Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 From the Christmas Capital of Texas We wish you a Blessed Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus. Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This is a reflective time of the year, when you slow down and breathe, and look back at the year. We all have seen happy moments, experiencing joy and laughter, and we all have seen pain, sorrow and even death, losing a loved one.  Our true trust and belief in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, provides us with His unfailing love, His unending mercy and His forgiveness when we repent and rest in Him.  If I was painting ‘this year’ I would tie this all into layers of color and overlays of the “ best and worst”  all meshing and blending to create this “2023 painting”, keeping part of the realism of events and still loosing them to the abstract thoughts that remain.  In Repentance and Rest… In Quietness and

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Never Ending Love in Process 36 x 48   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  ALSO I have a new category, Under $200 for paintings. I just created it today... I put many pieces in there plus five new ones... and several reduced from $350 and up to be in the Under $200 category. I sold a wolf painting immediately!  Stop by and grab your favorite...  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. You can see how the paint was spread from small squirts and blended in the photo above. The photo below is a close up of the upper right mid area you see with the reds and greens.   From there... I proceeded to find the horses and establish them.  I was working late at night, probably close to midnight and working by one spotlight lamp. (Terry redid the studio lighting when we moved from this large house where this was painted, to the small house across the street. I have the best lighting and I thank J

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Caterpillar Photography  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The unending summer heat in Texas is dragging us all down. The garden is burned up, the trees have to be deep watered constantly and we are now not mowing because the only way the yard will survive is not mowing low. Terry has been using the deep water probes moving them throughout the yard so no water is lost through evaporation using our sprinkler system.  I am waiting for a reminder letter from our HOA to mow. The endless days of 105-110 degrees (feels like 5-10 degrees higher with the humidity) curtails outdoor activities, including swimming after 2 pm. or even being outside to walk in the evenings at seven when the temps are still 107 outside. The heat and closeness in the house with drapes closed to bar the western sun, makes the day seem unending. I love barefoot in the grass.

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Tentatively 30 x 40  Acrylic on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " This sweet baby came from an inspiration by Helmut Hussman on FB who shoots photos of wild horses… I may take the inspiration and go different directions than the original in color and background, but the love of horses and their spirit is always foremost!" Elle Tentative - Hesitant Have you ever been hesitant or felt tentative about doing something? The painting change from Oils to Acrylics is where I am at with both words.  I have painted in oils almost exclusively since 1981.  This change is being made for health reasons as well as not having 5-10 paintings hanging around the house trying to dry to send out!  I can tell you back in the days of ebay from 2002 till 2010... I was making over 100k a year and they were all oil. Painting at least 6-7 pie

The Get Away 15 x 30  Oils on Canvas Stolen and Missing from Santa Fe Gallery  by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. " John 10:10 The Stolen Artwork The year was 2010 It was really called "The Get Away"   and to have it really be 'stolen away' was astonishing. My work was delivered to a gallery in Santa Fe, where several other artists I knew were represented. It was a little bit quirky but seem fine as one of the artists was an Artist of Texas and I had known her quite a few years.  The gallery had on and off problems but I did get paid for sales... then the owner had to travel and left someone there at the gallery... then due to health reasons it was closing and they sent my unsold work back, but no "The Get Away" .  I truly loved this painting. It is

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Violin, The Sound of Music 18 x 24  Oils on Canvas Commission   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " This is love: That we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love ." 2 John 6 The Violin The year was 2008 and I believe in the summer or early fall that I completed this painting. The love of music in my life made it like a craving to take this commission of a young girl and her violin.  This painting is in my "Do it with Heart Book" and a break in life showing you more of my roots in the tech age.  I do not have much from before 1998 in photos on the computer.  My style was always more impressionism than it was realism and back then I had tasted the freedom of a palette knife and thick oil paints which in itself was an addiction.  No