Skip to main content

Racing the Sunset, Abstract Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace, Chance or Faith?

Racing The Sunset
3 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas
SOLD Abstract Horse Painting Comission
    














Contact me for your own painting. Laurie
 © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011

CHANCE?
  When a buyer commissions a painting, they take a chance on me as artist that I can paint and finish something close to what they love in my work.  Often a prospective buyer will ask me to paint for them and always I ask them for the top three or four favorite paintings on my website.  This provides insight to what attracts them to my work and makes it easier to see if we can work together.  It becomes CHANCE on my side when they email pictures from other artists or photographs off the internet.  Working from Photographs without copyright release is not professional or legal. Working from other artists' paintings is not legal or ethical either.  Chance begins to flow on both sides and I get nervous.

I have never cared for chance.
 I have never been a gambler in life and I don't take chances... but I do walk in FAITH.   I have learned that one must often climb out of their comfort zone or they cannot grow with life.  Faith is what encourages me to do this. Faith is how I accept commissioned paintings.  Spending time emailing, talking on the phone or even exchanging hand written letters with the perspective buyer.  Every bit of information I can gather about someone enable me to paint for them.  I want to know about music they listen to, foods they love to eat, and even the book they are reading as they are contacting me.

In turn, they need to come to me in total faith that I will paint something that has a bit of them woven into the piece, a bit of me as I carry the brush, and the Holy Spirit that provides the energy and gift to paint.  

How is your faith? When you take a check someone has written you to the bank are you viewing it as taking a chance that it cannot be cashed or are you viewing it in faith that the funds will be handed to you?

If you were in an airplane and it was going down and someone handed you a parachute...do you jump in faith that it is going to open or do you fear you are taking a chance it will not open?

Blind faith is living fully with God and living each day sharing your faith.
Let's leave 'Chance' on the Monopoly game.

FAITH

MY WORKSHOP IS READY...Click the workshop TAB above on the navigation bar or click HERE to see more.  You can email me for a PDF or to ask questions or you can download if from this site. This my friends is walking in Faith.


Laurie          

"without faith it is impossible to please [God], for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV)

 
GALLERY LINKS
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Bit of Wonder Contemporary Horse Oil Daily Painting Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 x 2 inches of thick buttery oils! Contact me to purchase: Laurie "This is the day that the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it". Psalm 118:24 It was a day of celebration yesterday as Lauren Gracen was born. Stacey began her labor around nine in the morning and was ready to push by 12:15, but they held her off while getting things set up. Took four good contractions with multiple pushes and the baby was there! All grandparents accounted for to count the toes and fingers! My admiration is for my daughter and her bravery and calmness despite the tension and newness of what she faced. I was honored to be there as the baby was delivered seeing my granddaughter push out into the light and take her first breathe... and then cry... and that she did. Terry was able to participate and he and Larry helped with pushing and getting Stacey upright for the process and then Terry was hon...
3 comments
Read more

Arrival...Refrigerator?

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Arrival Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the Lord whtever you do, and he will establish your plans."   Worrisome times laced with prayers.   The world seems like a scary place lately. Praying for everyone affected by the last two hurricanes.  My adventures today were the result of a dead refrigerator. I have loved my Kitchen Aid refrigerator very much. The first one in the 'French Kitchen' look died at 13 months. Hubby wanted the same refrigerator. Well this one made it four years and a few months. I cannot believe appliances are not made to last longer...but wait, is that because they make more money if we have to replace it in 4-5 years?  You replace your mattress at least every 7 years... and your washer dryer, you might get 7 years out of those... The stoves seem to make it closer to 10 years. We are Lowe's customers, and Robert ...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Marsh... of our lives? Walking with God.

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 The Marsh 6 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   I did two of these paintings about three years ago. They both sold immediately to a Florida Collector. Simple and elegant for a horse painting.  Ephesians 5:1-2 "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma."  One of the biggest challenges in walking with God is trusting Him and not trying to out think Him or to do everything your way. It never works.  The Apostle Paul wrote of his own struggles in Romans 7 .  Romans 7: 22-23 “ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the ...
Post a Comment
Read more