Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size:24 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky When an artist paints, that question comes when things are done, is this painting done?  As in the quote above, why does an artist come back to a painting?  They can see things differently and with a new eye after spending time away from it.  I truly liked the painting I posted last week but something did

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” ― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way As I was sewing a patch to Terry's jeans... he is working in the attic at the new house across the street and he ripped the knee in his work jeans... I found he tried to do an iron patch to the knee area.   I pulled out my thread and heavy needle and began to try and whip stitch the mess so the patch would not pull off as it was loose and not adhering to the jean surface.  I did NOT realize he handed me his jeans inside out as I carefully stitched the edges.  I then realized he had not only handed them to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size:24 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Somewhere deeper in the city a motor is running, a distant, earthy growl, like an animal panting. in a few hours the bright blush of morning will push through all that darkness, and shapes will reassert themselves, and people will wake up and yawn and brew coffee and get ready for work, everything the same as usual. Life will go on. Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately for a foothold, a w

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 29 x 42  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "First discovered in Japan, the name hydrangea comes from the Greek "hydor," meaning water, and "angos," meaning jar or vessel. This roughly translates to "water barrel," referring to the hydrangea's need for plenty of water and its cup-shaped flower. With its wooden stems and lacy, star-shaped flowers packed closely together in a pompom, the hydrangea's color ranges from white to blue to pink and purple, determined by the acidity level of the soil. There remains some debate over the hydrangea's symbolism – with some connecti

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you! ” ― Max Lucado Monday Monday... gotta love that day! The week has begun and plans are in place, prayers are offered up for the beginning of the week to anticipate God's gracious gifts in the journey ahead. The first gift giving began with God.  Our human gifts we give each other are imperfect and can be wrongly motivated. Many are totally unappreciated, defective

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.” ― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here The Spring rains have been so nice lately.  Rain is predicted again today.  As I sit in my studio and look out the second story window, the cardinals are building nests in the trees outside as they are budded full of new green leaves.  Spring brings thoughts of new growth and new challenges.  Change is blooming in the air.  The painting is full of the spring colors and that is why I chose it.  I would love to know what colors are part of your life. Every

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor My husband bought six wrapped bundles of tulips at Whole Foods this week.  He brought home pink, red, yellow, orange and white.  My eyes were going crazy taking in the color and the beauty... so delicious! We decided to share the beauty with our granddaughters.   We made them up a beautiful bouquet of pink, yellow and white,  then our daughter in law had a combo like mine, red, y

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sold. Lady L Third Birthday by Oma ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu This will be the new change... I will probably only blog once a week, maybe twice if things are happening. I want to share more in less time.  I am helping a friend as she begins something she has dreamed about for years. Too soon to share the details, but her commitment to God and waiting till it was His timing and not hers, is amazing testimony in itself.   I believe always in giving and sharing of the gifts God has created in you. A