Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oceanside Herd Summer Winds  38 x 58 Oil on Canvas  La Jolla Gallery, California ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”  ― A.A. Milne So... yep there are differences.  Can you find them?  It was the middle horse... one of the main changes... the horse was looking down and not up and aggressive. He is the leader of the herd.  So disorganization brought me back around to find the things I had missed. Disorganization in the study and the painting sent me in diff...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oceanside Herd Summer Winds 38 x 58 Oil on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island Well.. you might look at this and think almost finished...but it was not at this point. I sat with this and mulled wiping all the paint off of it...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Pacific Herd... humm more horses. 38 x 58 Oil on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.”  ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free They multiplied.  When I got up this morning and came back to the easel there was a huge herd of horses running up the Pacific coast. Every time I count there is another horse there! Think of it as yo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Inches Oil on Canvas  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus Well... I have a desire to find the ponies in this painting.  Suddenly they began to appear and it was... like they were always there and I did not see them until the morning after. Hope you are watching as the posts pass to keep up with the progress. So now they are found and I continue on with my painting. I have shared before about writing on index card...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Oil painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust  I love this quote!  We all have those special people in our lives that make us not just smile, but encourage us to bloom. You smile when you hear them and you hug them when you see them. They are joyful and they are filled with God's joy.  It is in the tough times where we need to dig deeper into our soul and give gratitude the opening to overpower despair or anger....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Oil on Canvas in Progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Just sat on the floor in the entry hall today with Terry sharing about the finding joy again.  We will be spending more time over the next few weeks watching our life and tweaking things each day.  Not sure who we are right now. It is a puzzle. There seems to be constant distractions that keep us from laughing and playing coy with each other and really getting in deep again to where we were about 10 years ag...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Inches Oil on Canvas Beginnings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man This is the first one in the new studio. Sorry it is not allowing me to adjust it a bit with the bad light. You see continuous lines evolving and revolving. In the midst of the calm is some chaos with the yellow squiggly lines. There is a heartbeat and a pulse already in process. No vision at this point or direction. One thing I think about lately as we have gotten older is the lack of laughter and fun that was there when we marri...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Inside the Studio Mess ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle At last I can report the studio is surfacing slowly.  I even have pictures!  I began a painting in it last week that is shipping to La Jolla Gallery.  More on that as I post progress shots this week. The mainstay of this entry is to be at the beginning of something... and wise enough to know it, recognize it and walk forward with it.  Good or bad.  The hardest thing for me is giving thanks for the things that are so hard and tryi...