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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!)

Online Art Gallery #304

Posted on February 7, 2026 | 1 comment

Some of today’s artists capture winter, in all its frozen, white glory.

Some look ahead, to the bright colors of spring.

Others get their inspiration elsewhere — everywhere from politics to the mirror.

All make up this week’s online art gallery. Take some time on this cold day to wander through it, and admire the many diverse works.

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.

“I Love My Snowman” — oil on canvas (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

“Cold Spell” (Dayle Brownstein)

“A Winter’s Day” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Friday Frost on our Window” (Copyright Ted Horowitz)

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

“Silence on the Saugatuck 1” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Yawn” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Beached” — Dead sea fans on a pure white sand beach in the British Virgin Islands (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Thinking of Spring” — impasto acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Bluejay and Bluebird” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“La Vie en Rose” — acrylic on canvas (Melissa Benedek — Available for purchase; click here)

“Shadows Visions Memories, Escape” (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)

“Yearning to Breathe Free” (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Customized Bookmarks” — paint pens on paper (Will Luedke)

“You’ve a frog in your throat? I got a snake in mine!” (Mike Hibbard)

“These Days There is Always an Elephant in the Room” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Self-Portrait 2026: Happiness is a Feeling, Not a Destination” (Bill Fellah)

(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 #303

Posted on January 31, 2026 | 1 comment

As the snow flew last weekend — and many Westporters lit fires, sipped coffee and hunkered down — our artists and photographers went to work.

They gathered their brushes, picked up their cameras, and created even more beauty and wonder out of all that lay around.

And while many of us grappled with the horrific news from the day before in Minnesota, some channeled their emotions into their work.

Today’s online gallery begins with nature, makes a brief stop for Valentine’s Day, and ends with humanity.

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

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside!” (Pat Saunders)

“A Long Winter’s View” (Cohl Katz — Available for sale; click here)

“Tired of Snow Yet?” (Copyright Ted Horowitz)

Untitled (Jerry Kuyper)

“Aurora Borealis” — digital illustration (Ken Runkel)

“Frigid Cold Water’s Edge”– impasto crafted with lace for the clouds; acrylic landscape on canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for sale; click here)

“Burnt Sienna” — acrylic and resin on 24 x 36 canvas (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Blue & Orange Color Splash” — acrylic on plastered wood panel (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for sale; click here)

“Landscape, Possibly” — digital (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — collage made from all the “love” words in Westport Lifestyle magazine’s February issue (Frannie Faith Southworth)

“Angel Valentine Tree” (Lauri Wieser)

“Peaceful Panoramas” — acrylic (Ari Shervinrad — 2nd grade, One River Art student)

“Beneath the Rush” — under the I-95 Saugatuck River bridge (Nancy Breakstone; Available for purchase; click here)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “A blissful watering hole? No! It’s a hundred hippos farting non-stop. Do not light a match downwind of these beasts.”

“It’s Never Too Late to Get a COVID Shot!” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Boo Hoo” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Passport on I.C.E.” — sculpture (Mark Yurkiw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Enough is Enough” (Duane Cohen — 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 #301

Posted on January 17, 2026 | 1 comment

The winter weather has kept many artists indoors, creating seasonal art.

And it’s sent photographers outdoors, to do their thing there.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery. Whether you’re looking at this with your morning coffee, or on a phone during a walk: Enjoy!

And — of course — please show us your own work.

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.

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

Here’s looking at you!

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

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

“Full Moon ~ Deep Snow” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“As Twilight Approaches Willowbrook Cemetery” (Tomoko Meth)

“Litchfield” (Dayle Brownstein)

“High Hopes” (Daniel Anastasio — 8th grade; One River Art student)

“Evening Bliss — Sherwood mill Pond” (Tom Kretsch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Aspetuck Land Trust — Water Lilies” — acrylic painting on canvas (Eric Bosch)

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

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

“Pottery & Fire” (John Maloney)

“Thousands of Bulbs! It Must be the NY Botanical Garden” (Mike Hibbard)

“Burying Hill Rising Moon Swimming Beyond Eternal Freedoms” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

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

“Hog Wild” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase — click here)

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

“Riverside From Imperial: A Scene in Panoramic Technicolor” (Steve Stein)

“Good Morning World” (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 #300

Posted on January 10, 2026 | 4 comments

Our online art gallery began at the beginning of the pandemic.

It was a way for readers to share something solitary — their art — with our stuck-at-home, worried-sick community.

It flourishes today, as creative and wide-ranging as ever. This is our 300th gallery “opening.” Thanks to all who have wandered through, and of course to all our artists who contribute to it.

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

“Nyala Farm” (Andrea Padula)

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

“Time for ‘Albert,’ Me, to Take Our Christmas Tree to the Leaf Dump” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Winter Berries” (John Maloney)

“Blue Hydrangeas” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Sherwood Island State Park” (Gitta Selva)

“Arno River, Florence” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke; Available for purchase; click here)

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

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

“Emo Rubik’s Immortalization” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Light and Water” (Jerry Kuyper)

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

Untitled — mixed media (Alexander Cavallo; One River Art student)

Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada — Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The entire museum is a metaphor ascending from the darkness of evil to light of civilization’s journey toward universal human rights. Which way are we headed in 2026?”

“Headwear Banning” — Hand-drawn clothing construction design art sketch (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“A Lateen-Rigged Dhow” (Steve Stein)

“Franco” (Bill Fellah)

(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 #299

Posted on January 3, 2026 | Leave a comment

Sure, it’s already the new year.

But holiday themes linger.

That’s fine. In the art world — at least, in our online gallery version of it — there are no rules.

Just submit your work — whatever it is.

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

“Longshore Gazebo” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Holiday Candle” (John Maloney)

“Year Turns | Sun Rises” (Jerry Kuyper)

“Where Have All The Starfish Gone?” — 39 x 27 oil painted; real starfish with Compo Beach horseshoe crabs; mounted on painted plaster, covering a framed wooden panel (Eric Bosch — Available for purchase; click here)

“Some Assembly Required. Batteries Not Included” — composited digital illustration (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Elijah Kellogg Church Christmas Eve” (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

“It’s Back to the Snow Globe After Christmas” (Caroline Howe)

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

“Yellow and Pink” (Dayle Brownstein)

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

“Low Poly Wildlife” — digital art (Alexander Cavallo — One River Art student)

“Bow Wow! Hot Chilly Cupcakes?” (Mike Hibbard)

“Cat’s Meow” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Riverside From Imperial Avenue” — pencil and charcoal (Steve Stein)

“Waif” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Peter” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

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

Online Art Gallery #297

Posted on December 20, 2025 | 2 comments

The holidays are here!

And our “06880” artists know it. Several submissions to this week’s online art gallery reflect the spirit of the season.

And the weather.

Thanks, as always, to all our artists. 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.

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

“Tinsel & Toes” (Patricia McMahon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Home for the Holidays” (John Maloney)

“Even Penguins Love Christmas” — watercolor (Caroline Walton Howe)

“Great Barrington” (Wendy Levy)

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

“It’s Frosty Outside” — acrylic impasto, 21×21 (Dorothy Robertshaw — Available for purchase; click here)

“Gloucester Christmas Party” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Leaving it All Behind” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Winter Moon Dandelion Wear” (Megan Grace Greenlee)

“Morning: Initial Impression” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Penny Smith — One River Art student)

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

“Beams” — photography (Jerry Kuyper)

“Hey Up There! You’re Missing the Pot!” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Sabbath Menorah is Not the Same as a Chanukah Chanukiah” (Steve Stein)

Untitled — compiled on Microsoft Publisher; pencils and gel pen (Jon Nicholson)

“I Love You” (Martin Ripchick — Available for purchase; click here)

“Owen” — watercolor/acrylic on paper (Bill Fellah)

(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 #296

Posted on December 13, 2025 | 2 comments

Winter and water highlight this week’s online art gallery.

And, of course, several other random themes. Taken together, all make for another intriguing Saturday session.

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

“Children Reading by Firelight” (Mary Madelyn Attanasio)

Untitled — watercolor and colored pencil (Frazer Benton, One River student)

“Burying Hill Kingfisher” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Mill Pond Buoy” (John Maloney)

“Wakeman Town Farm” (Dayle Brownstein)

“Grand Central, NYC” — oil on canvas, 30×40 (R. Castellon — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sun Rise” — acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Snow’s Gonna Fall and the Frost Gonna Bite” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Last Full Moon of 2025” (Karen Weingarten)

“A Little Wispy” (Nancy Breakstone — Available for purchase; click here)

“Surfside Beach, Outside Miami” (Wendy Levy)

“Bowl of Winesaps” — oil on panel, 11×14 (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“Grace” (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

“Wreath” (Jalna Jaeger)

“Snowy Hoops” (Patricia McMahon — 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 #295

Posted on December 6, 2025 | 1 comment

There are always surprises in our online art gallery.

This week’s: There are no holiday-themed submissions!

We’re not sure what’s gotten (or hasn’t gotten) into our usually very creative, on-top-of-everything gang of artists. But hey: There’s always next Saturday.

As always: 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.

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

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” — oil and pallet knife on canvas board (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase — click here)

“Boat Storage on the Hill Near the Lift, Southport” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

Eric Bosch says, “Watercolor techniques take time to learn. My copy here of Edward Hopper’s ‘House on Pamet River’ gave me valuable insights into his use of color and light.”