Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Tea Time Sold Watercolor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.” ― Helena Bonham Carter The quote almost stands entirely on its own. Remember your mom or grandmother telling you "pretty is as pretty does"?  That is where I was going to go in writing this morning, but then I found this amaz

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil Painting. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”  ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Zow... really going back to 2004 still. This was of a group of motorcyclists from a Church Riding group in Argyle.  Wish I had a better picture that was not so fuzzy. This is not one of my best pieces but it is in my heart.  I guess it is the state of our nation, or maybe I should say the LACK of the state of our nation.  I will not address politics, but I will address the growin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Watercolor Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.”  ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Things are never as they seem.  This is an old... wait for it... contour drawing watercolor added piece from 2004

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook I might have to do a repaint of this one. Not sure where my original photo is, but  a new sketch might provide new thoughts and i would love to see how I approach a second paint on it.  Not often in life do we get 'second chances'.  When God does allow a 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil on Canvas.  In progress. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” ― C. JoyBell C. I found an old file from 2004 and in it were some images of paintings from 2004.  I had some that were showing both beginning and ending steps.  I miss painting

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Watercolor  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 How do you hold up when you hit the wall and realize you can't get past it?  Adversity can beat you down if you are not prepared.  The one gift I have from God is the unusual presence of taking something that does not work and running it through a thought process trying to figure out how to make something actually work out.  Perseverance. Even in some pretty dark moments in life, my mind continued to problems solve.  While that sounds good, the better answer is prayer. Taking t

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold 30 x 40 Oil Painting Tulips Afternoon Garden Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek Gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?” ― Robin Jones Gunn One of my thoughts two summers ago was i

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Painting in Progress 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline My lighting in the studio is bad. Terry has fixed it since this was taken.  But I think you can see where this painting is headed.  It is full of joy and bursting with colors... the colors of embers in a fire.  This is the feeling of color and celebration I want. Not the fire but the depth of those brilliant colors in a field of bl