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Online Art Gallery #261

Welcome to another colorful, topical and timeless week of our online art gallery.

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.

“Branching Out” (Patricia McMahon)

“Purple Spring Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled – From the edge of the fields at Greenwich Audubon Center (Kathleen Burke)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Green Fishing Boat” — digital composition (Ken Runkel)

“Old Mill Low Tide” — oil on canvas (Werner Liepolt)

“Is it Winter or is it Spring?” — oil on aluminum (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk” (Tom Doran)

“Found Art” — outside Westport Library (Jonathan Alloy)

“Circles and Angles and Snowfall in a Mirror” (Peter Barlow)

Pile of puppies dreaming of pulling a sled in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, 938 miles Anchorage to Nome, Alaska (Mike Hibbard)

“A Candle in the Window” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Still on the Drawing Board” (Aerin Lichtman, age 11)

“Blue or Red State — The Tax Man is Coming!” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #251

Our “06880” artists provide plenty of warm color, on this sunny-but-still-midwinter Saturday.

Yet 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.

“Together” — watercolor and pencil (Ellin Spadone)

“Victoria in Bloom” (Patricia McMahon)

“Chaos” (Jo Ann Miller)

“Red, White and Blue” (Karen Weingarten)

“Under the Sea” — acrylic and resin (Amy Schneider)

“Night Bloom_03” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Canteloupe Island (Tribute to Herbie Hancock)” (Tom Doran)

“Four Seasons” — Zentangle (paper and ink) (Holly Tashian)

“Sparky” (Archie Grant)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Vintage Close-up Yacht ‘Nisca'” — Peter Barlow

“Arrival” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Happy Hour” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #247

Out with the old. In with the new.

This week’s online art gallery looks both backwards (one last Christmas piece; the final full moon of 2024) and forward (pondering the new year).

That’s the way we roll. 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.

Untitled — taken Christmas Eve at Elijah Kellogg Congregational Church in Harpswell Maine (Bonnie Scott Connolly, Staples ’67)

“Through the Eyes of a Child” — illustrated composite digital piece (Ken Runkel)

“Pondering the New Year” — acrylic/light impasto on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“PEM Reflections” (Tom Doran)

“Southport Harbor” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

Sloop Wachiwi, a Nathaneal Herreshoff  Buzzards Bay 30 (47 feet overall), built in 1902 — photographed in 2017 on Fishers Island Sound (Peter Barlow)

“Westport Country Playhouse” (Duane Cohen)

Untitled — collage (Cohl Katz)

“Westport Faces” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Three Little Maids Are We” (Martin Ripchick)

“Sunil’s Fisherman Casting at Compo, Circa 12/6/24” (Steve Stein)

“My New Year’s Resolution: Remember Hiker’s Rule # 5: Look Before You Squat. You Get the Point!” (ike Hibbard)

“Last Full Moon 2024” (Karen Weingarten)

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Online Art Gallery #245

Two submissions this week include “festive” or “festival” in their titles.

Other artists also offer holiday-themed works.

But 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 Saturday feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Festival of Light” (Karen Weingarten)

“Festive Farm Life in New Milford” (Patricia McMahon)

“Christmas memories” — oil on canvas (S. Guccione, at Westport River Gallery)

“Spirit of the Season” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Roseann Spengler)

“Winter Woodlands” — acrylic embellished with gold (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Woman in a Hallway” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Jo Ann Miller)

Untitled — acrylic (Missy Greenberg)

“I’m 117 Years Old. Wanna Race?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Zentan” (Ellen Horowitz)

“Cascade” — acrylinc painting on Masonite (Peter Barlow)

“The Protester” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Aargh” (Martin Ripchick)

“Kim’s Chanukkiah and Steve’s Dreidels” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #239

There’s always something new in our online art gallery.

This week: a couple of new mediums.

But 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Dear, I Love You More Than All the Red Leaves on all the Japanese Maple Trees in the Whole World!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — eastern side of the Fairfield mill pond — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

“Squash & Squalls” — oil on linen (Werner Liepolt)

“A Bench with a View” (Fred Cantor)

“The Queen Mary” — Carl Addison Swanson says, “It took 2 cranes $10,000 to move this from next door when Joey Karmonsky (Staples High School Class of 1941) died.”

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Boat Contrasts” — a 61-foot Army Q boat built in 1918 by Luders Marine in Stamford, and an inflatable Zodiac runabout (Peter Barlow)

“Homes” — wood (Tom Feeley)

“Bright Light” — impasto acrylic gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Time’s Up” — digital compounding (Tom Doran)

Acrylic dot art mandala (Faith Vicinanza)

“Is it Pop Art or Kindergarten/Refrigerator Art?” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“They’re Almost Gone!” (Karen Weingarten)

 

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Online Art Gallery #237

Fall and floral fun continues, in our online art gallery.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Decorative Gourds” (Werner Liepolt)

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

“Tulip” (Ulla Hehenberger)

“Meditation” — Photographer Mike Hibbard calls this “peaceful beauty a perfect visual for Beethoven’s ‘Midnight Sonata.'”

“The Poppy Field” — impasto; oil paint on aluminum (DorothyRobertshaw)

“Underground” (Tom Doran)

Needlepoint pillow (Ginny Gallagher)

“Birdhouse” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Body Parts” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Sounding the Shofar — And Down Went the Walls of Jericho” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #235

Two “eyes” — one literal, the other metaphorical — lead off this week’s edition of our online art gallery.

Other submissions are a bit more seasonal. Some pay homage to autumn; others, to the Jewish New Year.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“The Eye” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Three Corners of a Coin” — compounding of photos by Teslariu Mihai (Tom Doran)

“Harvest Commons” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“A Lone Rose” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Fallen Branches” (Karen Weingarten)

“Wolf with Crescent Moon and Violin” (Brian Whelan)

“Quattro Amici” (Patricia McMahon)

 

“Dunes Behind Jennings Beach, Fairfield” (Kathleen Burke)

“Beach View” (Duane Cohen)

“Hauling Time — Sloop SAWA” (Peter Barlow)

“Prayer at the Kotel (Wailing/Western Wall) — Yom Kippur in Jerusalem” — collage and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein says: “This is all that remains of the first Hebrew Temple (built in 10th century BCE, later destroyed by the Babylonians) and second Hebrew Temple (built in 6th centruy BCE, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE). The largest stones are 44 feet long and weigh over 570 tons. It remains a place of prayer and pilgrimage.”

“To the New Year” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #231

As summer fades, submissions to our online art gallery pick up once again.

Of course, the wide of range of subjects and styles continues.

No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled — paper collage (Tom Doran)

“Compo Baby Shoes” (Scott Smith)

“The End of Summer: Black-Eyed Susies” — impasto/acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Sealia” (Patricia McMahon)

Untitled (Kathleen Burke)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Misty Morning, Lake Placid, New York” (Laurie Sorensen)

“Everything for a Purpose” (Peter Barlow)

“Fallen Branches” (Karen Weingarten)

“Raucous Red Blabbermouth and Sky Blue Peekaboo” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Eurasian Blue Tit” — pencil and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein explains, “This tiny songbird weighs about 1/2 an ounce, with a wing span of less than 2 inches!”

“Reclining Nude” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

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Online Art Gallery #227

Youth is served this week.

12-year-old occasional contributing artist Aerin Lichtman is joined by first-time submitter Emae Forman, a rising sophomore at Staples High School.

We welcome all young artists. And older ones too!

No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Patriotic Flowers” — acrylic pour technique (Amy Schneider)

“Abstraction #12: A Cityscape?” — ink and watercolor (Aerin Lichtman, 12 years old)

“Oyster/Lily” — watercolor on Bristol board (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Woman in a Hallway” (Tom Doran)

“Stop” — watercolor — Greenwich Avenue (Kathleen Burke)

“Alpaca” (Emae Forman, Staples High School rising sophomore)

“The Babies” (Karen Weingarten)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The good news is that no insecticides were sprayed on this sweet corn. And an added treat is a little extra protein.”

“The Butterflies are Free” — watercolor and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Body Parts” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #220

This week’s online art gallery features a wide range of themes, colors and mediums. Only a couple reference July 4th. One reminds us of Christmas.

Go figure.

No matter what color (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.

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

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Summer” — oil with cold wax (Sally VanDevanter)

“Glorious Lilies” — oil/acrylic impasto, on display at Capuli restaurant.  

“Sunburst” — dot art on canvas board, acrylic (Faith Vicinanza)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Levitt Pavilion Summer Concerts Under the Stars — Isle of Klezbos” (Duane Cohen)

“Blue Ribbon Farm” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Buffalo” — watercolor (John Danbury)

Photographer Peter Barlow says, “I have no idea what this is, but you’re seeing almost all of it. It goes with a factory along the Pawcatuck River. I see a very American look here, suitable for the 4th of July.”

“Peek-a-boo” (Karen Weingarten)

“Brian Wilson or American Graffiti?” (Fred Cantor)

“Brendan Hits an Awesome Two-handed Backhand” (Eric Bosch)

“South Beach Hookup” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Raggedys” (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“July 4, 2024: The Modern American Farm” (Steve Stein)

 

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