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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!)

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Online Art Gallery #313

Posted on April 11, 2026 | Leave a comment

Spring beckons, in today’s online art gallery.

As always, our artists — professional and amateur, young and old(er) — choose a variety of mediums to display their works.

As always too, 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.

“You’ve Got Mail” — Saugatuck Shores (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Watercolor is a Swim in the White of the Paper” — Lajos Szalay (Duane Cohen; Available for purchase; click here)

“Travelift, Cove Marina” — Kathleen Burke (Available for purchase; click here)

“One Nyala Morning” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bunny’s in Your Garden” — acrylic pastel on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

“Zeke” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“My Largest Color Splash Yet” — acrylics poured on a wooden panel (Eric Bosch)

“Print Stripes” — collage and printmaking (Ben Crockett, age 7 — One River Art student)

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

“Mother Nature’s Feather Art” (Mike Hibbard)

“Spring” (Martin Ripchick)

“Lovers” — watercolor inspired by Chagall (Steve Stein)

“Sam” — graphite on Bristol (Werner Liepolt)

“Fred” (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 #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!)

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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 #310

Posted on March 21, 2026 | 3 comments

Happy anniversary!

Our online art gallery turns 6 years old today.

This week in 2020 — a few days into the realization that the COVID-19 pandemic was real — I put out a call for artwork. The idea was that “in these perilous times,” “06880” readers could create — and share — artwork.

“Westport really is an arts community,” I wrote.

It doesn’t matter how old (or young) you are. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a brush, crayon or camera in your life. You don’t have to be an experienced painter, sketcher or collagist. You can work together, or with your family or anyone else you’re self-isolating with

All you need is an idea and a way to express it. Serenity, love, calm, separation, friends, solitude, fear, hope — whatever you’re thinking or feeling, get to work!

Artwork flooded in. It was broad, beautiful and imaginative. The very next day, I posted our very first online gallery. (It was first called “0*6*Art*Art*0.” at Stacie Curran’s suggestion. Click here to see that inaugural post.)

In the early days, I tried to limit the Saturday feature to work specifically created during the crisis, or that showed powerfully some of the effects those days had on everyone.

Soon, I broadened it to art with any theme (or none).

We’ve been going strong ever since. Today, we kick off the 7th year of our online art gallery.

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.

“Open Your Eyes” (Elise Mergenthaler — age 16, One River Art student)

“Mr. Silhouette Snowflake” — mixed media, pastels on paper (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hbbard says: “Beings, far beyond our galaxy, visit Earth regularly to study its life forms. They speculate that the creatures there, calling themselves humans, may go extinct through their own doing — unless they learn that kindness for each other is their only path to survival as a species.”

“Diane Heading Off to Work” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“STOP” — acrylic on original metal sign (Jerry Kuyper)

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

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

“Orange Art” — a clementine and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Child Support” (Lawrence Weisman)

“June and Friend” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (John Maloney)

(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 #307

Posted on February 28, 2026 | 2 comments

Tired of snow? Tired of shoveling? Tired of winter, generally?

We don’t when spring will arrive. But until it does: Sit down. Brew (another) cup of coffee. And enjoy (another) online art gallery.

But you don’t have to just admire our readers’ work. 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.

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

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

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

“Simple and Elegant” —Chapel Altar at First Parish Church UCC, Brunswick, Maine (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“The Root of the Story” (Conor Culbertson — Grade 8, One River Art student)

Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; Click here)

“Color Splash of Water Lilies” (Eric Bosch)

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

“Lots of Snow” (Karen Weingarten)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “This 600-pound snow tiger watches and waits! Deer, scrounging fallen bird feeder seeds, are moving closer and closer …”

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

“Seamstress” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Studying” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

(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 | Leave a comment

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.

“Mill Pond Foggy Foggy Night” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

“Hey There From Emilia-Romagna, Italy” — digitally painted original photograph (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“Running in the Rain” (Salit Kulla)

“Charleston, SC” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bitter End Knots” — Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Flowers Peeking Through the Ice” — 21 x 21 oil and acrylic on aluminum (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Spring Forward” — acrylic and resin (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Gold Wave, $5 an Ounce” — Dutch-pour technique on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Seeing Spots” (Allison Arth, grade 4, One River Art student)

“Shadows of my Former Self (Officer, Golfer, Pickleballer” — triptych photo (Tom Lowrie, age 97)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, Earthquake hits Kathmandu City. Millions of pieces in this puzzle. AI can help rebuild the temple.”

“A Type Setter’s Nightmare” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

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

“What’s it All About?” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Allison” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Jan. 6th” (Mark Yurkiw — 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 #305

Posted on February 14, 2026 | 2 comments

Another record!

Nineteen artists are featured in today’s online art gallery.

As always, their works span mediums and themes. And their ages, backgrounds and geographic locations are all over the map too. Most artists live in Westport — but some grew up here, and now live and work around the world.

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