Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

FOUNTAIN BY THE TREE 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day OOZING thick paint applied with my palette knife at four a. m. this morning....as it is now 29 degrees outside with sleet and snow...both dogs are in the studio under my feet....we actually had thunder with the sleet...it was weird. I love the way the colors worked with this painting...and they are applied close to 1/4 inch thick in some places... A scene from Italy from an old book was the inspiration. Grace to all...I am behind for the day with our weather... Laurie "For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”—Ephesians 2:10

Hayden and Aspen Oil on Canvas Commission A Painting a Day Well, I can't help it...he is sooo cute! Another Commission piece of a darling little boy and his friend! I am heading to the easel in just seconds....losing time! This painting is impressionistic in approach, wide brush, lots of color contrast and light exchange! My Daily Word thought today is on peace... So Peace I wish for all of you! Laurie “The Lord created me at the beginning of his work … . and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.” —Proverbs 8:22, 30-31

WINTER WHITE HORSE ONE 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day CLICK HERE TO BID Time for shopping is running short. Terry and I took a few angels from the tree and have to finish that one up...we are almost done. I have one or two things to order yet off the Internet and then I will be done! OH yeah, have to pick up some Australian Port for my dad! It was 75 here yesterday and will be over 80 today, this is criminal this late in the year. Hard for paintings to dry with the high humidity rates. We still have some trees to dig up and relocate on our patch of an acre ...and need to finish cleaning out th e front flower beds. SLOWLY I remind myself, SLOWLY. Charlene and I were talking about the KISS method...hubby says it means KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID...but in my classroom it always meant KEEP IT SIMPLE SWEETIE!!! I try to do that with my art and my life, but kids seem to keep mucking it up in my life! The painting above is second in a series of winter white backgrounds with...

MEDITATION 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A day Click here to buy this one! GOOD MORNING WORLD>... gee I slept 10 hours last night...still battling what ever we have, but I feel more rested with the sinus headache and chills! LOL This is a piece I painted on Saturday when I was on the phone visiting Sue. Good Morning Sue! It is lush and thick with paint and something you can sit and stare into for hours and loose yourself with in...never seeing the same thing as you look. The colors dance and swim before your eyes creating patterns and pleasure! Today is packing and shipping. Many pieces are being wrapped for Christmas and will be under trees. THAT is so exciting to me. A special good morning this morning to Marty and Kate...I especially hope they love their packages that are on the way...I think I am shipping five paintings? This fills me with love knowing these paintings are going into homes to become part of their lives everyday...what an honor!!! I am off to prepare...

COMMISSION PIECES Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day Hayden and Aspen Victoria Yesterday and today have been filled with caring for my husband who seems to be pretty ill...not sure what it is beyond fever and aches.... I think I might have it now. I finished up these paintings yesterday and today started two others which I will post one up tomorrow morning. I don't think the light is right on Victoria's portrait...but I had such fun doing these! Hope everyone is surviving the long holiday better than we are.! A friend, Charlene, sent me these words: "God is my help in every need, God does my every hunger feed. God is my health, I can't be sick. God is my strength, unfailing quick. God is my all, I know no fear, Since God and Love and Truth are here." Hanah Kohaus's Prayer of Faith. Grace and good health to all, Laurie

Poetic Justus 22 X 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day BID HERE I grew up around Scottish Terriers, my mother bred and showed them. Litters of puppies each year were part of our lives...and these squatty characters were woven into the fabric of our family. Mom still has a retired show Scottie right now. Marilyn. Marilyn is deaf...really deaf. She likes my mom, but really likes my dad better. She will not respond when mom has her attention and she is outside and does not want to come in. There has been more than one time my mother has raced out in the backyard fearing Marilyn was dead because she was lying there (sometimes on her back) and not moving. She can hear hand claps..but ALWAYS choses to ignore mother's clap. Now, if Dad does it, she is up and Johnny on the Spot ready to come in. What a personality. Mom also has a Bouvier...a pup that is about 9 months old and is really big of course. Marilyn isn't exactly happy that Gracie is part of the household...but ...

Horse Three Sunset West 4 x 6 inches OSWOA Oil on Watercolor Paper A Painting a Day It is almost five this morning...are you as full of turkey as I am? My daughter and I were going to go shopping, but I think she decided to sleep in! She did a fabulous job with dinner yesterday...her pies were to die for. I shared with Niki last night that I could finally turn over my apron and retire from pie making. WOW! Justin arrived from NY in time for Turkey (Terry picked him up at the airport), and Morgan brought his friend Ron. Stacey had the table set for 10 hungry guests and dinner was excellent...everything made from scratch. If I snag the pie recipes out of her I will post them. Meanwhile painting continues...this is part of a western art series of OSWOA size, 4 X 6 collectible original oils. ACTION AND COLOR! Want to hit the easel quickly this morning, hope to go out later and look at treadmills. Could be leftover thoughts of eating too much yesterday, but it will be that or a...

LEAP OF FAITH 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A PAINTING A DAY Good Morning...Turkey day is here. I am trying to finish my book work and get to my easel this morning but was busy listing things for next week auctions so things are dry for shipping for the holidays. THIS GORGEOUS horse painting was energy the entire time I worked on it....painting to music sent to me by JC, I danced before the easel feeling as if I was dancing around this spirited pony. Leap of Faith is what I titled it. Sometimes in life we have to make a LEAP OF FAITH. I believe this is by far one of the most difficult things to do for most of us because we like to be in control....my friends, it is time to let go and heck, be out of control. Celebrate this day...a day of thanksgiving and rejoice and dance and be thankful for life, family, friends, food and the abundance God provides in our lives. Yesterday as I worked, I was greeted by Trina coming to paint with her little boy Kieran (first grade) and baby sister (...

Pansy Blooms 16 X 20 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning Wednesday. It took me awhile to get here this morning...been catching up on emails and think I have now fried my husband's computer...that is two in less than a week... I think I need to go buy the mac I want....comments??? The painting posted today is soooo very thick with paint...piled in layers to create this. I love the contrast of red and green in deep shades. It evolved with balance of colors and it hangs with a pleasantry to it....shape, balance, form and color binding together in strength. Today is major painting day, but I do have a turkey in the oven. We will eat at our daughters and she is making turkey...but we wouldn't have left overs for those marvelous HUGE turkey sandwiches or turkey soup from the last scrapes!!! So I bought a free range turkey at Whole Foods yesterday and popped it in the oven at four this morning with the thermometer inserted and the oven at 275 to cook slowly!!! Trina...

GATHERING THREE 30x40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day With every "Gathering" I paint, I encounter new friends and new color combinations! This one I adore the brown horse on the left midway up...he has an enormous amount of personality. The red/orange horse on the right side is an eye catcher, but very insecure, you can tell by the look in the eye. The dark brown on the bottom left, he is a character looking for something to get into. It is indeed a gathering of color, of shape, of texture, THICK PAINT and a delightful addition to any home! You can contact me if you are interested. This painting will be listing on auction in the next few days. Today is house cleaning and the switching of my acupressure balls on my ears.... I will reflect more on this after another week of treatment...I can't believe how many positive changes I have had this past week...both in my energy level, my sinus issues totally clearing, and I sleep like a log! Grace to all, Laurie Fo...

Time to Make Cookies 5 X 7 inches Oil on Board A Painting a Day This was fun! Really fun. I used to do a series of Pantry items, and I may have to jump back in there! Click here to bid on live auction through the Sat after Thanksgiving. FUN Christmas/Holiday gifts will be listing all through the next Thirty days! Yesterday I was up early and painted and still made the seven a.m. blowout at JCPenny's with my daughter. She had adopted seniors off a senior Christmas tree and wanted to shop for all four of them...and we did. I also picked up a couple gifts and rugs for my bathroom and the guest bathroom. It was a new store that just opened, so it was stocked well and of course not crowded at seven in the morning. After that I was home painting until after five yesterday. Hoping to see our youngest son here later and Computer guru Mark to help with the transfer of mess to another computer...unless he can figure out how to break down the C divider in my hard drive. Partition Ma...

AND THEN CAME THREE 4 x 6 inches OSWOA Oil on Watercolor Paper A Painting a Day I didn't post yesterday. I have been not painting due to computer problems! Will spend this next week working on those issues...meanwhile I have continued to paint with the smaller size format and a new series called WESTERN SUNSET. This is entitled And Then Came Three. A friend sent me an email on Thursday remarking about the similarities between several of my compositions listed in my blog this week and some painted and placed up on eBay by another artist. This is a difficult area when there are sooo many artists posting all the time. Just as with apples, there are good ones and bad ones...some even look really good on the outside and you bite in to find them infested with fat happy worms!!! Most of you know I post paintings here BEFORE they list on eBay, and usually I am listing things I painted three days prior, I paint every day and I blog one of the paintings from the three day period p...

OUT FRONT 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day This was so different for me ...a race horse, and combining my abstract with my impressionism to the point that you see the horses...the color doesn't run through them but up to them. Painted mainly with a palette knife....the leading horse is literally carved out of paint, thick ridges and contrast throughout. I am preparing to prepare to paint today...and I teach today. We are learning about negative space. My assistant teacher, Ashley, is down with a huge cold, so my handy dandy husband, Terry, gets to assist today! It is brrrr cold outside. Just heard on the news that a neighborhood over where Terry and I grew up in Lake Highlands, is on fire. The fire is actually next to where one of our oldest friends live....but no way to contact them at this hour...everyone has had to evacuate the area...the fire started in one home and now four are involved. That is scary for winter time...I would be first to get my dogs out, th...

MOOOOODY BLUES 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day HAPPY HUMP DAY!!! Well the wind blew 60 mph all day, but I worked in the studio from four this morning until two. Trina drove in from Gainesville and arrived about nine and we painted together until almost two....she left to pick up her brother at the airport and I made lunch for Terry.... brown rice and carrots smothered with Sweet German Sausage and Onions. It was pretty good. Then I made a batch of homemade choc chip cookies, but I was out of chocolate chips and had to use butterscotch...he didn't seem to mind as he gulped them down! We finished off the afternoon playing dominoes in front of a roaring fire.... I need to get back out there and enjoy it but wanted to post a painting today! This is MOOOODY BLUES.... I am not NOT the cow painter Diane Whitehead is...ARTOUTWEST on eBay...she is the best of the best, but I had the hankering to do this...when I finished it, I almost wiped it clean, but Trina said NO NO NO. ...

HIGH KICKER 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day Good Tuesday morning to everyone. I think it was the influence of the last part of the Beatles Anthology that we have been watching each night.... Day Tripper kept bouncing through my brain as I painted and this aboslutely delightful horse emerged...High Kicker....The texture build up and the colors are startling and the combination of colors should fit in with almost any decor. Palette knife and thick creamy Holbein Duo Oils created this beauty. Contact me if you would like to purchase this painting prior to me listing it on eBay. It is schedule to list this weekend on the 19th. CLICK HERE FOR ME> Today is more work around the house. I am going to try and sneak in a quick start on a painting this morning. With Thanksgiving coming on I am unsure of what is happening on eBay or at the galleries or what folks are buying. I will be doing some small things for my NY gallery, Earth Works Art Gallery and Studio in Upper State ...

Scenes of Fall One 16 x 16 inches A Painting A Day ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WEATHER> God is good...we made it through the summer. This week will be perfect weather! Painting is flashing about the colors out side my window. We took a long drive on Saturday, I might have told you already, through an area northwest of us in Drop Texas. I did take a ton of pictures. You will be seeing some appear on the canvas over the next few weeks. We are going to start on the storage building in the back yard and then we will open up the garage area for my studio. AT LAST!!!!!! I am so excited to have my space back again. Grace to you all...enjoy the day, the moment and every second in between and remember to say I LOVE YOU to those close by. Remember to say I APPRECIATE YOU to those that do for you and most of all REMEMBER TO THANK GOD for all that is in your life and for your life. Laurie United in thought and prayer, link your mind with mine, heart to heart in oneness with the Spirit. " I ap...

American Kestrel 10 x 20 inches A Painting a Day plus one! Well, this is the painting I worked on today. The sense of touch places a huge part in painting a bird and remembering to treat the feathers differently than the wood so that they have a different texture. This was a request from J.C. and I still have a few more small ones to do. As I write this tonight, it is Sunday night, it is RAINING outside. THANK YOU SUE...for sending the cool rain!!! THANKS for not sending the sleet! God Bless, I have to turn my computer off now with the lightening in the area. Laurie

Mid Day Work 30 x 30 inches A Painting A Day This is my third in the series I am doing of Reining Horses and Riders. Inspired by great photos in Quarter Horse News and editor Katie Tims, this composition continues the dance of the cowboy and horse. Thick brush strokes create a lively movement. It is early, 4:30 a.m. here in Justin Texas. I am up early to work on some birds that are commission pieces. I long to crawl back into bed, but the American Kestrel called to me and I am a pushover when it comes to birds and dogs! I have both. Yesterday I was able to mess with my new camera attached to my computer. Sue and I visited cross country as I set it up with Skype and she could watch me painting at my canvas!!! My intention is to use it to both record or to allow someone that has me working on a commission piece to "tune" into the studio and see how their painting is evolving on the easel. Pretty cool!!!! Modern technology at its best. I guess I have to make sure I shower...

Clydesdale One 24 x 24 inches A Painting a Day I am not entirely sold on the background on this painting, but decided to let it dry and watch it for a while. I love the horse and the movement with in and the colors but am debating on blues in the background. Click here if you are interested in this painting. Saturday and it is definitely cooler outside! I shall be working on bookwork this morning in the studio (Yes there is drudgery too) and then hitting the easel. The fall leaves are quite inspiring outside, we actually have some color this year! A special good morning to Sue and warm wishes in their snowfall...send it to Texas please! Larilyn, I joined the Sweepsheet this morning and gave them your name! SEE I told you I would! Fellow artist, Conni Togel is at an art show this weekend. Visit her site by clicking here. Or visit the FIVE GRACES web site. Diane Whitehead, another fellow artist from the Five Graces, is just home from visiting her first grandson. WOW.... he is ...

MAGNIFICENT SEVEN II 18 X 36 inches A PAINTING A DAY Friday Friday Friday! And they say cooler temps are on the way. I will be in the studio working this morning and then escaping to clean house as the cool front makes it way through. NOW it is in the mid seventies outside and warm!!! HUMIDITY is not cool for my paintings to cure for shipping. This piece was finished up late last night and is a fresh looking pianting with it's color combinations and the upfront composition of the horses across the length. THICK THICK paint applied with a palette knife... ridges and edges popping out everywhere! Have a cool weekend! Laurie "You may tell the next generation that this is GOD, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide forever." Psalm 48:13-14.

Fall Ponies OSWOA 4 X 6 inches A Painting a Day Good morning....summer seems to have crept back into our area....highs in the mid eighties today. UGH. I painted most of yesterday from four in the morning until six last night. Then Terry and I unpacked our crystal and china that has been in boxes for 7 months! This is my first OSWOA card to try out. It is oil on watercolor paper and follows in the mood of most of my paintings.... a little to the left! Collect some of these today! Click here to bid on this one....the bidding started at $9.95. CLICK HERE> Grace, Laurie "Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interest of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:4-5.

Vase of Fall Red Poppies 16 X 20 inches A Painting A Day The paint on this painting is thick...there are actual ridges for the flower edges! Painted with a palette knife, the curves of color jump out in your vision pulling you in closer! Available from me but will be listing on eBay in the next few days. Click here to contact me. Went into Dallas today to pick up more of our boxes for me to unpack. ALSO learned to polka Dance with my father in law! OH WHAT A BLAST!!! Terry is trying to learn too.... we had to pull out the old Two step and almost triple time it to polka! We then hit WHOLE FOODS for our weekly groceries and dined there on a huge salad and some navy bean and ham soup. YUM!!! Tomorrow I will be up early at four thirty painting away! Grace to you all, Laurie "Therefore friends, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this task, while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer and to ser...

Sunrise Ride 15 X 30 inches A Painting a Day Morning light bounces around this composition with lighter pastels and contrasting values! Large brush strokes adds freedom and personality. Contact me if you are interested in this painting. CLICK HERE Grace, Laurie "Remember me oh Lord, that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, That I may rejoice int eh gladness of your nation, that I may glory in your heritage." Psalm 106:4-5

The Dove 30 x 30 inches A Painting A Da y Good morning. I am recovering from overeating last night at the duo birthday celebration for myself and my dad! We are both old now. Italian Food from ABOCA's in Dallas off 75N and Beltline (SW corner) was FABULOUS beyond belief as was the Chef's Italian version of Tres Leche cake...wow, with lots of rum in it. Enough of birthday fun...pics may follow if I get the camera downloaded! This painting is a "MAYBE " finished. It is a soft stroked image of a dove descending with the deep blues, indigos and golds. Detail shows feathering delicately blending together. I have not decided but am thinking of this going to the show on the 18th of Nov at the Underground in Denison Texas. This piece is for sale now, so contact me if you are interested. CLICK HERE. Grace, Laurie "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path." Psalm 143:10

A PATH TO THE SON 36 x 36 inches A Painting A Day COMMISSION PIECE COMPLETED! She arrived at the house about nine thirty yesterday morning. A sweet breath of fresh air as she entered the studio....Lana had arrived! I must connect the pieces first. Last year as we were selling our monster house we discovered there was an easement line running through the property and our home as well as a flood plane that had not been earlier identified. How the property had ever closed five years prior was questionable. I had to find a hydraulic engineer to re shoot the area and establish where flooding could occur (Near by dried up creek) and petition the city to abandon a one acre easement off the back of our property. That is where the Lord placed Otis in our lives, Lana's husband and a hydraulic engineer. The city engineer gave me a list of 10 hydraulic engineers. I was praying as I scanned the list and chose Otis. God answered prayers. This man did his job swiftly as needed, thoroughly and s...

GREYHOUND EYES 11 x 14 inches A Painting a Day If you are interested in buying this piece, contact me. It goes on Auction a week from Today on eBay. CLICK here to email me. Niki has been painting Newfies....I couldn't stand it. I had to paint two dogs, so I choose the greyhound, which I have painted frequently and the scotty, which I grew up with. I feel the eyes are the door to the soul and when I look at a greyhound I see this life and even deeper. Their enormous eyes speak volumes of their love and their desire to please us. This sweet painting is on board and painted with a wide brush and lots of movement...hence it is impressionistic. Why do you see in this greyhound's eyes? Today is Friday. I have Lana coming over to do changes on a commission piece for her home. I am doing a Tuscan field scene....36 X 36 inches and we have to finish up the last minute things she would like to see in the painting. Other than that I will be working on a large dove for an opening in...

Hilary's Horses 3 ft by 4 ft A Painting A Day For a similar commission piece, contact me. Click Here. She lives out west and wanted a huge painting for her "dull" living room. She was going to bid on a painting on eBay that had the colors and the power she wanted, but it just wasn't big enough...so she wrote me. From our correspondance I was able to paint her very own personal canvas with the hand chosen colors for her room and the correct size for her wall. She poured over the images I have on artspan, my web site and my blog. She decided on the horses she wanted as far as how much body showing...and then CHOCOLATE...she wrote me as I painted, more CHOCOLATE. Dark Reds, burgandies, blues, golds and chocolates....she got what she wanted. I just finished it up and we are both praying for it to dry. I will ship it over night to her if it dries in time for a party she is having on Nov 10th. Keep your fingers crossed for both of us! Meanwhile with holiday gift seas...

Late Fall Peonies 18 X 27 inches A Painting A Day It is four thirty in the morning and I am preparing to hit the easel! Today is work day for sure. The painting pictured above is a loosely painted impressionistic composition of pink peonies. In person it is almost magical with movement as if a breeze was hitting the blooms. The paint is very thick and applied with a wide brush. Click here if you are interested in this painting. I believe it goes on auction on Ebay tomorrow night. (Thursday night) But if you catch me before it lists I can sell it to you! Grace to all, Laurie "The spirit of the Lord speaks through me, his word is upon my tongue." 2 Samuel 23:2