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Canyon Call the Wind, Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace - The Lord walks before me

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Canyon Call the Wind  Size: 11 x 14  Oil on Canvas. * This painting is a new one,  part of the rediscovery of painting again.  Filled with thick paint and knife work, I hope you can feel the wind in this one! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow. Don't walk behind me ... I may not lead. Walk beside me .. just be my friend." Albert Camus  With the season of Advent present some verses from the Bible catch in my heart and mind and over the days I repeat them again and again and I write them over and over.  While the above quote may be true for our earthly journey, I want to kno

Are you Taken? Contemporary Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The Arrival 38 x 58 inches   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. " Oscar Wilde I also like the quote by Judy Garland,  "Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."   This was the arrival in the first stages of painting. It came a long way. Joyce Myers has an excellent article on being yourself and being your best. Read it here.   Basically we all tend to look in the mirror at ourselves and naturally see the negative or flaws.  WHY?  Joyce basically makes good points about the Bible that sp

Beach ... seascape painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Quiet Horizon 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not miss my Black Friday through Monday Sale.   This was a haunting painting for me. I did work on it quite awhile and I think I even posted it.  It may or may not make it as it is... I am itching to work it over even more.  If for some reason you like it as it is, email me.    Tell me why you want it, and it is yours for $400.   It is a 36 x 36. Something just will not let me paint over it... so the $400 covers the canvas and paints and depending on where you live... shipping

Happy Thanksgiving. Coats for Veterans with Louis Baca and Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Happy Thanksgiving.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This past weekend I finally met up with Louis Baca.  My daughter Stacey and I had been out to Old Navy. They had ALL winter coats 50% off.  Louis Baca is the Geneva Financial Rep for the DFW area.  Genevafi.com/dfw   Louis supports veterans and helps with finding homes, collecting supplies and coats, backpacks, food etc.  Stacey and I hit Old Navy and we were the first to be buying coats and found some incredible ones to purchase.  We outfitted with new coats 9 veterans, with hats, gloves, scarves, coats and more. Both of us had gently used coats and we collected those from neighbor

Catching Snowflakes on your Tongue - Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Justus Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Snowflakes Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know."  Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall What are those simple things you enjoy in life, and when was the last time you did them?  I LOVE catching snowflakes on my tongue.  What is your list of things you enjoy?  Here are some of mine. Watching the sunrise. Holding my husband's hand as I fall asleep. Soaking in a warm bath. Watching the clouds race across the

Wondering ... Balancing Life, Sailboat Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Justus Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Morning Has Broken Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."  C.S. Lewis I cannot even remember the last time I wrote to you in my Art Journal.  The past two months have been filled with reflection on direction.  I am already contemplating my word for next year... one thought is, "Let it be"   Yes it is three words, but easy to remember.  I am still debating what shall serve me the best for growth next year as we take the journey into 2018. Some of you may have noticed,

Ending up in the Right Place . . . Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Old Red  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." Douglas Adams We love taking quick trips out to Mount Vernon. We miss our country life and our friends. Some date back to high school.  We stay on the main highways so it is not as tempting to take off on a country road and possibly get lost. During our journeys Terry always refers to me as "the navigator". There are always a few times I have misguided us…but for the most, I am steady in the job. The Navigator's job is to plot and plan the rout

The Sculptor, carving out of others what we need . . .

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 18 x 27  Morning Get Away   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."  Anais Nin   This morning will not be a painting morning. It is a house cleaning morning, bed sheet changing morning, dusting, etc. If you stay so focused on "the positive” and trying to control things you might miss other important things. Sculptors start out with a large block of marble. From this point they begin cutting p