Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

AFTERNOON SHOWER Watercolor by Laurie Pace SOLD I am blogging swiftly so I can get to my easel. Yesterday was NOT a productive painting day! Hopefully today I can get into an earlier pace. HOUSE UPDATE: I am still dancing the happy dance that my bathroom light switch works now. I no longer have to screw a bulb in and out to have light! Terry installed a new faucet in our sink in the Master Bath and YEAH it works. Before water trickled out with not even enough to wet your tooth brush. This is a strange house but it is coming around! On the diet side I continue to hear from folks that love weight watchers and those that like South Beach. My daughter does Weight Watchers, but lives on TV dinners. I cannot do that. I am a fresh food freak that prefers everything to be natural. RARELY anything from a can, and if it does, it has less than five ingredients. I truly like the RICE Diet, but my life is too complicated to have to think! I walked 8000 steps yesterday and did my tummy h...

EXPLOSIVE FURY Contemporary Modern Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD I am surrounding by a huge pile of TO DO's on my desk. Not sure if painting or cleaning comes first! I decided to do the blog first. THEN jump in and paint. Then I will clean off my desk. I am trying to get organized. This is an explosive painting that evolved this weekend. I finished it up last night. Colors pulling in the down direction created a mighty force on the surface. I was working also on a small commission piece of a little one (Dog) named Sugar. I almost have Sugar finished too. My next commission piece is of a young girl playing in an orchestra at the Meyerson. Her Mom sent me pics from home but the ones from actually being on stage are unbelievable. Terry's cousin Sandra came to visit yesterday. We worked in the plants out in the garden room for most of the day. I prepared pasta and meat sauce with fresh salad and hot bread with cheese, tomatoes and garlic on it! Yummm. Leftov...

Magnificent Four Modern Contemporary Horse Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD Foggy, cool, wet and early. I thought it was suppose to get cold but it didn't. Terry is painting edges on my finished work, I am blogging and the back door is wide open for the dogs to wander through in and out. I can hear a jet flying overhead, but it truly in the dark is not much different than the country. Where we live in Dallas is very quiet. Well, quiet until seven thirty. There is a wonderful elementary school one block away...and the kids begin to arrive....and then the bells begin to ring. Memories. My little brother went to this school. I went to another one about three miles from here. This painting is in my new series, COLORS of WYOMING. Action packed with movement and color I am trying to capture the energy of the horses. Not much compares to their beauty when they are running...so fluid and so graceful, the stocky body on the thin legs!...

SPIRIT OF THE SNAKE RIVER Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 inches of THICK PAINT on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD Monday is here...cloudy but suppose to go up to 70 degrees today. Packing and shipping are a priority but so are many other things. I will be split about five directions at least! I posted this and realized some folks may not understand the painting. I first was pulling the landscape of the Snake river from Photos from our Wyoming Trip. But then I saw the horse with in.... Do you see it? It is the spirit of the Snake River...think of how many horses have cross that river over all the many years it has been in existence. Saw a billboard last night on the way to pick up an OLD FASHIONED HAMBURGER about six last night. "FAILURE IS NOT FALLING DOWN, FAILURE IS FALLING DOWN AND NOT GETTING UP." Definitely food for thought today. Screwing things up is normal for the human race. All of us have that built in knack of messing up by the day. A...

Peonies in Cream Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me for pricing through email: Laurie Sunday dawns...the heat is on. Reminds me of the Christmas Story with the BB gun thing. The family has the heater in the basement that the dad is always tinkering on.... Brother Kirk heard the bearing that rattles...then Terry came home and did something with a brick. It is running and I have heat. I will not question this miracle. I am late to the easel and so much to do on canvas. Itching to paint and see what evolves this morning. Life is such, floating along and evolve with what God places in your life. Stacey phoned this morning to share the sad news that she had to rush my grand dog, Gabbie to the ER Vet. Gabbie ate two pounds of chocolate.... she is a miniature schnauzer. Need I say more? We have her in prayer this morning as they await news. Hoping your Sunday is filled with His Grace. I will pray for all of you as you face so much in your lives w...

QUILT AT NANIE'S HOUSE Impressions by Laurie Justus Pace 5 x 7 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing. Email: Laurie Remember when? I remember playing under the quilting group at church where my grandmother would quilt. I remember running and playing in the wash at my Aunt Marie's house when my grandmother and I would hang wash and I thought it ever so much fun to run between the sheets hanging double and triple rowed across the backyard. Days of no responsibility and all discovery. God wants us to be like a child in our faith. Run through those sheets in feel his love and the warmth of the sun! I could use that warmth today. It is six thirty a.m. and the old heater which should have been replaced last week just died. There was a loud rackety rack noise as if the fan blades where speeding up and slowing down, like a shifting of gears.... a clatter and vibrations. I just left the blog and computer and threw off the switch next to it listening to it gravel ...

Catching Minnows ~ Figurative Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie The dog is watching the minnows, the boy is desperately trying to catch them...but they are elusive. Reminds me of life. We watch what is going on and see things we want to "Catch" or be a part of. Often it is not part of God's overall plan for our lives and I think we end up frustrating ourselves by trying to grasp onto things that will never be ours. Pray for the wisdom to know when to wade in the water. Timing is everything....that is a GOD THING! Yesterday morning early found me painting. I finished up one that I will post on Sunday most likely. It truly makes me catch my breath when I hit the studio and see it on the easel. I hope it finds a warm wonderful home. It is large, 24 x 36 and of course one of my equine paintings. Mom phoned early yesterday. We decided we would go visit Cousins' Pianos over in Garland as I ...

NOT A STEP CLOSER Horse Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 Contact me for pricing or commission work. SOLD Okay so I forgot yesterday. A lot going on! MORGAN did get a full time sub position with Nothwest ISD as a special Ed teacher at Nance Elementary. Your prayers were of such great support to him! Thank you! It is not official yet, but I think he starts Monday. They did not offer a "Contract" as in Full Time Teacher because we are passed the half way mark in the school year. This way the district does not have to pay benefits. Will keep you posted on progress. This is a quick entry this early early morning. I could not sleep due to shoulder pain and am up in my jamas to paint awhile. Terry is sound asleep where I should be, but my rolling around was keeping him awake. I have been unpacking his stuff now. Probably why my shoulder and neck hurt. I shake my head in disbelief at the accumulation of plastic model kits that are in this house. Remembe...

SISTERS IN THE SAND - Commissioned painting of children by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission work, Email: Laurie FLASH ADDITION I FORGOT>>>WILL POST AGAIN TOMORROW FOR EARLY MORNING READERS MORGAN GOT THE JOB!!!! Thanks be to God and to all of you prayer warriors!! This was the original painting I did for Lynda in Connecticut. Her little girls were really little in this painting and are at least three or four years older now. Maybe even six years older. I believe when she sent me photos they were older even when I painted this. She also has three little boys. A well rounded crew to be sure. This painting took honors in an international art show when it was done. Well, yesterday was full of surprises. I want to share with you right now. YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOING TO GET BETTER. That is the bad news....here is the good news: YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOING TO GET WORSE. Things happen every single moment in our lives. We cannot live our lives waiti...

Sisters Chasing Butterflies - Impressionistic Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas SOLD /Commissioned Painting Contact me for Commission Work: Email: Laurie WE HAVE HEAT! I even took a hot shower this morning and got to wash my hair. PRAISE the Lord for the plumber. This painting was a commissioned piece for a collector in New York. I painted these two little ones when they were VERY little. Sisters in the Sand. I will post that one tomorrow for you. This is for their room. I kept in mind pinks and purples and light greens! Today is full of packing paintings and trying to clean up the house a bit. It was neglected over the freeze period. Also am battling with Quicken on both the MAC and the PC. Any Quicken Coaches out there? No one speaks English with the Quicken HELP on the phones. Can't get anything from the forum either. So much for working on taxes. It is obvious the Lord wants my energy directed elsewhere. Make a plan and hear the chuckles from heaven....

HORSE IN DEPTH - Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me for pricing: Email: Laurie The sound of the shovel at the side door tells me Terry is outside digging down the last inches for the plumber. We are in prayer he arrives sometime today to do this work. There is hope, there is a light...there will be heat. This painting I finished up yesterday. Very thick paint as you can tell from the ridges. He is a strong horse, but still young. Hoping he finds a good home! I did get a wonderfully warm shower at Mom's yesterday. She picked me up. I think I drained the back waterheater as I stood in the shower and allowed the hot water to seep into my bones. Washing my hair was a treat and I even put on make up! WOW...almost human. But Morgan arrived just minutes later and we were back in the cold house. Spent the afternoon painting and watching Morgan paint. Here is his from Yesterday: If you are interested in this one, let me know too. I...

Brilliance in Red ~ Silky Red Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 16 x 16 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing at Email: Laurie This is a familiar composition to others I have painted. It is a relaxing composition of assertiveness. I hope you caught that one! They are gorgeous in person and make you feel like you are in a garden. A warm garden would be nice right now. The house is at 45, my studio is at 62. There is no hope for heat until probably Wednesday or Thursday. The men got the hole about done. It has to be 24 inches deep for city inspection. We have to do the plumbing part and then get a plumber to OK the work ...of course that is after the permit procedure from the city. WHY did I move to the city? Someone remind me again. I just pray at this point to have heat before next Saturday when I am hosting an open house for perspective students and their parents. Meanwhile I went to bed dirty, cold and hungry. I felt homeless, but knew there was a structur...

A HUG BETWEEN FRIENDS ~ Child and Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 x 2 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing. Email: Laurie Still freezing outside and inside. I have issues that I am dealing with on a both a physical and spiritual level. Trying to understand how we will have heat before the ice storm hits on Monday...and all the pipes freeze below the house because we have no heat in the house to keep them flowing. Morgan arrived yesterday about four and chopped down huge bush/trees by the gas meter. Then TP arrived with a jack hammer. Morgan is suppose to return today to jack hammer. TP will cut rebarb when he makes it home at four. OF course my brain goes entirely a different direction. We are turning Morgan loose with a jack hammer and NO experience... while Terry toddles off to work. ( BELIEVE ME as I watched Morgan trying to do this yesterday and had to remove myself from the window out of laughter and fear rolled together.) Morgan has no jack h...

BURSTING BLOOMS ~ Flower Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie If I could type with rattled teeth I would be doing so. Hard enough to type with gloves on and will be more challenging to paint with gloves on this morning. I was happily chatting with a friend when hubby arrived home yesterday and announced it smelled like gas outside the front door. I hurried through the door to the outside and almost passed out. We did further investigation and he did leave the propane turned on at the grill on the patio next to the kitchen. He promptly cut it all off and we waited ten minutes and investigated again. More gas smell but not as strong. We called the City Gas company. The Instructions left me shaking with laughter despite the seriousness of the situation. Realize it is 34 degrees outside at this time. The woman is saying do not flip any switches in the house on or off. Do not turn anything off that is running. Gather your ...

POT OF COLOR ~ Abstract Flower Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie COLORS COLORS COLORS...swirling and piling. This painting if full of color! It makes you smile when you look at it! Well, yesterday I made 8,023 steps. A bit better than the 3000 the day before. Not sure what will happen today. Waiting for a sign from the Lord on Direction. Things are changing here rapidly and I know in my heart I need to hang on and float along with the rough waters. The acronym would be WORD....WAITING ON REAL DIRECTION. That is where trust comes into the picture. I read a book once called You Can't Walk on the Water if you do not Get out of the Boat. Or something close to that. The water is a bit scary at the moment. I believe Daily Word is a treasure this morning. It speaks on the key word of Prosperity. Believing that divine abundance flows into our lives and prosperity is ours. Of course this is addressing not t...

Reflective Thoughts ~ Horse Abstract by Laurie Justus Pace 22 x 28 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing or commission work. email: Laurie This was an experience painting that created itself. I wish I could get a better picture of it, but this is as good as it gets right now! I have on my pedometer. Two days ago I did 7750 steps and yesterday fell to 4000 steps. This is my weight issue I am sure. BUT I Have lost TWO pounds. I will be walking much much more today! I had a blog idea lined up this morning but it will have to wait....I opened email this morning to find this award passed on to me from someone I have never met. At the moment the music to here blog plays softly in the background ebbing and flowing with a love and a soft touch. I do not know Melanie, but I am a step closer reading her blog this morning. She passed this award on to me. ME? Why me....I am the one that does not do chain anythings...letters, wishes, threats...none. At the early age of 8...

THREE YOUNG PONIES ~ Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace Oil on Three Canvas Panels 12 x 24 inches each, totaling 24 x 36 in size. SOLD Contact me for commission work. email: Laurie Tuesday is dawning slowly. I have been busy gathering up pieces for a new store in Marble Falls Texas. I have two commission pieces to do for the Stanges and their new store as well as some gorgeous canvas Giclees. LARGE ones. They are all embellished and I cannot even begin to describe the creativity and delight that went into these! In some ways it is so critical as you embellish and in others it is like icing a cake and doing all the decorations. I had not printed the large Canvas Giclees on my printer until last night. Terry and I were mesmerized by the clarity and color. There are tremendous in quality. Each is hand embellished (which takes about an hour of time with the size they are) and hand signed again. I printed up some posters for him too and have one of my new The Painted Pony Book S...

Morning Race ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing Laurie Six a.m. Wow I slept in today! Terry is still asleep but there is much to do so I am up as always working. Today is ship and pack day and I must have all my work ready for shipping so he can pack it. I am patiently waiting for a canvas order to arrive. I am down to almost nothing to paint on. Very frustrating. I spoke with Stacey last night and she bought bacon for 50 cents. She said it was five dollar bacon but with all her coupon adjustments it was only fifty cents. Sounds like she could do this coupon thing for working people and save them tons of money. Wonder if I can hire her. Not going to the grocery store would not be missed. Terry and Morgan are suppose to bring a load from the Storage Unit. Only about 14 more days until we have to have it empty. I am going to list the Lawn mower on Craig's List today as well. It is a huge one with lots o...

Early Morning Tea ~ Contemporary Still Life by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me for Price. Laurie Brrr Cold outside it is. I am up and ready for a hard day in the studio. I was rather distracted yesterday between my haircut, shopping with Stacey and added adventures through out the day. This painting was finished this morning with last touches. Simple splashes of color combining with light to bring out an early morning cup of tea from last Thursday. Shopping with Stacey. My daughter has become QUEEN of COUPONS. Don't know exactly when she contracted the illness but it has it grasp on her pretty tight. I am not one to scoff at coupons. I remember when in my early days I had a pouch of neatly clipped out coupons all organized into their cozy little slots waiting to be plucked out and turned in at the cash register. I believe I did this in and out over about a ten years period. I finally trashed the little coupon holder about 18 years ago. I haven'...

PINK PEONY ~ Flower Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me to Purchase. Laurie Saturday early finds me finishing up this peony to post on Daily Painters. I really enjoyed painting this one and will probably do quite a few this size right now. This is a smaller format for me and really an adjustment to painting small. I am accustomed to turning on my Chris Tomlin Christian Music and rocking with my palette knife on huge canvas....This was painted to Antje Duvekot. She is one of my links to the right and absolutely one of my favorite female singers to paint to. Her song about Alzheimer makes me weep while I paint. My dad has alzheimers. Yesterday we walked UP the huge hill we live at the bottom of! We meet so many new neighbors. Gayle lives at the top of the hill with her husband and children. There must have been 8 children playing in the yard. Truly wonderful! We walked about a mile and a half circling the local elementary school. On the way we...

OF THE FIRE ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 18 x 2 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing. Laurie Humm, it is the way I sleep! I woke up in pain again, but had my right arm swung up under my pillow. I sleep to soundly here compared to our home in Justin, I just don't move around much! Coming home. I had a piece of art I sold several years ago come home to me via a friend that bought it and sent it to me. IT IS one of my favorites. I will be repainting and touching it up and varnishing it and then sending it on to be sold at the Gallery. IF I can part with it! IF. It is an Indian warrior holding his child in his arms. Hopefully I will work on it this weekend and post it. Coming home. Those words mean so much to all of us. Home plants pleasant memories for many of us...life was simple growing up with our parents. Their home is always a safe place to come to when life is beating you up. It is psychological at best, but it always wor...

Roses and Lilies ~ Flower Art Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 on Linen Panel Contact me for commission work. Laurie SOLD! Thank you Daily Painters! Egads, what a night. Pulled neck from unpacking boxes last night and topped that with a nice sinus headache with our ever changing weather. A friend had sent me one of those heal cloths you can wrap an injury in...sort of magnet like. I wrapped my neck in it last nigh. It is still sore this morning but I am moving slowly and made a promise to Terry as he helped me dress this morning, that I absolutely would not unpack any boxes today. Will paint some this morning and then clean out the second pantry. We are busy sorting and discarding. Sorting and Discarding is something we should do in our lives on a continual basis. Lessens the stress in your life considerable. There is much of his stuff I would love to lose. I have the right to say this because at the last house we lived in I dumped probably 1/3 of my stuff and another 1/3 ...

THE GLARE ~ Contemporary Horse Abstract by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for details Laurie The eyes are the door to the soul for me. This particular horse has a look that you cannot take your eyes from his. Intense determination seems to ooze out! Yesterday was filled with a trip back to Justin Texas to retrieve cardboard for shipping paintings, Terry's Grandfather's bed and my painting rack. We still have one more trip for PVC Pipe. Couldn't get it all in the truck. We ended up there around Lunch time and Terry wanted to stop at the Local Burger place for sweet tea and a hamburger. Mind you we thought this place was really good about 6 weeks ago. It took less than two chews on my first bite to know I would not eat the hamburger. The salad I ordered was basically two shredded leaves of lettuce in 1/2 of honey mustard dressing. That is the dressing I ordered on the side. The French fries were right good. I ate half of thos...

Flowers from my Love ~ Contemporary Rose Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 16 x 16 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing. Laurie Good morning...actually pretty late morning for me to be blogging. We were up till midnight last night packing for shipping. I then was reading one of the Oprah books. More on that on another blog when it is not Mon or Tues and I am split ten directions. This is one of the times I need to take a meditating moment. I am BEHIND on painting. But errands must occur today first. FEDEX and a trip to Justin TX to pick up some stuff we left behind. The other book I have been reading is entitled HELP, LORD! I'M HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT by Karen OConnor. Terry and I laugh every night when I read the next story. Maybe I can share a few with you. "Dear God, I like this one! An older man from Phoenix phoned his son in New York with some bad news. "Son, I don't mean to ruin your day, but I need to tell you something important...

WOLVES ~ Impressions of Wildlife by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Earth Works Art Gallery $2400 SOLD this weekend! Well today I will take down the Christmas tree and pack away all the decorations. Terry is stuck making boxes and preparing the shipping stuff. THEN I want to paint a bit. Morgan has his teaching interview today and I need all positive thoughts and energy his way as he has a huge head cold that arrived yesterday! Nothing like being sick with flu symptoms and a cold and going on a life turning job interview. The Will of God never places us where the Grace of God cannot keep us. I know I phrased it a bit off, but you know what I mean. He pushes us so that we grow and become stronger with our faith and our journey in this life. Short entry today, and late as well, but much is calling my attention. Terry is still asleep in bed and it is after eight. We went to bed at nine last night, so he should be caught up by now. We will see how far w...

Journey ~ Abstract by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 72 inches Acrylic on 3 inch gallery wrap Canvas. Commissions welcome....this one is mine! Laurie This is my painting in my living room~before the chili party. Last night we had our sixth annual Chili party and White Elephant Gift Exchange Yesterday morning I was busy painting in the studio on the painting you see hanging above. We have a circular wall in the living room so I did a 72 inch abstract that hangs with a bowed wall behind it. Morgan did an awesome job decorating. Basically I let him run with the colors! As I was preparing for the party I decided life could be compared to a hard boiled egg. You know the egg starts out raw...like we do in life in the womb... a tiny egg. After we are born we get pretty hardened by life experiences. Some eggs (people) get harder boiled than others. (Can you argue that one?) Some people are soft boiled, so when you break into the egg the yellow is runny...makes it good to dip in your toast then...