Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Courage is grace under pressure.” ― Ernest Hemingway Accepting gifts is usually a fun thing... Terry and I were talking about that in the car yesterday.  I love getting boxes in the mail and opening them to see what is inside. It is even better when you know it is a gift and someone has really thought about you to buy you something special. Brings back that excitement we use to have as kids at Christmas time.  What about the gift of grace? Is it all the good gifts we enjoy freely in every day?  It would take ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Call of the Wild © 2010 Laurie Pace  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.” ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild Opportunities are plentiful in our lives.  How often do we act on them? Gathering up energy to give all we have would be giving love and service without hesitation. It is ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 In Gold  Sold Acrylic on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.  There's life in a nutshell.” ― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears Remember your parents saying "If you don't succeed, try try again."?   My parents thought it was important to go after what you wanted and even if you did not get there, you learned so much in the process.  That never worked for me in Elementary School for the science fair. I NEVER had any interest in science for some reason. ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Two Black Horses  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses Many of us struggle with the concept of a beautiful life.  We have faced struggles in parts of life that simply have not been beautiful. They have been downright ugly, marred by trauma, pain and often anger. TOO often we keep those scars from totally healing because we carry them around with pain and rememberings.  Beauty is often visualized as things it is not. Beauty is seen superfi...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Two in the Wind   Oil on Canvas  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember Live your life with love being your strongest asset.  Love others and give to others. Love others and serve others.  Love your family and give constantly with all your heart.  Love God with all your heart.  "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." 1 John 4:16 Laurie ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Wild Stallion  2010  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.” ― David Gemmell, Dark Moon The name of this painting is Wild Stallion... and yes it was painted back in 2010. I am stuck in a folder there and want to share what I can from it!  I truly have been painting in the studio, but sometimes I blog ahead do to commitments. Be a hero today. Live this day like a proud brave wild stallion.  In the Bible there are numerous statemen...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Soulmates  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.” ― L.J. Smith Another archive painting from early 2010. Seems like I did a lot of backwash on the canvas and dripping of paint before it because so popular. I have learned so much since then and limit how often I do this and HOW I do it. I truly love the quote again today. Heck I love most of them.  But having your heart sing a song when you are in l...