Oil Painter's Journal Table of Contents
Capturing an Audience
Tickle Imagination
Paintings
Hidden Corner at
Nobska Beach
Edward Hopper
Taking the Fork in
the Road
Flying at Night
There's No There There
Apprentice
De-limbed Statues
Tickle and Hit the Road
The Right
Brain at Work and Play
Chiaroscuro
Gone Postal
Neither Then Nor Later
Man Overboard
Louise Don't Look At
This
King of the Nursing
Home
Making a career out of hobbies.
Hospital Cove
Just Undo It
Simple
Subject and a Visit with
Nature
Peace
Time to be Nice
Brushstrokes in Balance
Embracing Museums
Learning When to
Pay Attention
Reverse Stealing
Sleeping Daughter
Break the Pickle
Oeuvre in a Box
Painting Blind
Color Study
Cape Cod Parent
Cape Cod Artist
You, Too, Have Asked...
Dear Gladys (Not
Your Real Name)
One Thing in Life is
Free
Loosee Leftee, Tightee Rightee
From Antiquity to
Antique
Sparking Psyche
Head in the Clouds
Painting Seasons
Small Heads
A Slow Slide Sideways
Perpetuating a
Might Have Been
The Temperature
of a Painting
Staring so Hard
You Can't See
By the Light of the
Moon
An Untoward Dalliance
The Color of Color
Lord of the Flies
Michelangelo at
the Coffee Shop
The Glooming
Color Mixing Secrets
Fog Induced
Baby Laps
Final Rigging
John Singer
Sargent's Palette
Complexity of Quiet
Turkey Day
Camera
Obscura: Light in a Dark Room
Keen Sense of the
Obvious
Rose Colored Glasses
Cape Cod Idyll
Center of the Universe
Eye Contact
Heat in the Firehouse
Talented Eye
Pallid and Pretty
Painting with Two
Colors
Still Life Elements
Morning Light
Standing in
Front of a Painting
Hey, That's My View
Extra Fresh
Oh Sienna
Phtalo Blue and
Impuissance
Tea for Three
Eye Candy
A Knife, A
Face and a Bit of Color
Starting Trouble
Ferry to the Vineyard
An Audience of One
Diffusion and Halation
The Sound of Painting
Scribbling on the
Tabula Rasa
Pushing and Pulling
Look, I'm an
Airplane. Wheee!
Plein Air
Appurtenances1
Part of the
Scenery, Woods Hole
Taste in Gnats
Roses and a Stone Wall
Frodo's Pergola
How Many Dabs is a Man?
Channeling Angela
Is
Somebody Trying to Tell Me Something?
Traffic Obstacle
Opening Doors, Outdoors
Welcome
In reverse chronological order. Some entries have illustrations not visible elsewhere on the web site.
Painting people on a busy local beach.
Internet searches that lead visitors to the blog.
Painting in an overlooked spot in Woods Hole.
The artist visits the Hopper exhibition at the MFA.
Artistic tangents.
The artist remembers biking in the dark as a child.
Striving for perfection.
Learning from the masters.
The tree out the artist's window.
Inspiration and change.
Reportage and the imagination in picture-making.
Formal elements of a still-life.
An art school anecdote.
Dawn and dusk.
Painting during a rescue on Monhegan Island.
Artist's paint each other simultaneously.
On being a Cataumet local.
Working with the hands vs. the digital world.
Whale siting.
The square format.
Modern time constraints.
The use of texture in an image.
Visiting museums and an anecdote.
Painting unexpected subjects.
The lengths artist go to promote themselves.
Head studies of a five-month-old.
A two-year-old's perspective of Michelangelo.
Legacy of a Sunday Painter
Stream-of-consciousness painting.
Sacrificing one technical aspect of painting for another.
Time management and being an artist.
The romance and reality of an art career.
A handout card for those who approach the artist while he's painting on location.
Forgetfullness
Artists underselling themselves.
Expressive brushstrokes vs. finessed forms.
Still-life painting with architectural relics.
The sight-size method comes in a dream.
Focusing so hard you don't see the painting.
Cycles of a landscape painter.
Tiny heads of others in a painting group when the model doesn't show up.
Painting with an astigmatism that slants to the right.
Following rules in painting.
Hue as an element.
Mimicking and embellishing the still-life.
Beauty of the orb.
A Sherlock Holmes mystery.
The light a painting is viewed under.
A gang looks over the artist's shoulder as he paints.
Anonymous art-giving.
The maudlin artist.
Complete knowledge of color in riddle form.
Appreciation of Cape Cod humidity.
Working while baby-sitting.
The meaning of a large still-life painting.
A palette's patina.
Balance through painting.
The Artist's auspicious relationships with birds.
A friend's experiments with lenses and Vermeer (of course.)
Appreciating art through training the eye.
Painting under colored light.
Local Birding Posting
Everyone's moon light.
Relating to onlookers.
Strong sunlight effects.
An eye for art.
The beauty of pale skin.
Using a limited palette to paint a still-life.
Objects in a composition.
A daughter wakens.
Viewing art in photographs.
Selecting the view is the art.
Making a portrait look younger.
If J. Piterman sold painting pigments.
If J. Piterman sold painting pigments.
Painting differing surfaces
Color and painting the portrait from life.
Color and the palette knife.
Painting what is right in front of you.
Capturing an impression on location.
Birds forget they're being watched.
Light effects in the still-life.
Sound Technician's Screenplay of and outdoor painting session.
A very young artist's beginnings.
Painting studies.
Painting a scarecrow.
A List of painting equipment (with footnotes.)
Painting coffee drinkers at the 10 o'clock mail call.
Dangers of painting outdoors.
Painting the wall the artit's grandfather built.
A neighborhood intersection.
Quicly capturing the essense in paint.
Capturing gesture.
Painting horses.
Painting in difficult locations.
Starting on a new direction.
Introduction