Tag Archives: Patricia McMahon

Online Art Gallery #190

Welcome to our first December online art gallery of the year.

We’ve got interesting new mediums, like collage and embroidery. But where are all our holiday submissions?

Come on, guys — it’s the most wonderful time of the year, right?!

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 to contribute.

“What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love” (Steve Stein)

“OK, What Came First?” (Ken Runkel)

“Kawa Ni” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled — collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Counted Cross Stitch” (Alicia Kronick)

“I Remember” (Tom Doran)

Untitled — oil on canvas (Greg Puhy)

“Choppy Water and Herreshoff Ketch” (Peter Barlow)

“Thanks for Being My Dinner!” Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The queen lioness takes down the prey and eats first. The rest of the pride keep their distance and eat when the queen goes to the river to drink. Jackals, hyenas and buzzards take their turns — carefully.”

“In Recovery” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Naturally, It’s Getting Chilly” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Black Bird” — black and white reflection photography (Patricia McMahon)

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

Online Art Gallery #183

Timely world events and timeless nature share space in this week’s online art gallery.

As we do each week, 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.

“Under Attack” (Amy Schneider)

“Levon” — acrylic resin abstract wood canvas (Patricia McMahon)

“Fall is Here; The Sun is Brightly Shining” —
encaustic wax painting burnished with shellac (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Signal Flags 01” — abstract art with a strong Mondrian influence (Ken Runkel)

“Evan Harding Park at Longshore” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“Fishing Boat Nellie at Sunset” (Peter Barlow)

“Sidelined” (Lawrence Weisman)

“South Bank of the Arno River” (Kathleen Burke)

“New Bridge” (Karen Weingarten)

“Who You Calling a Frogmouth?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fleeting Fall” (Jerry Kuyper)

Suzanne Casey says: “I came out of needlepoint retirement to make this stocking for my brother’s first grandchild. (My brother is Michael Wheatall, Staples High School Class of 1979.) I also made them for all of my children, nieces and nephews when they were born — but the last of those was 20 years ago.”

“A Golem of War, Now loose in Israel and Ukraine.” Artist Steve Stein explains: “A golem, according to Hebrew legend, is a mass of clay magically given life. It can be a force for good or more often a force of evil, war and mindless destruction.”

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

Online Art Gallery #180

This week’s online gallery includes a few abstract works. There is also some interesting “shell” art — something new and different.

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.

“Foggy Fall Morning” — digital photography, AI and editing software (Ken Runkel)

“Ready for Yom Kippur” — pencil and water color (Steve Stein)

Untitled — Artist Dorothy Robertshaw says, “We come in all shapes and sizes, and we all have the same hearts.”

Untitled — acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 18″ (John Waski)

“Monterey Seascape” (Tom Doran)

“Coiffed” — acrylic/resin, 9″ x 12″ canvas (Patricia McMahon)

Untitled (Jo Ann Miller)

“Parrot” (Kathleen Burke)

“Comet” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Lunge Beats Hop!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Ring of Brodgar” — Photographer Lauri Weiser calls this “A Stonehenge-type place in Scotland”

“Wind Turbine” (Karen Weingarten)

“Photographers Will Go Anywhere!” (Peter Barlow)  

“Footprints in the Sand” (June Rose Whittaker)

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

Online Art Gallery #178

Abstract pieces highlight this week’s online art gallery.

We also welcome pottery, from an 11-year-old just back from summer camp.

As always, we welcome all kinds of submissions. 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.

“Falling Leaves” — oil/impasto Pointillism creation (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“The Sleepy Sea Dragon” — acrylic resin painting (Patricia McMahon)

“Cells” (Amy Schneider)

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

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Horseshoe Bend” — Colorado River watercolor (John Danbury)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Water Painting” (Rowene Weems)

“Day Sail Schooner Argia and Many Guests” (Peter Barlow)

“Aerin’s Summer Camp Pottery” — Stephen Stein’s 11-year-old grandchild’s creations.

“Nonchalance” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Moon Rise” (Karen Weingarten)

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

Online Art Gallery #177

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)

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

Online Art Gallery #174

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.”

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

Online Art Gallery #168

Bruges, Italy, Angkor Wat — and America’s red, white and blue — are some of the subjects of this week’s online art gallery.

There’s also some first-ever woodworking, because …

… 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.)

“Don’t Throw It Away” (Karen Weingarten)

“Summer Leftovers” — acrylic paint layered to create textures of plants and water (Lis Hisgen)

“Fleurs et Vignes” — acrylic resin abstract (Patricia McMahon)

“Abstract #7” (Ken Runkel)

“Green Apple” — pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Railroad Bridge, Opening” — Photographer Peter Barlow says, “notice the tracks.”

“Looking Ahead, Looking Back” (Tom Doran)

“Colorful Cottages” — built and photographed by Eric Bosch

“Italy” (Lauri Weiser)

“In Bruges” (Lawrence Weisman)

“How to Make a Composite Sketch to Catch a Criminal” (Steve Stein)

“About the 318,645th Sunrise Over Angkor Wat” (Mike Hibbard)

“Fireworks” (Anne Lowrie)

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

 

 

Online Art Gallery #164

Though only one submission referenced last weekend’s Memorial Day — our first, stunning abstract photo taken on Westport’s Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge by Michael Chait — several other pieces suggest the coming of summer.

Of course, many others suggest many other things. That’s the whole point of our weekly online art gallery. It’s eclectic. It’s wide-open.

And it’s your feature. Everyone is invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.

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.)

“Parade Watchers” (Michael Chait)

“My Beautiful Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)

“Oiseau” — creative photography (Patricia McMahon)

“Rusty” — oil pencil on paper (Clayton Liotta)

“Esther’s Dragon” (Esther Lichtman, 11 years old)

Untitled (Ellen Wentworth)

“Holey Statue” — Kathmandu, Nepal (Mike Hibbard)

“Church Lane” (June Rose Whittaker)

“Spring In My Backyard” — pastel (Roseann Spengler)

“The Ketch RED WING between Connecticut and Rhode Island, on the Pawcatuck River” (Peter Barlow)

“Interspecies Collaboration.” Photographer Jerry Kuyper says: “I provide the canvas. The birds provide the paint, naturally.”

“Experimenting with Lily” (Ken Runkel)

“Wipe Your Feet!” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Red Sky” (Tom Doran)

(Our weekly “06880” gallery is free. But — like many — we invite you to donate whatever you can. Please click here. Thank you!)

Online Art Gallery #160

Peter Barlow was a young man in Westport when Queen Elizabeth was crowned.

Today — older, but still quite active, in his eastern Connecticut home — he celebrates King Charles’ coronation.

Peter’s painting is one of a baker’s dozen works of all kinds in today’s online art gallery. As always, the range of subjects and mediums is both wide and impressive.

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

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.)

“King of Diamonds” (Peter Barlow)

“Channeling O’Keefe” (Amy Schneider)

Untitled (Ellin Spadone)

“Old Mill Solitude” (Fred Cantor)

Artist Ken Runkel says “Lighthouse Man_2” was “inspired by the great Surrealists of the era (a touch of Dali, a dash of Magritte).”

“Whoa! Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged” (Mike Hibbard)

“Flamingo: The Only Bird Not Seen in ‘Westport … Naturally'” (Steve Stein)

“Fais Do Do” — abstract acrylic resin epoxy (Patricia McMahon)

“Pablo’s Girls” (Ann Chernow)

“Dancing Musical People” — encaustc wax (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Marlboro Man Still Smoking” (Karen Weingarten)

“A Colorful Sail” (Anne Bernier)

“Nocturne” (Lawrence Weisman)

 

Online Art Gallery #158

Photos predominate, in this week’s online art gallery.

As always, they range far and wide — this week, from Westport to Samoa.

Which makes sense. “06880” readers roam all over the globe too.

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

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.)

“Through the Window” (Karen Weingarten)

“Winslow” — creative photography (Patricia McMahon)

“Underwater Bloom” (Amy Schneider)

“Great Balls of Fire” — Samoan fire dancer in training (Mike Hibbard)

“Grasping at Straws” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Dream House” (Mona Brown)

“Not a Church-Going Kind of Cardinal” (Steve Stein)

“Rooster Reverie” (Richard Nasereddin)

Untitled — from Riverside Park, by the Saugatuck River (Luis Castro)

“Woman in the Boat” (Ken Runkel)

(If you enjoy this weekly feature, please consider a donation to “06880.” Click here — and thank you!)