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Online Art Gallery #311

Posted on March 28, 2026 | 4 comments

Our online gallery artists often roam the world for inspiration.

Today, several of them look only as far as their home town.

Compo Beach, Longshore, the Levitt Pavilion, Staples High School — and a unique lending library — are all featured this week.

You never know what you’ll find, wandering our e-walls. That’s part of the appeal of this weekly feature.

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.

“We Read Books” — copper, AZEK and glass. Eric Bosch built and painted this “Free Little Library” for his grandchildren’s neighborhood with the help of his son Greg, along with Amelia and Theo.

“Paper Bird” (Amy Schneider)

“A Fish Tale” — collage 3-D impasto acrylic on a 36 x 36 canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — collage; Matisse-inspired (Lauri Weiser)

“The Levitt” (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

“Vanishing into Light” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Reflecting at Longshore” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Morning Magic, Compo Beach” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Folds” — compound photo (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — 5″ x 7″ mixed media note cards (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Pop Art Portrait” (Ella Barborak, age 15 — One River Art student)

“Who Needs a Beautician When My Friends Powder Me Every Day?” (Mike Hibbard)

“After Market” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Brass Passover Seder Plate on Matzah Background” (Steve Stein)

“Presidential Library” (Mark Yurkiw)

(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 #308

Posted on March 7, 2026 | 2 comments

As usual, our online art gallery features a wide mix of mediums, styles and themes.

And 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 — art lovers want to know.

“Hattie” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Frozen River” (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase. click here)

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

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

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

“Bren Playing, Sunshine of Your Love” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Don’t Complain and Don’t Explain” — photo with computer enhancements (Evan Stein)

“Ponytail” (Cohl Katz — Available for purchase; click here)

“Arctic Breath” — acrylic resin on canvas (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (John Maloney)

“Still Life Blueberries” (Miranda Cameron — Grade 8, One River Art student)

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

“Flipping Out About the Snake in His Clothes!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Dream the Impossible Dream” — pencil and crayon (Steve Stein)

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

“At Ease” (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 #305

Posted on February 14, 2026 | 2 comments

Another record!

Nineteen artists are featured in today’s online art gallery.

As always, their works span mediums and themes. And their ages, backgrounds and geographic locations are all over the map too. Most artists live in Westport — but some grew up here, and now live and work around the world.

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

“Echoes of Passion” — digital oil painting (Ken Runkel)

“As We Sometimes See Ourselves” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Mia” — 10 x 10 acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

“Cooper” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for sale; click here)

“Swimming Upstream” — acrylic and resin (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Art Buds” — 30 x 30 acrylic impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase — click here)

“Off the Wall” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“SnowFrame” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Marina Drasnin)

“Ice Image” (Cohl Katz)

“What Path Will You Take in 2026? All A-BOARD! Go For It!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Cuban Tree Frog” (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“World’s First Immigrant Alien” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Me on the Saxophone” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Hail to the Chief” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Every Dancer Has an Aura!” (Steve Stein)

” Cage Free Soul Intention Seeking Peeps” — Hand-drawn clothing culture construction design art processes (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Lost in Thought” (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 #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 #302

Posted on January 24, 2026 | 2 comments

As we prepare for another winter storm, today’s main theme is … winter.

Whether you’re relaxing with coffee by the fire, or ready to rush out and stock up on milk and eggs, today’s online art gallery is perfect for January.

Stay warm!

And if you get a chance this weekend, please send us your work.

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 — art lovers want to know.

“The Poetry of Barns, Simple — Hulls Road” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Occupied by Silence” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Four Logs Huddling Together” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Winslow Park” — enhanced image (Dayle Brownstein)

“Mr. Snowflake” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter” — paper collage (Jodi B. Rabinowitz — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Boys & Their Boxes” — digital composition (Ken Runkel)

“Mum’s the Word” — digital collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter Mountains” — shadowbox collage; painted canvas stripped, weaving/rattan inserts; with a piece from windstorm, from a 200+- year-old sugar maple (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Plant Life Portrait” — acrylic (Ella Barborak — 9th grade; One River Art student)

Untitled — Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This Alaskan braided river, fed by a glacier, is home to many animals. As I walked down the trail to the river, a huge grizzly bear stepped out of dense brush 20 feet in front of me, reared up, growled, and then … that’s another story!”

‘The Empire State Building/Excelsior Ever Upward” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

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

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Interesting Ornament” (John Maloney)

(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 #301

Posted on January 17, 2026 | 1 comment

The winter weather has kept many artists indoors, creating seasonal art.

And it’s sent photographers outdoors, to do their thing there.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery. Whether you’re looking at this with your morning coffee, or on a phone during a walk: Enjoy!

And — of course — please show us your own work.

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

Here’s looking at you!

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

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

“Full Moon ~ Deep Snow” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“As Twilight Approaches Willowbrook Cemetery” (Tomoko Meth)

“Litchfield” (Dayle Brownstein)

“High Hopes” (Daniel Anastasio — 8th grade; One River Art student)

“Evening Bliss — Sherwood mill Pond” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Aspetuck Land Trust — Water Lilies” — acrylic painting on canvas (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Pottery & Fire” (John Maloney)

“Thousands of Bulbs! It Must be the NY Botanical Garden” (Mike Hibbard)

“Burying Hill Rising Moon Swimming Beyond Eternal Freedoms” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

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

“Hog Wild” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase — click here)

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

“Riverside From Imperial: A Scene in Panoramic Technicolor” (Steve Stein)

“Good Morning World” (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 #300

Posted on January 10, 2026 | 4 comments

Our online art gallery began at the beginning of the pandemic.

It was a way for readers to share something solitary — their art — with our stuck-at-home, worried-sick community.

It flourishes today, as creative and wide-ranging as ever. This is our 300th gallery “opening.” Thanks to all who have wandered through, and of course to all our artists who contribute to it.

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

“Nyala Farm” (Andrea Padula)

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

“Time for ‘Albert,’ Me, to Take Our Christmas Tree to the Leaf Dump” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Winter Berries” (John Maloney)

“Blue Hydrangeas” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Sherwood Island State Park” (Gitta Selva)

“Arno River, Florence” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Vitality” — acrylic and resin abstract (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Emo Rubik’s Immortalization” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Light and Water” (Jerry Kuyper)

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

Untitled — mixed media (Alexander Cavallo; One River Art student)

Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada — Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The entire museum is a metaphor ascending from the darkness of evil to light of civilization’s journey toward universal human rights. Which way are we headed in 2026?”

“Headwear Banning” — Hand-drawn clothing construction design art sketch (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“A Lateen-Rigged Dhow” (Steve Stein)

“Franco” (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 #297

Posted on December 20, 2025 | 2 comments

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #295

Posted on December 6, 2025 | 1 comment

There are always surprises in our online art gallery.

This week’s: There are no holiday-themed submissions!

We’re not sure what’s gotten (or hasn’t gotten) into our usually very creative, on-top-of-everything gang of artists. But hey: There’s always next Saturday.

As always: 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.

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” — oil and pallet knife on canvas board (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase — click here)

“Boat Storage on the Hill Near the Lift, Southport” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

Eric Bosch says, “Watercolor techniques take time to learn. My copy here of Edward Hopper’s ‘House on Pamet River’ gave me valuable insights into his use of color and light.”