Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Progress Been There   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  The patterns have begun to establish themselves on the surface. The strength in the horses neck is evident by the color choice. I am an artist that goes after 'contemporary horse paintings' with brilliant colors.  I had hoped to finish to post but taking this composition slowly as it develops and not rushing the energy. I want the painting to evolve naturally.  You can see the rough music through the layers of oil paints as I progress into the next layers of paint. Still caught up in the 'been there' as I think more of the sun and moon and the daily journey and how our lives are totally situated around this natural happening of day into night repeated to what seems infinite or until the sun bursts and flares out leaving the earth cold and dead.  What do people gain from all their labors     at whic

Been There    ©Laurie Pace 2014 Progress Painting Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  I am constantly looking for neat things to mount as the foundation of my contemporary horse paintings. I came across a CW book of older music and chose the Clint Black song "Been There" .   I shredded it and glazed it onto the canvas. "did you ever wake up in the middle of the night" "did you ever wake up in the middle of the day" "did you ever wake up in the middle of a dream" Those were the lines that struck me as I worked... and as you can see there are spheres in the painting... When you think of how "rote" our days have become... Work, Drink, Eat and Sleep... and do it again the next day. Both Parents working, children in day care.... everyone forgetting how to live... how to be alive.  We have all BEEN THERE. So

© Laurie Pace2014 The Beta  A Contemporary Horse Painting    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 20 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Such discovery fun.  Creative play. Painting full of joy.  I could make hash tags on all of these:  #discoveryfun, #creativeplay, #paintingwithjoy, The Beta is power and strength. The Beta has many things woven across it surface and joy literally bounces from side to side. Yes, I have said this often this week, A road traveled but once.... but I did do another one similar that was larger.... two in fact and they all turned out with different personalities.  Beta I believe sold from my Jackson Hole Gallery, The Rare Gallery.  Abstract Horse Painting FUN! The unfolding of your words gives light;     it gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my stud

Summer Pony    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:12 x 24  Mixed Media on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Mixed media several seasons ago.  This too was one of those Roads Once Traveled that you can never duplicate. With the difference mediums I used, there was a hope and a hesitancy as I watched to see how things would combine on the surface and if they would stand up to the final varnish.  I did not want to even sell this one, but it is sold and in a happy home. Your word is a lamp for my feet,     a light on my path.  Psalm 119:105 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   Robert Kelly Home Gallery, Park City, Utah Vino Dipinte Gal

© Laurie Pace 2014 Rocky Mountain High   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:24 x 30   Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Rocky Mountain High... John Denver singing in the background of course... and one of my unusual palettes of all earth tones sauced with a bit of dark red.  This abstract horse painting sold from Mirada Fine Art. Layers of palette knife oils spread piling high and mixing together in natural formations. Sweet calm energy flows from this one, like that sweet time you take as you savor something good. How sweet are your words to my taste,     sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson H

Three Boat Sunrise    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:18 x 24  Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  When I paint this scene, which I have in several paintings and in various sizes... I always feel like I am there... at the foot of the steps... I feel like I have woken up before everyone else and run down the stairs just in time to see the sun rising in the sky.  The colors vivid and bright on the surface of the water... the boats all calmly tied to their moorings. The flavor of Italy or Tuscany in the balance with the landscape bring adventure to the painting. Are you upstairs in a window looking out, or downstairs at the waterfront watching the day awaken? Your word, Lord, is eternal;     it stands firm in the heavens. Psalm 119:89 #Lauriepacepaintings  #Italiansurisepaintings #Sunrisepaintings Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog    

no 102 Five Red Flowers   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 30  Oil on Canvas.Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  I have a deep love for roses. Pretty sure they are wrapped up in my soul along with my horses that I paint. Terry plants roses for me all the time and vases are filled throughout my house with new clippings for each new day. I have roses of every color and every scent. The bushes are chosen by the scent the roses bare. Hoping this day you will enjoy this abstract rose painting. May your unfailing love be my comfort,     according to your promise to your servant. Psalm 119:76 #flowerpaintings  #lauriepaceart  #rosepaintings Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   Robert Kel

no 200 Last Push     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  This was one of those discovery horse paintings. I was playing with the spray bottle and dripping paint and literally watching it run and the energy of this horse literally came to the front. It seemed like one of those moments in life that feels like it has transpired over 24 hours but it was actually only over two hours. It was a horse painting that left me feeling more creative and wanting to start again, but no matter what I could never capture this same feeling again. It is a road only traveled once. I have sought your face with all my heart;     be gracious to me according to your promise. Psalm 119:58 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, P

No 96 Early Sunflowers    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Has to be one of my favorite paintings. Began with a solid black canvas... acrylic so it dried quickly. Then I sketched out my sunflowers randomly in white chalk and then went straight to my oil paints creating this dynamic sunflower painting. Small but powerful, it is sold, but again something to draw inspiration from. If you are a beginning artist I highly recommend this approach with trial and error. Black acrylic covers the canvas and then build your painting on top of it.  I shared a lesson last year on pumpkins on my website, starting in black and moving forward. May your unfailing love come to me, Lord,     your salvation, according to your promise; Psalm 119:41 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter

Hints of Picasso   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:18 x 24  Oil on Canvas.SOLD Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  This is an older painting reposted but looking at it makes me want to paint something similar. This may inspire a painting this weekend.  The approach to the canvas on this floral painting was to create the background with layers of rubbed acrylic paint and then to block out the vase and flowers on top of the rubbed acrylic. The top painting is in oil and the finish is incredible as a mixed media painting. Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees,     that I may follow it to the end. Psalm 119:33 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   Subscribe to my studio update newsletter. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   Ro