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Online Art Gallery #332

Posted on August 22, 2026 | Leave a comment

Every week is different, here in our online art gallery. Nature — and nature-ish — works highlight this one.

Remember: This is your feature. 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.

“Gracious Grace Salmon” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Under the Sea” — encaustic wax small series (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Below the Surface” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“Early Morning on the Grand Jette” — oil on linen, 24×30 (Joanne Leaman — Available for purchase; click here)

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” — analog collage (Amy Schneider)

Photographer Mike Hibbard asks, “Does this country believe in strength, freedom, and independence for everyone? Is this land for all of you and me?”

“Clownin’ Around” (Martin Ripchick)

“Help — Is it a Flower or a Weed?” (Steve Stein)

“Beating the Heat” (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 #331

Posted on August 15, 2026 | Leave a comment

As we do nearly every week, we again welcome new artists to our online gallery.

Whether you’re a regular visitor or first-timer — and whether you’re an accomplished artist or one just starting out: We want you.

This is your feature. 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.

“Free the Foot Bridge!” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

“For Mom, Great pond, Falmouth, MA” — oil on canvas, 24 x 36 (Cathy Kim Walker)

“Mr Rodger’s Nantucket Vacation Home’s Backyard Boat” (Eric Bosch)

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

“Woodside Avenue” (John Maloney)

Untitled (Cohl Katz)

“Floral Forest” — acrylic pouring with fine point illustrator accent pen (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Cupcakes — Baked and Crocheted” (Rebecca Stein Richards)

Untitled — collage, white/black pen (Toby Michaels — Available for purchase; click here)

“Brinna” — silverpoint on prepared linen, 10 x 8 (Werner Liepolt)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Path to our vacation cottage: Be on the lookout for Alligators and rabies infected Monkeys. Even worse, we are in a dead zone – no TV or cellphones!”

“Osprey Soaring Over Compo” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

“Server” (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 #330

Posted on August 8, 2026 | Leave a comment

There’s nothing like a leisurely Saturday stroll through our online art gallery.

And — depending on where you live — it may even be air-conditioned!

Remember: This is your feature. 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.

“06880 Moon Rising” (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

“Goatee” (Patricia McMahon — Available for sale; click here)

Untitled (Katie Costanza — 14-year-old One River Art student)

“Leaf on Chrome Door Knob” (John Maloney)

“Swallowtail Butterfly” (Laurie Sorensen)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Three Dancing Starfish” (Eric Bosch)

“Mystic Area Sea March” — oil on canvas, 24 x 36 (Miceli — Available for sale; click here)

“Mohegan Bluffs, Block Island” (Dorrie Thomas)

“Summer Fête” — acrylic on canvas, 20 x 30 (Joanne Leaman — Available for purchase; click here) 

“The Compo Cove Homes Seen From Fiona’s Disappearing Island” — watercolor and graphite (Steve Stein)

“Wild Flowers” — Impasto metallic paints, embellished with gold leaf  on grass cloth with woven gold  strands (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

Mike Hibbard says, “Can’t that burglar read the sign, ‘Beware of Dog’? He is going to be limping for a long time!”

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Nice Weather for Ducks” (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 #329

Posted on August 1, 2026 | Leave a comment

Serene summer scenes highlight this week’s art gallery.

It’s the perfect way to welcome August, for our many visitors.

As for our artists: 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.

“Atlantics 16 & 127 Off South Beach” (Eric Bosch)

“Westporthenge — August 2022” (Michael Tomashefsky– Available for purchase; click here)

“In the Nantucket Serengeti — Fall” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“I Come Bearing Gifts” — found trunk and rocks, Monhegan Island, Maine (Jerry Kuyper)

“The Koi Pond” — encaustic wax, 13 x 25 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Watercolor Fusion” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

“This is Not a Blue Pizza” — acrylic paint (Joanne Leaman  — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (Zoe Abrams, 15-year-old One River Art student)

“Dare You to Tickle Her Paw!” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Forever in Bloom Rose Bouquet” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

 

 

 

“Summer Pause” (Patricia McMahon) 

“Please Buy My Pretty Flowers!” (Steve Stein)

“Lacing Up” (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 #328

Posted on July 25, 2026 | 1 comment

There’s always something new in our online art gallery.

Today we welcome our youngest artist ever. Grace Yan — all of 6 years old — is a student at One River Art school. We hope to showcase her work until she’s, oh, up in her 80s, like our oldest artists.

And we want you to join in. 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 (Jay Petrow)

Untitled (Michael Chait — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Between Tide and Time” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Eric’s 7-Foot Tall emi-Kinetic Wooden Sculpture” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Untitled (Grace Yan — age 6, One River Art student)

“Roses Are Red” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

“Westport Library” (John Maloney)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Don’t mess with a sleeping porcupine or you’ll get a face full of quills.”

“Home is the Sailor, Home From Sea and …” — watercolor and graphite (Steve Stein)

“Man With a Pearl Earring” — 12″ x 8″ silverpoint on prepared paper (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Flu Shot” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Cheers to Another Sunset” (Ellen Wentworth)

(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 #327

Posted on July 18, 2026 | Leave a comment

Most weeks, our online gallery artists roam far and wide.

This week, many stick close to home.

Compo Beach, the Saugatuck River train bridge, Taylortown Salt Marsh — all are represented this week.

This gallery is like Forrest Gump’s chocolates. You never know what you’ll get. But the surprises are part of the fun.

And we want you to join in. 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.

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

“Compo Playground” (Amy Schneider)

“Rust Never Sleeps” — Saugatuck River train trestle (Jerry Kuyper)

“Taylortown Salt Marsh” (Michael Tomashefsky — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Happy July 4th!” (Pam Kesselman)

Untitled (Lauri Weiser)

Photographer Mike Hibbard asks, “Who broke which of the Christian 10 Commandments to gather materials and the use them to build this house of God?”

“Xavier” — silverpoint on prepared paper, 11 x 8 (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” — watercolor and graphite (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!)

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Online Art Gallery #326

Posted on July 11, 2026 | Leave a comment

A couple of leftover 4th of July works — and some fun summer-themed art — highlight this week’s online gallery.

As we welcome several first-time artists, we invite you to join us too. 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.

“Summer Snack” (Pamela Kesselman)

Untitled (Steven Parton)

“Old Glory Belongs to All of US” — watercolor and pencil (Steve Stein)

“Taking a Break From the Heat” (Mark Yurkiw)

“The American Dream” — oil on canvas diptych, 20 x 80 (Shelley Lowenstein)

“After the Hunt” — gouache on Whitman board (Norm Siegel)

“Sunflowers” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

“Heart Mountain Dream” — photograph (Rowene Weems  Available for purchase; click here)

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

Untitled — double exposure (Melissa Goldsmith)

Untitled (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Mad World” — media original, 24 x 18 (V. Andriotis — Available for purchase; click here)

“Nonchalant City” — digital creation (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

“Hangin’ at the Playground” (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 #325

Posted on July 4, 2026 | Leave a comment

Happy 4th of July!

Sure, it’s America’s birthday. But our online art gallery is open.

And there are plenty of patriotic-themed works. Before your barbecues and other festivities, feel free to wander through and enjoy.

We invite you to join us as artists, too. 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)

“Westport in July” — oil on linen (Cindy Wagner; on view at Westport Library; Available for purchase — click here)

“Went to Melissa & Doug’s PAL Fireworks” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Patriotic Window Box” — oil and linen canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“House on a Hill, Prince Edward Island” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here) 

“All Along the Watchtower” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sherwood Mill Pond Preserve” — Kathleen Burke (Available for purchase — click here)

Untitled (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Ondee” — signed/numbered serigraph, 22×17, ornately framed 38×32 (Erte — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Flamingos From a Different Perspective?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Scold” (Lawrence Weisman)

“The Many Faces of Our Laila” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

(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 #324

Posted on June 27, 2026 | 6 comments

Good morning!

Our last online art gallery before America’s actual 250th birthday — next Saturday is July 4th! — begins with a red-white-and-blue celebration from internationally known 3D pop artist Charles Fazzino.

His original signed and numbered work is available at Westport River Gallery, at Riverside Avenue and Post Road West.

But there’s plenty of other work too, including local scenes by local artists.

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.

 

“250th” (Charles Fazzino — Available for purchase; click here)

 

“My Papa, Franco” (Bill Fellah)

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

“Leslie, and Her Mom Annie on a Portugal Street Corner” (Eric Bosch)

“Old Bikes, New Stories” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Pretty in Pink” — watercolor (Lucy Johnson)

“Big Pine Tree at Longshore” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Reflective Chaos” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“A New Galaxy” (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Roses Are Red, and Violets Are Violet!” — pen and watercolor crayon (Steve Stein)

Shazam (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Waiting for a Bus” (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 #323

Posted on June 20, 2026 | Leave a comment

Lavender, scarlet — and a slice of pizza — highlight this week’s online art gallery.

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)

“Mad World” — multi-media 24″ x 18″ (V. Andriotis — Available for purchase; click here)

“Lovely Lavender Lupines” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“Scarlet Fracture” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

Untitled (Holly Tashian)

“Time Has Come Today” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Duck and Cluck” — crochet (Rebecca Stein Richards)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Great Blue Heron” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Break Dancer” (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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