Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Controlling Minds  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ― Bernard M. Baruch Some day you feel really free and full of life and this is what happens!  It is like being a wellspring of joy.  When an artist paints, the spirit flows freely.  The artist draws on the joy from within and allows it to spill onto the canvas.  That is why I refer to the Spirit of the Paint! We are meant for joy. We are meant to be happy.  Most of ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Tiny Bubbles 30 x 40 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."  ―  Adam Lindsay Gordon This reminded me of how we tend to fill our pockets with problems all the time. If we could just learn to let the problem bubble just float by us... we would have more thoughts free of worry. This was the underlay to a horse painting but I wanted to paint something different.  I am doing that right now... in my studio, working on some little piggie...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 30 x 40     Descent from the Mesa   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Wouldn't it be something to live on the mountain top... above all the sea of humanity and the drama of mankind?  We cannot live isolated on a mountain top.  We were created t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 The Majesty Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” ― George Carlin The Majesty.  A beautifully touched up with a slight facelift painting that is now at The La Jolla Gallery in California. Hopefully this beautiful horse remains untouched by change.  I hesitated to use this quote... but dang... the tru...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 18 x 27  Facing the Storm   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron Terry and I are doing a Bible Study called The Armor of God.  We are but a few days into it and amazed at the change in our thinking patterns.  Sometimes in life each day brings about storm after storm and challenges by the gizzilions.  How do you face them? We are studying Ephesians and there is much there that we realized we have read a hundred...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Steps to the Arboretum  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson FAVORITE PAINTING...but do not know where it is. Was gifted to a friend in Detroit who suddenly passed away a year ago... and absolutely no one there knows what happened to the contents of her home.  It was professionally framed and I would love to know where it is.  Guess it is a lost path I seek. I love the palette knife work on this piece and the palette. The Texa...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Amazed Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata Do not think I ever captured the true colors in this painting.  I believe this to be dark.  It is in fact much lighter. Happens in life all the time... our memory captures something and does not quite remember it as it truly was.  SO if I do not get a decent shot of a painting, the reality of what it was changes for me.  It is all an amazing process! See below is another version of it. Must be somew...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Amazed   Available   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore I totally forgot that I was going to share the progress of Amazed, so here is a midway shot after the beginning shot from a few days ago.   I am amazed how easily thoughts slip through my head.  I become focused on something and multi-tasking goes out the door.  Are you good at it? I use to be, but not any longer. So on the painting I have begun to fill in color layers in oil...