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Online Art Gallery #181

As September ends, our art gallery begins to fill with fall works.

We welcome those seasonal themes — and everything else.

We also 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.

“Pumpkin” (Karen Weingarten)

“The Rake’s Progress” (Peter Barlow)

“Head Outdoors” — northwestern Connecticut (Peter Birch)

“Five Mile River, Rowayton/Darien” (Kathleen Burke)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Dark Times” (Jo Ann Miller)

“Ridgeline” — digital image (Ken Runkel)

Untitled — Norway (Lauri Weiser)

“Coral Head Sculpture.” Artist Dorothy Robertshaw explains: “Thanks to Nancy Breakstone’s generosity and sharing her coral and shell collection, I created Jimmy Durante, Mr. Potato Head, Harry… and I think he looks like Bert from Sesame Street. His frame is a refurbished broken clock.”

“Aerin’s Thermal” — Steve Stein says: “This was done by our 12-year-old grand child. Thermal art is done on a thermoluminescent screen, It is evanescent, and has to be done quickly before it fades away forever (unless granddad takes a screen shot!).”

“Waiting #3” (Lawrence Weisman)

Photographer Mike Hibbard’s caption: “Okay, they’re watching the elephants. You grab the lunch bags, and I’ll meet you in the trees.”

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

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Online Art Gallery #180

This week’s online gallery includes a few abstract works. There is also some interesting “shell” art — something new and different.

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 (no, urged) to contribute.

“Foggy Fall Morning” — digital photography, AI and editing software (Ken Runkel)

“Ready for Yom Kippur” — pencil and water color (Steve Stein)

Untitled — Artist Dorothy Robertshaw says, “We come in all shapes and sizes, and we all have the same hearts.”

Untitled — acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 18″ (John Waski)

“Monterey Seascape” (Tom Doran)

“Coiffed” — acrylic/resin, 9″ x 12″ canvas (Patricia McMahon)

Untitled (Jo Ann Miller)

“Parrot” (Kathleen Burke)

“Comet” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Lunge Beats Hop!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Ring of Brodgar” — Photographer Lauri Weiser calls this “A Stonehenge-type place in Scotland”

“Wind Turbine” (Karen Weingarten)

“Photographers Will Go Anywhere!” (Peter Barlow)  

“Footprints in the Sand” (June Rose Whittaker)

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

Online Art Gallery #178

Abstract pieces highlight this week’s online art gallery.

We also welcome pottery, from an 11-year-old just back from summer camp.

As always, 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.

“Falling Leaves” — oil/impasto Pointillism creation (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Sleepy Sea Dragon” — acrylic resin painting (Patricia McMahon)

“Cells” (Amy Schneider)

“Imagined Seascape (After Feininger)” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Horseshoe Bend” — Colorado River watercolor (John Danbury)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Water Painting” (Rowene Weems)

“Day Sail Schooner Argia and Many Guests” (Peter Barlow)

“Aerin’s Summer Camp Pottery” — Stephen Stein’s 11-year-old grandchild’s creations.

“Nonchalance” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Moon Rise” (Karen Weingarten)

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

Online Art Gallery #177

Our first online art gallery of September features only one “fall is coming” work.

There will be more in the weeks ahead, for sure. Foliage, pumpkins, turkeys — bring ’em on!

Along with every other theme. As always, we welcome 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.

Artist Eric Bosch says, “This piece was inspired by the Westport Community Gardens. It represents the growth of nature, and the wisdom of the Long Lots School Building Committee to do the right thing for our town as a whole.”

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Wired Up” (Karen Weingarten)

“Night Garden” (Ken Runkel)

“Senegalese Sea Creature” — acrylic/resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Aruba” — acrylic paint and pouring medium (Amy Schneider)

“Imagined Seascape (After Feininger)” (Tom Doran)

“A Pillar of His Community” — Nepal (Mike Hibbard)

“Stroke!” (Peter Barlow)

“Wordle” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Where Does it Hurt?” Artist Steve Stein says, “This simple sketch captures the essence of my professional life for almost 60 years.”

“Fall is Coming” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

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

Online Art Gallery #175

Many of today’s online art gallery submissions are photos.

They’re (as always) gorgeous. As always too, they circle the globe.

But let’s not slack off, all of you who work in other mediums!

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.

“Poppy” (Ken Runkel)

“Sailing in My Dreams” (Tom Doran)

“The Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Returns Home” (Peter Barlow)

“Sunflower in a Sunflower” (Linda Doyle)

“Bee All That You Can Be!” Photographer Bonnie Scott Connolly took this image of a cone flower (echinacea) at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Wyoming” (Rowene Weems)

“It Is So Hot The Trees Are Melting” — western US (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — swan family on the Lieutenant River estuary, Old Lyme (Susan Lloyd)

“The Hat” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled — artist Eric Bosch explains, “Every 5 years, the Babson side of  my family (200+) gathera at the Babson museum in Rockport, Massachusetts.  The organizers requested art, so I did this painting for the  occasion earlier this month. The Babsons got off the Mayflower and built a stone cooperage to make oak barrels. The center portion of my painting remains to this day.”

“A Brown Sheep.” Artist Steve Stein explains, “Sheep can be domestic or wild. Their colors range from pure white to spotted, piebald and dark chocolate, depending on a gene that controls melanin.”

 

“Flat Out” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #173

A new artist (George Radwan) joins us this week, with a new type of mixed media (concrete, plaster, sand and Structo-lite).

Welcome, George!

He knows what this online art gallery is about. 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.)

“Nightscape” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Karen Weingarten)

“The Rivers Run Wild” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Fairfield County Vintage” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled. Photographer Diane Yormark explains, “Two men ‘understand one another and what it’s like to put in a full day’s work.’” — Calgary, Alberta 

“Three Buddhas” — mixed media: concrete, plaster, sand, Structo-lite (George Radwan)

“I’m Beautiful! And Proud of it!” — Tanzania (Mike Hibbard)

“Is it Amadeo Modigliani’s Modigliani or is it AI?” (Steve Stein)

“Old Truck on Old Road” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Finger Painting” (Santiago Lozano)

“Lake Fire” (Ken Runkel)

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

Online Art Gallery #168

Bruges, Italy, Angkor Wat — and America’s red, white and blue — are some of the subjects of this week’s online art gallery.

There’s also some first-ever woodworking, because …

… 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.)

“Don’t Throw It Away” (Karen Weingarten)

“Summer Leftovers” — acrylic paint layered to create textures of plants and water (Lis Hisgen)

“Fleurs et Vignes” — acrylic resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Abstract #7” (Ken Runkel)

“Green Apple” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Railroad Bridge, Opening” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “notice the tracks.”

“Looking Ahead, Looking Back” (Tom Doran)

“Colorful Cottages” — built and photographed by Eric Bosch

“Italy” (Lauri Weiser)

“In Bruges” (Lawrence Weisman)

“How to Make a Composite Sketch to Catch a Criminal” (Steve Stein)

“About the 318,645th Sunrise Over Angkor Wat” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fireworks” (Anne Lowrie)

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

 

 

Online Art Gallery #166

Most weeks, our online art gallery is filled with paintings and photos from around the world.

This week, we’ve got several from our backyard. Compo Beach, downtown and Blau House & Gardens are all represented.

We’ve also got needlework and ceramics — two mediums we don’t see much of here.

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

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.)

“Summertime” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“The Buoys Hanging Out” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled — Compo Beach (Sunil Hirani)

Diane Yormark created hanging wall planters. Her husband Ken adorned them with vines.

Beth Berkowitz crocheted this baby sweater.

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Blau House & Gardens” (Mike Hibbard)

“Westport Bridge Over Saugatuck, En Plein Air” — oil on canvas (Cindy Wagner)

“Do Unto Others” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Westerly Library, Afternoon Sun” (Peter Barlow)

“The Sauna” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Tom Lowrie)

Untitled — lone sea urchin underwater, Greek island of Limnos (Claudia Sherwood Servidio)

“Dune Grasses” (Ken Runkel)

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Online Art Gallery #164

Though only one submission referenced last weekend’s Memorial Day — our first, stunning abstract photo taken on Westport’s Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge by Michael Chait — several other pieces suggest the coming of summer.

Of course, many others suggest many other things. That’s the whole point of our weekly online art gallery. It’s eclectic. It’s wide-open.

And it’s your feature. Everyone is invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

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.)

“Parade Watchers” (Michael Chait)

“My Beautiful Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)

“Oiseau” — creative photography (Patricia McMahon)

“Rusty” — oil pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Esther’s Dragon” (Esther Lichtman, 11 years old)

Untitled (Ellen Wentworth)

“Holey Statue” — Kathmandu, Nepal (Mike Hibbard)

“Church Lane” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Spring In My Backyard” — pastel (Roseann Spengler)

“The Ketch RED WING between Connecticut and Rhode Island, on the Pawcatuck River” (Peter Barlow)

“Interspecies Collaboration.” Photographer Jerry Kuyper says: “I provide the canvas. The birds provide the paint, naturally.”

“Experimenting with Lily” (Ken Runkel)

“Wipe Your Feet!” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Red Sky” (Tom Doran)

(Our weekly “06880” gallery is free. But — like many — we invite you to donate whatever you can. Please click here. Thank you!)

Online Art Gallery #160

Peter Barlow was a young man in Westport when Queen Elizabeth was crowned.

Today — older, but still quite active, in his eastern Connecticut home — he celebrates King Charles’ coronation.

Peter’s painting is one of a baker’s dozen works of all kinds in today’s online art gallery. As always, the range of subjects and mediums is both wide and impressive.

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

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.)

“King of Diamonds” (Peter Barlow)

“Channeling O’Keefe” (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Ellin Spadone)

“Old Mill Solitude” (Fred Cantor)

Artist Ken Runkel says “Lighthouse Man_2” was “inspired by the great Surrealists of the era (a touch of Dali, a dash of Magritte).”

“Whoa! Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged” (Mike Hibbard)

“Flamingo: The Only Bird Not Seen in ‘Westport … Naturally'” (Steve Stein)

“Fais Do Do” — abstract acrylic resin epoxy (Patricia McMahon)

“Pablo’s Girls” (Ann Chernow)

“Dancing Musical People” — encaustc wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Marlboro Man Still Smoking” (Karen Weingarten)

“A Colorful Sail” (Anne Bernier)

“Nocturne” (Lawrence Weisman)