Dramatic Sky as Front Moves In

Turbulent and dramatic sky tonight - had to put dinner preparation on hold for this one!

Venetian blind Daybreak

Further work on the Full Moon Sycamore and Cloudy Sky paintings

The following two paintings are still in-progress, a bit of a departure in size and color from most of the recent work. These rely more on drawings and memory, rather than being done, start-to-finish, on site. 

The original drawings were on site.

Full Moon Sycamore, 18" x 26"
(see "Full Moon Sycamore" drawing, Feb 2 entry)

Landscape With Clouds, 20" x 28"
(see "Pear and Landscape Paintings" Jan 26 entry)

The Wedding Dance

From a more whimsical phase -
an image from my early teen years that we used for our wedding invitation:

The Wedding Dance

A few drawings from sketchbooks

A few drawings from the 1980's through the early 2000's

Stephen Pace in Maine

Stephen Drawing John

drawing from the past

Trying to clear my creative space, I came across one of my old sketchbooks. Below are a few drawings from December 1997, a trip to Switzerland and Italy, four months before my older daughter was born.

Intreeged

Over three years of looking, finally put the charcoal to the paper. 

This old tree has played with many full moons since I first became her neighbor.

Sycamore Moon 18" x 26" charcoal

Winter Trees

All the complicated details

of the attiring and

the disattiring are completed!

A liquid moon

moves gently among

the long branches.

Thus having prepared their buds

against a sure winter

the wise trees

stand sleeping in the cold.

-William Carlos Williams