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Online Art Gallery #218

Posted on June 15, 2024 | 1 comment

Welcome to today’s flowers-and-water edition of our online art gallery.

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

“Oh What a Beautiful Morning” (Karen Weingarten)

“Still Life” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Boats on Dry Dock at Cove Marina” — watercolor and pen (Kathleen Burke)

“The Blessing of the Fleet” — Southport Harbor (Laurie Sorensen)

“Would This Little House Be a Teardown?” (Nina Marino)

“New York Botanical Garden Conservatory Gala Night” (Richard Stein)

“Sensual #1” (Tom Doran)

“Rare Highwatt Puffins” (Mike Hibbard)

“4-F” (Jo Ann Miler)

“Taking a Breather” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Does My Hair Look Okay?” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

(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 #216

Posted on June 1, 2024 | 2 comments

Every Westport artist knows Jay Cimbak.

He’s the go-to framer at Rockwell Art & Framing (and, for decades before that, at Max’s Art Supplies).

He’s also an avid collector of Coleman lanterns, railroad and other lanterns, and oil lamps.

Who knew?

Today, he shares his passion with our online gallery-goers. Scroll down, for a fuller explanation from Jay of his submission.

That’s the beauty of this feature. No matter what 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.

“Limoncello” — acrylic on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — oil on canvas (R. Castellon, at Westport River Gallery)

“Red Light and Other Colors” — acrylic on hard board (Peter Barlow)

“Splash” — digital composite (Ken Runkel)

“Ouch! You’ve Made Your Points! I Wish We Could Disagree in a More Agreeable Way” (Mike Hibbard)

“Encircled” — collage (Amy Schneider)

“Scribble” (Karen Weingarten)

“Shiny Future” (Tom Doran)

“The Sleeping Giant Mountain Range” (Steve Stein)

“Curled Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled — Photographer Jay Cimbak writes about one of the old lanterns he collects: “As we go into warmer weather, I thought this would be a good submission to remember colder days. If anyone would like to add to my collection of  gas lanterns and oil lamps, I never pass up a donation.”

(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 #214

Posted on May 18, 2024 | 5 comments

Springtime colors once again fill our online art gallery.

So do works from a Westport beach, to New Orleans, to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat.

No matter what your theme or medium — 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.

“Reborn” (Karen Weingarten)

“Colors of Spring” (Sandy Rothenberg)

Untitled (Diane Yormark)

“Spring on the Sound” (Duane Cohen)

“The Bougainvillea on the Wall” — Marseille artist JP Courchia (at the Westport River Gallery) 

“City Life” (Valerie Fischel)

“New England Graduation” (Peter Barlow)

“Saguaro Sunset” — Ken Runkel says, “This is from a new collection I’ve started I call the ‘Southwest Series,’ a tie to the portion of my life growing up in Arizona. This digital painting looks west over the Valley of The Sun, with city lights reflecting against the mountains. Sharing it ‘in situ’ helps people envision how something can look in their home (even if it’s not a Westport styled one).”

“Angkor Wat Temple, Cambodia” (Katie Augustyn)

“Royal Street French Quarter, New Orleans” (Brue Borner)

“This is a Zero Sum Game. I Win, and You Lose!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Eclipsing” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“A View of an American Prairie” (Steve Stein)

“Getting Up” (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 #209

Posted on April 13, 2024 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #209

Thanks to all who offered their work this rainy, cool week. You keep us hoping for a warm and wonderful spring.

Remember: No matter what your theme or medium — 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.

“Luminous Tulip Blossoms” — digital photography using the ICM technique, then stacked and blended in Photoshop. (Ken Runkel)

“Quince in Blue Bottle” — oil on paper (Werner Liepolt)

“Windows in Women’s Slave Quarters in Mt. Vernon” (Wendy Levy)

“Wild Flowers” — original watercolor on left; computer colorizations on right (Steve Stein)

“Watching the Parade” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Remembering and Honoring Ancestors” —  A room in a Peruvian home. Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Skulls are decorated with flowers, coca leaves and candles. Observers of this tradition believe the skulls of the dead will protect the living, and bring them luck. Skulls are often adorned with sunglasses, flowers and cigarettes. Many believers bring precise wishes and hopes to the skulls.”

“Stairs” (Karen Weingarten)

Photographer Peter Barlow explains, “I like seeing a squirrel running  along the tips of a picket fence or high up on a telephone wire, but this is a different view.” 

(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 #205

Posted on March 16, 2024 | 6 comments

Welcome to Year 5 of our online art gallery!

We began this feature in the early days of the 2020 pandemic. It served a few purposes — for instance, a chance for people, stuck home for a long time, to be creative.

And with actual galleries closed, it was a way for artists to showcase their work.

Plus, it provided a bit of inspiration and joy to all of us, during a frightening, miserable time. (Click here to see that very first online art gallery.)

I thought the online art gallery would be something fun, for a few weeks. But the submissions kept coming. The range of themes widened; so did the mediums.

So — like COVID — the online art gallery is here to stay.

Unlike the coronavirus though, we’re happy it’s hanging around.

So remember: No matter what your theme, or medium — and whether you’re a first-timer or oldtimer: We welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, 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.

“Curtain Twitcher.” Artist Ken Runkel says: “It was inspired by one of my Nextdoor followers, who shared his story of a ‘curtain twitcher’ he remembered as a kid. I took it from there, and created this in the style of Norman Rockwell.”

“Imagine” (Patricia McMahon)

“Spring is Coming” (Ellen Wentworth)

 “Sunset” (Karen Weingarten)

“Cousins House” (E. Bruce Borner)

“Another Red Barn” — artist Steve Stein says: “The reason barns are red is because early farmers painted them with a protective coating of linseed oil mixed with animal blood or ferrous oxide, to prevent weathering and the growth of mold and fungus.”

“The Koi Pond Getting Ready to Surface” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Schooner in the Jungle” — acrylic painting (Peter Barlow)

 

“Let the Sleeping Cat Lie — You Can’t Run Fast Enough” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Hard Day on the Front Line in Ukraine” (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 #203

Posted on March 2, 2024 | 2 comments

Jude Siegel welcomes March, in a novel way (new for our online art gallery, anyway): with a beautiful calendar.

Other submissions this week look ahead to spring, in a variety of ways.

But no matter what your theme, or medium — and whether you’re a first-timer or oldtimer: We welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, 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.

“Flickers” — watercolor (Jude Siegel)

“Floral Fantasia” (Ken Runkel)

“Green Nature” (Karen Weingarten)

“Palm Tree Trunk” (Tom Doran)

“Step Into Spring” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Not Barbie, But Still a Perennial Favorite” — pencil on paper (Roseann Spengler)

Photographer Andy Millard writes: “In Grand Canyon National Park, this section of rock conglomerate is in the bed of the wash at 220 Mile Canyon. The orange and white striped pebble resembles Nemo the clownfish from the movie ‘Finding Nemo.'”

“Salad Daze.” Photographer Judith Marks-White says: “I whipped up a salad and took a photo. Looks like the head of a sleeping dog by way of a mushroom. An accidental optical illusion.”

“30 Types of Cherries?” Artist Steve Stein writes: “Cherries have a pit (stone) center. Not to be confused with look alike berries: acerola, rambutan, currants or cotoneaster parneyi.”

“Beautiful Faces” (Mike Hibbard)

“Enter!” (Peter Barlow)

“Morning Toilette” (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 #197

Posted on January 20, 2024 | 5 comments

Winter is here!

And our “06880” artists and photographers have been out all week (or stuck inside), creating stuff to submit.

Our largest-ever online gallery is chock full of wintry works. But there are a couple of summertime submissions as well.

That’s what makes this Saturday feature so interesting, week after week.

As always, we welcome your work. 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.

Untitled (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Snow, Shovel, Tires, Boots, Snow” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Winter Blues” — side-by-side acrylics (Anne Bernier)

“Rocky Ridge Arbor” (Linda Doyle)

Untitled (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled (Kathleen Burke)

“Fish Tale” — encaustic wax, white birch assemblage (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — acrylic on canvas (Jodi M. Wallace)

“Fate” — lithograph (Ann Chernow)

“Shy” (Lawrence Weisman)

“A Still Life of Deposit Bottle Rejects” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Parisian Seahorse” — acrylic (Peter Barlow)

“Cusco’s MAMA Smoothie” (Mike Hibbard)

“Banana High Rise” (Tom Doran)

“Salvador, Bahia” (Wendy Levy)

“Portal” (Ken Runkel)

“Namaste” (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 #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 #184

Posted on October 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #184

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.

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.

“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.”

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

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