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Online Art Gallery #305

Posted on February 14, 2026 | 2 comments

Another record!

Nineteen artists are featured in today’s online art gallery.

As always, their works span mediums and themes. And their ages, backgrounds and geographic locations are all over the map too. Most artists live in Westport — but some grew up here, and now live and work around the world.

As always, we invite you to be part of next week’s exhibition. 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.

Just email a JPG to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Echoes of Passion” — digital oil painting (Ken Runkel)

“As We Sometimes See Ourselves” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Mia” — 10 x 10 acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

“Cooper” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for sale; click here)

“Swimming Upstream” — acrylic and resin (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Art Buds” — 30 x 30 acrylic impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase — click here)

“Off the Wall” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“SnowFrame” (Jerry Kuyper)

Untitled (Marina Drasnin)

“Ice Image” (Cohl Katz)

“What Path Will You Take in 2026? All A-BOARD! Go For It!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Cuban Tree Frog” (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“World’s First Immigrant Alien” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Me on the Saxophone” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Hail to the Chief” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Every Dancer Has an Aura!” (Steve Stein)

” Cage Free Soul Intention Seeking Peeps” — Hand-drawn clothing culture construction design art processes (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Lost in Thought” (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 #303

Posted on January 31, 2026 | 1 comment

As the snow flew last weekend — and many Westporters lit fires, sipped coffee and hunkered down — our artists and photographers went to work.

They gathered their brushes, picked up their cameras, and created even more beauty and wonder out of all that lay around.

And while many of us grappled with the horrific news from the day before in Minnesota, some channeled their emotions into their work.

Today’s online gallery begins with nature, makes a brief stop for Valentine’s Day, and ends with humanity.

As always, we invite you to be part of next week’s exhibition. 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.

Just email a JPG to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside!” (Pat Saunders)

“A Long Winter’s View” (Cohl Katz — Available for sale; click here)

“Tired of Snow Yet?” (Copyright Ted Horowitz)

Untitled (Jerry Kuyper)

“Aurora Borealis” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Frigid Cold Water’s Edge”– impasto crafted with lace for the clouds; acrylic landscape on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for sale; click here)

“Burnt Sienna” — acrylic and resin on 24 x 36 canvas (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

 

“Blue & Orange Color Splash” — acrylic on plastered wood panel (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for sale; click here)

“Landscape, Possibly” — digital (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — collage made from all the “love” words in Westport Lifestyle magazine’s February issue (Frannie Faith Southworth)

“Angel Valentine Tree” (Lauri Wieser)

“Peaceful Panoramas” — acrylic (Ari Shervinrad — 2nd grade, One River Art student)

“Beneath the Rush” — under the I-95 Saugatuck River bridge (Nancy Breakstone; Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “A blissful watering hole? No! It’s a hundred hippos farting non-stop. Do not light a match downwind of these beasts.”

“It’s Never Too Late to Get a COVID Shot!” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Boo Hoo” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Passport on I.C.E.” — sculpture (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Enough is Enough” (Duane Cohen — 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 #302

Posted on January 24, 2026 | 2 comments

As we prepare for another winter storm, today’s main theme is … winter.

Whether you’re relaxing with coffee by the fire, or ready to rush out and stock up on milk and eggs, today’s online art gallery is perfect for January.

Stay warm!

And if you get a chance this weekend, please send us your work.

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.

Just email a JPG to 06880blog@gmail.com. And please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“The Poetry of Barns, Simple — Hulls Road” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Occupied by Silence” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Four Logs Huddling Together” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Winslow Park” — enhanced image (Dayle Brownstein)

“Mr. Snowflake” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter” — paper collage (Jodi B. Rabinowitz — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Boys & Their Boxes” — digital composition (Ken Runkel)

“Mum’s the Word” — digital collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter Mountains” — shadowbox collage; painted canvas stripped, weaving/rattan inserts; with a piece from windstorm, from a 200+- year-old sugar maple (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Plant Life Portrait” — acrylic (Ella Barborak — 9th grade; One River Art student)

Untitled — Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This Alaskan braided river, fed by a glacier, is home to many animals. As I walked down the trail to the river, a huge grizzly bear stepped out of dense brush 20 feet in front of me, reared up, growled, and then … that’s another story!”

‘The Empire State Building/Excelsior Ever Upward” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

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

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Interesting Ornament” (John Maloney)

(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 #301

Posted on January 17, 2026 | 1 comment

The winter weather has kept many artists indoors, creating seasonal art.

And it’s sent photographers outdoors, to do their thing there.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery. Whether you’re looking at this with your morning coffee, or on a phone during a walk: Enjoy!

And — of course — please show us your own work.

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.

Here’s looking at you!

Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Full Moon ~ Deep Snow” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“As Twilight Approaches Willowbrook Cemetery” (Tomoko Meth)

“Litchfield” (Dayle Brownstein)

“High Hopes” (Daniel Anastasio — 8th grade; One River Art student)

“Evening Bliss — Sherwood mill Pond” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Aspetuck Land Trust — Water Lilies” — acrylic painting on canvas (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Pottery & Fire” (John Maloney)

“Thousands of Bulbs! It Must be the NY Botanical Garden” (Mike Hibbard)

“Burying Hill Rising Moon Swimming Beyond Eternal Freedoms” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

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

“Hog Wild” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase — click here)

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

“Riverside From Imperial: A Scene in Panoramic Technicolor” (Steve Stein)

“Good Morning World” (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 #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 #299

Posted on January 3, 2026 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #299

Sure, it’s already the new year.

But holiday themes linger.

That’s fine. In the art world — at least, in our online gallery version of it — there are no rules.

Just submit your work — whatever it is.

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.

“Longshore Gazebo” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Holiday Candle” (John Maloney)

“Year Turns | Sun Rises” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Where Have All The Starfish Gone?” — 39 x 27 oil painted; real starfish with Compo Beach horseshoe crabs; mounted on painted plaster, covering a framed wooden panel (Eric Bosch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Some Assembly Required. Batteries Not Included” — composited digital illustration (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Elijah Kellogg Church Christmas Eve” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“It’s Back to the Snow Globe After Christmas” (Caroline Howe)

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

“Yellow and Pink” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Murphy” — watercolor (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Low Poly Wildlife” — digital art (Alexander Cavallo — One River Art student)

“Bow Wow! Hot Chilly Cupcakes?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Cat’s Meow” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Riverside From Imperial Avenue” — pencil and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Waif” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Peter” — 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 #282

Posted on September 6, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #282

We want to hold on to summer.

Several of our “06880” online gallery artists do that this week. One-third of our submissions focus on green flowers and plants.

That will change soon, just as the seasons do. And we’ll be ready to show those works too.

Remember: 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.

“Imagine That” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Growing Young” — digital compound (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Karen Weingarten)

“The Light Within” (Leigh Gage — Available for purchase; click here)

“About to Bloom” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Daffodil Flower” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“We Spotted Each Other in the Crowd and Have Been Together Ever Since” (Mike Hibbard)

“Regarder Vers la Haut” — New York City (Bruce Borner)

“Just Another Orderly Labor Day Compo Beach Scene” — pencil and watercoloro (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Max” — 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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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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Online Art Gallery #280

Posted on August 23, 2025 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #280

Watercolors, colorful digital photography, black-and-white pencil-on-pen works: As it does every week, today’s online gallery offers a diverse, creative mix of art, from “06880” readers just like you.

And we do mean you!

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, 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.

“Alien Beauty” — digital composite (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Phataenopsis” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Metro NY — Sea Levels Rising” — Acrylic Dutch pour (Eric Bosch)

“‘Close Encounters’ Sequel?” (Fred Cantor)

“Stone Age Dice” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper found the stone at Compo Beach, then added the dots.

“Don’t Mess With Him!” Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The Maasai Warrior uses his razor-sharp steel spear to protect the family’s cattle from lions.”

“Not Having a Good Day” (Steve Stein)

“Yippee!” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Harry” — 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 #279

Posted on August 16, 2025 | 1 comment

To everyone who enjoys Lawrence Weisman’s weekly sketches: This week, the longtime Westporter throws us a curveball.

Click through our online art gallery, and you’ll see.

You’ll also see — as you do each week — nearly a dozen other pieces of art, all contributed by fellow “06880” readers.

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, 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.

“John V” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

“The Cool & Calm Fog — Penobscot Bay, Maine” — photograph (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

Untitled — Saugatuck River, from Kawa Ni porch (Dana Kuyper)

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

“Flowers at the Beach” — digital oil painting Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“She Gets it Done” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sparky” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Salsa at the Levitt” (Judith Katz)

“A Rare Discovery Tree” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“I’m the Got You Got. Get Over It!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — woodcarving (Steven Kulla)

Lawremce Weisman writes: “I recently discovered drawings done by my paternal grandmother between 1926 and 1932, very much in the style of the times. Although I knew her well and spent almost every afternoon with her after school, I never knew she had this talent. I think by the time I knew her, in the mid-1940s, she had given up drawing. She died in 1957.”

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

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