Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” ― Anaïs Nin Layering. I want to sit here and see what comes through praying on the words The Layering. When I paint I work in layers of color. Sometimes I work dark to light and sometimes light to dark. OR I could work values to values, or

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 13  Size: 8 x 8  2012  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room I was listening to the bible being read to me from my ipad while I laid quietly in my room one afternoon. You would be surprised how differently you hear everything when you are still.  It was in Genesis at the description of God speaking to Adam after he and Eve had consumed the fruit from the tree of knowledge.  The story went on to Cain and Abel and the death of Abel and how God spoke that wickedness began in childhood.  That was the part that struck me.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 11  2012  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We can only learn to love by loving."― Iris Murdoch Love... what a huge landscape of a subject.  It is deep and wide.  It is outside and inside. Sometimes we use love for things it is not.  Love does not bring you peace, protection or constancy. Love it not a guarantee when it is between you and another human.  So while you read the quote above, you might have taken it only human to human.   That is one way to look at it.  You have to give to receive.  You cannot always be on the receiving in and there are no promises.  The only relationship that you can d

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Fall Iris  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” ― Iris Murdoch Cleaning Day.  We all face it and more often than not.  Yesterday we cleaned out the entire refrigerator... all of it emptied out on the counters, the island and the table. I scrubbed drawers and glass and Terry scrubbed out the sides and doors with their slide in containers.  Took us two hours to clean it all and put it all back together. But dang... it feels rich to open the door and see everything you need to see.  Moving back to cleaning... the house.  We have a plan that has been in place fo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Village.   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.” ― James Clavell We simply cannot take over the wor

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Magnolias 24 x 24   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind, Trials and tribulation may weather her,  Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried, Deep in her Southern soil.” ― Nancy B. Brewer, Letters from Lizzie Weathering storms... outside and inside is always a challenge. Usually we seem to avoid thinking about Divine Order and we try to overthink the situation.  When storm clouds brew on the horizon what do you do?  To be wise is to be alert. My daughter, Stacey, always has a plan B.  (I think she learned that f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Truest Selves    Size: 24 x 60  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions I was both excited and nervous as I finished this painting. It was for a friend that truly is calm and does not like tons of color and energy.  I was ready to have him say... "Could we...." on changes, but he loved it.  Right now it is at the framer getting a shadow box frame on it and it will then be shipped to NYC to live in a high rise.  Deep breath and a deep sigh.   God is good!  Here is the video of the work in progress all the way through. 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Progress Painting   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” ― Richard Bach The layering is heavy and exciting. The horses continue changing all the way to the end of the process. Constant contact with the collector enables me to capture the essence of what they hope for their painting. Observe the changes tomorrow in the manes of the horses. In addition watch the adjustment to the positioning of the middle horse and then the colors and shapes of the muzzles on the outer two horses. 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Progress Painting  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.” ― Rumi This is the second steps of a commissioned painting. I did up four sketches for the piece and he chose the three horses drinking. You can see how I began the piece with a mid dark blue and then began sketching the horses in place. The base is in acrylic and then the painting is in oil. Every painting I do has a 'joy' to it.  To enjoy this moment of painting opens up beautiful thoughts inside of me. I love this part of