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Online Art Gallery #297

Posted on December 20, 2025 | 2 comments

The holidays are here!

And our “06880” artists know it. Several submissions to this week’s online art gallery reflect the spirit of the season.

And the weather.

Thanks, as always, to all our artists. 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.

“Tinsel & Toes” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Home for the Holidays” (John Maloney)

“Even Penguins Love Christmas” — watercolor (Caroline Walton Howe)

“Great Barrington” (Wendy Levy)

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

“It’s Frosty Outside” — acrylic impasto, 21×21 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Gloucester Christmas Party” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

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

“Winter Moon Dandelion Wear” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Morning: Initial Impression” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Penny Smith — One River Art student)

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

“Beams” — photography (Jerry Kuyper)

“Hey Up There! You’re Missing the Pot!” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Sabbath Menorah is Not the Same as a Chanukah Chanukiah” (Steve Stein)

Untitled — compiled on Microsoft Publisher; pencils and gel pen (Jon Nicholson)

“I Love You” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Owen” — watercolor/acrylic on paper (Bill Fellah)

(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 #295

Posted on December 6, 2025 | 1 comment

There are always surprises in our online art gallery.

This week’s: There are no holiday-themed submissions!

We’re not sure what’s gotten (or hasn’t gotten) into our usually very creative, on-top-of-everything gang of artists. But hey: There’s always next Saturday.

As always: 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.

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” — oil and pallet knife on canvas board (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase — click here)

“Boat Storage on the Hill Near the Lift, Southport” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

Eric Bosch says, “Watercolor techniques take time to learn. My copy here of Edward Hopper’s ‘House on Pamet River’ gave me valuable insights into his use of color and light.”

“Burmese Green Peacock” — acrylic on linen with metalics, 30×40 (B. Levin — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Saugatuck River Reflections” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Prowess” — watercolor (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

“An Afternoon Peck From Brownie” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Acolytes in this Cathedral are Very Tall!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Modern Westport Library Book Sale Wear” — hand-drawn sketch (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“The Oracle of Omaha” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Jacob’s Ladder” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Memories of Spring” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Sunset Beach Stroll” (Susan Garment)

(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 #293

Posted on November 22, 2025 | 1 comment

Patricia McMahon’s scrumptious Thanksgiving-themed image leads this week’s online art gallery.

A few autumnal artworks follow. Plus the usual eclectic array of drawings, photos and more.

It’s another Saturday show. Thanks for stopping by, and admiring our “06880” artists.

You can join them! 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.

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

“Our Maple in Autumn” (Jamie Walsh)

“Autumn Path” (Dayle Brownstein)

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

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

“Hiking Along the Massif de l’Esterel” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

“Neap Tide” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Beautiful Game” — Morocco (Tom Kretsch)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Aaah! You’re a vicious cut-up! We’re ‘deheaded’ to the compost pit!”

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

“Oh, Nurse!” — graphite (Steve Stein)

“Mother Dear” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

(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 #292

Posted on November 15, 2025 | 3 comments

We welcome 2 new artists this week — and our first-ever submission of a handsome arrangement of dried fall flowers. We’re glad they found our online art gallery, and that you’re here to greet them.

Of course, 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.

“Wild Horse” — oil on canvas, 32″ x 40″ (S. Guccione; Available for purchase; click here)

“Aphrodite” — pencil drawing from a sculpture at the Met (Bill Fellah — Available for sale; click here)

“Milo” — acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

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

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

“Cockenoe Island Storm Clouds” — acrylic on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Bleeding Hearts” — digital painting, limited edition archival giclee print, 34″ x 34″ (Peach Pair; Available for purchase — click here)

Dried flower arrangement (Jalna Jaeger)

“A Grand Gorge Down Into the Rio Grande” (Mike Hibbard)

“Scarfing Around Brooklyn” (Patricia McMahon — Available for sale; click here)

“All Souls Day Enlightenment Gentleness Unity” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“An Old Family’s Tree” (Steve Stein)

“Horse Sense” (Martin Ripchick)

“Eyebrows” (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 #291

Posted on November 8, 2025 | Comments Off

Veterans Day, baseball and fall — all are front and center in this week’s online art gallery.

As always, our “06880” artists offer unique perspectives, on a wide array of subjects.

And as always, no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“For Our Country” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“The Amazin’ Mets” — 3D mixed media on paper, 12.5″ x 21″ (Charles Fazzino — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“From Genesis: The Story of Esau and Jacob” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Foot Bones” (Eric Bosch)

“Our 25-year-old Tree” (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Mum’s the Word” (Fred Cantor)

“London Eye” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Jewels of the Ocean” (Mike Hibbard)

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

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 #290

Posted on November 1, 2025 | Comments Off

There is only 1 Halloween-themed submissions this week — perhaps other artists were busy creating costumes — but we do have 3 related to Westport’s flag displays on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge.

Plus of course our usual array of seasonal works, some sketches, and much more.

As always, no matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.

“Flags on Bridge” (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Rowene Weems)

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

“The Golden Hour” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“October” — oil painting with cold wax on canvas (Available for purchase — click here)

“Angles” (Nancy Breakstone)

“Bodiam (Moated) Castle, Sussex, England” — oil on board, 12×12 (S. Hawkins — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Calm Before the Storm” — acrylic oil on aluminum, 21×21 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Dream Passage” — digital compound (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Halloween Pedicure Gone Terribly Wrong!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Remembering London’s 1952 Great Smog!” (Steve Stein)

“Mahatma” (Martin Ripchick — Available for sale; click here)

“The Volunteer” (Lawrence Weisman)

“I Do, Times Two” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah; his wedding, last October — Available for purchase; click here)

“Snowy Owl” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

(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 #289

Posted on October 25, 2025 | 3 comments

We open today’s online art gallery with a tribute to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

We continue with some fall-themed works. And we end, as usual, with a series of intriguing drawings.

That’s our gallery in a nutshell: art with themes, and without. A variety of mediums. Surprises, and old favorites.

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

“Pink Aid” — Artist Dorothy Robertshaw is “honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month with an acrylic impasto canvas of hope” (Available for purchase — click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

“Autumn Leaves Near the Sound Between Compo and Old Mill” (Judith Katz)

“Branching Out” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase;click here)

“October 18 Sunset Compo” (Michael Chait)

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

“Southport Harbor in Winter” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

Artist Eric Bosch says, “Like so many of us, I enjoy Edward Hopper’s paintings, having studied many of them at various museums. Here’s a copy I did of his famous ‘Rooms For Tourists.'”

“Just a ‘walk in the park!'” – Hike to the top of Casa Grande for lunch; Big Bend National Park, Texas (Mike Hibbard)

“Sir Ian McKellen” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“The Impatient Ghost” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Bad Smell” (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 #288

Posted on October 18, 2025 | 2 comments

An alabaster piece by new-to-“06880” artist Alan Goldberg — celebrating the release of Israeli hostages — leads this week’s online art gallery.

And although our gallery is seldom “political,” it includes another work, by Duane Cohen, that seems particularly relevant today.

They’re 2 more examples of the wide, eclectic, interesting and inspiring nature of this series. It began in the early days of COVID, and — due to popular demand, and always welcome weekly submissions — it has continued every Saturday since.

No matter how young (or old) you are; 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, 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.