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Online Art Gallery #342

Posted on October 31, 2026 | Leave a comment

Today is Halloween. Surprisingly, there is not one jack o’lantern, ghost or witch in our online art gallery. Boo!

There are however several compelling autumn scenes. One is from a first-time artist — her initial appearance here, at any rate.

Welcome! And remember: No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Autumn Roots” — Patricia McMahon (Available for purchase — click here)

Untitled — New Hartford, Connecticut (Scott Brodie)

“The Radiant Path at Fall Equinox” — acrylic, 16 x 20 (Angelina Wu — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Four Crabs, One Direction, One Colorful Adventure!” — polyurethaned, mounted onto wood, with painted wood frame (Eric Bosch; Available for purchase; click here)

“She Sells Seashells” (June Rose Whittaker; Available for purchase; click here)

“Q Ball” — abstract collage (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Espresso Marble” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider — Available for purchase; click here)

“I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle” (Martin Ripchick)

“Point St. Michel Looking East Toward Notre Dame” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Hope Everyone Will Still Be Talking” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

 

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Online Art Gallery #341

Posted on October 24, 2026 | 2 comments

Our online gallery artists choose many themes.

Some are abstract. Some are images from around the world. Some are familiar scenes.

Today, 2 Westporters offer their interpretations of places here that no longer exist.

Except, of course, in our memories.

Remember: No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Westport’s 1932 Speakeasy on Hillspoint Road” (Eric Bosch)

“My Kingdom for a Horseless Carriage!” — Site of Westport’s first filling station, 1912 (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Brooklyn Bridge” — oil on canvas, 20 x 16 (Alexandria — Available for purchase; click here)

“Is This the View the World Has of America: The Beast of Corruption, Deception, and Greed?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Still … in Motion” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Fall Leaves Through a Skylight” (Marie Gross)

“Fall, In All Its Glory” (Rajan Shrestha)

“Northern Lights — Iceland” (Jack Krayson)

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

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

“Sherbet Landscape” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“GG & Joe’s Pastry Shelves” (Amy Schneider)

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

“Polo by Ralph …” (Steve Stein)

“Cathedral” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #340

Posted on October 17, 2026 | 1 comment

As they do every week, familiar scenes, abstract ones, and everything in between greet visitors to our online art gallery.

As always, we hope they inspire, entertain and engage every guest.

This is, after all, your gallery. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“The Remarkable Book Shop 1968” (Eric Bosch)

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

“Otis” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Return of the Sun” — Playhouse Square — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

“Encaustics” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“August Awakening” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Distorted Path” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Blue Landscape” (Amy Schneider)

“5 Shells” — oil on panel, 10 x 10 (Werner Liepolt)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This African Baobab tree was a seedling 2,500 years ago about the time the mammoth went extinct and StoneHenge was being built. The main trunk is hollow and there are openings to get in – a good place to get in out of the heat or rain, if you don’t mind sharing with snakes and stinging insects.”

“My Uncle Sam at the Rail at Hialeah” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Everything is Just Peachy” — graphite and watercolor (Steve Stein)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #339

Posted on October 10, 2026 | 5 comments

Today’s online art gallery is smaller than usual.

But the work is as varied, creative and inspiring as ever.

Will next week’s gallery be back to our usual size? That depends on you!

No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

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

Untitled (Marina Drasnin)

“Into the Woods — Fall Foliage” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Brother Steve Enjoying the Hemingway Island Fishing Lifestyle” (Eric Bosch)

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

“FUBAR” — abstract (Jo Ann Miller)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Totem Pole symbol of the elder imparting knowledge into the child. Unorthodox is an understatement for our culture.”

“All My Dandelions are Going Poof” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

 

Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #335

Posted on September 12, 2026 | Leave a comment

This week’s online art gallery brings many reflections.

And not just because it marks the anniversary of 9/11.

Our artists reflect on the High Holidays, our Minute Man, the state of our nation, and nature’s branches.

It’s another inspiring, thought-provoking week in our gallery. But we couldn’t it without you.

No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Something Missing” (Susan Malloy). The late artist’s niece, Ann Sheffer, is donating it to the Westport Permanent Art Collections. “It’s very evocative, and it will be hung in Town Hall or one of the schools,” Ann says.

Untitled. Artist Eric Bosch says, “With our current government status being what it is, I wonder how many of us can relate to our local Minute Man statue.”

“Footbridge Off Ford Road” (Michael Tomashefsky)

“Labor Day at Compo” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

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

 

“Reflecting Branches” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — acrylic (Susan Celuch)

“Utopia Five” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Woman with Luxurious Hair — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Storks do play baseball. ‘What do you think? Is the ball fowl?'”

“Potter” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Praying for Peace, Health and Happiness: Rosh Hashana 5787” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

 

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #334

Posted on September 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

Familiar scenes lead off this week’s online art gallery. (Though one may be familiar only to longtime Westporters.)

Yet whether you’re an old-timer or newcomer: This is your space. And we want your work.

No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

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

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (John Maloney)

“The Power of Patience” — textured photography (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Fanciful Flower” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“Floating” — Monhegan Island — photograph (Jerry Kuyper — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sunset Reflection” — acrylic on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“I LOVE YOU Baaa-beee!!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Gone Fishing” (Martin Ripchick)

“They Just Aren’t Talking Anymore! Series 1” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Potter” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #333

Posted on August 29, 2026 | Leave a comment

It’s appropriate for this online art gallery — #333 — to welcome 3 new artists.

They join some familiar faces. All are welcome!

Remember: This is your feature. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

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

“Teagan and Nova” — acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

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

“The Sunrise and Summit” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Heartfelt Feelings” — impasto vinyl paint acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“EEBosch Abstract in Blues and Yellows” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Natural seashells with oil paint, watercolor and other paint mediums (Leslie Yellin)

Untitled (John Maloney)

“Sailing on the Horizon” (Anne Leskow)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Buddha’s hat or crown of heads symbolizes the ability to see, understand, and help beings in all directions.”

“Compo Beach by Drone” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

“I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle” (Martin Ripchick)

“A Narrow Escape” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #332

Posted on August 22, 2026 | Leave a comment

Every week is different, here in our online art gallery. Nature — and nature-ish — works highlight this one.

Remember: This is your feature. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Gracious Grace Salmon” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Under the Sea” — encaustic wax small series (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Below the Surface” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Early Morning on the Grand Jette” — oil on linen, 24×30 (Joanne Leaman — Available for purchase; click here)

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” — analog collage (Amy Schneider)

Photographer Mike Hibbard asks, “Does this country believe in strength, freedom, and independence for everyone? Is this land for all of you and me?”

“Clownin’ Around” (Martin Ripchick)

“Help — Is it a Flower or a Weed?” (Steve Stein)

“Beating the Heat” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Entrance is free to our online art gallery –as it has been for 6 years. But please consider an anniversary donation! Just click here — and thank you!)

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Online Art Gallery #331

Posted on August 15, 2026 | Leave a comment

As we do nearly every week, we again welcome new artists to our online gallery.

Whether you’re a regular visitor or first-timer — and whether you’re an accomplished artist or one just starting out: We want you.

This is your feature. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“Free the Foot Bridge!” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“For Mom, Great pond, Falmouth, MA” — oil on canvas, 24 x 36 (Cathy Kim Walker)

“Mr Rodger’s Nantucket Vacation Home’s Backyard Boat” (Eric Bosch)

“Serene Takeoff” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Woodside Avenue” (John Maloney)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Floral Forest” — acrylic pouring with fine point illustrator accent pen (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Cupcakes — Baked and Crocheted” (Rebecca Stein Richards)

Untitled — collage, white/black pen (Toby Michaels — Available for purchase; click here)

“Brinna” — silverpoint on prepared linen, 10 x 8 (Werner Liepolt)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Path to our vacation cottage: Be on the lookout for Alligators and rabies infected Monkeys. Even worse, we are in a dead zone – no TV or cellphones!”

“Osprey Soaring Over Compo” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

“Server” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #330

Posted on August 8, 2026 | Leave a comment

There’s nothing like a leisurely Saturday stroll through our online art gallery.

And — depending on where you live — it may even be air-conditioned!

Remember: This is your feature. No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we want 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.

“06880 Moon Rising” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (Katie Costanza — 14-year-old One River Art student)

“Leaf on Chrome Door Knob” (John Maloney)

“Swallowtail Butterfly” (Laurie Sorensen)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Three Dancing Starfish” (Eric Bosch)

“Mystic Area Sea March” — oil on canvas, 24 x 36 (Miceli — Available for sale; click here)

“Mohegan Bluffs, Block Island” (Dorrie Thomas)

“Summer Fête” — acrylic on canvas, 20 x 30 (Joanne Leaman — Available for purchase; click here) 

“The Compo Cove Homes Seen From Fiona’s Disappearing Island” — watercolor and graphite (Steve Stein)

“Wild Flowers” — Impasto metallic paints, embellished with gold leaf  on grass cloth with woven gold  strands (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Mike Hibbard says, “Can’t that burglar read the sign, ‘Beware of Dog’? He is going to be limping for a long time!”

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Nice Weather for Ducks” (Lawrence Weisman) 

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