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Online Art Gallery #322

Posted on June 13, 2026 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on June 6, 2026 | 5 comments

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.

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #320

Posted on May 30, 2026 | 1 comment

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #318

Posted on May 16, 2026 | 3 comments

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.

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #316

Posted on May 2, 2026 | 6 comments

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #314

Posted on April 18, 2026 | Leave a comment

We’ve got a record 19 pieces in this week’s online art gallery.

Many are for sale. Browse — enjoy — and buy!

And next week, you too can 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.

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

“Pussy Willows” (Bonnie Connolly)

“In Bloom” (John Maloney)

“Lexi” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“We the People” — collage acrylic pouring (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase — click here)

“Dots” — pastels/gouache (Toby Michaels — Available for purchase; click here)

“Juicy Fruit” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“Floating Serenade” — original signed mixed media on paper, 14 x 11 (J. Haffey Jr.; Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

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

Untitled — watercolor on paper, 9 x 11 (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Rustic Cottage for Sale or Rent. Convenient Transportation to and from the City” (Mike Hibbard)

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

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

“Rick” — graphite ink on tinted paper (Werner Liepolt)

“Great-Grandfather Bosch” — pencil sketch (Eric Bosch)

“Grief” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Have We Seen the Last Snowstorm of 2026?” — graphite pencil on blue paper (Steve Stein)

(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 #312

Posted on April 4, 2026 | Leave a comment

Happy Easter! Welcome to the start of the baseball season! It’s spring!

Those are some of the themes in today’s online art gallery.

Along with, as always, other works that are harder to categorize, but sure to delight, provoke and inspire all who wander through.

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.

“Guardian Angel Comforting Jesus” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

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

“Old Mill Plein Air” (Werner Liepolt)

“Stacked for the Season” (Nancy Breakstone; Available for purchase; click here)

“Sea Shell From Compo” (John Maloney)

“Auntie’s Patch of Heaven” — acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24 (Gert; Available for purchase; click here)

“Watercolor is a Swim in the Unknown: Jean Burman” (Duane Cohen; Available for purchase; click here)

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

“A Hot Wheels Pizza” — wall art (Eric Bosch)

“The Kindness Project” (Owen Wang, age 13 — One River Art student)

In Your Easter bonnet – Gown, and Sparkling Necklace – You’ll Be the Grandest Lady in the Easter Parade! (Mike Hibbard)

“The Saddest Day in Baseball History — Remembering Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“My Friend Kelso” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Presidential Portrait” (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 #311

Posted on March 28, 2026 | 4 comments

Our online gallery artists often roam the world for inspiration.

Today, several of them look only as far as their home town.

Compo Beach, Longshore, the Levitt Pavilion, Staples High School — and a unique lending library — are all featured this week.

You never know what you’ll find, wandering our e-walls. That’s part of the appeal of this weekly feature.

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.

“We Read Books” — copper, AZEK and glass. Eric Bosch built and painted this “Free Little Library” for his grandchildren’s neighborhood with the help of his son Greg, along with Amelia and Theo.

“Paper Bird” (Amy Schneider)

“A Fish Tale” — collage 3-D impasto acrylic on a 36 x 36 canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — collage; Matisse-inspired (Lauri Weiser)

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

“Vanishing into Light” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Reflecting at Longshore” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Morning Magic, Compo Beach” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Folds” — compound photo (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — 5″ x 7″ mixed media note cards (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Pop Art Portrait” (Ella Barborak, age 15 — One River Art student)

“Who Needs a Beautician When My Friends Powder Me Every Day?” (Mike Hibbard)

“After Market” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Brass Passover Seder Plate on Matzah Background” (Steve Stein)

“Presidential Library” (Mark Yurkiw)

(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!)

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Online Art Gallery #308

Posted on March 7, 2026 | 2 comments

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!)

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Online Art Gallery #306

Posted on February 21, 2026 | Comments Off

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.