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Online Art Gallery #193

Posted on December 23, 2023 | Comments Off

Christmas finds its way into a few pieces in today’s online art gallery.

So, of course, do the usual subjects. Which is to say: Everything else under the sun.

When you enter our “06880” gallery, you never know what you’ll find. But you’ll always find works of interest.

This is your gallery. We welcome all kinds of submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

“Merry Christmas Mona” (Ken Runkel)

“3D Origami” (Claire Faucher)

“Milky Way” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Chaos” (Jo Ann Miller)

“Reflections of Winter” — impasto/gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Basket Full of Happy Peruvian Dolls for Christmas” (Mike Hibbard)

“Ornament All Year Round — My Victorian Bell Buoy” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “The photo shows the top half of a very heavy object about 5 feet tall. I acquired it some 50 years ago for my back yard in Westport, and now it’s in my yard in Pawcatuck. I love it, but I don’t know anything more of its history.”

“Compo Post Season” — digital illustration (Maj Kalfus)

“Contemplation” (Lawrence Weisman)

“110 to Anywhere” (Andrew Colabella)

“Give Me That Old Time Religion! It’s an Olive Branch — Not Mistletoe!” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Jon Nicholson)

(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 #191

Posted on December 9, 2023 | Comments Off

Today’s online art gallery opens with a special request.

In this season of giving, Westport artist Mark Yurkiw is thinking of his native Ukraine. As the Russian war grinds on, he wants to ensure that no one forgets the plight: 10 million Ukrainians are displaced, 20 million shelter in place, and 10 million are protecting their nation, any way they can.

Over the past 2 years Mark has donated his artwork, as a way to raise funds to help Ukraine. His work is serious, superb, and important. He invites interested collectors to contact him for an appointment to see it, in his barn/studio. Mark’s email is mark.think3d@gmail.com.

Art by Mark Yurkiw …

… and Mark outside his barn, with one of his Ukrainian-themed works.

Now, back to our weekly online gallery. As always, we welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

“Our Colorful Nation” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Beach Impressions” (Tom Doran)

“Our Love for Each Other Shines Forever” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — Photographer Dennis Jackson took this recently in Argentina’s Tierra de Fuego National Park, a few miles from the Chilean border.

Untitled collage — paper on paper (Maj Kalfus)

“Worth a Second Look” (Lawrence Weisman)

“All the Other Thanksgiving Gourds Are Gone!” (Steve Stein)

“Manspreading” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Red Sail in the Sunset? – A J-70” (Peter Barlow)

“Seaside Impressions 03” (Ken Runkel)

“Dawn in the Neighborhood” (Jerry Kuyper)

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Online Art Gallery #190

Posted on December 2, 2023 | 1 comment

Welcome to our first December online art gallery of the year.

We’ve got interesting new mediums, like collage and embroidery. But where are all our holiday submissions?

Come on, guys — it’s the most wonderful time of the year, right?!

As always, we welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

“What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love” (Steve Stein)

“OK, What Came First?” (Ken Runkel)

“Kawa Ni” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled — collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Counted Cross Stitch” (Alicia Kronick)

“I Remember” (Tom Doran)

Untitled — oil on canvas (Greg Puhy)

“Choppy Water and Herreshoff Ketch” (Peter Barlow)

“Thanks for Being My Dinner!” Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The queen lioness takes down the prey and eats first. The rest of the pride keep their distance and eat when the queen goes to the river to drink. Jackals, hyenas and buzzards take their turns — carefully.”

“In Recovery” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Naturally, It’s Getting Chilly” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Black Bird” — black and white reflection photography (Patricia McMahon)

(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 #189

Posted on November 25, 2023 | 2 comments

Thanksgiving is already in the rear view mirror.

But a couple of artists check in with Turkey Day-themed work.

Others — as always — offer a wide variety: nature, people, boats, whimsy.

It’s just another day at the “06880” online art gallery.

As always, we welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Laurie Sorensen finished this needlepoint, and thought its Macy’s Parade theme would be appropriate for this week’s online art gallery.

“Pilgrim Mouse Thanksgiving” (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Autumn Tree” (Jamie Walsh)

“Blue Hour Lake” (Ken Runkel)

“Are You Coming or Going in This Hectic World?” (June Rose Whittaker)

“It’s All in The Eye of the Beholder!” — watercolor. 12-year-old artist Aerin Stein’s grandfather Steve Stein explains, “It is a hidden personal typography. The trick is to find their hidden name.”

“Espresso #2” — oil on panel (Werner Liepolt)

“Shadow in the Frame” — photograph (Sandy Rothenberg)

“Beach Bricks, Cousin of Beach Glass” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Schooner Columbia, 141 Feet” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “This is an exact replica of the schooner that represented the US competing with Canada’s Bluenose in the fishing boat races of the1920s and ’30s.”

“Jackal Pups Trying to Hyde” — Tanzania (Mike Hibbard)

“Yoga. OK, So You Can Do This. But Why?” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled — Photographer Bonnie Scott Connolly says, “On a cold, rainy late fall day, pine needles make a random artistic design.”

“Last Color at Earthplace” (Rowene Weems)

(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 #187

Posted on November 11, 2023 | 2 comments

Good morning! Our gallery is open. Today we feature works of the season, and of the world we live in.

Come on in … and please submit your work, too.

We welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited (no, urged) to contribute.

“To All Our Veterans!” (Karen Weingarten)

“Leaves” (Rowene Weems)

“In Autumn Some Leaves Soar, Others Fall” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Cry havoc! And let loose the dogs of war!” — pencil and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein notes: “Done in the modernist style of Marc Chagall; the quote is from Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.'”

“The Family Eats Together” (Peter Barlow)

“Perfect Ending” (Ken Runkel)

“Monkshood in a Red Ruby Bottle” — oil on panel (Werner Liepolt)

“Picky, Picky, Picky” (Mike Hibbard)

“Bottoms Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Moonrise at Salisbury Beach” (Roseann Spengler)

(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 #186

Posted on November 4, 2023 | 1 comment

Good morning! Our gallery is open. Today we feature works of the season, and scenes close to home.

Come on in … and please submit your work, too.

We welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited (no, urged) to contribute.

“Fall Colors” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Morning Glories” (Kathleen Burke)

“Full Moon, Southbury, Connecticut” (Sharon Paulsen)

“Aragosta, Maine” — oil on canvas (Werner Liepolt)

“Pinckney Park, Rowayton” (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Did You Forget to Celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)- Again?” Pencil and watercolor artist Steve Stein says, “The holiday dating from pre-Hispanic Central America falls every year on November 1 and 2. It is believed that the spirits of departed ancestors return home to spend time with their relatives in a celebration of both the life and death of family.”

“It’s a Stretch” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Scary Yarn! Eeeek!” (Mike Hibbard)

“On a Windy Hill by the Transfer Station” (Peter Barlow)

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Online Art Gallery #184

Posted on October 21, 2023 | Comments Off

Today our online art gallery welcomes another new artist: Jude Siegel. The subject — a frog — is also a first for this Saturday morning feature.

As we do each week, we welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited (no, urged) to contribute.

“Falling Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

“Frog Caprice” — watercolor and ink on old sheet music (Jude Siegel)

“Beaching Escape” (Tom Doran)

“Net Effect” (Amy Schneider)

“Thumbs Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Where Do I Go For My COVID and Flu Shot?” (Steve Stein)

“Old Compo Basin, circa 1968” (Kathleen Burke)

“Laser Sailing” — Photographer Peter Barlow explains, “The sailboat called a Laser was designed in 1969 by the late Bruce Kirby, a friend of mine who lived in Rowayton. There are now 230,000 Lasers in the world.”

“Mommy, I’m Scared! (How Far Have We Evolved?)” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — Photographer Dorothy Robertshaw says, “At this trying time thinking of love and world peace 💙💙💙 The best place to be is at the beach❤️”

Untitled — Photographer Jerry Kuyper says, “Yesterday, after stretching on the deck, I was lying on my back looking up. I saw these clouds floating by. I was mesmerized by the levels, dimension, and movement. And I thought, ‘what a wonderful world we live in.'”

(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 #183

Posted on October 14, 2023 | 1 comment

Timely world events and timeless nature share space in this week’s online art gallery.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited (no, urged) to contribute.

“Under Attack” (Amy Schneider)

“Levon” — acrylic resin abstract wood canvas (Patricia McMahon)

“Fall is Here; The Sun is Brightly Shining” —
encaustic wax painting burnished with shellac (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Signal Flags 01” — abstract art with a strong Mondrian influence (Ken Runkel)

“Evan Harding Park at Longshore” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Fishing Boat Nellie at Sunset” (Peter Barlow)

“Sidelined” (Lawrence Weisman)

“South Bank of the Arno River” (Kathleen Burke)

“New Bridge” (Karen Weingarten)

“Who You Calling a Frogmouth?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fleeting Fall” (Jerry Kuyper)

Suzanne Casey says: “I came out of needlepoint retirement to make this stocking for my brother’s first grandchild. (My brother is Michael Wheatall, Staples High School Class of 1979.) I also made them for all of my children, nieces and nephews when they were born — but the last of those was 20 years ago.”

“A Golem of War, Now loose in Israel and Ukraine.” Artist Steve Stein explains: “A golem, according to Hebrew legend, is a mass of clay magically given life. It can be a force for good or more often a force of evil, war and mindless destruction.”

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Online Art Gallery #172

Posted on July 29, 2023 | Comments Off

The titles of many of this week’s artworks are as simple as their subjects.

Latches, wallflowers, bees, bulbs, clouds — they’re everyday parts of our world.

But, as always, our “06880” artists see and share them in many different, unique and thought-provoking ways.

That’s the magic of our online gallery.

Of course, we could not do it without you. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Sunset Sail” (Ken Runkel)

“Bumble Bee” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Banff, Alberta” (Diane Yormark)

“Wallflowers” (Ellin Spadone)

“Bulbs” (Tom Doran)

“Latches” (Peter Barlow)

“Water Magic” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Clouds” (Ellen Lavigne Flug)

“Flaws 5” (Santiago Lozano)

Nepal. “He is a pillar of the community,” says photographer Mike Hibbard.

“Sir Walter Raleigh 2.0” (Steve Stein)

“At Rest” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Sunset at Falmouth, Massachusetts” (Laurie Sorensen)

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Online Art Gallery #171

Posted on July 22, 2023 | 1 comment

It’s Saturday morning — time once again to open the doors to our online art gallery.

As always, everyone is welcome to enjoy our collection.

And submit.

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

“Interstices 21” (Santiago Lozano)

“Pear” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Waiting for Bomboloni” — Westport Farmers’ Market — pastels (Werner Liepolt)

“Yet Another Chagall: The Tribe of Issachar” — Artist Steve Stein explains, “Issachar was the 5th of 6th sons of Jacob with Leah. The name translates to ‘his reward will come.’ Yet of the 12 tribes, no one uses Issachar as a name for their kids!”

“Sentient” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper says this is 8 feet tall, including 2 feet of rock below the surface. It’s part of the “Rock On! Celebrating Stone in the Garden” exhibit at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts.