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Online Art Gallery #260

Every week, it seems, we welcome a new artist.

Today it’s Jack Stein. If the last name is familiar: He’s the brother of Steve Stein, a regular watercolor contributor.

Jack works in a different medium. Enjoy!

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.

“Spring Has Sprong” (Bob Weingarten)

Untitled — burl wood cut and beach stone bird (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Road Less Traveled” (Patricia McMahon)

“Recently Unemployed” — Ken Runkel calls this “a tribute to the thousands of federal civil service employees that are losing their jobs right now.”

“The Boys” — wood cut ink block print (Jack Stein)

“What is Earth’s Future?” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider)

“The White Nosed Twins” (Tom Doran)

“Lazy Summer Daze” (Duane Cohen)

“Seaweed Washed up After a Storm at Compo Beach” (Kathleen Burke)

“A Ketch with No Name” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “The great designer Nathaniel Herreshoff did not favor the ketch rig, but his son L. Francis Herreshoff made it his specialty, often on a double- ended boat.”

Photographer Jerry Kuyper shot these 2 scenes a few hours apart, on Rayfield Road.

“Cape Cod Summer Rental: Water View, Cozy, Rustic Woodwork, Excellent Ventilation” (Mike Hibbard)

“She Ain’t What She Used To Be” — watercolor and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“I Didn’t Believe it Myself” (Martin Ripchick)

“Hilltop Town” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #259

“06880” is “where Westport meets the world.”

And today’s online art gallery resembles (as it often does) a globe.

With artwork inspired by Alaska, Japan, China — and of course Westport — we hope to inspire all of our readers.

Wherever you are.

We hope our gallery inspires your inner artist too. We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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.

“O-torri Gate in Miyajima, Japan” (Caroline Walshon)

 

“Thank You, Beavers!” — Alaska (Mike Hibbard)

“Ned Dimes Marina” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

Photographer Peter Barlow says of this house at Avery Point, Connecticut: “Built starting in 1902, and still there. It was the home of Morton F. Plant, one of the good guys among millionaires, when he wasn’t out in one of his 100-foot schooners.”

“Male Black Winged Red Bishop” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Spring is Here” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Spring-y” — encaustic wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Rainbow Mountains of Gansu Province, China” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Imagining a Place to Love, Far From Here” (Tom Doran)

“Irresistible Grace” (Patricia McMahon)

Unttitled (Duane Cohen)

“Lt. Gen. Thomas H. Miller (USMC) and Senator John Glenn” (Steven Parton)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“The Collector” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #257

Home is where this week’s heart is. We lead off our online art gallery with a couple of intriguing visions of “home.”

Of course as always, we invited submissions from all “06880” readers. 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.

“Weir Farm National Park” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

“There’s a Red House Over Yonder” (Patricia McMahon)

“Spring Has Sprung” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — acrylic paint and pastels on watercolor paper (Carol D’Amico)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Little Vigilant” — Photographer Peter Barlow describes it as “a 70-foot steel-hulled motor sailer, said to have the lines of a Maine sardine carrier. Note: ‘sailer’ is spelled with an ‘e’ when it’s a boat.”

“Mother and Child” — Carrera marble (Alan Goldberg)

“More of Those Dang Drones!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Gentoo and Chinstrap Porpoising” (William Strittmatter)

 

“Out of the Shadows” (Lawrence Weisman)

“David’s Flower: Keeping Freedom Alive!” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

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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 #241

I don’t think there’s ever been an “06880” online art gallery without at least one nautical-themed work, and one with flowers This week is no exception — and the submissions ae gorgeous.

Along with, of course, our usual assortment of themes, from all over Westport and the world.

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 — Japanese brush painting, with a touch of collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Roses From Trader Joe’s” (Kathleen Burke)

“Tiger Lily Blossom” (Peter Barlow)

“Still Full of Life” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

“A November Moment, Sherwood Mill Pond” (Tom Kretsch)

“High Tide and Green Grass” (Fred Cantor)

“Branch Manager” — digital illustration created by Ken Runkel for his Surrealism portfolio. Applications used include Midjourney, Lightroom and Photoshop.

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Hold That Tiger” (Martin Ripchick)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “within a month of birth the baby is brought to a temple for blessing, and placed in front of the statue of Buddha. Offerings of flowers, candles and incense are made, and the monk blesses this Nepalese child, announcing her name.”

“The Great Blue Heron” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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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 #238

A couple of this week’s artists missed Halloween by a couple of days.

No problem! Their work is here, in our online art gallery, now.

Just a reminder, though: Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s are all coming up.

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.

“Late Fall Afternoon on the Sound” — digital composite (Ken Runkel)

“Commute” (Tom Doran)

“Ancient Fractal Helmet for Creative and Critical Thinking” (Mike Hibbard)

“Winnie the Cream Labrador” — watercolor on paper (Kathleen Burke)

“First Snow in Westport” (Charles Reid)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Industrial Pumpkins” (Peter Barlow)

“On the Rocks at Sherwood Island” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Happy Halloween, My Little Dearies!” (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 #234

Happy autumn! Happy Jewish New Year! Happy Saturday, and another edition of our online art gallery.

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.

“Cornetto Ischitano — Fatto a Mano” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled — oil on aluminum impasto style (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Towards Compo Cove” — part of artist Jason Pritchard’s current solo exhibition “Riverbanks to Shorelines: The Art of Waters’ Path” at the Green’s Farms Congregational Church gallery.

Untitled — watercolor on paper (Kathleen Burke)

“Elysian Light of Autumn” — digital painting (Ken Runkel)

“The Art of Determination” — Photographer Linda Doyle says, “This sunflower grew out of the brick chimney off our front porch. It’s still there!”

“Just the World” (Tom Doran)

“Simple Abstraction with Reality” (Peter Barlow)

“Crispy Critters (Guinea Pigs)” — popular street food in Cusco, Peru (Mike Hibbard)

“Praying for a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year —  Rosh Hashanah 5785” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #232

A fresh take on still life and a local haiku highlight this week’s online art gallery.

As we say every week: 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.

“Last Harvest” (Jay Walshon)

Untitled — artist Kathleen Burke says of this golden crowned kinglet: “They nest in tall pine, spruce or coniferous trees, and hang upside down looking for insects. One used to visit my studio window. This tiny bird weighs about 5 grams, the same as two pennies.” 

“Turbulence” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider)

“Easterly Winds” — acrylic impasto on textured canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Untitled — photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Don’t stand behind a road sign during hunting season in Alaska! Target practice for shooting bear, caribou, elk, moose, muskox, mountain goat and Dali sheep.”

“Shapes” (Peter Barlow)

“Sailing Off Compo — All Winners!” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Homestead” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Diane Lowman)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

 

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