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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.

“Bring Them Home” — alabaster (Alan Goldberg)

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

“On the Way Down to Cove Marina, Cold Rain” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Nantucket Surf” — acrylic painting (Eric Bosch)

“After the Storm” — acrylic pouring, 24 x 18 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase — click here)

“Leggy” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Horse Head Study” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

“Leapin’ Lizards” (Martin Ripchick)

“Happy Perfect Beautiful” (Mike Hibbard)

“Once Upon a Time in China: Circa Pearl Buck’s ‘The Good Earth'” (Steve Stein)

“Piggyback” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Beauty > Darkness” (Celia Campbell-Mohn)

(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 #287

Posted on October 11, 2025 | Comments Off

Fall is in the air.

And in our online art gallery.

There’s something about the season that brings out special creativity in our readers.

Of course, there’s always more than one theme here.

And always more than meets the eye.

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

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled (John Maloney)

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

“Einstein” — ballpoint ink on paper (Bill Fellah)

“A Slice of Still Life” (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“Always Be on the Lookout for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Mike Hibbard”)

“Mommy and Me” — oil on canvas, 24 x 24 (S. Guccione — Available for purchase — click here)

“Houses in Eze” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Two Dozen Roses” — watercolor with computer background (Steve Stein)

“By the Light of the Electric Moon” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Jane and Friend” (Martin Ripchick)

“Compo Playground” (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 #286

Posted on October 4, 2025 | 1 comment

Welcome back!

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

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

“Bookmobile, Compo Beach” (John Maloney)

“Luna” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

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

“Skyscraper” — digital improvisation (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Golden Gate Bridge — Detail” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Peeping Rose” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Red Geranium in Clay Pot” (Eric Bosch)

“Busy Intersection! Would a Traffic Circle Help?” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Black Sailed Ketch at Anchor” — charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Dental Aggression” (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 #281

Posted on August 30, 2025 | Comments Off

Every week, it seems, we welcome at least one artist to our online gallery.

This week it’s Jo Ann McKinney. Her mixed media piece is very intriguing — and highlights the openness of this feature to all works, of any medium.

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

“Out of Work Buoys” (Peter Barlow)

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

“On Dry Storage at Cove Marina” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Madame Butterfly” — mixed media using contact paper and magazine images (Jo Ann McKinney)

“Gentle Waterfall, An Avalanche” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Luck No. 7” — acrylic on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Stanined Glass Beach” — digital creation (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Kim’s Gift — Peonies for Linda’s Birthday” (Kimberly Stein)

“Sunset Sip” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Good News: Voracious, aggressive hornets imported to devour spotted lanternflies! Bad News: What will those hornets eat when the lanternflies are gone?”

“Sneaky Yellow Wrinkled Gourds Growing in My Vegetable Garden” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Excavating” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Prowess” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — 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 #259

Posted on March 29, 2025 | 1 comment

“06880” is “where Westport meets the world.”

And today’s online art gallery resembles (as it often does) a globe.

With artwork inspired by Alaska, Japan, China — and of course Westport — we hope to inspire all of our readers.

Wherever you are.

We hope our gallery inspires your inner artist too. We invite submissions from all “06880” readers. 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.

This feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone can contribute.

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

“O-torri Gate in Miyajima, Japan” (Caroline Walshon)

“Thank You, Beavers!” — Alaska (Mike Hibbard)

“Ned Dimes Marina” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke)

Photographer Peter Barlow says of this house at Avery Point, Connecticut: “Built starting in 1902, and still there. It was the home of Morton F. Plant, one of the good guys among millionaires, when he wasn’t out in one of his 100-foot schooners.”

“Male Black Winged Red Bishop” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Spring is Here” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Spring-y” — encaustic wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Rainbow Mountains of Gansu Province, China” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Imagining a Place to Love, Far From Here” (Tom Doran)

“Irresistible Grace” (Patricia McMahon)

Unttitled (Duane Cohen)

“Lt. Gen. Thomas H. Miller (USMC) and Senator John Glenn” (Steven Parton)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“The Collector” (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 #254

Posted on February 22, 2025 | Comments Off

As winter staggers to a close, our online art gallery features … not one seasonal submission.

Perhaps we’re all too weary of snow and slush. Even in the hands of the most talented artists, it’s a subject we’re ready to move on from.

Instead, we’ve got a boat, a beach, hand-holding, abstract art and more.

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.

This feature is open to all. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

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