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Online Art Gallery #324

Good morning!

Our last online art gallery before America’s actual 250th birthday — next Saturday is July 4th! — begins with a red-white-and-blue celebration from internationally known 3D pop artist Charles Fazzino.

His original signed and numbered work is available at Westport River Gallery, at Riverside Avenue and Post Road West.

But there’s plenty of other work too, including local scenes by local artists.

All are — as always — welcome. 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.

 

“250th” (Charles Fazzino — Available for purchase; click here)

 

“My Papa, Franco” (Bill Fellah)

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

“Leslie, and Her Mom Annie on a Portugal Street Corner” (Eric Bosch)

“Old Bikes, New Stories” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Pretty in Pink” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“Big Pine Tree at Longshore” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“A New Galaxy” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Roses Are Red, and Violets Are Violet!” — pen and watercolor crayon (Steve Stein)

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

“Waiting for a Bus” (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!)

Online Art Gallery #323

Lavender, scarlet — and a slice of pizza — highlight this week’s online art gallery.

All are — as always — welcome. 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)

“Mad World” — multi-media 24″ x 18″ (V. Andriotis — Available for purchase; click here)

“Lovely Lavender Lupines” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

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

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

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

Untitled (Holly Tashian)

“Time Has Come Today” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Duck and Cluck” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

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

“Great Blue Heron” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Break Dancer” (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!)

Online Art Gallery #322

Duane Cohen leads off today, with an untitled — but very familiar — scene.

Well, it will be familiar to anyone who lived here in the 1950s and early ’60s, anyway.

It’s followed by 2 even more recognizable scenes. Then we’ve got our usual very eclectic mix of subjects and styles.

All are — as always — welcome. 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)

“Longshore Country Club on a Foggy Morning” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

“Compo This Morning” (Marina Drasnin)

 

“Central Park” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bursting with Joy” (Lucy Johnson)

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

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

“Chico’s” — found paper collage (Amy Schneider)

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

“Patterned Fruit” — still life (Emilia Francis, age 7 — One River Art student)

“The Quite Overtaking” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Please No College Textbooks” — children’s little library; thanks to Mo Willems (Eric Bosch)

“Supe” (Martin Ripchick; Available for purchase; click here)

“I Love You!” — watercolor crayon (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!)

 

 

Online Art Gallery #321

It’s a 2-fer online art gallery this week.

We’ve got 2 works that show familiar Westport scenes. Two focusing on wooden structures. Two with “Waiting” in the title. Two watercolors; 2 acrylics; 2 collages. And (well, it was close) 3 artists showing their works here for the first time.

All are — as always — welcome. 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 Aqua Entry” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Big Changes in Society Affect the Window Glass We See Through” (Eric Bosch)

“Victory” (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Lady in Waiting” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“Spiderman” — screen print canvas with acrylic paint, 32″ x 32″, #35 of 35, also signed by Stan Lee (Steve Kaufman — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — acrylic and pastels, 36″ x 36″ (Melissa Benedek)

“African Mixup” — digital collage (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — collaged landscape (Amelia Kessler — age 9, One River Art student)

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

“The Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

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

“Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” (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!)

Online Art Gallery #320

A couple of familiar scenes — the Cribari Bridge,  the view from the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson Ferry — share space with the usual mix of still life, abstract and other art, in this week’s online 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.

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

Untitled (Rachel Konstantin)

“Cherry on Top” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“Daisy from Porto, Portugal” (Eric Bosch)

“We the People” (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Yakety Yak — Don’t Talk Back! Coastersosaurus’ Mating Ritual” (Mike Hibbard)

“Not Sure of the Address! Just Tell Uber the Brown House” (Steve Stein)

“Leopard” (Melia Charalambous — age 11, One River Art student)

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

“A Sure Sign of Spring” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Leaving It All Behind” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

(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!)

Online Art Gallery #318

From a 7-year-old art student to 70-plus-year-old artists, today’s online art gallery has — as usual — something for everyone.

That’s how we roll.

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, who suggests readers download this for free)

“Waiting for the Sun” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“A Moon Beam Lit Proposal” — oil on line (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“The Transition of Seasons” — collage mix media, assemblage, reversed, pouring and bits of nature (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Blueberries” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“How’da Like Them Apples?” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“The Beetle” (Katie Costanzo, age 7, One River Art student)

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

“Blush on the Horizon” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says: “This group of women and children follow the Masai warriors. The men’s long, iron spears are razor sharp. Lions keep their distance!”

“A Rare Fire Dragon” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Ripvanwrinkle” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Gen Z Chic”

(Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

(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!)

Online Art Gallery #316

Each week, some art in our online gallery is for sale.

Some is not.

But this week, for the first time, an artist makes an offer.

Miggs Burroughs — the Westport native and longtime graphic designer who has created (among many others ) a US postage stamp, Time magazine cover and the Westport town flag — invites anyone to download his submission today.

You can save it to your desktop, share it with others, post on social media … whatever works for you. It’s his gift to our readers — and it leads this week’s gallery offerings.

Meanwhile: 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.

Artist Miggs Burroughs says, “I took some liberties with the new passport design to take effect this summer. Anyone can download this for free, drag it onto their desktop, and share as they see fit.”

“My Big Brother Playing ‘Wipeout'” (Eric Bosch)

“Another Juicy Fruit” (Lucy Johnson)

“Red Outbuildings Down the Hill at the Audubon” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“2 Thoroughbreds” — ballpoint ink on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Metamorphosis” — impasto metallic acrylic on canvas board (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Fray and Function” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“My Medications Are a Thing of Beauty” (Steve Stein)

“Come on, Slowpoke! I Told You to Pack Light. But You Brought Evrything Including the Kitchen Sink in Your Backpack!” (Mike Hibbard)

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

“Feeding the Birds” (Lawrence Weisman)

(Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

(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!)

Online Art Gallery #313

Spring beckons, in today’s online art gallery.

As always, our artists — professional and amateur, young and old(er) — choose a variety of mediums to display their works.

As always too, 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.

“You’ve Got Mail” — Saugatuck Shores (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Watercolor is a Swim in the White of the Paper— Lajos Szalay (Duane Cohen; Available for purchase; click here)

“Travelift, Cove Marina” — Kathleen Burke (Available for purchase; click here)

“One Nyala Morning” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bunny’s in Your Garden” — acrylic pastel on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

“Zeke” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“My Largest Color Splash Yet” — acrylics poured on a wooden panel (Eric Bosch)

“Print Stripes” — collage and printmaking (Ben Crockett, age 7 — One River Art student)

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

“Mother Nature’s Feather Art” (Mike Hibbard)

“Spring” (Martin Ripchick)

“Lovers” — watercolor inspired by Chagall (Steve Stein)

“Sam” — graphite on Bristol (Werner Liepolt)

“Fred” (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!)

Online Art Gallery #310

Happy anniversary!

Our online art gallery turns 6 years old today.

This week in 2020 — a few days into the realization that the COVID-19 pandemic was real — I put out a call for artwork. The idea was that “in these perilous times,” “06880” readers could create — and share — artwork.

“Westport really is an arts community,” I wrote.

It doesn’t matter how old (or young) you are. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a brush, crayon or camera in your life. You don’t have to be an experienced painter, sketcher or collagist. You can work together, or with your family or anyone else you’re self-isolating with

All you need is an idea and a way to express it. Serenity, love, calm, separation, friends, solitude, fear, hope — whatever you’re thinking or feeling, get to work!

Artwork flooded in. It was broad, beautiful and imaginative. The very next day, I posted our very first online gallery. (It was first called “0*6*Art*Art*0.” at Stacie Curran’s suggestion. Click here to see that inaugural post.)

In the early days, I tried to limit the Saturday feature to work specifically created during the crisis, or that showed powerfully some of the effects those days had on everyone.

Soon, I broadened it to art with any theme (or none).

We’ve been going strong ever since. Today, we kick off the 7th year of our online art gallery.

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. As they have for 6 years, lovers want to know.

“Open Your Eyes” (Elise Mergenthaler — age 16, One River Art student)

“Mr. Silhouette Snowflake” — mixed media, pastels on paper (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hbbard says: “Beings, far beyond our galaxy, visit Earth regularly to study its life forms. They speculate that the creatures there, calling themselves humans, may go extinct through their own doing — unless they learn that kindness for each other is their only path to survival as a species.”

“Diane Heading Off to Work” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“STOP” — acrylic on original metal sign (Jerry Kuyper)

“Congress” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Orange Art” — a clementine and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Child Support” (Lawrence Weisman)

“June and Friend” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

(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!)

Online Art Gallery #308

As usual, our online art gallery features a wide mix of mediums, styles and themes.

And 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.

“Hattie” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Frozen River” (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase. click here)

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

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

“Globalization” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase — click here)

“Bren Playing, Sunshine of Your Love” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Don’t Complain and Don’t Explain” — photo with computer enhancements (Evan Stein)

“Ponytail” (Cohl Katz — Available for purchase; click here)

“Arctic Breath” — acrylic resin on canvas (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (John Maloney)

“Still Life Blueberries” (Miranda Cameron — Grade 8, One River Art student)

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

“Flipping Out About the Snake in His Clothes!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Dream the Impossible Dream” — pencil and crayon (Steve Stein)

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

“At Ease” (Lawrence Weisman)

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