Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO art today!  This is Lady L from Easter last year.  I am sure today will be filled with much of the same. I am hoping for sunshine and good health so everyone will come for Easter Lunch.  May your day be filled with love.  Leave all those hurtful feelings and pains at the foot of the cross. Look up to God as you walk away and begin life again right now filled with his love and joy.   Laurie A Prayer of Thanks  - an Easter Prayer by Max Lucado Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your Son to earth as a baby so many years ago.  Thank you that He paid the punishment for my sins by dying on the cr

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 The White Vase  Size: 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Easter egg hunt anyone?  Traditionally growing up there was always an Easter Egg Hunt at St Paul UCC in Dallas.  We had our baskets ready with colored plastic grass and had dug out of the the hard jelly beans from the year before buried at the bottom under the grass. Darn, how did we let that candy get away? What a waste. Remembering racing around trying to fill your basket with more eggs than anyone else? What is in your basket this year?  Chocolate eggs? Jelly Beans? Chocolate Bunnies? Marshmallow Rabbits?  We all sigh thinking of our favorites.  I still

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sunflowers Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm."  Frank Lane It is indeed one of my favorite quotes that makes me smile.  Life if full of storms... and true to God's promise, the Sun always comes out after the storm.    Did you remember that Helen Keller said, "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." ? Well the healing codes puts these two together. Our life experiences happen. The Storms are different for each of us. The heart results of those can be devastating and hurtful to ourselves and ou

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 9 Flee in the Wind  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Out of the BLUE?  .  Did you taste the Bread Haus Hot Cross Buns? . Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace Sometimes things happen out of the blue.  Even the smallest incident or happening has a domino effect in our lives.  Well, it could be good or it could be bad. Since there is never any warning for those things 'out of the blue'... I think it is so important to live by faith and not by sight.  Recently this past month, I have seen a glimmer of something new in my life.  It is nothing I can visibly see, but it is something I feel from my heart th

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Running Forever  Size: 36 x 36 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transitions in life...wow. Change is by the minute and transitions occur in a blink of an eye or over a longer period of time. Depends on the Change and what is needed.   Sometimes with painting a transition is needed but normally I am working wet on wet.  This painting was not. It had a totally different identity last fall when it was painted. I had not really finished the painting and was scrambling to get things together for a show in Houston.  Changing of Seasons © Laurie Pace 2015 I was working on Changing of Seasons and just sent it as it was becaus

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 "Standing Proud"  Size: 6 x 12  Oil on Canvas Panel  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not remember the book I was reading, but basically this works whether you are male or female.   Stand up and spread your legs apart. Put your hand on your hips and lift your chin slightly in the air. Now, BREATHE. You should feel the power of the pose. It works every single time. If you find yourself out of energy, Wonder Woman Up!  If you are leary or afraid of something or uneasy.. Wonder Woman Up. You have the choice and taking a stance will do it. Our thoughts and feelings are affected by so many things. Who knew that the Wonder Wo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 "Lightning"  Size: 6 x 9  Oil on Canvas Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was thick. The first layers of paint were all in yellow golds and some blues.  The second layer was oranges, reds and more blues... and final two layers were whites and blacks. The horse "Lightning'  was not held back by the thick layering... he appeared out of the paint immediately coming toward me. He is dreamy in person. The discovery of this horse was amazing.  Often the discovery of peace is amazing.  During a storm with thunder and lightning, you listen intently waiting for the calm and peace that follows the storm. Everythi

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Gladiolas Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was a spirited paint with a brush back in 2005.  There is a freedom and a defined sense of joy in the composition. Flower often have that effect on all of us.  They bring joy, comfort and happiness in the garden or in a vase.   Splurge and buy yourself some flowers this week. Buy your favorite and enjoy them. I think I will for sure.  Comment and let me know what you bought. Laurie Song of Songs 2:12 "Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."   #horsepainting