Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Magnolias 24 x 24   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind, Trials and tribulation may weather her,  Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried, Deep in her Southern soil.” ― Nancy B. Brewer, Letters from Lizzie Weathering storms... outside and inside is always a challenge. Usually we seem to avoid thinking about Divine Order and we try to overthink the situation.  When storm clouds brew on the horizon what do you do?  To be wise is to be alert. My daughter, Stacey, always has a plan B.  (I think she learned that f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Truest Selves    Size: 24 x 60  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions I was both excited and nervous as I finished this painting. It was for a friend that truly is calm and does not like tons of color and energy.  I was ready to have him say... "Could we...." on changes, but he loved it.  Right now it is at the framer getting a shadow box frame on it and it will then be shipped to NYC to live in a high rise.  Deep breath and a deep sigh.   God is good!  Here is the video of the work in progress all the way through. 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Progress Painting   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” ― Richard Bach The layering is heavy and exciting. The horses continue changing all the way to the end of the process. Constant contact with the collector enables me to capture the essence of what they hope for their painting. Observe the changes tomorrow in the manes of the horses. In addition watch the adjustment to the positioning of the middle horse and then the colors and shapes of the muzzles on the outer two horses. 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Progress Painting  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.” ― Rumi This is the second steps of a commissioned painting. I did up four sketches for the piece and he chose the three horses drinking. You can see how I began the piece with a mid dark blue and then began sketching the horses in place. The base is in acrylic and then the painting is in oil. Every painting I do has a 'joy' to it.  To enjoy this moment of painting opens up beautiful thoughts inside of me. I love this part of

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Process Painting  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. ― Richard Bach When it begins, it begins!  The quotes on the painting are: “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”  ― Richard Bach “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Red Bridge   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche I am one of THOSE people that always look at small roads I pass and I want to go down them and explore them.  Never thought about all the bridges tempting us out there... with attractions on the other side. I grew up with that saying "The grass is never greener on the other side of the fence." Maybe I am more cautious with bridges for just that reason.  Where do you invest your life? Where do you spend your tim

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Blue Morning Glory  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” ― Walt Whitman Each morning I am an early riser. I love to watch the sunrise and truly miss seeing it rise on the lake.  Now I love watching the sunrise in the eyes of my two granddaughters.  I hear the beauty of the world in the baby's morning song as she wakes to her day.  Terry and I look at each other and just grin.   Our day has begun.   So often concern, doubt and fear seem to get in the way of us realizing peace of mind and heart. How do you get back to that place of peace?  Som

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Dark of Night  3 x 4 ft   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.” ― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems Well... this is it! I finished it.   Each painting takes from me my spirit, my heart and hours from my life.  When it goes from my home to a gallery and then a new home later... all of that goes with the piece.  It is a living part of me... in paint and canvas.  It is the spirit of God working through me. It is a lasting love.   The rust is balanced out and the energ

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Why are you crying?" "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight So the painting has taken a step forward since yesterday and I decided I have painted out too much of the red orange that was there.  Between now and tomorrow I will play with it for the balance I seek with the deep red orange and the midnight blues.  We all seek balance in life, but once we find it, it only stays a short time and we are back seeking again. Does that ever end?  Trusting in God we shou