Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Together Through the Journey' 30  x  30  Oil on Canvas SOLD THE DAY IT POSTED! THANK YOU! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: I finished this painting last week.  Lots of earthy feel and colors as the horses are woven into their environment. The Thought: When I was painting this piece, I was thinking of how horses often blend into their environment.  Horses are either at peace, or they are rather hyper and on the move. Here in Texas it is common for them to be part of the landscape rather than on the landscape. This is true of the nature of God with in us. He is indwelling and filling us with peace and serenity. He is woven through out our being.  We are often unaware of the true peaceful state of our souls when we are constantly pushing through the day creating our own chaos.  I believe in meditation and finding that quiet time of reflection an...

'At The Ocean' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Available through the Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas Texas Contact Pam Contact me for commission Work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 (What is she gazing off thinking about?) The Painting: Just about finished!  I started this painting this past weekend and worked on it on and off on Saturday and Sunday and then finished it this afternoon. I will live with it another day and do touch ups and then it will be in the show coming up at the Dutch Art Gallery. The Thought: I have been reading from the book I began last week about living in the NOW to Terry.  It sounds simplistic but of course is not.  The more we share in the book we discuss the reality of how much we truly allow the past and future to control our now.  When you live in the now you are embracing God's choices for you and knowing these are right choices despite how you perceive the situation.  Our perception i...

'Blue Glads' Private Collection Contact me for commissions. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This painting lives in Ohio.  This collector has two beautiful sons that I love to watch grow on their family blog.  Can you tell I met her through painting for her and I am the one gifted with the relationship and loving glimpses into the boys as they grow. The Thought:  T he word grow and spring seems to be appropriate, but I am on the thought of praying to reach out to those that are not near me.  From my sister Jan in Arizona, to the two wonderful growing boys in Ohio, to dear friends through out the United States and even the world, my prayers and hopes reach out to you far and near. To my classmates from the 1970 graduating class of Lake Highlands High School, to my fellow artists from Daily Painters and Artists of Texas, to my dear friend in Virginia and my other cherished friend in Detroit...I pray for y...

'Fleeting Moment'   Oil on Canvas Private Collection Contact me for commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This piece resides up near Boston.  It survived a house fire I am told and may come home to be refurbished.   The Thought :  I know there are many of you out there that keep the perfect house ....and are so punctual and good about cleaning.  My sister Jan is for sure.  She is older and much wiser and from her I have learned so much about life and cleaning. She came to help me move once and I marveled as she scrubbed down Terry's filthy coffee pot.  I am not one to even touch the machine as I do not drink coffee, but she firmly removed all the old coffee stains and shined it right up and then attacked the toaster, which I do use. I am so caught up in my work in the studio I become ignorant to things like this in the kitchen. I am totally anal about scrubbing bath...

'Guadalupe River' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Private Collection Contact me for commission work.  Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Another painting from the archives.  Enjoy this beauty and feel the serene presence of peace. The Thought:  Were you ever faced with something in life that made you hesitate and even be slightly fearful?  It could truly be almost anything now days.  The media is truly playing up everything around the world to get our attention with warnings of chaos and tales of doom.  It is how they make money in their business by their ratings on TV and the advertisers who will pay the big bucks for the evening news slots for ads.  Looking at the world today, there seems to be huge problems ahead according to the media. It is easy to be led into a fearful place if you watch the news on a daily basis . Problem here in Texas is the every changing weather and if you don'...

'Horse Four' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas Private Collection Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  From my archives... As we are in the midst of packing and moving you will have some paintings of old.  The Thought: I am late blogging this morning due to exhaustion.  We were busy yesterday helping Justin and Tara with their move to their new home south of Arlington.  They have a beautiful new house to fill with their love and dreams and we were happy to be apart of that start up you might say.  We literally didn't eat all day yesterday until seven thirty last night; I don't want to do that again. By this late in the morning sleeping in, I almost feel more tired than if I was up early doing.  I will probably feel 'behind' all day.  Even though this Blog will go up two hours late hopefully that does not mean my day will run two hours late all day.  I...

'Before The Crucifixion' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Private Collection Contact me for Commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  This is from almost ten years ago. I came across the files and wanted to share it.  We are in the season of Lent... in preparation for Easter and Christ's Resurrection. The Thought:   I do not know why I did not paint more in this series. I think I did three pieces.  This seems to be the only one I can still find on disk.  It was done well before the Mel Gibson Version of the Passion of the Christ.   The pain depicted in the painting was even too much for the person I painted it for.  They said it physically hurt to view it, but you know, maybe it should. It was definitely not a picnic type situation.  The burden He bears for us is not light and could not be depicted that way either. I enjoyed forming and painting the characters of each of t...

'Chloe' 20 x 30  Acrylic on Canvas She is soft and gentle. Private Collection SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :   Don't know what drove me to pink , but I can only guess subconsciously I knew Tink was coming today.   A sweet gentle Chloe is a rescue horse at the Goldwaith Horse Rescue here in Texas. The Thought: Yesterday Terry and I drove over to ULINE to pick up boxes for packing .  I dislike the freeway very much.  I always check my iphone for traffic problems before we get on and then with clenched hands I try hard to think of positive things.  It seems like every time we are on the entrance ramp to pull out into the first lane, there is solid traffic in that first lane and NO ONE wants to let you in.   I remember taking the KY driving test when we moved there twenty years ago and that was a test question.  If you are in t...

'Something Different' Not sure of size  Acrylic on Canvas Make an offer! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   The Painting : Did not paint yesterday, but did drive out to Mt Vernon to do measurements at the new house. What I posted was from a class session last year. It is not finished, but not time to dig into the archives. If you see paintings available you like, please email me. We are moving in two weeks and TP does not want to move them! The Thought : T oday on the road I kept seeing the billboard signs for that one group called "I AM SECOND". Don't know if you know what they are but you can google them.  Very interesting and very on target.  Here is their website: I Am Second. I am second. God is first.  It does not work any other way despite us trying to be first. We simply cannot be first. Every time we manage to try and be first we will be knocked down along...

'CLOSE UP BEING A PRINCESS' Contact me. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 SNOW in Dallas  March 21, 2010 The Painting: Just a close up of the one I am still working on. I was sick so no painting. The Thought:    The past 36 hours have not been the best, but definitely not the worst either. I hope to be back in the studio today boxing and painting. While in bed, I did read more in the book I mentioned and one of the thoughts I have been working over is the difference between an emotion in your body and an actual thought in your body when you are quietly sitting emptying your thoughts.  Must be why they say some folks act from the heart with out a thought and then there are those that think everything through at least a hundred times before they take action. If you are sitting quietly and surrendering to the simplicity of no active thoughts, how do you feel an emotion running through you? I am still working on t...

'Power and Might' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas PRIVATE COLLECTION SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  I revisited a painting from two weeks.  This is sheer power...and thick paint. The Thought :  I just bought the new book by Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.   Funny thing is a good friend spoke to me last night about being still and in the moment and give in to the point of surrender.  What other choice do you truly have in life?  Until you surrender all you can have nothing. The back jacket of this book talks of leaving behind your analytical mind and get away from it all.  Those squirrels  are working overtime in your head anyway... give them a rest....find a higher place to be. As both this author says and my friend says,  "silence speaks". It is here you will find the answers to joy. We are going to try this today several times... a...

'Against the Wind' 30 x 40 inches  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  Rough and rugged and shouts out WIND WIND.. RUN AGAINST THE WIND. If there is one layer of paint there are at least 8 layers or more. Here is Mac's finished painting for the contest: And THANKS to ASEL ART RICHARDSON to Jim for donating the canvas to Mac. The Thought :   Layers in life.  How many layers do you have?   I remember when I hit fifty it was a WOW moment of realizing how long I had been alive and how very much I had done in my fifty years. From a tiny child first growing up in St Louis MO... transplanted to the heat and humidity of Dallas at age four... my first shock was living in an apartment complex and bunking in the same room with my 8 year old brother.  Culture shock on steroids between the move and the sharing of the room. Then layers of year...

'Honey Horse' 30 x 30  Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection Contact me for commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  A commission painting where the eye of the horse captured the soul of the entire piece: The Thought:   Yesterday was a day of running and quiet and movies.  We did the traditional Target run and bought Tink clothes, my new summer paint clothes (Cheap t-shirts to fill with paint... at $6 a piece), a few magazine with flavors and colors and choices for the Mother of the Groom dresses, a CD for Mac, licorice for Terry and of course coffee from Starbucks.  Then off to Asel Art for Supplies.. egads $450 worth of paint and canvas.  Being an artist is very costly.  Terry ran next door to buy some fresh hot ciabatta bread and olive oil garlic dipping sauce and we headed home to make homemade tomato mushroom garlic sauce over wheat angel hair.  After we stuffed ourselve...

'Being a Princess' 11 x 14  Oil on Canvas Click for pricing: Available through the Dutch Art Gallery Dallas. Contact me for Commission Paintings. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  I am preparing for a show at the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas and this is a piece for this show.  Little girls have dreams of being a princess. This is painted from a photograph shared by a collector and I fell in love with the soft look of the little girl.  This is a TINY painting for me at 11 x 14 inches so I am a bit out of practice painting so tiny....but I hope you will enjoy it. The Thought:    I have several things in mind this morning.   First, How well do you take criticism? I think I wrote about it earlier this month, but I am hitting it again. Sometimes there are folks that find fault in everything.   I often think they suffer from being what we call "Grumpy Pants" in our family....

'Grey Appy' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Private Collection SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 This is Conni Togel...dear friend and fellow member of the International Group of Five, The Five Graces.  Click on the picture above and go to page 21... and enjoy my sister of the heART! The Painting:  Not sure this painting will stay as it is. BUT I worked on it yesterday and will probably reattack it today. The colors are dynamic and I do not think this picture does it justice. The soft patterns of an Appy with tinted greys and whites and woven in blues, golds, greens and mauves.  The Thought:  I hope you have time to click on Conni's magazine article above. You have to go to page 21 to start reading her story and realize the great joy she brings to many people with her gift of art.  Her gift to us is not just with her artistic ability but also to her joyful view of ...

'A Girl's Best Friend' 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas Click below for purchase information: The Dutch Art Gallery Woman's Show Contact me for commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: I finished this painting adding in the dark shadows that were lacking in the first image shot I took of this.  Again it will be at the Dutch Art Gallery for the upcoming show.     Western Art Collectors  April Edition The State of Art in Texas. The Artists of Texas  www.artistsoftexas.org The Thought :  Everything we read in life leaves some type of impression on us .  Heck, everything we watch leaves some time of impression on us as well.   In times past the written word was something special shared to pass down between generations, often stories and parts of history keeping alive through the sharing of the written word from family to family. The legacy of the past written in hand word...

'Hints of Picasso' 24 x 18  Oil on Canvas Private Collection SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010    Mak is here painting for the week.  Sunflowers tonight. The Painting :  Fun with colors again and this one zings.   The free looseness of color and brush ring out expressively. The Thought:    I remember in childhood days for running free or riding my bike as hard as I could, feeling free and able to race the wind.  Then there was the day I was in my head in that "free" zone that I literally ran my bike into a parked car bumper from the bike side.  I bounced off pretty darn hard a bit dazed.  My front fender was bent on my bike and my knee had jammed tightly, but I was able to jump back on and ride the rest of the way home. I think we get there in life too.   We are cruising along feeling like the top of the world a...

'Pretty in Pink' 10 x 10  Oil on Canvas Private Collection SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  I debated whether to put this one up. The colors are so intense and this doesn't show it properly.  I may post it again later once I get a good picture in good light. The Thought :  When I take a photo of a painting, the light matters. As an artist I do not have all the photography equipment that would make it nice, so I do what Peter Togel, husband of Conni Togel, www.Charisma-art.com taught me to do.  Simply take it in natural light.  The picture above was in the studio at 10 at night.. not good light.   I began to think about that and with the "light" being the most important element to viewing the painting at its best... that would be true in life with all situations .   View them in the "best light". That light of course is God...

'Color of Two Painted Ponies' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas   Private Collection Contact me for commission work Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: I began layer on this last week.  I saw flowers in pots and ladies dancing, but most of my buyers look for my equine art...so last night I began working to find the painted ponies... voila here they are.  I truly enjoy the movement of colors in this new signature style and so far it has been exceedingly popular. The Thought : Movement. When I think of motion and movement I instantly think of the world around me.   When you live in the city of Dallas, there is CONSTANT movement of people, cars, airplanes, dogs, cats, birds, etc.  There is absolutely never a quiet still moment. In the city it cannot be.  In the country you face less people induced noise, but definitely nature at her loudest... birds, crickets, wolves, dogs, water and stillness. I bel...

'The Original Trigger' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 I do not know why when I clicked SUBMIT this morning, it did not submit!  Better late than never. The Painting:  THICK oil with the palette Knife.  This is a favorite in my home, but now available for purchase.  I will be sending it on to a gallery in the next few weeks...so if you like it, email me now. The Thought:   The trigger finger... Terry has been teaching me to shoot a gun over the past year, altho I have not pulled a trigger in about 7 months...I hope to shoot again and learn more. I did not like shooting at the range because of the noise level. It was deafening. I look forward to starting back up again in the country. Triggers ... what are triggers in your life?  What are those things that cause an immediate reaction in your temperament or demeanor?  There is so...

'Rain in the East' 20 x 20  Oil on Canvas Private collection Ohio Contact me for commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010  The Painting:  A play on color values of blues and turquoise. Then add fun fillies to the mix and you have Rain in the East.  It was a rainy morning yesterday and that inspired this painting. The Thought:   Appearances are deceiving.   I was surprised to hear a friend of almost 18 years say something that surprised me to the point of thinking "what'?  Relationships always seem to require a give and take on both parties. If balances are not maintained then the relationship fails.  Time and experience is what normally strengthens relationships.  The more time thrown into the mix, the stronger the feelings... feelings of love or feelings of distrust.  Time proves all with people in our lives.  Terry and I have to reflect and pray about something in our liv...

'A Girl's Best Friend' 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas The Dutch Art Gallery "Who Does She Think She Is" Women Finding Their Voice Show Opens April 9th and Run through April 15th Contact the Dutch Art Gallery for Pricing on "A Girls Best Friend" by Laurie Pace  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Well, it is not quite done, but I am posting it since it is 90% at this point.  It will be at the show in April so if you are interested,... now is the time to contact Pam to purchase it so it is marked SOLD as the show opens!  She does the absolute best custom framing in the southwest... and a Berle wood frame would look stunning on this painting. The Thought:    A Girl's Best Friend... that is an open statement .  I remember lying in bed this morning praying so hard begging God to hear my frustrations and supplications...as I recalled all the greatness in Him. He is the Problem Solver. He is the Father that ...

'Rights of Spring' 20 x 30  Oil on Canvas Contact Steve at the Mirada Fine Art Gallery, Colorado.  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Gorgeous Color in thick buttery oils in my signature style... available through Mirada Fine Art Gallery. The Thought:   Facets of light sparkle in our lives through out the day . We are usually too busy to notice the beauty of the prisms charging the air.  The light shoots through the glass and shoots color in every direction breaking the solitude around us... and still we ignore the beauty before us. When I paint like this, I love capturing the colors in the air making up the horses. This painting will be shipping to Mirada next week for the April 3rd show. May your day be filled with the light and color of our Father. Laurie "So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory ."--Psalm 63:2

'Appy Spring Storm' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas PRIVATE COLLECTION Contact me for commission work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Fun with an Appaloosa... color and striking compliments.  Gorgeous Oil Painting on Stretched. The Thought:  Spots...I guess we all have them. We have rough spots, smooth spots and colorful spots...both on our bodies and in our lives.   Crystal always tells me that the brains of the appaloosa and the dalmatian are similar and lacking some genetic powers of smart...but I find that hard to believe. I have never tried to look it up... but I know they both have powerful spots. When I paint my Appy's I love having fun with my colors and blending to create that fresh look of spontaneity.  Our 'spots' in life are the things that keep our life from being smooth all the time.  They can be bright spots or dismal spots. They are often unplanned spots of things we could not pr...

'Afternoon Practice' 24 x 36  Mixed Mediums on Canvas Commission Sold Contact me for a commissioned painting of your own in this musical series. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Mixed Mediums in varnish overlays on canvas. Part of my limited edition of Antique Music Practice paintings. The Thought:   Practice Practice Practice. How often did my mother tell me to do that from second grade on?  I always had my favorite songs I wanted to play and she would buy me the sheet music but I had to practice those old stuffy composers.  That is how I felt about them then.  I paint by their compositions now. Practice is something that helps us develop new habits in our lives .  When you are wanting to lose weight, you have to practice practice practice eating a bit less and exercising a bit more.  It does not happen over night.  It is simply practice practice practice. If you want ...

'Texas Herd on the Move' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 Here is the invitation out for the Colorado Show. If you are in the area... stop by! The Painting: Brilliant colors spill across the canvas surface creating a translucent feeling of energy running through the horses.   The Thought:    Are you filled with God's translucent energy?  I was in a situation yesterday that I have never been in before.   It was stressful before it occurred, but while I was in the midst of it, I felt Him flowing through me and I was not nervous or distracted by fear.  It was God's Translucent Energy filling the fabric of my being, and from it the peace that was needed. I know each of us face things like this in life.   We face people that throw barbs at us and accusations that simply are not true. It is rather hard not to come back to defend...