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Online Art Gallery #285

Posted on September 27, 2025 | 2 comments

Hand-painted horseshoe crabs — mounted on a wood frame — are among the intriguing highlights of this week’s online art gallery.

They’re a first for this feature.

But as always: No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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.

“Sketch of a Sculpture at the Met Museum of Art” (Bill Fellah — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — Fence near Old Mill — oil on aluminum impasto (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

“Wilted” (Karen Weingarten)

“It’s Our Diversity that Makes Us Stronger” — Eric Bosch collected these dead horseshoe crab shells, washed ashore at Compo Beach. All 20 were hand painted, and mounted on a 29″ x 29″ painted wood frame. (Available for purchase; click here).

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

“Surfer” (Michael Chait)

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

“Sneezy Yum” (Tom Doran; Available for purchase; click here)

Auditioning for the Beautiful Bird Burlesques Feather-fan Frolic (Mike Hibbard)

“The Day of Atonement — Off to Shul for Yom Kippur” — watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Parisian Gentleman” (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 #284

Posted on September 20, 2025 | Comments Off

Monday is the first day of fall.

This week, we have not one but two submissions titled “Last Days of Summer.”

Great minds — and great artists — think alike.

At the same time of course, both are very different.

That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery.

So no matter how young (or old) you are; what 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.

“Woman in a Hallway” — digital creation (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“A Laughing Gull Staking His Claim Behind Overton’s” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

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

Homemade bracelets (Amy Schneider)

“A Slice of Time” (Jerry, Kuyper, Shirlee Gordon) — Materials: Rock balanced on a 3″ slab of a 4’ wide trunk from a 100-year-old oak tree, balanced on a moss-covered trunk removed because of storm damage.

“Deer God, Please …” (Mike Hibbard)

“Patches & Lacey” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah)

“Just the Ticket” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Eric Bosch)

“Welcoming Rosh Hashana 5786” — pencil & watercolor (Steve Stein)

“The Last Days of Summer” — impasto acrylic; gold leaf, silver leaf and brass leaf detail (Dorothy Robertshaw; Available for purchase; click here)

“Last Days of Summer” — Ned Dimes Marina (Laurie Sorensen)

(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 #283

Posted on September 13, 2025 | 1 comment

In the 5-plus years of curating this online art gallery, I don’t think we’ve ever featured a weaving.

This week, we’ve got 2.

That’s the magic of this feature. Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get when you open it up.

It is, after all, your gallery. We rely entirely on “06880” readers’ submissions.

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

“The Life and Death struggle with Mr. Lizard, Chew Toy” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Summer Flowers from Trader Joe’s” — acrylic painting (Prill Boyle)

“Psychic Urge” — digital print (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled — painting on a woven grass cloth with a golden weave (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — weaving (Julia Wray; Available for purchase; click here)

“Full Speed Ahead” — Levitt Pavilion (Jerry Kuyper)

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

“End of Summer” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Sunset Strands” — (Rowene Weems — Available for purchase; click here)

“Rowboat in the Weeds” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

Untitled — collage (Cohl Katz)

“The House of Hard Knocks” (Mike Hibbard)

“Where Sweet Dreams and Nightmares Come From” — stamps and ink pad (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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

“Brickley” (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 #282

Posted on September 6, 2025 | Comments Off

We want to hold on to summer.

Several of our “06880” online gallery artists do that this week. One-third of our submissions focus on green flowers and plants.

That will change soon, just as the seasons do. And we’ll be ready to show those works too.

Remember: No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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.

“Imagine That” — digital composition (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

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

“Growing Young” — digital compound (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

Untitled (Karen Weingarten)

“The Light Within” (Leigh Gage — Available for purchase; click here)

“About to Bloom” (Dorrie Barlow Thomas)

“Daffodil Flower” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“We Spotted Each Other in the Crowd and Have Been Together Ever Since” (Mike Hibbard)

“Regarder Vers la Haut” — New York City (Bruce Borner)

“Just Another Orderly Labor Day Compo Beach Scene” — pencil and watercoloro (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

“Max” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — 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 #281

Posted on August 30, 2025 | Comments Off

Every week, it seems, we welcome at least one artist to our online gallery.

This week it’s Jo Ann McKinney. Her mixed media piece is very intriguing — and highlights the openness of this feature to all works, of any medium.

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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.

“Out of Work Buoys” (Peter Barlow)

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

“On Dry Storage at Cove Marina” (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Madame Butterfly” — mixed media using contact paper and magazine images (Jo Ann McKinney)

“Gentle Waterfall, An Avalanche” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Luck No. 7” — acrylic on canvas (Eric Bosch)

“Stanined Glass Beach” — digital creation (Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“Kim’s Gift — Peonies for Linda’s Birthday” (Kimberly Stein)

“Sunset Sip” — photograph (Jerry Kuyper)

Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Good News: Voracious, aggressive hornets imported to devour spotted lanternflies! Bad News: What will those hornets eat when the lanternflies are gone?”

“Sneaky Yellow Wrinkled Gourds Growing in My Vegetable Garden” (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Excavating” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Prowess” — pencil on paper (Bill Fellah — 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 #280

Posted on August 23, 2025 | Comments Off

Watercolors, colorful digital photography, black-and-white pencil-on-pen works: As it does every week, today’s online gallery offers a diverse, creative mix of art, from “06880” readers just like you.

And we do mean you!

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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, 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.

“Alien Beauty” — digital composite (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Phataenopsis” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Metro NY — Sea Levels Rising” — Acrylic Dutch pour (Eric Bosch)

“‘Close Encounters’ Sequel?” (Fred Cantor)

“Stone Age Dice” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper found the stone at Compo Beach, then added the dots.

“Don’t Mess With Him!” Photographer Mike Hibbard says, “The Maasai Warrior uses his razor-sharp steel spear to protect the family’s cattle from lions.”

“Not Having a Good Day” (Steve Stein)

“Yippee!” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Harry” — pencil 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 #279

Posted on August 16, 2025 | 1 comment

To everyone who enjoys Lawrence Weisman’s weekly sketches: This week, the longtime Westporter throws us a curveball.

Click through our online art gallery, and you’ll see.

You’ll also see — as you do each week — nearly a dozen other pieces of art, all contributed by fellow “06880” readers.

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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, 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.

“John V” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

“The Cool & Calm Fog — Penobscot Bay, Maine” — photograph (Bonnie Scott Connolly)

Untitled — Saugatuck River, from Kawa Ni porch (Dana Kuyper)

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

“Flowers at the Beach” — digital oil painting Ken Runkel — Available for purchase; click here)

“She Gets it Done” (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Sparky” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Salsa at the Levitt” (Judith Katz)

“A Rare Discovery Tree” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“I’m the Got You Got. Get Over It!” (Mike Hibbard)

Untitled — woodcarving (Steven Kulla)

Lawremce Weisman writes: “I recently discovered drawings done by my paternal grandmother between 1926 and 1932, very much in the style of the times. Although I knew her well and spent almost every afternoon with her after school, I never knew she had this talent. I think by the time I knew her, in the mid-1940s, she had given up drawing. She died in 1957.”

(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 #278

Posted on August 9, 2025 | Comments Off

Perhaps we’ve had a woodcarving before, in one of our 277 previous online art galleries.

Or maybe not.

Either way, today’s submission underlines one of the goals of this weekly feature: to highlight the many and varied works of “06880” readers.

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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, 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.

“Nebraska Field Flying Trout” — digital illustration/composite (Ken Runkel — Available for sale; click here)

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

“Showers” (Bruce Borner)

“Looking Up” (Karen Weingarten)

“Journey to the East” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper explains, “This is our backyard on Rayfield Road. For over 10 years, I have been maintaining a 90 foot circumference ‘Circle of Life.’ About 5 years ago I added cairns marking the center and N, S, E, W directions.”

“Pond” — digital print (Tom Doran — Available for purchase; click here)

“Trolley Folly” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled — woodcarving (Steven Kulla)

“White Collar” — 20″ x 16″ oil on canvas (Werner Liepolt — Available for purchase; click here)

“The Cannondale Station” — watercolor (Eric Bosch)

“Our Relationship is on the Rocks!” (mike Hibbard)

“Princess Tang” — pencil on paper (William Fellah)

“I’m at Compo — Just Look for the Blue Swim Cap!” — pencil and watrcolor (Steve Stein)

“Not Happy” (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 #277

Posted on August 2, 2025 | 3 comments

11-year-old Frazer Benton may be the youngest contributor to our online art gallery ever.

But Frazer’s work illustrates exactly what this weekly feature strives to do.

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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, 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 (John Jannotta, age 18)

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

“The Pastime Club, Beside Overton’s” — watercolor (Kathleen Burke — Available for purchase; click here)

“Compo Beach at Low Tide” — acrylic Dutch pour painting (Eric Bosch)

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

“Multiple Equitable Simple Designs Included for Broader Diversity” — pen and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Cribari 2.0” (Frazer Benton, age 11)

Untitled (Beth Cody)

“You Scavenge the Carcass and I’ll Keep a Lookout for the Hyena and Jackals” (Mike Hibbard)

“Still Life of a Potato” (Evan Gary Stein)

“Light and Shadow” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Hudson” — pencil on paper (William 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 #276

Posted on July 26, 2025 | Comments Off

We welcome 4 new artists — including 2 teenagers — to this week’s online art gallery.

Their submissions underscore what this weekly feature is all about .

No matter how young (or old) you are; what 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, 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.