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Online Art Gallery #238

A couple of this week’s artists missed Halloween by a couple of days.

No problem! Their work is here, in our online art gallery, now.

Just a reminder, though: Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s are all coming up.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Late Fall Afternoon on the Sound” — digital composite (Ken Runkel)

“Commute” (Tom Doran)

“Ancient Fractal Helmet for Creative and Critical Thinking” (Mike Hibbard)

“Winnie the Cream Labrador” — watercolor on paper (Kathleen Burke)

“First Snow in Westport” (Charles Reid)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Industrial Pumpkins” (Peter Barlow)

“On the Rocks at Sherwood Island” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Happy Halloween, My Little Dearies!” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #237

Fall and floral fun continues, in our online art gallery.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Decorative Gourds” (Werner Liepolt)

“Fallen Leaves” (Karen Weingarten)

“Tulip” (Ulla Hehenberger)

“Meditation” — Photographer Mike Hibbard calls this “peaceful beauty a perfect visual for Beethoven’s ‘Midnight Sonata.'”

“The Poppy Field” — impasto; oil paint on aluminum (DorothyRobertshaw)

“Underground” (Tom Doran)

Needlepoint pillow (Ginny Gallagher)

“Birdhouse” (Peter Barlow)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

“Body Parts” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Sounding the Shofar — And Down Went the Walls of Jericho” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #236

It’s a fall festival, here in our weekly online art gallery.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Autumn Leaves” (Duane Cohen)

“Life is Gourd” (Patricia McMahon)

“Morning Walk” — Photoshop-enhanced and composited digital photograph (Ken Runkel)

“A Lot of Susans” (Peter Barlow)

“End of Summer” — acrylic pouring on canvas, manipulated by blowing through a straw (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled — on view at Westport River Gallery (S. Guccione)

“It’s Always Fun Hanging Out With Pals” — collage (Maj Kalfus)

“Islands in the Sea” — Newport, Rhode Island (Bruce Borner)

“Roar Lion Roar!” — charcoal with computer colorization (Aerin Lichtman, age 12)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

“The Tree of Knowledge: Pomegranate?” — watercolor. Artist Steve Stein writes, “In Exodus, the Tree of Knowledge fruit represents the mixing of good and evil together. The Forbidden Fruit was probably not apple — indigenous to Asia. Possibilities are thought to include pomegranate, fig, pear, quince, carob, etrog, apricot and tamarind — all indigenous to the Middle East.”

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #235

Two “eyes” — one literal, the other metaphorical — lead off this week’s edition of our online art gallery.

Other submissions are a bit more seasonal. Some pay homage to autumn; others, to the Jewish New Year.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“The Eye” (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Three Corners of a Coin” — compounding of photos by Teslariu Mihai (Tom Doran)

“Harvest Commons” — watercolor (Jo Ann Davidson)

“A Lone Rose” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Fallen Branches” (Karen Weingarten)

“Wolf with Crescent Moon and Violin” (Brian Whelan)

“Quattro Amici” (Patricia McMahon)

 

“Dunes Behind Jennings Beach, Fairfield” (Kathleen Burke)

“Beach View” (Duane Cohen)

“Hauling Time — Sloop SAWA” (Peter Barlow)

“Prayer at the Kotel (Wailing/Western Wall) — Yom Kippur in Jerusalem” — collage and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein says: “This is all that remains of the first Hebrew Temple (built in 10th century BCE, later destroyed by the Babylonians) and second Hebrew Temple (built in 6th centruy BCE, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE). The largest stones are 44 feet long and weigh over 570 tons. It remains a place of prayer and pilgrimage.”

“To the New Year” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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Online Art Gallery #234

Happy autumn! Happy Jewish New Year! Happy Saturday, and another edition of our online art gallery.

No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Cornetto Ischitano — Fatto a Mano” — pastel (Werner Liepolt)

Untitled — oil on aluminum impasto style (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Towards Compo Cove” — part of artist Jason Pritchard’s current solo exhibition “Riverbanks to Shorelines: The Art of Waters’ Path” at the Green’s Farms Congregational Church gallery.

Untitled — watercolor on paper (Kathleen Burke)

“Elysian Light of Autumn” — digital painting (Ken Runkel)

“The Art of Determination” — Photographer Linda Doyle says, “This sunflower grew out of the brick chimney off our front porch. It’s still there!”

“Just the World” (Tom Doran)

“Simple Abstraction with Reality” (Peter Barlow)

“Crispy Critters (Guinea Pigs)” — popular street food in Cusco, Peru (Mike Hibbard)

“Praying for a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year —  Rosh Hashanah 5785” (Steve Stein)

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Online Art Gallery #233

This week’s online art gallery ping-pongs between 2 seasons: the summer that just passed, and the autumn we now look forward to.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Seasonal Transformation” — collage assemblage (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Watch Hill Lighthouse” — oil on canvas, at Westport River Gallery (L Miceli)

“Palm Leaf Skyline” (Tom Doran)

“Concert Confusion” (Les Dinkin)

Untitled — Compo Beach, South Beach (Cindy Nigro)

Untitled (June Rose Whittaker)

“Flotsam Art” — found at Compo Beach, weathered at home for about 10 years (Jerry Kuyper)

“Four Outboards, Nicely Designed, Get You Home!” (Peter Barlow)

“Psss! Wake Up! Chilean Fire Brigade Celebration!” (Mike Hibbard)

“40 Winks” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Autumn — When the Lollypop Trees Are Made!” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Harvest Moon” — last week’s full moon, Lake Dupuis, Quebec (Scott Brodie)

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Online Art Gallery #232

A fresh take on still life and a local haiku highlight this week’s online art gallery.

As we say every week: No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Last Harvest” (Jay Walshon)

Untitled — artist Kathleen Burke says of this golden crowned kinglet: “They nest in tall pine, spruce or coniferous trees, and hang upside down looking for insects. One used to visit my studio window. This tiny bird weighs about 5 grams, the same as two pennies.” 

“Turbulence” — acrylic pour (Amy Schneider)

“Easterly Winds” — acrylic impasto on textured canvas (Dorothy Robertshaw)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Untitled — photographer Mike Hibbard says, “Don’t stand behind a road sign during hunting season in Alaska! Target practice for shooting bear, caribou, elk, moose, muskox, mountain goat and Dali sheep.”

“Shapes” (Peter Barlow)

“Sailing Off Compo — All Winners!” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

“Homestead” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Diane Lowman)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

 

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Online Art Gallery #231

As summer fades, submissions to our online art gallery pick up once again.

Of course, the wide of range of subjects and styles continues.

No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

Untitled — paper collage (Tom Doran)

“Compo Baby Shoes” (Scott Smith)

“The End of Summer: Black-Eyed Susies” — impasto/acrylic (Dorothy Robertshaw)

“Sealia” (Patricia McMahon)

Untitled (Kathleen Burke)

Untitled (Duane Cohen)

“Misty Morning, Lake Placid, New York” (Laurie Sorensen)

“Everything for a Purpose” (Peter Barlow)

“Fallen Branches” (Karen Weingarten)

“Raucous Red Blabbermouth and Sky Blue Peekaboo” (Mike Hibbard)

“A Eurasian Blue Tit” — pencil and watercolor. Artist Steve Stein explains, “This tiny songbird weighs about 1/2 an ounce, with a wing span of less than 2 inches!”

“Reclining Nude” (Lawrence Weisman)

Untitled (Martin Ripchick)

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Online Art Gallery #229

Here’s our online art gallery: the almost-end-of-summer edition.

But no matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Clouds Waving” — photo collage (Jerry Kuyper)

“End of Summer” (Ellen Wentworth)

“Cute Fruit … What a Pear!” — digital photography, with a dash of Photoshop (Ken Runkel)

“Turn Off Your Mind, Relax and Flow Downstream” (Tom Doran)

“I’m Coming for YOU!” (Mike Hibbard)

“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” — pencil and crayon (Steve Stein)

“All Curled Up” (Lawrence Weisman)

“Compo Sunset, Through the Bottom of a Wine Glass” — Photographer David Squires says, “The wine is gone, but summer is not … yet! Enjoy the waning days.”

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Online Art Gallery #228

Today, we welcome perhaps the youngest artist ever to exhibit in our online gallery.

10-year-old Frazer Benton is creative, clever — and a welcome addition to our weekly feature.

As always, our gallery is open to all young artists. And older ones too!

No matter what 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.

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

Email a jpeg to 06880blog@gmail.com. And remember: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.

“Money Can’t Buy Happiness” — spray paint and acrylic paint on cardboard (Frazer Benton, age 10)

“Zen” — acrylic on canvas (Missy Greenberg)

“Radio Heads” — digital oil painting in a “Renaissance surreal photorealistic style” (Ken Runkel)

“Cloisters, NYC” (Bruce Borner)

Untitled — shadow box with flowers and bugs dried by artist Lauri Weiser)

Untitled (Tom Doran)

Mike Hibbard explains: “Two spirits coupling in the black void – the conception of our universe — the Big Bang.”

“La Baie de Théoule Sur Mer” — oil on canvas (Dabere, at Westport River Gallery)

“Available” (Kathleen Burke)

“Skinny Dip,” 22-foot Aquasport” (Peter Barlow)

“A Blue Jay” — pencil and watercolor (Steve Stein)

Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)

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