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Online Art Gallery #299

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)

“Some Assembly Required. Batteries Not Included” — composited digital illustration (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Elijah Kellogg Church Christmas Eve” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“It’s Back to the Snow Globe After Christmas” (Caroline Howe)

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

“Yellow and Pink” (Dayle Brownstein)

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

“Low Poly Wildlife” — digital art (Alexander Cavallo — One River Art student)

“Bow Wow! Hot Chilly Cupcakes?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Cat’s Meow” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Riverside From Imperial Avenue” — pencil and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Waif” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Peter” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

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

Online Art Gallery #297

The holidays are here!

And our “06880” artists know it. Several submissions to this week’s online art gallery reflect the spirit of the season.

And the weather.

Thanks, as always, to all our artists. 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.

“Tinsel & Toes” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Home for the Holidays” (John Maloney)

“Even Penguins Love Christmas” — watercolor (Caroline Walton Howe)

“Great Barrington” (Wendy Levy)

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

“It’s Frosty Outside” — acrylic impasto, 21×21 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Gloucester Christmas Party” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Leaving it All Behind” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter Moon Dandelion Wear” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Morning: Initial Impression” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Penny Smith — One River Art student)

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

“Beams” — photography (Jerry Kuyper)

“Hey Up There! You’re Missing the Pot!” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Sabbath Menorah is Not the Same as a Chanukah Chanukiah” (Steve Stein)

Untitled — compiled on Microsoft Publisher; pencils and gel pen (Jon Nicholson)

“I Love You” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Owen” — watercolor/acrylic on paper (Bill Fellah)

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

Online Art Gallery #287

Fall is in the air.

And in our online art gallery.

There’s something about the season that brings out special creativity in our readers.

Of course, there’s always more than one theme here.

And always more than meets the eye.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled (John Maloney)

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

“Einstein” — ballpoint ink on paper (Bill Fellah)

“A Slice of Still Life” (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“Always Be on the Lookout for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Mike Hibbard”)

“Mommy and Me” — oil on canvas, 24 x 24 (S. Guccione — Available for purchase — click here)

“Houses in Eze” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Two Dozen Roses” — watercolor with computer background (Steve Stein)

“By the Light of the Electric Moon” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Jane and Friend” (Martin Ripchick)

“Compo Playground” (Lawrence Weisman)

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

Online Art Gallery #284

Monday is the first day of fall.

This week, we have not one but two submissions titled “Last Days of Summer.”

Great minds — and great artists — think alike.

At the same time of course, both are very different.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery.

So no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Woman in a Hallway” — digital creation (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“A Laughing Gull Staking His Claim Behind Overton’s” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Homemade bracelets (Amy Schneider)

“A Slice of Time” (Jerry, Kuyper, Shirlee Gordon) — Materials: Rock balanced on a 3″ slab of a 4’ wide trunk from a 100-year-old oak tree, balanced on a moss-covered trunk removed because of storm damage.

“Deer God, Please …” (Mike Hibbard)

“Patches & Lacey” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Just the Ticket” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

“Welcoming Rosh Hashana 5786” — pencil & watercolor (Steve Stein)

“The Last Days of Summer” — impasto acrylic; gold leaf, silver leaf and brass leaf detail (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here) 

“Last Days of Summer” — Ned Dimes Marina (Laurie Sorensen)

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

Online Art Gallery #283

In the 5-plus years of curating this online art gallery, I don’t think we’ve ever featured a weaving.

This week, we’ve got 2.

That’s the magic of this feature. Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get when you open it up.

It is, after all, your gallery. We rely entirely on “06880” readers’ submissions.

So no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“The Life and Death struggle with Mr. Lizard, Chew Toy” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

 

“Summer Flowers from Trader Joe’s” — acrylic painting (Prill Boyle)

“Psychic Urge” — digital print (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — painting on a woven grass cloth with a golden weave (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — weaving (Julia Wray; Available for purchase; click here)

 

“Full Speed Ahead” — Levitt Pavilion (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“End of Summer” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Sunset Strands” — (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

“Rowboat in the Weeds” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — collage (Cohl Katz)

“The House of Hard Knocks” (Mike Hibbard)

“Where Sweet Dreams and Nightmares Come From” — stamps and ink pad (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Brickley” (Bill Fellah) 

 

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

Online Art Gallery #281

Every week, it seems, we welcome at least one artist to our online gallery.

This week it’s Jo Ann McKinney. Her mixed media piece is very intriguing — and highlights the openness of this feature to all works, of any medium.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Out of Work Buoys” (Peter Barlow)

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

“On Dry Storage at Cove Marina” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Madame Butterfly” — mixed media using contact paper and magazine images (Jo Ann McKinney)

“Gentle Waterfall, An Avalanche” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Luck No. 7” — acrylic on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Stanined Glass Beach” — digital creation (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Kim’s Gift — Peonies for Linda’s Birthday” (Kimberly Stein)

“Sunset Sip” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Good News: Voracious, aggressive hornets imported to devour spotted lanternflies! Bad News: What will those hornets eat when the lanternflies are gone?”

“Sneaky Yellow Wrinkled Gourds Growing in My Vegetable Garden” (Steve Stein)

 

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Excavating” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Prowess” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Online Art Gallery #280

Watercolors, colorful digital photography, black-and-white pencil-on-pen works: As it does every week, today’s online gallery offers a diverse, creative mix of art, from “06880” readers just like you.

And we do mean you!

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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.

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

“Alien Beauty” — digital composite (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Phataenopsis” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Metro NY — Sea Levels Rising” — Acrylic Dutch pour (Eric Bosch)

“‘Close Encounters’ Sequel?” (Fred Cantor)

“Stone Age Dice” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper found the stone at Compo Beach, then added the dots.

“Don’t Mess With Him!” Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The Maasai Warrior uses his razor-sharp steel spear to protect the family’s cattle from lions.”

“Not Having a Good Day” (Steve Stein)

“Yippee!” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Harry” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

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

Online Art Gallery #278

Perhaps we’ve had a woodcarving before, in one of our 277 previous online art galleries.

Or maybe not.

Either way, today’s submission underlines one of the goals of this weekly feature: to highlight the many and varied works of “06880” readers.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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.

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

“Nebraska Field Flying Trout” — digital illustration/composite (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Showers” (Bruce Borner)

“Looking Up” (Karen Weingarten)

“Journey to the East” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper explains, “This is our backyard on Rayfield Road. For over 10 years, I have been maintaining a 90 foot circumference ‘Circle of Life.’ About 5 years ago I added cairns marking the center and N, S, E, W directions.”

“Pond” — digital print (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Trolley Folly” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled — woodcarving (Steven Kulla)

“White Collar” — 20″ x 16″ oil on canvas (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Cannondale Station” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Our Relationship is on the Rocks!” (mike Hibbard)

“Princess Tang” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

“I’m at Compo — Just Look for the Blue Swim Cap!” — pencil and watrcolor (Steve Stein)

“Not Happy” (Lawrence Weisman)

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

Online Art Gallery #276

We welcome 4 new artists — including 2 teenagers — to this week’s online art gallery.

Their submissions underscore what this weekly feature is all about .

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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.

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

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

Untitled — colored pencil (John Jannotta — 18 years old)

“Self-portrait” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

“the Blind Date” — digital illustration and composition (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

“Pink Patio Flower Pot” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Still Life of a Lemon” (Jenny Sherinsky Stein)

“The Curl” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Light Dance” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled — photograph (Cohl Katz)

“Footsteps on the Beach” — oil on canvas (Lindsay Kulla)

Untitled — photograph (Beth Cody)

“Ceremony of Friendship and Hope” (Mike Hibbard)

“Ready to Wade, Bathe or Gossip” (Steve Stein)

“Handful” (Lawrence Weisman)

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

Online Art Gallery #274

The 4th of July is over. But our artists have not forgotten.

Their work — and a broad variety of others — is featured in today’s online art gallery.

We hope many more artists will join them this summer. Our gallery is open to all.

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.

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

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

“Do Words Matter?” (Tom Doran — Available for sale; click here)

“Hot Cold and In Between” — acrylic pouring (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for sale; click here)

“Beagle Mix, Laila” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Happy 249th — Old Glory in All Her Backgrounds” (Steve Stein)

“Meeting Across Dimensions” (Jerry Kuyper)

Eric Bosch built this birdhouse from scratch (including the working light). He says, “It gives off a nice seaside glow on these hot summer nights.”

“We Thought The Deer Were Eating Our Flowers!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Family Outing” (Lawrence Weisman)

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