Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

MORNING LIGHT A Painting A Day 30 by 30 inches in size This continues my exploration of horses and color.... although today I am starting a painting of palm trees as a commission piece. I am ready to paint on it and hopefully will post pictures here along the way. I am always ready for commission work, so contact me if you want something special painted. " So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight." 2 Corinthians 5:6-7

Red Horse One A Painting a Day 24 X 36 inches of color explosion! Greetings from the studio. I have been out of town for a few days but returned to try and catch up yesterday! Packing and shipping out paintings I stayed busy until late and I began this painting then. I worked until late last night and then this morning I finished it up. Appealing to the primal beginnings of time and the raw beauty of the horse, my palette drew itself to a red horse standing proudly in the center of the canvas. "I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secrue. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord." Psalms 40:1-3

A Painting A Day....this one is finished! Adding a mane and some swish of tail....the impressionsitc composition of a horse in action is complete! Contact me if you are interested! Click Here. Yesterday I had sparse time in the studio! I spent most of the morning with my neighbor's son outside as he mowed the acreage and I cleaned off all my husbands tools on the back porch. NOW I can get out there and paint again! The light on the porch is my best in this house so hopefully in the next few weeks we will get my second easel put together and you will see paintings off easel two. This composition is 18 X 27 inches in size and painted with Holbein Duo Oils. Lusty colors contrast delightfully inviting the eye to travel through the space. I am off today most of the day celebrating my Grandson's nineth birthday with parties and family, but hope right now at this early hour to finish up another piece for tomorrow. Grace as always, Laurie "My son, if you receive my words and tre...

A Painting a Day White Flowers Click here to contact me to purchase this one! Not up for auction for another week. Buy it before the auction. The resolve with this composition was to retain the delicate petals of the flowers and the soft colors filling in the background. While doing that, I did not want to lose the weight of the green leaves and shrubbery around and behind the flowers. No predrawing on the canvas, but I had some predrawn sketches in my sketch book. From my simple line drawings I identifed where the edges and color had to meet and went to work with my Holbein Duo Oils and my palette knife! THICK paint and lots of color! This painting is 24 X 24 inches in size and the sides are painted. " But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, inplacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce haters of good, treache...

Bobbie Jean's Pots Four It is framed and approximately 16 X 28 in size. Canvas is 12 X 24. CLICK HERE to Bid. Trying to balance out...have been painting today but not ready to shoot it until tomorrow. Here are two of my Gallery pieces that are for sale. They are both framed at Earth Works Art Gallery in New York. My mother-in-law had a collection of pots that were clay pots painted vivid bright colors. They live at my home now and this was painted from earlier this year when I had geraniums planted in them. There are two in this series, this one and the one below. This one is framed as well... both ready to be shipped from the Gallery to your home! Bobbie Jean's Pots Five Framed and approximately 16 X 28, canvas is 12 X 24 inches. CLICK here to Bid! "Truly, Truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death." John 8:51

Click here to bid on this fabulous Impressionistic piece...it is framed! WAITING FOR YOU This is one of my Girl and Goat Series...can you tell ...I haven't found my easel in two days! I am trying to dig out now! My Girl and Goat Series has been VERY popular and there are only five different paintings right now. This one is available...just contact me. "Thus says the Lord: "Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, and they shall come back form the Land of the enermy. There is hope for your future says the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country." Jeremiah 31:15-17.

Zinnias! I love them. I remember playing in my Grandmother's Zinnias as a little girl. They seemed as tall as I was. So many colors shimmering in the summer sun at her farm house in St Louis. I also remember waking up in bed with the window open and white curtains fluttering...outside a chorus of birds ringing out their joys of morning. That is life and we all need to appreciate those golden moments in every day today. This painting is oil on canvas. I used Holbein Duo Oils in my work. A wide brush provided the movement. I could hear my birds in the background as I painted and the memories of those summer days came alive. When I am down, which is border line today. We have been with out water for 14 hours...I need a cold shower and some food right now...but I always try and keep in perspective my problems when I think of Job in the bible. ( We are trying to clean up and put the furniture back into place today as we finish up baseboards.) "And he said, 'Naked I came...

Horses Three is live on eBay right now.... Click here to bid. HORSES THREE This gorgeous piece is in the gallery in New York. It is framed and ready to hang and the aboslutely best in Modern Impressionism. The size is 30 X 40 inches plus the frame. Since it was framed up there, I don't know exactly what the frame looks like, but it is nice. Let me know if you think you might like it for your home.... "Every one who drinks of this water (from the well) will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst: the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:13-14.

SUMMER SHADE Tall Trees in my Texas Oak Series We were at my mom's yesterday and I have so many new photos both on my camera and in my head to work from for my tree series. Keep posted for some new slants on trees! Thought for today... "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not wlak in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12

This gorgeous mare is entitled "Inspired One Time". Using a new technique, this requires a lot of paint with about four layers involved. This allow me to carefully mold out the face and the features I want to highlight. This is my third painting in this style and it truly is something I enjoy because as I paint I am solving the composition, studying it, carving it and creating it...thinking dimensionally as I work. The floors around here are near completion. Only a small section of hallway to go and two small hall closets. THEN the shoe molding and we can move the furniture back in place! Yeah for my terrific Husband. My thoughts to share for the day.... "You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; least they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn f...

This is another small painting I finished with big heart! I love playing with the colors and intensity of the sky and clouds. Enjoy this one and dream of cooler days...I am! Laurie

Click here to bid. In this particular composition I wanted to bring out the texture in nature and the contrast of color in the wild. In opposition of the strokes of palette knife used to create brush, woods, and a path, I angled the horse in a run with the muscular chest and legs moving swiftly through the center of a clearing. Intense Energy explodes across the canvas. "My son, eat honey, for it is good and the dripping of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it , there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off." Proverbs 24:13-14

It is early morning, but I wanted to share this REFLECTIVE painting with you. I just finished it, and it was a beauty to paint! Full color, palette knife and buttery Holbein Duo Oils, what more could I ask for! We continue on our floor journey. Terry is a bit tired and down in the back...but we are 3/4 of the way done, with the most difficult room ahead, the kitchen and utility room...moving the dreaded washer and dryer. We may take a few days break from it all and go to the lake! I noticed my brother's blog is up on his kitchen redo...glad it is him and not me, but when I think of the great food that comes out of his kitchen...can't wait to see what happens with the new one! I leave you with these thoughts, " Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." James 1:2-4.

Baptism "I baptise you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Matthew 3:11 I am posting this piece of work for a collector/new friend in NC. It was completed I think in 2000 or 2001. It is a watercolor and I still have the original. Somethings that I paint, I keep. There is such deep meaning in it and I am not ready to let it go to a new home. Certain paintings are meant to be in specific homes and until I have the calm that it is time to sell it, I keep it and wait. This same collector just purchased another piece of mine that took honors in 2002 in an International Art Show in Dallas and then exhibited with the Dallas Business Committee for the Fine Arts. I have had it hanging in my home since then and have turned down numerous offers to purchase it. The time came and the right buyer has this unique piece coming to her home. Reunion 200...

The Magnolias at Mema's My mom has a huge, absolutely HUGE Magnolia tree in her front yard. I love to go and sit in the shade and sketch the flowers and the blooms off of it. My sketch book must now have a dozen sketches to work from over the next few months! This is painted on a 24 X 24 inch canvas and is a bit fauvistic in flavor, not your run of the mill flower painting, but a composition that breathes with life and color. In my work I lean toward a touch of color everywhere because that is my love, working with reflections of light and unusual color combinations! Hope everyone's day is well. Terry and I worked on floors until after ten last night. Not sure who is more tired, but I know his back hurts more than mine! We walked the dogs for two miles this morning hoping to work out the kinks, but the high today is 106 degrees and it is already warm outside! "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord." Judges 18:6 Grace, Laurie

Sunrise Over the Village is a companion piece to Moon Over the Village. Holbein Duo Oils painted on Masonite Board...thick brush strokes with buttery paint! Almost sounds good enough to eat. Will be working on another Oak Tree Painting today and will finish up some magnolias. Which ever is finished will be posted in the morning. We are over 100 degrees again today for over 35 days in a row. Can anyone send rain to us here? "For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee." Psalms 26:3 Grace, Laurie

Good morning from the Studio. In the midst of painting walls in our home...I did finish this painting! Contrasting reds, yellows and leaf green make up the background as the rider and his horse send dirt flying around you as you watch the movement. They have predicted hot hot hot temps today, so I am off to walk the dogs before starting my housework. THEN I will be back painting today.... I am leaning to a new oak for the day, more to come tomorrow. Laurie

A good friend, Larilyn, is always asking when I will do an Appaloosa. I wrote her when I finished this and sent her a jpeg! This appy emerged so gracefully and very dimensionally from the canvas as I painted. Gentle colors blending from the horse into the background. It was magical as it painted and as always, when working, a pleasure as I have to solve and evolve in the piece as it progresses. Hope your Sunday is good! We actually had RAIN last night. Twenty minutes of rain! It has been months and our drought continues... please send some to Texas if you can. Laurie

Savage Garden was playing and I was rocking at the easel when this beauty came to light. I started with a gentle white palette in the background broken with shadows of purple and blues. As the horse began to form the colors became vivid. With white already established in the background, I had to work with blending colors, or wait until it dries to repaint. I took the chance and shot pictures as I went along. I put them in photo shop and them look at their mirror images to gauge where I am in the painting. It was LATE or should I say early this morning when I finished this baby. I heard the dogs from the studio and just put them out and discovered a slight misty rain...won't last long but at least I can pretend for a few minutes that it is raining outside~ Laurie

Good morning to all! Today's painting is bright with color and thick with paint. Entitled Moon Over the Village , this composition captures the life with color and vivid brush strokes of movement. Here at the house Terry has continued painting our bedroom. We slept on our bed shoved partially under the dining room table last night. I felt like a six year old camping out in my own house. The dogs were restless with us not in our normal place and at six this morning they let me know it was time to get up! BUT, my bedroom is a wonderful Lavender Twilight and wood floors will follow today. Hope you are having a great summer. School has started back in our district. My own classes start back up in a few weeks. Laurie

SUMMER HEATWAVE HITS TEXAS Yeah and what else is new.... so this morning I painted more brilliant sunflowers in the heat of the day. Brilliant yellows and pinks fill the background and the flowers pop out in the day's heat! Enjoy this beauty! Laurie

As we were landing in St Louis on Saturday, we looked down from the window of the American Airlines 757 to the GORGEOUS GREEN farm lands around St Charles Missouri. White farm houses dotted the green fields with strands of roads running and crossing the countryside. It was evident they had rain in this state, unlike north Texas where we remain critically under a drought with wells running dry and folks with out water. Today's painting is SUNRISE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, inspired by our trip north.

August 8, 2006 We have been in St Louis for my aunt's 85th birthday and just returned. I hope to paint later this afternoon so stay tuned for a new posting and painting tomorrow! The trip was filled with memories, laughter and love. I am so glad we were able to sneak away for the short time we did....back to real life again. Laurie

August 5, 2006 Two little girls...just finished it up. Two little girls telling secrets in the garden. I may take two days off, but will return again posting. A mini vacation as we lay wood floors in one of the bedrooms! Takes two to do it, moves faster!

August 4, 2006 Trees Trees Trees... so many are dying in our drought here in Texas. Some trees are over 100 years old and many folks cannot afford to root water the trees to keep them alive, so many are dying. We are in several years of drought. Terry laughs and says we traveled 2000 miles this summer to see a rainstorm in NY. This painting is entitled BRIDGES TWO.

August 3, 2006 Well, Terry brought home an apple Pie from Krogers. They do good pie...so do I, but no time at the moment to bake. I sliced off a piece, mounded Ice Cream on top and took pictures to paint from. YUMMMMMM. SO I do continue the Pace Painting a Day.... Jim from Asel Art is sending me smaller boards...most now are 8 X 11 but I am paring down to 5 X 7 so it is a true miniature. We may do a quick flight to the north to visit my aunt and celebrate her birthday so I may miss a day or two, but will continue as time permits.

AUGUST 2, 2006 This was an interesting painting/study. I was digging around for my melon this morning early and found a beer on a shelf laying down. I pulled it out and grabbed a bag of barrel pretzels and set it up to paint. This is the result! Mary Jo I hope you are painting your painting a day! I have things to get ready for an art show on Friday but hope to paint another larger piece today and tomorrow. Not sure of subject, will have to ponder that first!