Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Halloween ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only ghost that lives in this home is the Holy Ghost. I skipped posting a painting for Halloween, but I am posting the 'art' of carving.  I normally do not post on Mondays but had this photo from a few years ago and I love it.  We usually have a pumpkin carving or a GOURD party, Bring your own Gourd.... guests brought their favorite gourds and some brought little jigsaws to use on them.  It is always fun and Terry cooks up the best chili. Could not do it this year as we have had zero time to work on the hous...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Spirit of Fire © 2010 Laurie Pace Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...” ― Wilferd Peterson WOW... love the quote. Hope you are inspired by it and the painting.  Difficult times hit us throughout our lives. We struggle not wanting those situations to get the best of us. I know I do at ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Spirit of Night © 2010 Laurie Pace  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. We forget when we were lonely, dreaming of a partner. We forget first beholding the beauty of another. We forget the comfort of first being seen and held and heard. When our view shuts down, we’re up in the night annoyed by the way our lover pulls the covers or leaves the dishes in the sink without soaking them first. In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Palomino in Light Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Then the married person...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Dazed © 2010 Laurie Pace Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther Everyone... me included, has those dazed and confused moments. It actually gets worse the older you get. They call it the "Florida Mome...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Blocked in Hydrangea Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in yo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Dawns Early Light    Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems What do you see when you open every door?  Do you see clearly what lies ahead or what is before you?  We all seek clarity in life for making choices and decisions as we come to those doors and the choices before us.  Only God knows that is meant for us and sometimes we choose a different door than He would have us open. When asked to heal a blind man, Jesus put his hands over the man's e...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2010 Together Through the Journey. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible shares with us the stories of Jesus and his many journeys.  There is not much written about his life as a teen or even in his twenties. But as he rolls into his thirties, his journeys are recorded by several of his disciples giving us an insight to God's power. There are five major events in the New Testament that cover the narrative of Christ's journey.  His Baptism, his Transfiguration, his Crucifixion, his Resurrection and his ...