'Spotted Appaloosa' Contemporary Equine Horse Oil Daily Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Texas Oak One 2007
Fauvism Landscape

18 x 36 inches
Oil on Canvas

A Painting a Day

SOLD

Good Friday morning. I am still unraveling things with the new mac. My camera does not work, I still do not have SKPE loaded on, but I am getting there. Phones are still messed up here which you would think would not help things, but actually I get more done....

Art classes were yesterday and we painted shoes. What fun we all had. Then in the painting class we are working on developing values in our paintings from the first stroke, to be aware of darks and lights and the in between. We became tongue twisted on the DARKEST DARK, the MIDDLE DARK and the LIGHT DARK in contrast to the LIGHTEST LIGHT, the MIDDLE LIGHT and the DARKEST LIGHT. It pushes each of them to a point where they have not traveled on canvas...using their left side of the brain at the same time they use the right side.

The painting above I debated on...but it was fun, whimsical and full of life. A touch of fauvism with an explosion of color....all a part of my Texas Oak Tree collection.

I continue to receive wonderful notes of strength from many of you both by email and snail mail. I pass ALL of these on to Stacey and Larry. They will both return to work next week. Right now they are dealing with their grief together and rebuilding their life. I compare it to tearing a hole in fabric...it takes time to reweave and repair the hole in the tapestry of our lives....and the tapestry is strong once the repair is made, but the threads in the repair do not match the original threads that were woven.... Time will heal, but from past experience we are talking years...not next week.

Grace,
Laurie

"I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?" Isaiah 43:19