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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.

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.

“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 #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.”

“Burmese Green Peacock” — acrylic on linen with metalics, 30×40 (B. Levin — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Saugatuck River Reflections” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Prowess” — watercolor (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

“An Afternoon Peck From Brownie” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Acolytes in this Cathedral are Very Tall!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Modern Westport Library Book Sale Wear” — hand-drawn sketch (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“The Oracle of Omaha” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Jacob’s Ladder” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Memories of  Spring” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Sunset Beach Stroll” (Susan Garment)

(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 #293

Posted on November 22, 2025 | 1 comment

Patricia McMahon’s scrumptious Thanksgiving-themed image leads this week’s online art gallery.

A few autumnal artworks follow. Plus the usual  eclectic array of drawings, photos and more.

It’s another Saturday show. Thanks for stopping by, and admiring our “06880” artists.

You can join them! 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.

“Tablescaping” (Patricia McMahon — Available for sale; click here)

“Our Maple in Autumn” (Jamie Walsh)

“Autumn Path” (Dayle Brownstein)

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

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

“Hiking Along the Massif de l’Esterel” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

“Neap Tide” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Beautiful Game” — Morocco (Tom Kretsch)

 Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Aaah! You’re a vicious cut-up!  We’re ‘deheaded’ to the compost pit!”

“Clowning Around” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Oh, Nurse!” — graphite (Steve Stein)

“Mother Dear” — pencil 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 #290

Posted on November 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #290

There is only 1 Halloween-themed submissions this week — perhaps other artists were busy creating costumes — but we do have 3 related to Westport’s flag displays on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge.

Plus of course our usual array of seasonal works, some sketches, and much more.

As always, no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Flags on Bridge” (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Rowene Weems)

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

“The Golden Hour” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“October” — oil painting with cold wax on canvas (Available for purchase — click here)

“Angles” (Nancy Breakstone)

“Bodiam (Moated) Castle, Sussex, England” — oil on board, 12×12 (S. Hawkins — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Calm Before the Storm” — acrylic oil on aluminum, 21×21 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Dream Passage” — digital compound (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Halloween Pedicure Gone Terribly Wrong!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Remembering London’s 1952 Great Smog!” (Steve Stein)

“Mahatma” (Martin Ripchick — Available for sale; click here)

“The Volunteer” (Lawrence Weisman)

“I Do, Times Two” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah; his wedding, last October — Available for purchase; click here)

“Snowy Owl” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; 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 #289

Posted on October 25, 2025 | 3 comments

We open today’s online art gallery with a tribute to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

We continue with some fall-themed works. And we end, as usual, with a series of intriguing drawings.

That’s our gallery in a nutshell: art with themes, and without. A variety of mediums. Surprises, and old favorites.

As always, no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Pink Aid” — Artist Dorothy Robertshaw is “honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month with an acrylic impasto canvas of hope” (Available for purchase — click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

“Autumn Leaves Near the Sound Between Compo and Old Mill” (Judith Katz)

“Branching Out” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase;click here)

“October 18 Sunset Compo” (Michael Chait)

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

“Southport Harbor in Winter” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

Artist Eric Bosch says, “Like so many of us, I enjoy Edward Hopper’s paintings, having studied many of them at various museums. Here’s a copy I did of his famous ‘Rooms For Tourists.'”

“Just a ‘walk in the park!'” – Hike to the top of Casa Grande for lunch; Big Bend National Park, Texas (Mike Hibbard)

“Sir Ian McKellen” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“The Impatient Ghost” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Bad Smell” (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 #288

Posted on October 18, 2025 | 2 comments

An alabaster piece by new-to-“06880” artist Alan Goldberg — celebrating the release of Israeli hostages — leads this week’s online art gallery.

And although our gallery is seldom “political,” it includes another work, by Duane Cohen, that seems particularly relevant today.

They’re 2 more examples of the wide, eclectic, interesting and inspiring nature of this series. It began in the early days of COVID, and — due to popular demand, and always welcome weekly submissions — it has continued every Saturday since.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Bring Them Home” — alabaster (Alan Goldberg)

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

“On the Way Down to Cove Marina, Cold Rain” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Nantucket Surf” — acrylic painting (Eric Bosch)

“After the Storm” — acrylic pouring, 24 x 18 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase — click here)

“Leggy” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Horse Head Study” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

“Leapin’ Lizards” (Martin Ripchick)

“Happy Perfect Beautiful” (Mike Hibbard)

“Once Upon a Time in China: Circa Pearl Buck’s ‘The Good Earth'” (Steve Stein)

“Piggyback” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Beauty > Darkness” (Celia Campbell-Mohn)

 

(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 #287

Posted on October 11, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #287

Fall is in the air.

And in our online art gallery.

There’s something about the season that brings out special creativity in our readers.

Of course, there’s always more than one theme here.

And always more than meets the eye.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled (John Maloney)

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

“Einstein” — ballpoint ink on paper (Bill Fellah)

“A Slice of Still Life” (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“Always Be on the Lookout for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Mike Hibbard”)

“Mommy and Me” — oil on canvas, 24 x 24 (S. Guccione — Available for purchase — click here)

“Houses in Eze” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Two Dozen Roses” — watercolor with computer background (Steve Stein)

“By the Light of the Electric Moon” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Jane and Friend” (Martin Ripchick)

“Compo Playground” (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 #284

Posted on September 20, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #284

Monday is the first day of fall.

This week, we have not one but two submissions titled “Last Days of Summer.”

Great minds — and great artists — think alike.

At the same time of course, both are very different.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery.

So no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Woman in a Hallway” — digital creation (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“A Laughing Gull Staking His Claim Behind Overton’s” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Homemade bracelets (Amy Schneider)

“A Slice of Time” (Jerry, Kuyper, Shirlee Gordon) — Materials: Rock balanced on a 3″ slab of a 4’ wide trunk from a 100-year-old oak tree, balanced on a moss-covered trunk removed because of storm damage.

“Deer God, Please …” (Mike Hibbard)

“Patches & Lacey” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Just the Ticket” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

“Welcoming Rosh Hashana 5786” — pencil & watercolor (Steve Stein)

“The Last Days of Summer” — impasto acrylic; gold leaf, silver leaf and brass leaf detail (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here) 

“Last Days of Summer” — Ned Dimes Marina (Laurie Sorensen)

(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 #283

Posted on September 13, 2025 | 1 comment

In the 5-plus years of curating this online art gallery, I don’t think we’ve ever featured a weaving.

This week, we’ve got 2.

That’s the magic of this feature. Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get when you open it up.

It is, after all, your gallery. We rely entirely on “06880” readers’ submissions.

So no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“The Life and Death struggle with Mr. Lizard, Chew Toy” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

 

“Summer Flowers from Trader Joe’s” — acrylic painting (Prill Boyle)

“Psychic Urge” — digital print (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — painting on a woven grass cloth with a golden weave (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — weaving (Julia Wray; Available for purchase; click here)

 

“Full Speed Ahead” — Levitt Pavilion (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“End of Summer” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Sunset Strands” — (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

“Rowboat in the Weeds” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — collage (Cohl Katz)

“The House of Hard Knocks” (Mike Hibbard)

“Where Sweet Dreams and Nightmares Come From” — stamps and ink pad (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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

“Brickley” (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 #281

Posted on August 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #281

Every week, it seems, we welcome at least one artist to our online gallery.

This week it’s Jo Ann McKinney. Her mixed media piece is very intriguing — and highlights the openness of this feature to all works, of any medium.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Out of Work Buoys” (Peter Barlow)

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

“On Dry Storage at Cove Marina” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Madame Butterfly” — mixed media using contact paper and magazine images (Jo Ann McKinney)

“Gentle Waterfall, An Avalanche” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Luck No. 7” — acrylic on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Stanined Glass Beach” — digital creation (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Kim’s Gift — Peonies for Linda’s Birthday” (Kimberly Stein)

“Sunset Sip” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Good News: Voracious, aggressive hornets imported to devour spotted lanternflies! Bad News: What will those hornets eat when the lanternflies are gone?”

“Sneaky Yellow Wrinkled Gourds Growing in My Vegetable Garden” (Steve Stein)

 

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Excavating” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Prowess” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — 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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