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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!)

Online Art Gallery #307

Tired of snow? Tired of shoveling? Tired of winter, generally?

We don’t when spring will arrive. But until it does: Sit down. Brew (another) cup of coffee. And enjoy (another) online art gallery.

But you don’t have to just admire our readers’ work. 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.

“Micha” (Patricia McMahon; Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

“Simple and Elegant” —Chapel Altar at First Parish Church UCC, Brunswick, Maine (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“The Root of the Story” (Conor Culbertson — Grade 8, One River Art student)

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

“Color Splash of Water Lilies” (Eric Bosch)

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

“Lots of Snow” (Karen Weingarten)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This 600-pound snow tiger watches and waits! Deer, scrounging fallen bird feeder seeds, are moving closer and closer …”

“Hello Dali” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here

“Seamstress” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Studying” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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

Online Art Gallery #306

We always showcase a variety of artists in our Saturday online art gallery.

They always span an impressive spread of mediums, styles and subjects.

But this week’s offers the widest range of ages. We’ve got a first-time submission from a 4th grader — and another first-time offering from a 97-year-old.

Can we ever beat that?

Hey: We can try! 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.

“Mill Pond Foggy Foggy Night” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

“Hey There From Emilia-Romagna, Italy” — digitally painted original photograph (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Running in the Rain” (Salit Kulla)

“Charleston, SC” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bitter End Knots” — Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Flowers Peeking Through the Ice” — 21 x 21 oil and acrylic on aluminum  (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Gold Wave, $5 an Ounce” — Dutch-pour technique on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Seeing Spots” (Allison Arth, grade 4, One River Art student)

“Shadows of my Former Self (Officer, Golfer, Pickleballer” — triptych photo (Tom Lowrie, age 97)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, Earthquake hits Kathmandu City. Millions of pieces in this puzzle. AI can help rebuild the temple.”

“A Type Setter’s Nightmare” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

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

“What’s it All About?” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Allison” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Jan. 6th” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

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

 

Online Art Gallery #305

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!)

Online Art Gallery #302

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!)

Online Art Gallery #301

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!)

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!)

Online Art Gallery #298

Welcome to this holiday edition of our online art gallery.

Christmas may be over, but winter is not. Our “06880” artists have been as busy as Santa’s elves, with both themes.

And of course, much more.

Remember: This is your gallery. 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.

“Christmas Morning” (John Maloney)

Untitled (Wendy Levy)

“Back Yard Snowy Cardinal” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“The Boy on the Bike” — acrylic aluminum, 9×14 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Decorated sea shell (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)

“Main Street, Vinalhaven, Maine” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Walk at Bedford Middle School” (Dayle Brownstein)

Untitled — watercolor paper collage (Nate Vandenberg — One River Art student)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Rectangles of colored fabric printed with symbols, mantras and prayers that are spread by the wind to benefit all living beings by promoting peace, happiness and good fortune. Let’s all be kinder and more respectful to one another in 2026!”

“Savaged Firebird Grace” –Hand-drawn clothing construction design art process (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Iris” — digital drawing (Bill Fellah)

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

“Getting Ready for the New Year and the 06880.org Art Column” (Steve Stein)

“Levon and Santa: 2 Legends” (Patricia McMahon)

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