District director spends his spare time turning objects on a lathe. A variety of his work is for sale.

Which reminds us: No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“The Mill Pond” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Summer Stock at the Old Westport Playhouse” (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Hungry Eyes” (Bill Fellah)

“Rosewater Dream” — acrylic resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Abundant Persistent Flowers” — impasto acrylic 18 x 29 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Assorted Wood Bowls, Boxes & Other Turned Objects” (Peter Gold — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Franco Fellah)

“Focus on Pedernal” — The mountain subject of many of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings (Jerry Kuyper)

“Montenegro Subway Hiding Cave” (Wendy Levy)

“After the Buddha’s Enlightenment, the Nāga (Cobras) Sheltered Him From a Severe Storm” (Mike Hibbard)

“June and Me” (Martin Ripchick)

“A Baroque Rigged Tall Ship” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #336

Posted on September 19, 2026 | 2 comments

A reminder to all our visitors: Each week, many works are for sale.

We’ve revised our email notification system. Artists: Be on the lookout for a new address in your inbox when someone wants to purchase your work.

Remember: No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“A Yom Kippur Prayer To Be Written and Sealed in the Book of Life For a Peaceful and a Good Year” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

“Westport Onions Ready for New York City” (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Footbridge Over Deadman Brook” (Michael Tomashefsky)

“Saugatuck Station Power Grid” (John Maloney)

“Rings of Life” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Once Upon a Time” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“A Little Music” — June Rose Whittaker (Available for purchase — click here)

Untitled — acrylic and sharpie (Susan Celuch)

“Croatian Boy in Cavtat” Wendy Levy)

“Traffic” (Robbie Sumberg)

“This Ol’ Dawg Ain’t Gonna Learn Any New Tricks!” (Mike Hibbard)

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

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #334

Posted on September 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

Familiar scenes lead off this week’s online art gallery. (Though one may be familiar only to longtime Westporters.)

Yet whether you’re an old-timer or newcomer: This is your space. And we want your work.

No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

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

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (John Maloney)

“The Power of Patience” — textured photography (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Fanciful Flower” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“Floating” — Monhegan Island — photograph (Jerry Kuyper — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sunset Reflection” — acrylic on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“I LOVE YOU Baaa-beee!!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Gone Fishing” (Martin Ripchick)

“They Just Aren’t Talking Anymore! Series 1” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Potter” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #329

Posted on August 1, 2026 | Leave a comment

Serene summer scenes highlight this week’s art gallery.

It’s the perfect way to welcome August, for our many visitors.

As for our artists: No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Atlantics 16 & 127 Off South Beach” (Eric Bosch)

“Westporthenge — August 2022” (Michael Tomashefsky– Available for purchase; click here)

“In the Nantucket Serengeti — Fall” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“I Come Bearing Gifts” — found trunk and rocks, Monhegan Island, Maine (Jerry Kuyper)

“The Koi Pond” — encaustic wax, 13 x 25 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Watercolor Fusion” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“This is Not a Blue Pizza” — acrylic paint (Joanne Leaman — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (Zoe Abrams, 15-year-old One River Art student)

“Dare You to Tickle Her Paw!” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Forever in Bloom Rose Bouquet” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

“Summer Pause” (Patricia McMahon)

“Please Buy My Pretty Flowers!” (Steve Stein)

“Lacing Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #327

Posted on July 18, 2026 | Leave a comment

Most weeks, our online gallery artists roam far and wide.

This week, many stick close to home.

Compo Beach, the Saugatuck River train bridge, Taylortown Salt Marsh — all are represented this week.

This gallery is like Forrest Gump’s chocolates. You never know what you’ll get. But the surprises are part of the fun.

And we want you to join in. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Composition” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Compo Playground” (Amy Schneider)

“Rust Never Sleeps” — Saugatuck River train trestle (Jerry Kuyper)

“Taylortown Salt Marsh” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Happy July 4th!” (Pam Kesselman)

Untitled (Lauri Weiser)

Photographer Mike Hibbard asks, “Who broke which of the Christian 10 Commandments to gather materials and the use them to build this house of God?”

“Xavier” — silverpoint on prepared paper, 11 x 8 (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” — watercolor and graphite (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #319

Posted on May 23, 2026 | 2 comments

Happy Memorial Day!

And arrival (soon) of summer. And whatever else you’re celebrating.

This week — just in time for Westport’s Fine Arts Festival — we celebrate another pack of Westport artists. And whether you’re a regular wanderer through our online gallery, or a first-time visitor: Welcome!

Just email a JPG to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in.

“Another Sunday Morning Shoot in the Hopper” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for sale; click here)

“Westport’s Sweet Melted Memories” (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)

“Memorial Day: A Family Tribute” — oil on linen (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“The American Rose” — oil on aluminum impasto style (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“An Artist’s Mind Moves Faster Than the Clock” (Eric Bosch)

“Flotsam and Jetsam From Waimanalo Beach, Hawaii” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Musical Collage” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — digital photography, in camera multiple exposure (Melissa Goldsmith)

“Beauty Can Be Found Everywhere” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — gouache on paper bag handles (Toby Michaels)

Untitled — pencil on paper (Alec Feldman, age 12)

“Sweet Treats” (Evelyn Rose, age 7, One River Art student)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This spiritual leader of a Maasai tribe in Tanzania is worried. He left Africa as a young man to study in Europe. He earned several degrees and speaks several languages. He’s back, and knows that the youth in his tribe must get an education. But will they lose the traditions of their culture?”

“Bend in the River” — crayon, watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

“Tourist” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #310

Posted on March 21, 2026 | 3 comments

Happy anniversary!

Our online art gallery turns 6 years old today.

This week in 2020 — a few days into the realization that the COVID-19 pandemic was real — I put out a call for artwork. The idea was that “in these perilous times,” “06880” readers could create — and share — artwork.

“Westport really is an arts community,” I wrote.

It doesn’t matter how old (or young) you are. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a brush, crayon or camera in your life. You don’t have to be an experienced painter, sketcher or collagist. You can work together, or with your family or anyone else you’re self-isolating with

All you need is an idea and a way to express it. Serenity, love, calm, separation, friends, solitude, fear, hope — whatever you’re thinking or feeling, get to work!

Artwork flooded in. It was broad, beautiful and imaginative. The very next day, I posted our very first online gallery. (It was first called “0*6*Art*Art*0.” at Stacie Curran’s suggestion. Click here to see that inaugural post.)

In the early days, I tried to limit the Saturday feature to work specifically created during the crisis, or that showed powerfully some of the effects those days had on everyone.

Soon, I broadened it to art with any theme (or none).

We’ve been going strong ever since. Today, we kick off the 7th year of our online art gallery.

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. As they have for 6 years, lovers want to know.

“Open Your Eyes” (Elise Mergenthaler — age 16, One River Art student)

“Mr. Silhouette Snowflake” — mixed media, pastels on paper (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hbbard says: “Beings, far beyond our galaxy, visit Earth regularly to study its life forms. They speculate that the creatures there, calling themselves humans, may go extinct through their own doing — unless they learn that kindness for each other is their only path to survival as a species.”

“Diane Heading Off to Work” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“STOP” — acrylic on original metal sign (Jerry Kuyper)

“Congress” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Orange Art” — a clementine and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Child Support” (Lawrence Weisman)

“June and Friend” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #304

Posted on February 7, 2026 | 1 comment

Some of today’s artists capture winter, in all its frozen, white glory.

Some look ahead, to the bright colors of spring.

Others get their inspiration elsewhere — everywhere from politics to the mirror.

All make up this week’s online art gallery. Take some time on this cold day to wander through it, and admire the many diverse works.

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

“I Love My Snowman” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Cold Spell” (Dayle Brownstein)

“A Winter’s Day” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Friday Frost on our Window” (Copyright Ted Horowitz)

“Footprints” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Silence on the Saugatuck 1” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Yawn” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Beached” — Dead sea fans on a pure white sand beach in the British Virgin Islands (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Thinking of Spring” — impasto acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bluejay and Bluebird” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“La Vie en Rose” — acrylic on canvas (Melissa Benedek — Available for purchase; click here)

“Shadows Visions Memories, Escape” (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)

“Yearning to Breathe Free” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Customized Bookmarks” — paint pens on paper (Will Luedke)

“You’ve a frog in your throat? I got a snake in mine!” (Mike Hibbard)

“These Days There is Always an Elephant in the Room” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Self-Portrait 2026: Happiness is a Feeling, Not a Destination” (Bill Fellah)

(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 #303

Posted on January 31, 2026 | 1 comment

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.

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #299

Posted on January 3, 2026 | Comments Off

Sure, it’s already the new year.

But holiday themes linger.

That’s fine. In the art world — at least, in our online gallery version of it — there are no rules.

Just submit your work — whatever it is.

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.

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

“Longshore Gazebo” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Holiday Candle” (John Maloney)

“Year Turns | Sun Rises” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Where Have All The Starfish Gone?” — 39 x 27 oil painted; real starfish with Compo Beach horseshoe crabs; mounted on painted plaster, covering a framed wooden panel (Eric Bosch — Available for purchase; click here)