Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Sketches on Canvas Longhorn Land One 40 x 40 inches Oil    As I am waiting to work on the sky of the Blue Hills, I sketched out the next palette knife longhorn painting that is on a 40 x 40 canvas. Rupen of Canvasplace.com hand builds my canvas and allows me to choose higher grade canvas that is smooth for my knife to work the surface easier.  Rupen has been building my canvas since 2006.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Tender of heart seems to escape the thought of many these days. Driving into Dallas and back home yesterday more than proved that to me with the questionable driving skills and determination of many on the road. Our new Passion Vine is blooming! Be aware of others around you. Be open to their body language as well as their words. They may  contradict and it will take  praye...

Blue Hills Landscape still in progress by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas   sold I am at the waiting stage. I have painted, layered and triple layered the paint. Now it hangs in the studio for the period of review where I dab here and there working on things. I think the sky is going to change out colors... and I may pull some more reds and oranges through out. Stay tuned... ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Paths Chosen Are you the type that wants to drive down those small roads to see where they go? Terry shakes his head, but takes off at my plea for a new adventure.  We have discovered that is not always good, and sometimes it is just the opposite, you find things you would have missed in your lifetime.      Paths before us, clear cut or full of  obstacles, are bot...

Blue Hills Progression from my Studio by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas Yesterday I laid in the mid layers of paint on this Blue Hills Landscape Painting. This is all pure oils with out any impastos. Drying will take some time with the greens I am using. They take longer to cure for some reason. I am heading back in to paint more today. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Silence... is a state of consciousness containing peace.  Turning away from the chaos churning in our lives.  No TV, no music, no other voices, no noise... simple silence and with it comes peace. When was the last time you went there? Eyes closed or open, your heart knows the way with its steady beating. I always think of Skaitook Lake in Oklahoma just outside of Tulsa.  It was a long ago day and my first ride on Terr...

Blue Hills in progress, Landscape palette knife painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas     There are four layers of color on the sky right now and three layers on the blue hills in the background. The line of trees in the distance has about six layers and I have not actually started the three trees that are blocked in yet. The back field has four layers of color and will get more today. I am working my way forward in the composition. I was excited by the tiny bit of reds in the back tree line peaking out and hope to discover more seasoning colors as I work today. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Prosperity "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance." Matthew 25:29 Prosperity does not translate only to money.   Whatever you put your energy...

Base Coat Blue Hills 40 x 40 inches This is the beginning or actually the second step after sketching on the canvas. It truly did not matter what colors I used in blocking right now..and these are NOT the colors you will see once I begin knifing my paint onto the surface.  This basically covers up the white already primed canvas with some colors. Progress will be shown tomorrow. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Joyfully Existing in life from day to day, working to live makes it hard in a way To stop and take a breath, to look around and see the joy that can now be found. Moving round you is His Spirit bright, waiting for you to walk in the light. Lifting the burdens you shoulder through time, opening your vision to what you may find. Joy is an awareness and creative expression, it's there to...

More Longhorn Sketches from Texas Artist Laurie Pace We still have not narrowed down the direction on the longhorns but hopefully we are getting closer. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Life Softly Spoken With over 30 years of teaching experience in both public and private schools and my own art studio, I have learned early on that speaking softly and saying less controls children the best. When you set the mood of your classroom, it always works best to keep it simple.   The KISS method was one my husband told me was used by all the mechanics at American Airlines. They referred to the acronym as Keep It Simple Stupid...but I had to adjust that for the classroom to Keep It Simply Soft. My classrooms were home away from home for these children as they spent more time with me during their waking hours than they did with...

More Longhorn Sketches by Texas Artist Laurie Pace  This is another sketch for the square paintings. It is one of the only ways I could sketch to get longhorns on a square canvas and that was to angle them. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Shared Moments The treasured moments of friends is such a blessing.  I promised updated photos with Jan and Arlo from this weekend and you are are getting just that!  We spent a wonderful time with them catching up on old times and making new memories.  Lady L decided Arlo was her other Grandpa and of course with Jan being my 'sis' Lady L decided she was 'grandma' as well.  It has been two years since I sat face to face with Jan and I wanted to cry when they pulled in the driveway. I finally could look into her eyes and feel the warmth of her hug in person. My Sister of ...

More sketches of longhorns for a longhorn painting coming up. I am doing rough sketches for some longhorn paintings next week. This is on my down time between painting layers on my Blue Hills.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Old Friends This morning breaks with excitement for Terry and I. We are going to see our dearest friends Arlo and Jan today. They have traveled all the way from Arizona to Texas for a granddaughter's wedding and driven to the area for us to see them. Make new friends, but keep the old, some are silver and the others gold. TP and I have lost twenty pounds since this picture in 2010. This is Terry, Laurie, Jan and Arlo at our Lake. Old friends are so dear as they have walked so much of your journey in life with you. Jan has seen me through many moves. Prayed me through many crisis and been the...

Beginning Sketch Blue Hills Landscape Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas   Sold  - Commission I will block in color in acrylic next and then begin my knife work. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Monkey See Monkey Do When Bampa and I are visiting Lady L, the two of them, Bampa and Lady L are like monkeys.  TP loves to take her out on her "Park".  That is what she calls her swing set, the Park. He does stuff and she is right behind him imitating everything. She and Bampa are two of a kind when it comes to Monkey Business.  They are best friends always and the trust is that based on unconditional love.  When a child trusts an adult in their life so simply... that is an opposite reminder of how we do not seem to trust God so simply. We still want to control everyt...