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To be Naked is to be Oneself... Abstract Nude Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Early Morning Hour - Sold  - Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “To be naked is to be oneself.   -   To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”  ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing These quotes I come up with for the paintings I share always send me deep into thoughts. As I seem to be passing into another 'stage' age in life... changes that are noticeable more to me than others.  There is now the possibility of discovering who I am deep inside of me... not the person I try to be to please all the people in my life.  Reading deeply into the Bible, studying more on what is real inside and n

Growing through Adversity... Abstract Flower Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Blooms  24 x 24 Sold  -  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan Here it is Wednesday and I do not have an update on the studio. SAD... I am sad.   This old floral painting just about reflects the household right now!   Terry has worked diligently putting in a new sturdy back door with inset blinds in between the glass.  We also ordered a new front door, by accident... happened to be in the right place at the right time. Lowes.   They were having 15% off ordered doors... and we narrowed it down and when they were running num

Taking a Big Risk with Texas Artist Laurie Pace - learning to rely on God.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Lazy Ours Miracle Pantry  Photo for Journal this morning! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we a

Romance with Red Roses Abstract Flower Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Garden Spring Red  18 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind This painting along with three others , should be arriving in Watkins Glen, New York for a Flower Gallery Show at Quintus Gallery.  For some odd reason, I fell in love with this piece as I worked on it and it was processed through three different paintings before it arrived here.  The energy of roses

The Cover Up Laurie Pace Life on the Move

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Cover up ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”  ―  John Lennon So over the past three or four weeks we have been in a constant motion for a move. Our home sold the first day. The plan was to buy the house across the street to stay close to our kids and grandkids.  Things really never looked good on that front... not at all.  We were hit by one situation after another as the inspection revealed some major problems and the owner would not or could not fix them. We had to pray about it and decide if we could take it on realizing we were buying it as is.  Every day so

What is beauty? Contemporary Iris painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 10 x 30 Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.” ― Rumi What is true beauty?   I remembered a quote from Kahlil Gibran “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” How right this rings in my heart.  I am blessed with many friends of such great beauty. One of my older friends is my heart sis "Jan".  She is my go to mentor for everything and anything. I respect and love her and look to her as she leads her life a

The Large Gathering... There is a time. Contemporary Abstract Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 The Large Gathering   Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to spe