Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Rites of Spring SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Spring is the time for rebirth and renewal, but there are a few of us who cling to the joy of fall into winter.  It is the winding down of being outside and staying more indoors together, closer, enjoying intimate moments. I always look forward to fall and still waiting right now for those cooler nights and mornings. Texas is always late in getting there... clinging

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Figurative Painting  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.” ― Walt Disney Company, 12 Princess Stories As a whole, children are a natural expression of joyful spirit. They dream and pretend play and create worlds that are full of love and joy. As adults, we may not play as often as children but we still can play in moments of joyful abandon.  Age does not always have to count. SMILE... BREATHE in JOY.. the pure joy of being alive.  This painting was done back in 2010 of a pretty little princess in waiting from Denton, Texas. "So I commend enjoyment,

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Figurative Paintings by Laurie Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” ― Victor Hugo Patience is defined as "quiet, steady perseverance." We begin each day not knowing what is ahead and begin it in trust and perseverance because our faith is strong. Every day we are given the opportunity to practice Patience.  It could be sitting in traffic or waiting in line at the grocery store. Take this time and use it in prayer giving thanks for all you do have. Be gratefu

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Here's Looking at You.  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde Do you like carrying anger around?  I do it sometimes and it eats me up because I like a more balance atmosphere in my life and that does not include anger. I have had to learn to remove myself from toxic relationships.  Do not carry around things you cannot use. Choose to let go of that anger or resentment about something that has happened...whether you said it or someone else has said it.  True forgiveness is only possible if we allow the spirit of God to work within us.  What will your choice b

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Courage is grace under pressure.” ― Ernest Hemingway Accepting gifts is usually a fun thing... Terry and I were talking about that in the car yesterday.  I love getting boxes in the mail and opening them to see what is inside. It is even better when you know it is a gift and someone has really thought about you to buy you something special. Brings back that excitement we use to have as kids at Christmas time.  What about the gift of grace? Is it all the good gifts we enjoy freely in every day?  It would take a lifetime to celebrate all of those from wild Buttercups blooming in the Sprin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Call of the Wild © 2010 Laurie Pace  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.” ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild Opportunities are plentiful in our lives.  How often do we act on them? Gathering up energy to give all we have would be giving love and service without hesitation. It is from this joy that I feel the surging beauty of life and happiness. It is

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 In Gold  Sold Acrylic on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.  There's life in a nutshell.” ― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears Remember your parents saying "If you don't succeed, try try again."?   My parents thought it was important to go after what you wanted and even if you did not get there, you learned so much in the process.  That never worked for me in Elementary School for the science fair. I NEVER had any interest in science for some reason.  I was an artist.  My poor mom learned so much over those si

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Two Black Horses  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses Many of us struggle with the concept of a beautiful life.  We have faced struggles in parts of life that simply have not been beautiful. They have been downright ugly, marred by trauma, pain and often anger. TOO often we keep those scars from totally healing because we carry them around with pain and rememberings.  Beauty is often visualized as things it is not. Beauty is seen superficially as in eye color, hair color or numbers on the scale.  Beauty is something we