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Online Art Gallery #264

Posted on May 3, 2025 | 1 comment

We’ve made a tiny tweak to our online art gallery.

One of our artists says that marking a piece “for sale” is a bit crass.

He’s right. From now on, any artwork that an artist offers for sale will say “available for purchase.”

The process is the same. Just click the link in the caption, then fill out the email that pops up.

Buyers arrange the purchase — price, original or print, framed or unframed, shipping or pickup, etc. — directly with the artist. Happy shopping!

Meanwhile, a reminder about our works: 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.

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

“Flying Fish” — encaustic was embellished with gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Deep Blue” — digital photography, combined with Photoshop and Midjourney manipulation (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

“Peck’s Ledge Sunset” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchse; click here)

“Another Mist Opportunity” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Daisy the Daffodil Detective” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Parade of Tulips” (Cindy Wagner — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bubbles” (Karen Weingarten)

“A Nautical Gate in Stonington” (Peter Barlow)

“So Nice to See Green Pouring in My Window Again” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sauna and Loofah” (Steve Stein)

“88 … 89 … 90” (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 #263

Posted on April 26, 2025 | 3 comments

Last week’s announcement that artwork posted on our online gallery is for sale was greeted with excitement — by art-lovers and artists alike.

If an artist wishes to sell a piece, there’s a link in the caption. Clicking it brings up an email to the artist. Buyers arrange the purchase — price, original or print, framed or unframed, shipping or pickup, etc. — directly with the artist. Happy shopping!

Meanwhile, a reminder about our works: 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.

“Assumption Sunday” (Duane Cohen; For sale — click here)

“An Early Walk in Spring” (Peter Barlow)

“Ground Control to Major Levon” (Patricia McMahon — For sale; click here)

“Norwalk Lighthouse” (Eric Bosch — For sale; click here)

“Spring Flower Collage” — using PhotoTangler app (Amy Schneider)

“Wildflowers” — digital art (Ken Runkel — For sale; click here)

“Happy Easter” (Ellen Wentworth)

“A Lifetime of Memories … Find the Heart” — acrylic and charcoal on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (June Whittaker — For sale; click here)

“4.23.25.1” (Tom Doran; For sale — click here)

Untitled — watercolor on Fabriano hp paper (Kathleen Burke — For sale; click here)

“The Bassoonist” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Minimalist Portrait” (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 #262 — And Now Our Art Is For Sale!

Posted on April 19, 2025 | 5 comments

You asked for it.

Now you’ve got it!

In the 5 years since we started our online art gallery — in the first month of the pandemic, so artists could share their work, and “06880” readers would feel less isolated — many have wondered if they could any works were for sale.

Starting today, they are.

Artists who wish to sell their pieces will let me know. I’ll add a link to the caption. Clicking the link brings up an email to the artist. Potential buyers can arrange the purchase — price, original or print, framed or unframed, shipping or pickup, etc. — directly with the artist.

It’s that simple!

Of course, artists can also send buyers info on their other work.

Artists will give “06880” a 25% commission. It’s a win-win-win: for our online gallery artists, our readers, and us. Happy shopping!

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Meanwhile, a reminder about our works: 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.]

“When Lightning Strikes” (Patricia McMahon) – For sale; click here

Untitled (Duane Cohen) — For sale; click here

“Too Soon?” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel) — For sale, $125; click here

“Our Computer’s Passover Seder Plate” — pencil, watercolor and computer (Steve Stein)

“Squash and Squalls” (Werner Liepolt)

“Flower Power” (Ellin Spadone)

“Mill Pond” — acrylic on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw) — For sale; click here

“Surf at Compo” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke) — For sale; click here

“Sea Lion” (Amy Schneider)

“Up Close on Fishers Island Sound” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Tom Doran) — For sale; click here

“Double Double Eage Power to Women” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fair Maiden” (Martin Ripchick) For sale — click here

“Cuisine” (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 #261

Posted on April 12, 2025 | 4 comments

Welcome to another colorful, topical and timeless week of our online art gallery.

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.

“Branching Out” (Patricia McMahon)

“Purple Spring Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled – From the edge of the fields at Greenwich Audubon Center (Kathleen Burke)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Green Fishing Boat” — digital composition (Ken Runkel)

“Old Mill Low Tide” — oil on canvas (Werner Liepolt)

“Is it Winter or is it Spring?” — oil on aluminum (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk” (Tom Doran)

“Found Art” — outside Westport Library (Jonathan Alloy)

“Circles and Angles and Snowfall in a Mirror” (Peter Barlow)

Pile of puppies dreaming of pulling a sled in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, 938 miles Anchorage to Nome, Alaska (Mike Hibbard)

“A Candle in the Window” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Still on the Drawing Board” (Aerin Lichtman, age 11)

“Blue or Red State — The Tax Man is Coming!” (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 #260

Posted on April 5, 2025 | 1 comment

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)

(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 #258

Posted on March 22, 2025 | 3 comments

Today’s online art gallery marks 2 milestones.

We’re beginning our 6th year of this feature. It started in the very early days of COVID. The goal was to encourage homebound residents a chance to paint, draw or photograph their feelings about the pandemic.

It quickly evolved into a gallery for art of all themes, and all genres. Submissios poured in, from Westporters and “06880” readers far away.

When the immediate crisis eased, we kept going.

Now — 5 years later — today’s edition includes the most number of works ever: 17.

Thanks to all who are represented today. And all who have helped make this a valued and much-anticipated feature of “06880,” every Saturday morning since March of 2020.

So, to reiterate: 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.

“Go Outside and Play!” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Take Down These Barriers and Get Out of My Way!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Psychedelic Seahorse” — abstract acrylic (Patricia McMahon)

“A Helpful Friend’s Golden Retriever” (Eric Bosch)

“We the People” — fluorescent paint on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Sheep Waiting for Spring” (Laurie Sorensen)

“First Signs of Spring” (Fred Cantor)

“In Your Easter Bonnet” (Ellin Spadone)

“Town Hall Steps” (Michael Chait)

“Cannonball at Keeler Tavern” (Amy Schneider)

“House at Avery Point” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Dinner Time” — etching (Franklin Lockenour)

“The Lonely Lightouse” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Four Hands” (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 #253

Posted on February 15, 2025 | 1 comment

Happy Valentine’s Weekend!

And winter still lingers.

We’re celebrating both in our online art gallery this week. 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.

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.

“A Burst of Love” — acrylic impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Rowene Weems)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Pier-ing Through” (Patricia McMahon)

“Kuhli Moo” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Cooper, A Beloved Pet” (Roseann Spengler)

“Bull Chasing Bitcoin” — oil on canvas, at Westport River Gallery (Mona)

Mike Hibbard’s caption: “When you have a long, wet tongue, you don’t need a tissue.”

“My Kitchen Drawer” (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Turning Yellow” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Collected Images” (Peter Barlow)

“Automation and AI — Humans Need Not Apply!” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (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 #252

Posted on February 8, 2025 | 1 comment

Surprisingly, there are no real Valentine’s Day submissions for this week’s online art gallery. (Though one work is titled “Love Birds.”)

So just a reminder: Presidents Day is next.

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 — impasto; silver, copper and gold paints (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Head Gardener” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“A Treat for Brandi” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Love Birds” (Martin Ripchick)

“Catboat ‘Katerina'” (Peter Barlow)

“The Lion of Judah with 10 Commandments” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Taking a Breather” (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 #251

Posted on February 1, 2025 | 1 comment

Our “06880” artists provide plenty of warm color, on this sunny-but-still-midwinter Saturday.

Yet 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.

“Together” — watercolor and pencil (Ellin Spadone)

“Victoria in Bloom” (Patricia McMahon)

“Chaos” (Jo Ann Miller)

“Red, White and Blue” (Karen Weingarten)

“Under the Sea” — acrylic and resin (Amy Schneider)

“Night Bloom_03” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Canteloupe Island (Tribute to Herbie Hancock)” (Tom Doran)

“Four Seasons” — Zentangle (paper and ink) (Holly Tashian)

“Sparky” (Archie Grant)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Vintage Close-up Yacht ‘Nisca'” — Peter Barlow

“Arrival” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Happy Hour” (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 #247

Posted on January 4, 2025 | 1 comment

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)

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

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