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Online Art Gallery #179

Posted on September 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #179

This week’s art gallery includes several newcomers. They join our cadre of regular, looked-forward-to artists.

As always, submissions span a wide range of subjects. LobsterFest, Rosh Hashana, the end of summer — they’re all here, and much more.

As always, we welcome all kinds of art. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited (no, urged) to contribute.

“Persistence of Media” (Norm Siegel)

“Fifty Shades of Grey” (Amy Schneider)

“LobsterFest” — in honor of next Saturday’s annual Westport Rotary Club event (Lis Hisgen)

“Shalom for Rosh Hashanah: Peace for the New Year 5784″ — pencil and watercolor, 5″ x 8” (Steve Stein)

“Faceless” — acrylic, oil pastel on Bristol paper, 14″ x 11″ (John Waski)

Untitled (Kathleen Burke)

“Bluebird” (Ellin Spadone)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

Untitled triptych — oil paints on brushed aluminum panels (Cynthia McLoughlin)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“I’m Open! Throw Me the Ball!” — Rapa Nui, indigenous people of Easter Island (Mike Hibbard)

“Fate” == lithograph 11″ x 14″ (Ann Chernow)

“Waiting” — #2 in a series (Lawrence Weisman)

“Modern Fireboat and a Vintage Chris-Craft” (Peter Barlow)

“Endless Summer” — Greenwich Point (Cohl Katz)

“And Just Like That, Summer Is Over” (Lauri Weiser)

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Online Art Gallery #177

Posted on September 2, 2023 | 2 comments

Our first online art gallery of September features only one “fall is coming” work.

There will be more in the weeks ahead, for sure. Foliage, pumpkins, turkeys — bring ’em on!

Along with every other theme. As always, we welcome watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got.

Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

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

Artist Eric Bosch says, “This piece was inspired by the Westport Community Gardens. It represents the growth of nature, and the wisdom of the Long Lots School Building Committee to do the right thing for our town as a whole.”

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Wired Up” (Karen Weingarten)

“Night Garden” (Ken Runkel)

“Senegalese Sea Creature” — acrylic/resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Aruba” — acrylic paint and pouring medium (Amy Schneider)

“Imagined Seascape (After Feininger)” (Tom Doran)

“A Pillar of His Community” — Nepal (Mike Hibbard)

“Stroke!” (Peter Barlow)

“Wordle” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Where Does it Hurt?” Artist Steve Stein says, “This simple sketch captures the essence of my professional life for almost 60 years.”

“Fall is Coming” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

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Online Art Gallery #176

Posted on August 26, 2023 | 2 comments

Is everyone on vacation?

After a summer of robust art activity, submissions were slim for this week’s online gallery.

Perhaps our artists are out on the water. Nearly half of our works this week show a nautical theme.

Of course, the quality remains high. And the subjects, wide-ranging.

With back to school near, we continue to welcome atercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got. Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

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

“Sunset Reflected From a Car Window” (Benji Porosoff, age 16)

“Sailing Near Fishers Island with an Easterly Wind” (Peter Barlow)

“Three Masted Galleon in a Manischewitz Bottle.” Steve Stein explains, “I did this with my grandsons one Sunday afternoon. The boat is built outside the flat-sided wine bottle with the masts hinged back and down, to be pulled up by long threads after placement in the bottle. The hardest part is getting the green clay ocean to lie flat.”

Untitled (Werner Liepolt)

“Spud Chef” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Standing Together: Our Past and Future” — Kathmandu, Nepal (Mike Hibbard)

“Poppy” (Ken Runkel)

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Online Art Gallery #175

Posted on August 19, 2023 | 4 comments

Many of today’s online art gallery submissions are photos.

They’re (as always) gorgeous. As always too, they circle the globe.

But let’s not slack off, all of you who work in other mediums!

Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

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

“Poppy” (Ken Runkel)

“Sailing in My Dreams” (Tom Doran)

“The Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Returns Home” (Peter Barlow)

“Sunflower in a Sunflower” (Linda Doyle)

“Bee All That You Can Be!” Photographer Bonnie Scott Connolly took this image of a cone flower (echinacea) at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Wyoming” (Rowene Weems)

“It Is So Hot The Trees Are Melting” — western US (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — swan family on the Lieutenant River estuary, Old Lyme (Susan Lloyd)

“The Hat” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled — artist Eric Bosch explains, “Every 5 years, the Babson side of  my family (200+) gathera at the Babson museum in Rockport, Massachusetts.  The organizers requested art, so I did this painting for the  occasion earlier this month. The Babsons got off the Mayflower and built a stone cooperage to make oak barrels. The center portion of my painting remains to this day.”

“A Brown Sheep.” Artist Steve Stein explains, “Sheep can be domestic or wild. Their colors range from pure white to spotted, piebald and dark chocolate, depending on a gene that controls melanin.”

 

“Flat Out” (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #174

Posted on August 12, 2023 | 4 comments

Several intriguing abstract works highlight this week’s online gallery.

Of course, age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Un Peu Bleu” — acrylic resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Floral Neuron Network” (Ken Runkel)

“‘Scene’ From Above” — acrylic paint and pouring medium (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Summer Adventures: Oh, The Places We Love!” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Fishing Vessel Samantha Brooke, Gulls and Lighthouse” (Peter Barlow)

“My Father’s Soul” — Photographer Sharon Paulsen shot this in her father’s backyard on Sanibel Island, Florida in August 2017, a week before he died.

“I Am Not Lichen My New Skin Lotion” (Mike Hibbard)

 

“It’s a Stretch” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Julie’s Office, Circa 1989” — Steve Stein says, “Julie was my father-in-law, a great family man and a motion picture ad guy handling many of the accounts seen on the wall behind him.”

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Online Art Gallery #173

Posted on August 5, 2023 | 5 comments

A new artist (George Radwan) joins us this week, with a new type of mixed media (concrete, plaster, sand and Structo-lite).

Welcome, George!

He knows what this online art gallery is about. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Nightscape” (Tom Doran)

Untitled (Karen Weingarten)

“The Rivers Run Wild” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Fairfield County Vintage” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled. Photographer Diane Yormark explains, “Two men ‘understand one another and what it’s like to put in a full day’s work.’” — Calgary, Alberta 

“Three Buddhas” — mixed media: concrete, plaster, sand, Structo-lite (George Radwan)

“I’m Beautiful! And Proud of it!” — Tanzania (Mike Hibbard)

“Is it Amadeo Modigliani’s Modigliani or is it AI?” (Steve Stein)

“Old Truck on Old Road” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Finger Painting” (Santiago Lozano)

“Lake Fire” (Ken Runkel)

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Online Art Gallery #172

Posted on July 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #172

The titles of many of this week’s artworks are as simple as their subjects.

Latches, wallflowers, bees, bulbs, clouds — they’re everyday parts of our world.

But, as always, our “06880” artists see and share them in many different, unique and thought-provoking ways.

That’s the magic of our online gallery.

Of course, we could not do it without you. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Sunset Sail” (Ken Runkel)

“Bumble Bee” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Banff, Alberta” (Diane Yormark)

“Wallflowers” (Ellin Spadone)

“Bulbs” (Tom Doran)

“Latches” (Peter Barlow)

“Water Magic” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Clouds” (Ellen Lavigne Flug)

“Flaws 5” (Santiago Lozano)

Nepal. “He is a pillar of the community,” says photographer Mike Hibbard.

“Sir Walter Raleigh 2.0” (Steve Stein)

“At Rest” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Sunset at Falmouth, Massachusetts” (Laurie Sorensen)

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Online Art Gallery #171

Posted on July 22, 2023 | 1 comment

It’s Saturday morning — time once again to open the doors to our online art gallery.

As always, everyone is welcome to enjoy our collection.

And submit.

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

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Interstices 21” (Santiago Lozano)

“Pear” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Waiting for Bomboloni” — Westport Farmers’ Market — pastels (Werner Liepolt)

“Yet Another Chagall: The Tribe of Issachar” — Artist Steve Stein explains, “Issachar was the 5th of 6th sons of Jacob with Leah. The name translates to ‘his reward will come.’ Yet of the 12 tribes, no one uses Issachar as a name for their kids!”

“Sentient” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper says this is 8 feet tall, including 2 feet of rock below the surface. It’s part of the “Rock On! Celebrating Stone in the Garden” exhibit at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts.

“Man vs. Nature” (Tom Doran)

“Roses” (Amy Schneider)

“Stone Planter with Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)

Untitled — Photographer Ellen Horowitz notes, “Yes, the elephant was that close!”

“Hi, I’m Sally! Wanta Dance?” — Galápagos Islands (Mike Hibbard)

“Who Needs the Internet?” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Transient Wave” (Ken Runkel)

“Winsome, Noank Sloop With Sails Reefed for Strong Winds” (Peter Barlow)

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Online Art Gallery #170

Posted on July 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #170

Welcome to our 170th online art gallery.

We opened in the early days of the pandemic, as an opportunity for “06880” artists hunkered down at home to share their work with the world.

More than 3 years later — now back to near normal — we’ve done what all artists do: We’ve grown and evolved.

But one thing has not changed. We still need your submissions.

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

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Beautiful Boarge.” Photographer Mike Hibbard says: “Pluck the blue flower and float it, face up, on white wine. Sip and refill very carefully. A transformation (of the flower) occurs in about 30 minutes.”

Untitled (Judith Katz)

Untitled (Santiago Lozano)

“After the Storm” — pastel on paper (Clayton Liotta)

Untitled — Italy (Lauri Weiser)

“Sunny Cityscape” — acrylic paper (Lis Hisgen)

Untitled — Martha’s Vineyard (Wendy Levy)

“Planting” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Red Sky at Night, Sailor’s Delight” — pencil and crayon (Steve Stein)

“Rudder, Prop, Keel, and Bottom — Sloop Joanne B” (Peter Barlow)

“Warmth” (Tom Doran)

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Online Art Gallery #169

Posted on July 8, 2023 | 2 comments

Not one but two of today’s submissions were inspired by Martha’s Vineyard.

Perhaps that’s not a surprise. The island off Cape Cod is a summer home for many Westporters.

Also no surprise: The breadth and depth of genres and styles in this week’s gallery.

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

All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)

“Schooner Shenandoah, From Vineyard Haven” — acrylic on Masonite (Peter Barlow)

Untitled — Martha’s Vineyard (Wendy Levy)

“Calypso Cubo” (Santiago Lozado)

“Tranquility” — acrylic (Valerie Fischel)

“Hippo” — graphite on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“View From a Puddle” (Lauri Weiser)

“A River of Life Runs Through It” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“Remember How Much Fun We Had Playing Cards When You Were Little” — pastel on paper (Roseann Spengler)

“Lift” (Lawrence Weisman)

“A Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Caribbean” — Artist Steve Stein says, “There are 138 species of sparrows spread throughout the world, making it the most widely distributed wild bird.”

“A Pouring of Summertime” — Artist Dorothy Robertshaw calls this “a combination of ice cream sherbet beach days, green forest hikes, sunshine and coastal holidays.”

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