Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Night Dance' 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas Decided to do this as a NEW YEARS give away. Please email me if you would like it. It is wet and cannot ship for a week. ALL READY SPOKEN FOR!  Will be shipping this one out next week. Watch for the next give away. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   It was a long day yesterday at the computer but I have finished outlining and preparing the written areas of my first workshop for 2011.  Now to decide where to have it.  There are beautiful places to stay here in Mt Vernon and I can teach it at our Franklin County Arts Alliance building, or I can have it with Dena Wenmohs at her ranch in Cypress Mill, TX , or begrudgingly I could have it in Dallas. Not too much for decompressing in that congested place!   Have also considered a special place here in Mt Vernon c...

'New Morning Race' 12 x 12  Oil on Canvas $125 includes Shipping in the US. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Changes in the New Year... and Terry unloaded my new tool box.  He wanted me to buy it from Sears but I didn't want to wait as long as it would have taken. I found this a Lowe's and I love it.  I was able to retire my wire basket holder from the container store and my big four drawer plastic holder from Target .  EVERYTHING fit in here.    We had thick Plexi-glass cut to fit the top. I have part of it long and part of it square. I use the smaller piece to mix my paints on and it is washable.  The box also has electrical outlets so I have set it up with my ipod charger and player on it... and actually painted yesterday.  Just a start in preparation for the big painting....

'The Race is On' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards I know I wrote about the donut hole not too long ago.  That is where you focus on what is not there instead of what is there.  When we focus on what we lack we become very hollow inside and we feel defeated and at a complete loss.  The importance is in acknowledging the 'donut' or the real things in your life that are there now.   We are all blessed to live our lives in abundance.  Our main problem is focusing on the missing things or our perceived holes in our lives. Take a deep breath today and remind yourself you are full of the spirit.  You are blessed with His love and then let Him know how grateful you are for the things you do have right now.  You have exactly what you are suppose to have...enjoy it. ...

'Two from the Herd in the Sun' 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas Contact Steve at Mirada Fine Art to purchase.   Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We are home!!! We even slept in our own bed last night. MUCH to do today to get caught up.  Much to do before the 31st of December.  ALL of it in His hands and truly not to overtake my life. Do you tend to let things overtake your life?  It think is is sometimes an obsessive behavior that flares up occasionally.   All of it is in that controlling category. Slow down and quite moving so fast. Make the best of this day and find the happiness welling up inside of you.  Give yourself the break and do not do so much. Maintain the Spirit of Christ to be an inspiration to you and give to yourself the peace you deserve. This inner attitude of a peaceful...

'Pot of Color' 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas  SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Heading home early this morning. It has been so much fun being with Stacey and her family. Tink is totally attached to her BAMPA (Terry). She gets up in the morning looking for him... "Bampa where are you?" I posted the POT OF COLOR because it ever reminds me of the world filled with God's color.  Let some of this magnificent color spill into your life this next year.  Open your heart to receive the light and energy of His Power. Next post will be from home sweet home. I will be starting a 5 ft by 5 ft horse composition for a collector in Arizona...   Laurie “Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes...

' Three Roosters' SOLD Commissioned Painting 3 ft by 4 ft   Oil on Canvas  Contact me For your own Painted Roosters.  Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Christmas was a day and a half yesterday.  I came close to the edge of forgetting it was even Christmas.  Throw in only 4 hours of sleep after staying up late to build toys, the baby getting up for Santa just after 5 am, a chaos of toys, more toys, and more toys and Tunes of Woody singing HOME ON THE RANGE and Buzz Lightyear TO INFINITY and BEYOND, the Aliens from the Claws  WOOOOAH, a Green dinosaur named Rex that says Raarr WERE YOU SCARED, Mr and Mrs Potato Head, a HUGE group of green army men marching to AH AH AH, a miniature trampoline, Lincoln Logs, Weebles, a Bitty Baby, cars with a garage, dress up clothes, games, purses, clothes and then blend in one trip to the ER, a ...

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.   ~Janice Maeditere Christmas Joy on Christmas Eve We spent Christmas Eve at my mother's house. My granddaughter, aka "Tinkerbelle" aka the "Tink" had on her Party Dress. We went from Mom's to my brother Kirk's for his annual Christmas Eve party. He and wife Leslie absolutely have the BEST FOOD IN DALLAS on Christmas Eve at their house.  Tink was the hit of the party. More for later. I am up early before she is up to see her Santa this morning. You will have to wait for Santa pictures. May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  ~Author Unknown God Bless you all and Merry Christmas. Laurie “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” - Isaiah 9:6

'Conversation' 15 x 15 Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Christmas Eve Day has arrived. Not much blogging will occur over the next few days as we are immersed in the love and light of Christmas making memories. From our house to yours... wishing you the light of the season in your life from this moment on. Blessings this weekend as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus. This is our 'Tinkerbell' Merry Christmas.   Laurie   “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his fav...

'Longhorn Love' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD but I can do a commission! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Fundamental Screw Up.  I had not heard that one before my husband muttered it earlier today.  He was calling himself that, not me... and then another artist referred to herself as an idiot when it came to some computer things.  What do you call yourself? Sometimes I think I am a screw up. Sometimes I think I am undeserving.  I could go on but will stop there.  We are all susceptible to thoughts like this. We are human. We are able to go negative pretty quick on ourselves.  Our feelings get hurt and we get frustrated. We allow this to happen. We bring it on ourselves and we use it to validate our feelings at that time.  It is simply not true.  Keep yourself focused...

'Red Moon Winter Solstice 2010' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas  Available Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 Close up of "Light Horse" representing Day.  Close up of the "Dark Horse" representing Night.   My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards I had to finish it off with the red moon.  It has been 372 years since the last lunar eclipse with a beautiful red moon. " A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth aligns between a full moon and the sun, blocking any sunlight from reflecting off the moon's surface." One of the articles I read was how someone commented that God gifted us with a beautiful early Christmas present.  I could not agree more.    That inspired me to tuck the red moon into the background of this painting.  Artists always tell the story; Artists alway record history.  I want...

'Night Wolf' 5 x 7 inches  Oil on Canvas Available  Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards This is my new table top easel to keep by the fireplace.  I did these on Sunday evening.  Yesterday was a warmer day in the sixties and I was busy cleaning out the studio and made quite a dent. We also took books into the library to donate them.   I will be experimenting on some smaller paintings as we will be traveling again in the spring and summer and I want to take acrylics and this easel with me to use as we go.  Open your minds right now and think of things to allow into your life.  Take a risk for the positive even if it seems unreachable or unfamiliar.   It is time this year to take out some index cards, at least ten of them and on five of them write down one thing on each card that yo...

'Nude' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Monday Monday...it is that day. I am determined to finish wrapping the last four gifts, deliver boxes of books to the town library as donations and finish getting my studio cleaned up today.  I am in search of a new tool box to hold my stuff... a large one on wheels. My wire one on wheels is about dead. I remember when I bought it back in 2003 and was SOO worried because it cost $350 for it at the Container Store. Little did I know it would be worked so hard over the past six years and the little wheels won't stay on it and it leans like a tower bending.  It groans when I pull open the drawers. Yes, time for a few adjustments here and there and what better time than to be ready for the new year. Shed all of the STUFF that you do not need in ...

'Golden Moments' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Well we almost have the Christmas letter ready to email out. Terry has been on the phone collecting missing emails.  I simply did not get to make cards this year and this is what we are doing. The positive thing is there are lots of pictures going out in the letter to friends and family. Beautiful weather found us delivering the remaining of our bread basket gifts to our friends out in East Texas.  It is fun to go visiting and see all the homes decorated for Christmas.  My favorite was Jacque's old registered prairie farm house. WOW... I need to take the camera with me next time. Tucked in the woods off a country road, it is a living piece of history. Last night we watched Miracle on 34th Street . Have you seen it t...

'More Progress on Winter Solstice' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We are back in Mt Vernon and hopefully I can finish up this painting.  I think every thing was mailed off for Christmas.  I have three books here to mail out and that is the last of the shipping.  Now Terry and I are going to relax over the next few days before we head back to Ft Worth/Dallas.   It was hard leaving the baby yesterday. She cried when we left... she thought she should be with us.  THAT was hard. She is a love.  Watch for more pictures....I took some before we left yesterday of her in her pajamas... it was pj day at school yesterday. When I think of this painting and the slow build up on layers of buttery Holbein Oils... I think of our lives and how experiences b...

'Reflections' 24 x 30 Oil on Canvas SOLD  Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards It was a busy busy day yesterday.  Up at four thirty...and to bed by ten last night.  Thinking we will head home in a few hours. Have to go by Asel Art and pick up some supplies and pick up a 5 ft by 5 ft canvas for a new commission piece for a collector in Arizona.  I hope I get to meet her. May have to deliver the painting to meet her and her horse. Meanwhile, Terry and I did make it to ADAMS furniture in Justin Texas. The best place to buy furniture in this area.  Hometown like for sure.  We picked out a queen size mattress and it will be made and delivered to Stacey's next week so we will have a good bed to sleep on for the holidays. We had lunch at Chicken Express and TINK loved it.  After that home for a nap (three h...

'Five Hydrangea' 12 z 12 Oil on Canvas Blessings to you. The painting is free to the first email. THANKS for ALL the emials... CLAIMED and NOW IT IS ON it's way to Ohio.    Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We are at Stacey's and Vicki is at our house. I think she is bathing Paddy today.  That ought to be interesting.... My blog is short and late as we are babysitting the granddaughter while Stacey has some tests being run at the hospital.She had called late yesterday and we drove in to help out.  We decided after zero sleep last night we are heading out to find a bed to sleep in here.  Didn't have much of that last night. Baby was up at 4:30 this morning and that was after the cat came in at 1:30 and woke us up to the point of Terry jumping out of bed and hitting all the lights on tryin...

'Falling into Winter' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD  Commission a Painted Pony Pull for the holidays.  I can still get it shipped to you in time for Christmas. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards I reposted this painting because I just sold a print of it on Fine Art America. You can visit my work there by clicking the link above that says Giclees.    Financial worries are at the front of  my blog today.  Those are the hardest things to let go of and not worry about.  Don't you agree?  Yes, you have to pay your bills. Yes, you have to be responsible for your actions and your in-actions, but you have a choice on what to spend time on in your mind.  What truly matters in your life right now?   My thoughts are just beginning to wrap around the idea that maybe if I acknowledge the prosperity in my life right now, ...

  'Blocking in Color for Winter Solstice' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas IN PROGRESS ndp Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We were surprised with a Christmas Card from someone dear to us that lives far away.   The image of the kids and the parents smiling for the traditional card made my heart warm and brought a huge smile from Terry when I shared the picture.  I pulled out the 'newsletter' included and began reading about the past year for the two young ones, happily sharing the details with Terry as I read. A first broken bone, speech therapy, basketball, baseball, Playhouse Disney etc.   There was a point my voice broke and I stopped reading.  The tears were falling and the world seemed to turn upside-down.   The youngest son, only age 3, was diagnosed in October with a rare form of kidney...

'Beginnings of WINTER SOLSTICE' 30 x 40 inches  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards I am not painting yet...but I am sketching left handed.  I sketched out the beginnings of a painting to start yesterday. It is cold outside and it will be cold in my back porch studio. It has windows but not heated and cooled with out help. Terry has several good heaters out there for me to work, but I have to turn them on and start up the heat.    I had decided as I sketched today that the painting would be based on the upcoming Winter Solstice . The new painting is going to pull colors from an earthier palette and I am totally moved by the season and the colors outside my window on the pond. ( I have this feeling that soon you will see other artists painting horses and entitling their pieces "Winte...

'Four Black Horses' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas  SOLD but I would love to do one similar for you! Contact me for commission work.  Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Slow to recover this week.. still sort of weakly moving and a headache began yesterday, but I have high hopes of a better weekend as I heal.   I also hurt my wrist last week and probably this time off from painting was needed.   Terry has been working on brakes on the truck and hopes to finish today before the cold weather hits. It will be in the low twenties by tomorrow night.  Me, I hope to finish cleaning up the studio and the rest of the house. I did half of it yesterday....slowly slowly. Contemporary Fine Art International has been growing steadily.  We have been visiting on the vision for the future and setting up our goals accordingly.  We are still...

'Boys on the Beach' 24 x 48  Oil on Canvas SOLD  This one is also on the cover of a dog magazine... Contact me for Commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards If I had a thought I certainly forgot it.  I have been down with a viral infection, most likely picked up at church.  Terry drove me into  Dallas to see our family physician Dr Steve . (he will have a new book out soon!)  I have never had chills and sweats at the same time and no fever. It was pretty harsh. Add in no sleep for three nights and no appetite and you know where I have been.  Mary Jo Zorad had just sent me this wonderful email: (Mother you probably already have this one written down.)  "Remember, happiness comes by living each moment, among all the struggles and problems of life, with an attitude of unshakable inmost happiness, and not by hel...

'IN PROGRESS' 11 x 14 Oil on Canvas commissioned painting... in progress  Contact me for commissioned work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Brr Baby it's cold outside.  I was working on this painting and still several layers more to go on adjusting colors, I am working from Iphone pictures.   The hair is throwing me from the soft filtered light... so I had to walk away from it yesterday. I was so chilled yesterday afternoon  I climbed into bed under the comforter to warm up and fell asleep watching Oprah .  Terry thawed out some speg. sauce from the freezer and surprised me with a hot dinner. I fell asleep early last night, so I am pretty rested as I write. This morning Rita is dropping off three dozen extra large eggs...I may have to paint eggs today.  We will have coffee ready and something good...Have to ...

'Hints of Picasso' 24 x 18  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We were in church yesterday and again I believe that Pastor Pete spoke his words directly to Terry's heart and a family situation we are facing.  The reading was Isaiah 11 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.  The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,    the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD—  and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge  by what he sees with his eyes,    or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness  he will judge the needy,    with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the ...