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A Planet without Flowers? Palette Knife Iris painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Tiny Blue Iris  Size: 18 x 18  Oil on Canvas.Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  Iris Murdoch A garden without flowers is like life only in black and white.  Flowers seem to reflect every possible color and shade created by God. I could not imagine life without color or flowers. If we do not have dreams or goals, we are living life in black and white day by day. If we are discontent with life we need an inner nudge..or an outer nudge... to awaken the missing desires and colors from our lives. We often get caught up

Out of Darkness...Contemporary Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Day Break 40 x 60   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.  Miguel Angel Ruiz Have you been thrown any unexpected curves lately?  How do you handle them?  It is your reaction that determines the outcome, whether you can find the good in it or not.  With this new living arrangement we are still on the 'honeymoon' with occasional glitches that make us take cover and want to think about what was ...before.  We are committed to stay this course and continue to find the good in

The Music Made me Do it.... Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Horses 40 x 60   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain." Steven Bochco Every painting has it's own rhythm and voice.  I paint by music. Each painting has a variety of songs and words behind the process. Our lives are no different ... we have our own rhythm and voice.  Each a unique timbre of sound in the melody of life.  What is your melody? What is your life? Here at the "Lazy Ours" we all have our day to live in the best

Lazy Lingering Days, Free of Responsibility... Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Opposites Attract  Size: 30 x 30 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends."Darell Hammond Can you measure love?  This horse painting from 2008 of two trotting side by side ... made me ponder that question. We often think more of love as an emotion, but it is so much more. Love is measured and maintained by what you give... NOT what you receive.  You c

Summer means Happy Times... Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 8 24 x 30   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."  Brian Wilson The days are flying past.  Last week we had Tropical Storm Bill move through adding another 8 inches of rain to our garden and trees. With it came a lot of wind. Damage: Two tomato plants blown over; several branches off the Red Oak tree in the backyard. In the middle of all of this... our youngest son, Morgan, and his wife Kelly, moved in across the street.  She is five months pregnant.  Rain, wind and a uhaul for boxes and I can say it was n

Raindrops and Sunbeams Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 5 x 7  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."  Hosea Ballou Quick summer showers have moved through this June heat.  Memories of St Louis and visiting my Grandmother's farm crowd my head. I remember chasing fireflies at night running through her garden in the circle drive.  I remember playing in the rain and seeing rainbows as the sun burst through the clouds.   Summer seems more unpredictable than most seasons with our torrential rains, unexpected winds and tornadoes... they are left over from spring, but in summer they POP up out of

The Lone Wolf Wolf Paintings by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Lone Wolf Jackson  Size: 40 x 60  Oil on Canvas. Available at Rare Gallery, Jackson Hole ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The wolf is part of nature, and nature is part of the wolf.  Together they survive giving to each other and living together.   With all my work with wolves, I like them to 'disappear' into the scene because of the unique relationship between the wolf and the world around them. This painting will be available at Rare Gallery in Jackson Hole.   "I am There" Poem by James DIllet Freeman "Do you need me? I am there. You cannot see me. Yet I am the light you see by. You

The Silence of the Wolf, Wolf Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 The Lone Wolf Jackson Size: 40 x 60  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This month I am doing new pieces for Rare Gallery in Jackson Hole. Rick and Hollee have asked me for tall vertical paintings of wolves, bison and horses in earth tones.  So I struggle NOT to paint like rainbow bright! "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." George Carlin I chose a wolf with a face fully turned and you will see tomorrow if you watch the slideshow of the paint itself how it evolved to this position in stead.  I slept on it, woke up and came into the studio and changed it all up!