Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Appy ' 8 x10  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      On Golden Pond Blog Yesterday I first heard from Judy Mackey in Southlake, Texas.... "It is raining here." I replied, "Short hard rain, or long slow rain?" She answered back, "Looks like on and off rainy day maybe, lots of dark clouds." About an hour later Debbie Lincoln phoned from Morgan Mill, west of Southlake... "Hey it's cooler here..." I replied, "How cool is cooler?" She answered back, "It is only 97 degrees outside." Lord, Please it is time to release us from this heat wave. The entire month of August has been 100 degrees or more.  My day yesterday was a catch up day anyway.  I continued to remind myself to give Thanks for all my blessings, including the 'redos' popping up in my life.  Do ...

'Paint Pony Daze'  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog The trip to Dallas was a hot one yesterday. Temps were up at 107 degrees again.   I made my favorite art supply store, Asel Art, and we made the Doc appts and had lunch with my Mom and Terry's Dad... quickly dashed through Whole Foods Market just off Greenville... and headed back across the great waters. Just outside Greenville there was a small storm and rain on the windshield for about 5 minutes.   Temps dropped to 95 and bounced right back up to 106 when it stopped. What should we do in life when the heat is on and the pressure feels like too much, or everything seems to be going in the wrong direction?   Patience has to be the answer because the one thing I know we can count on is change. God continu...

'Five Hydrangea' 12 x 12  Oil on Canvas Special Pricing, contact me! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Starting the week right... yesterday I clean up and out all the cabinets in the kitchen and then I attacked my closet.   I can't believe how much stuff I had in there. I definitely did away with a chunk of it and reorganized the rest. I have many more winter clothes than summer clothes. Yeah, I know winter clothes take up more room. I am up early and we are heading into Dallas. We have been sailing this weekend and enjoying the last days of August. The wind was not cooperative yesterday... it was too calm to sail.  Makes me shudder when I think of the calm before the storm.  Eventually it has to rain again and the temps have to drop under 100 degrees. We went swimming at Pau...

'Early Sunflowers' 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas Available at the Dutch Art Gallery Dallas, TX Contact me for commissions. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Whisper words of encouragement. Be strong of heart. Be filled with wisdom. Share the journey with kindness. It is a short blog as I am a tired artist/wife/sailor/cook/mother/grandmother/woman. Despite a night of rest, I am still worn out.  I served in all capacities yesterday and I am tuckered.  The words above served me yesterday and I pray they will serve you today.  Don't loose your temper with anyone today. Step back if you are pulled to anger.  Be strong of heart and try something you fear.. . let God walk with you as you take those first steps. Encourage others that are walking in fear .  Share a smile, a hug or a kind word to help them refocus and fe...

'Red Knight' 5 x 7  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog   My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog "Great and unexpected good is coming to you now.   You've been waiting for a shift in energy, and that shift has occurred. All you have to do now is get ready to receive your new-found good. Be on the lookout. It may come at a time and in a way that you could not have anticipated or imagined. " Neale Donald Walsch  When I received this today I thought about what I wrote last week about giving up the good for the better.  It might be a thought as you wake up each day to be child-like as you start your day.  Be eager for the surprises that are ahead of you.  Have you hands open ready to receive and stop dictating these long schedules that keep you moving and moving always in your directio...

'Majesty' 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Wrestling with thoughts this morning. It was a late night for us. We left the house for the second time last night and drove into Mt Vernon for a Political Meeting.  Second one in my life time for me to attend something political.  What literally amazed me was the mire that folks allow themselves to get into and they get so deep into they cannot find the truth in anything.   Remember I have written before when you live in sin or you are not on the right path, you are living in darkness. Your eyes adjust to that darkness. Everything continues for you in darkness.  Suddenly when someone opens a door and the light comes at you, you shield your eyes and turn away from it because the light  hurts your eyes....

'Orange Horse' 24 x 24  Acrylic on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      On Golden Pond Blog Yesterday was not a stellar day.   It was not one of those days like I had on Monday where it all worked.   I started out good  by exercising and I will probably walk this morning.  I did about 45 min on the Wii with aerobics and yoga.   But the rest of the day I was pedaling backwards and growing more frustrated by the moment.  I never got to paint yesterday and I am in the midst of a nice piece that I want to work on. Maybe today. The morning seemed tied up in the new site www.CFAIntl.com and adding new members. This is a continuous project. Then Vernita who does the membership stuff for Artists of Texas is on vacation.  I had discovered an email address I didn't check a...

'Petroff Ponies Sunrise' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Commissioned Painting SOLD Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies    My daughter has challenged me... GROAN.... to get a grip on my health and add some exercise. I am not a bad eater, but too much time on the computer and at my easel leave me NOT in good shape.  When we were there this weekend I made the HUGE mistake of doing one of her exercise tapes....definitely not made for those my age.  I will stick with my yoga, walking and maybe wii fit.  Pray for us both as we undertake the changes we are calling for in our lives. I had to share this when I came across the verse below. So yesterday morning I did 104 minutes on the Wii Fit.  I also ate carefully all day and added 2 Tbsp of  ground flax seed to my salad at lunch.  This is a daily commitment and I do ...

'Black on Red' 9 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Blessed was the day yesterday .   So many times in life things just never ever ever go as you plan them. Something in the works always missteps due to someone not understanding the undertaking or someone just not doing their job. There was much ahead of us rising early yesterday and as we left Stacey's house to cross the metroplex and head for the VW Boardwalk place in Richardson, Texas, Terry tried the air conditioner and it actually worked so we had air for the ride into Dallas from Ft Worth.  We had to be at the VW place before 7:30 am and we left Stacey's at 5:55 am.  We drove to Terry's Dad's home to pick up his vehicle and Terry followed me to the VW service place.   We arrived on t...

'Monday Chores' 24 x 30  Watercolor on Paper  SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog   Moments of meditation are abundant for me through out yesterday and this morning.  Just sitting back and totally immersing my mind in the simplicity of this granddaughter. Our God is so good. This is so true of many of the things that grace our world, from the simple blooming pink rose blowing on the vine outside the window, to the quiet of the sunrise on the lake...and back to watching this beautiful baby eat her mother's famous French Toast recipe yesterday morning. Then it was off to Target. I cannot come into the city with out a trip to Target.   It was there I found the Tinkerbelle tyke bike for a two year old. Our Tink comes close to two... so it was a no brainer...

'The Pony' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas commission SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog   Yesterday was too much. We started at six a.m. and met up with Sheriff Paul and his wife Vicki and we attended the Republican Jubilee in Mount Pleasant.  When we get home I will show pictures and name names.  There were wonderful speakers and so much incredible information.  Family and God were at the center of the entire morning. On the way over to the convention hall, the air conditioner went out on my Passat.  It is a Diesel Passat and suppose to last 300,000 miles.  I only have 72000 miles on it.  The compressor should not be going out.  Terry left the convention and found someone to work on it and they got it working.  So after lunch, around two p...

'Rocky Mountain High' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Contact me directly or STEVE at the Mirada Gallery in Denver. Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog We made a mad dash to the vet last night to board Paddy. We have a round trip into Dallas and back and he is still suffering from his allergies.  We had decided the vet was the best place for him.  The housesitter can enjoy fishing and keeping up with the violets and the birds inside and out. He is one of the best we have had with the exception of Vicky.  She would be here if Paddy was here. I hope he remembers my inside violets. This morning we are attending a political gathering in Mt Pleasant.  I do not address politics often in my blog and only go so far to say I am very conservative and that probably tells you enough. The ...

'Red Horse on the Green' 20 x 30  Acrylic on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog   I learned a valuable lesson yesterday morning as I was cooking our breakfast. I had decided to participate more in the preparation of food.  I was scrambling eggs but first diced up onions, red potatoes, mushrooms and sauteed them in Olive Oil.  At the last minute I spotted a half ear of corn wrapped up as leftovers and quickly popped it on the cutting board and threw the precooked soft buttery bits into the veggies.   I kept up my stirring and turned around to reach up for plates and heard this popping noise. As I turned back around a second and third popping explosion occurred and I watched veggies literally fly out of the pan.  The darn corn was sizzling and popp...

'Wild Herd in Sunlight' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas  AVAILABLE through the Mirada Fine Art. Email STEVE . Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog " On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know... if you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.   Heraclitus said that, and he was right. Life is delighted to bring you The Unexpected. Are you delighted to receive it?   Indeed, belief in the coming of The Unexpected is the genesis of hope. How can you hope for anything breathtaking or exciting if you can only hope for the already expected? Therefore, you must always think that anything can happen. Form your ideas and your dreams within that framework!  Remember, God specializes in The Unexpected ."  Ne...

'Deep Red' 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies     The teasing weather man hinted at a cold front coming through. I think that is down right mean.  The forecast shows a four degree drop in temperature next week to put us at 97-99 instead of 104-107. You cannot possibly understand but north Texas is not this hot. We get maybe 6-10 sporadic days at 100 through out the entire summer.  I lost count many weeks ago.  Hard to figure as we went from Texas winter to Summer with out spring.   So today I have to write about discovering what is really here and allowing it to contribute as  a blessing in my life.  That would include the 104 degree weather predicted for today. Are you at ease in your life with what God has provided for you? That could include your home, husband...

'Colors on Grey' 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies    The heat has been relentless.  We are still patiently waiting for our truck to be done... altho we just dropped it off... as we want to head out to Colorado.  First things first and that is to visit with family before we go... and then maybe visit with more family when we get there. Uncle Charles and Aunt Barbara live in Denver.    My mind is racing around getting paintings ready to carry up to the Mirada Gallery and finishing up and shipping commissions pieces that are here ready to go... and then making plans for Paddy, the house the watering etc.   Vicky will be busy! Don't forget washing and packing and of course cleaning the house entirely before leaving.  Why do we do this? Often just the thought of 'getti...

'Lady C' 3 ft by 4 ft  Mixed Media on Canvas  SOLD This piece was painted as a commissioned painting in summer of 2008.  The decorator, Julie Guidry   wanted pages of Lady Chatterly's Lover as the background of the piece. Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010  " The story concerns a young married woman, Constance (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class husband, Clifford Chatterley, has been paralyzed and rendered impotent. Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. This novel is about Constance's realization that she cannot live with the mind alone; she must also be alive physically." Read more here: My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies     A blast from the past.  I saw another painting this weekend that reminded me of one I painted several years ago.  It was entitled Lady C and as you rea...

'Desert Sun' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website     Painted Ponies    Morning has broken with reflections of yesterday and our trip.   The first word that came to mind as we drove north/northwest was the word obstacles. Driving up to Bogota from Mt Vernon is about 25 miles from our place. We then turn northwest toward Paris Texas.  That is where it came to mind.  Two lane road with speed limit of 70.  We are behind a truck pulling a very very large red combine on a trailer.  He kept trying to pull partially off on the side of the road but oncoming traffic was too thick to chance it.  We got around him finally and then we encountered someone's new house ( Modular home) being trucked up Hwy 271.  Not only did you have the truck pulling the long trailer bed with the house on it..(It had a pr...

'Two from the Herd' 24 x 18  Oil on Canvas SOLD FROM THE BLOG! Thank you. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies        This is a short blog this morning.  We slept in a bit and are going to go visit my Dad this morning. Yesterday afternoon there came dark clouds, a sprinkle of rain and by 6:30 it was only 75 degrees outside.  We took Paddy for a walk and enjoyed every single step.  Many folks were out in the lake boating in the light sprinkles... we were enjoying the view walking. It is times like this I walk in wonderment of all of nature around us. The simple beauty on a summer eve with a light drizzle and a break from 107 degree heat. Each day there are gifts God has put out for us to find along the way. Often we are way busy with our minds going in other directions and we actually mi...

Alan'The Morgan' 20 x 20  Mixed Media on Canvas JUST painted and SOLD Contact me for commissions. Laurie e     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website      Painted Ponies       I cannot believe it is Friday. I cannot believe I worked until eleven last night and I am up at six a.m. Not sure where the days go. Yesterday we went to Mt. Pleasant with the truck. I followed in my Passat.  Mr Truck is back from the "Put the bumper back on - fix the dent in the fender - replace the broken windshield -replace the shattered side-mirror place" and now at the interior repair shop.  This brought back memories of my grandmother and mother helping my brother restore the seats and interior on his bug eye Sprite.  The beauty of all of their sewing finished out a gorgeous car.  This shop brought back all those memories.  Alan Braddock Interiors .   It i...

'Some in the Dusk' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Just painted and SOLD! Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website   I have to share the story of early this morning.   The dog was up and down all night with allergies...skin broken out and massive scratching. We did not go to bed until after midnight trying to rub tea tree oil on his skin.  About four in the morning something went crash outside the bedroom window.  The dog woke up, Terry work up and I was awake but not out of bed. I wanted to sleep.  Terry took Paddy outside and immediately the scared dog took off into the dark. Not a normal move for the dog. He is usually hiding out behind Terry's legs.    Terry rambled back in and found his flashlight to look for the dog.   Still barefoot, he carefully followed the patio walk toward the hot tub shining his little mag light in the night.  (...

Progress on Four Abreast 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas SOLD ALREADY! Thank you. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 I was so ready to be out of the office last night at eight. I had been in the office since 6:30 yesterday morning... but the effort brought about the birth of a new website, actually two...but one is not done yet. This was something that actually took about 48 hours almost in a row. The first one was to revamp the site www.ContemporaryFineArtInternational.com .      This is a site owned by Kimberly Conrad out of Colorado.  She, Diane Whitehead , Judy Mackey , Mary Jo Zorad, Pam Van Londen , Amy Tuso and I have all been laboring over putting together state daily painting blogs.  The result was to combine into a site Kim started last year and go full tilt. It will take weeks and months to get everything fully up and running, but there is much...

Progress with Four Abreast 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 Terry came blowing through the door late yesterday afternoon, dripping wet and full of grass, sweat and tears.   Probably could add mosquitoes, ticks and other various things as well.   "I would rather wash my truck." he bellowed as he grabbed some old towels. He had been outside giving Paddy a bath and a hair cut. For two and a half hours.  Who would have thought one mid sized dog could cause so much ruckus?  Personally I would have bathed him in the walk-in shower, but living out here in the country, critters seem to jump on other larger critters for faster transportation or for a food snack.  I am out on that so bathing Paddy is on Terry's agenda list. About an hour later I walked out of the the office to get some water and both of them were back in the house. ...

Beginnings of Four Abreast 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website     On Golden Pond Blog The beginning of a painting is always a hesitation.   The drawing is not.... is usually flows from the charcoal to the canvas and then I step back to see what I have done. God must have paused on and off often to see what His different creations looked like from a step back. Do we do that in life too?  The part about jumping in and doing and then hesitating and stepping back?  I can honestly say on this painting I prayed over it before I began.   Even then the hesitation was there because I was doubting myself, not doubting God.    Prayer first and action second. It saves a lot of time. Laurie Behold the beauty of the Lord.--Psalm 27:4

'Four Abreast' 30 x 40 inches BIG!  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website     On Golden Pond Blog We may see this one in reverse.  I want to share the pictures of how it came to be so the next few days I will post progress shots. I realized late last night my blog did not post yesterday. It did, but it did late.   If you missed it, scroll down because the new painting is one of my favorites! New style and new approach. Yesterday when I worked on this one, I had another one on the second easel.   I worked on it too. Yesterday was an 18 hour paint day.  I am tired still this morning.  The second canvas was scrapped twice.  My record is three times, but I have a ton of paint scrapped off that must go into other paintings.  I do not waste paint ever.  Some of my best pieces are from scrapped paint. I ca...