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Online Art Gallery #243

We open this week’s online art gallery with a Christmas work, and end it with “the last leaf of fall.”

In between: our usual assortment of submissions, in a wide variety of mediums and offering a broad range of themes.

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.

“A Christmas Carol” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“From Away” — watercolor (Linda Bruce)

“Fola in Harlem” (Patricia McMahon)

“A Long Walk to the Mailbox” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Cherry Blossom as Winter Arrives” — pouring acrylic gold leaf (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Pity (A Useless Emotion”) (Tom Doran)

“Exploding Spirits of Fire — Just the Beginning!” — taken from a plane (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Matt Murray)

“Off-Season Scape” (Peter Barlow)

“Spot On” (Martin Ripchick)

 

Eric Bosch writes, “Like one of Santa’s elves, I’ve been building, painting and adding fun bright colors to winter’s gray. I call this ‘Farmer Milking Cow Whirligig’ and the ‘Cottages Birdhouses.'”

“In the Sauna” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Last Leaf of Fall” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #242

Lots of drawings this week. Colorful, black-and-white, using different implements, in a variety of styles — they all make our online art gallery as pecial as ever.

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 (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Roses” (Tom Doran)

“Litchfield County” — digital painting, based on a digital photogaph (Ken Runkel)

“Argentina Roast Lamb: Giving Thanks for the Bounty of the Ranch” (Mike Hibbard)

“Early Racing Class in Eastern Connecticut” (Peter Barlow)

“AI: Peril or Panacea. Is it in the Balance?” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Bored in Class” (Aerin Licthman, age 13)

“Love at First Sight” (Martin Ripchick)

“Matriarch” (Lawrence Weisman)

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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 #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 #236

It’s a fall festival, here in our weekly online art gallery.

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.

“Autumn Leaves” (Duane Cohen)

“Life is Gourd” (Patricia McMahon)

“Morning Walk” — Photoshop-enhanced and composited digital photograph (Ken Runkel)

“A Lot of Susans” (Peter Barlow)

“End of Summer” — acrylic pouring on canvas, manipulated by blowing through a straw (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — on view at Westport River Gallery (S. Guccione)

“It’s Always Fun Hanging Out With Pals” — collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Islands in the Sea” — Newport, Rhode Island (Bruce Borner)

“Roar Lion Roar!” — charcoal with computer colorization (Aerin Lichtman, age 12)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“The Tree of Knowledge: Pomegranate?” — watercolor. Artist Steve Stein writes, “In Exodus, the Tree of Knowledge fruit represents the mixing of good and evil together. The Forbidden Fruit was probably not apple — indigenous to Asia. Possibilities are thought to include pomegranate, fig, pear, quince, carob, etrog, apricot and tamarind — all indigenous to the Middle East.”

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 #229

Here’s our online art gallery: the almost-end-of-summer edition.

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.

“Clouds Waving” — photo collage (Jerry Kuyper)

“End of Summer” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Cute Fruit … What a Pear!” — digital photography, with a dash of Photoshop (Ken Runkel)

“Turn Off Your Mind, Relax and Flow Downstream” (Tom Doran)

“I’m Coming for YOU!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” — pencil and crayon (Steve Stein)

“All Curled Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Compo Sunset, Through the Bottom of a Wine Glass” — Photographer David Squires says, “The wine is gone, but summer is not … yet! Enjoy the waning days.”

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Online Art Gallery #228

Today, we welcome perhaps the youngest artist ever to exhibit in our online gallery.

10-year-old Frazer Benton is creative, clever — and a welcome addition to our weekly feature.

As always, our gallery is open to all young artists. And older ones too!

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.

“Money Can’t Buy Happiness” — spray paint and acrylic paint on cardboard (Frazer Benton, age 10)

“Zen” — acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

“Radio Heads” — digital oil painting in a “Renaissance surreal photorealistic style” (Ken Runkel)

“Cloisters, NYC” (Bruce Borner)

Untitled — shadow box with flowers and bugs dried by artist Lauri Weiser)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Mike Hibbard explains: “Two spirits coupling in the black void – the conception of our universe — the Big Bang.”

“La Baie de Théoule Sur Mer” — oil on canvas (Dabere, at Westport River Gallery)

“Available” (Kathleen Burke)

“Skinny Dip,” 22-foot Aquasport” (Peter Barlow)

“A Blue Jay” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #226

Hallelujah!

After many months of asking — okay, pleading — nearly every artist has included a description of the medium they used, when submitting their work this week.

I thank you. And so do the many “06880” readers who enjoy this feature, and want to know everything they can about the art they see.

As always, 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.

“Homage to Manet” — pastel on paper (Maj Kalfus)

“The Earth in a Tray” — goldleaf, copperleaf poured in acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Boat Lift at Five Mile River in Rowayton” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

“Homeward Bound” (Tom Doran)

“White Lily” — composite creation, combining digital photographic elements processed through AI and Photoshop (Ken Runkel)

Untitled — needlepoint (Diane Yormark)

Photographer Mike Hibbard explains: “The gypsy girl is startled by the low altitude flyover of a jet fighter patrolling the border in the Thar Desert between India and Pakistan.”

 

“Gone Aground” — watercolor and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Bus Stop Relaxation” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #225

Four roses, 2 tulips, 2 other flowery works and 1 Japanese tree highlight this week’s online art gallery.

As always, 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. Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Napa” (Ken Runkel)

“Flower Burst” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Four Roses” (Kathleen Burke)

“Animal Farm Invades Westport” (Jo Ann Miller)

“My Japanese Tree and the Neighbors’ Grass” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “This tree was a foot high when I planted it in Westport over 20 years ago. At 5 feet I dug it up and brought it to Pawcatuck. It is now 18 feet, and one of the larger trees in my lawn.”

“New Orleans, LA” (Bruce Borner)

“On a Rainy Stormy Night” (Charles Greenlee)

“Two Tulips” (Steve Stein)

“Farm to Table” (Lawrence Weisman)

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