Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Three Horses of Color   ©LauriePace2012 Three Horses Of Color    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This favorite painting is not available in a print but one called "Hot Summer Nights" is available in a print.     Only up to a 24 x 24. If you need one larger you would need to email me directly.  There are times when you paint that things just seem to work easily falling into place with composition and color.  I think I have done three of these, two with the darker colors and one with earth tones.  Reminds me of when a river filled with rushing waters tumbles downstream over rocks and fallen tre

Which Direction ©lauriepace2014 Which Direction    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This contemporary horse painting did not last long after it was painted. I am betting it was the earth tones in the composition.  Not too much loud paint in this one but you get the connection between the two horses. There is a connection between us and our Father. We are made in the likeness of God. As a human we have the ability to chose and make decisions in life.  We are aware spiritually, physically and mentally to all around us.  Each of us have gifts chosen carefully by our Father for us. I am blessed to be an ar

Horse 59 Roundup  ©Laurie Pace Horse 59 Round Up    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This one is already gone...but I had to post it along the way. I have been a bit under the weather for the past week and trying to catch up puts me at the computer for a long stretch!  I want to share every contemporary horse painting that comes through this studio.  The colors were strong in this piece. They rang clear and bright for the eye to enjoy. Trace Adkins played most of this week. As mentioned early I am leaning more into my CW roots here of Texas with the summer heat.   We are still battling to keep our n

Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:36 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took awhile to get this where I felt in sync with the process and the lower layers bleeding through. That is how life is. Where we have been is always apart of who we are today. This is available on my website above.  Vivid contrasting colors in this contemporary horse painting bring it to play a strong point in any room.    Some close ups. Click on them to see the layers beneath. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promise

Amazed  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 40   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country and Western Music seems to penetrate my foggy summer brain in this heat. I do believe it is the restful cadence to the sounds.  This painting as the music of Marv Green in it with AMAZED, the song.   So I just happened to have a music book from the early nineties with the actual music in it... and that with some carefully chosen Bible verses...the background has been laid in on this contemporary horse painting. Amazed   © Laurie Pace 2014 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which Go

Horse 58 Circus Horse   ©Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a prior horse painting now with new colors and new layers and a new look. Imagine yourself under the big top... I remember going to the circus a few times, Ringling Brothers in Dallas when they came.  When you are little everything is magnified to you, the lights, the colors, the action... it is all so impressive and at times even scary.  When the horse is brushed to shine, you can almost see the reflection of lights on its coat. In the patterns of the horse you can see the tight rope walkers, the clowns and the acrobats. I lift up

Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm   © Laurie Pace   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still working on my 100 horse paintings for this year... small affordable ones for collectors.  This one is named for the scene outside my window...storms to the west, all dissipating before they arrive at our house. I can only gaze into the storm, not actually feel the rain! Contemporary Palette Knife Horse Paintings alway lead to lots of layering of paint. Here is a close up. Click it to see it large. August really caught me off guard. I believe that July was such a huge month filled with too many parties and too much food th

Been There   © Laurie Pace 2014 Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  It is finished... I can say I have been there officially.  The composition of this painting literally grew from the story that I felt in my body of the daily movement of the world and the sun and moon.  Inside that is the movement of each of us... routinely doing the same thing over and over again.  You have been there I am sure! This contemporary horse painting uniquely captures that moment that you realize it is time to do new things and bring new moments into your lives. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;     I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor,     and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done     and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;     nothing was gain

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