Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” ― Ivan Turgenev New Years Eve.  The close of 2016.  We are going to have breakfast out to eat Waffles. Waffles are rare indeed in our home but something I have been craving... so Terry wanted to make sure I got them in this year.  Little did I know when this boy/man kissed me in 1966 that we would be here today fifty years later at 2016.  Want to know one of the most special moments for me in our marriage?  We did not marry until 1991.  Both of us went different directions in our life and came back together

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, anymore than they begin on the first page.” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell I took a break in the wolf posting this week. This was Christmas day stopping by to see our two sick granddaughters.  Yes we stayed OUTSIDE the door. They were sick and so were their parents. We had done the big grand kids gathering the weekend before and played with them with their new gifts from us, but we had to stop by and see them. The youngest one cried and cried as we returned to the car. She was heart b

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Sorry about the shiny head... lighting was not the best when I snapped this shot with my phone. Somewhere in the Christmas mess, my camera is buried not to be unearthed yet.  Maybe I should be cleaning house instead of painting...??? Predictable colors for this wolf... again not normal for me

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 12 x 12  Oil on Birch in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 The eyes are the path to the soul... but I am not saying wolves have souls... but the eyes contain the living part of the animal.  It is the eyes that can often be read to know if you are safe or not.   So I took off on the eyes yesterday before the entire painting was full of wet oil paints.  I am looking at this today and already thinking too much gold.  The green is bothering me too...but I will see it through a few more days before making any changes. In life you often make snap decisions.  Somet

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 12 x 12 Oil on Birch in progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I am in the studio working this week. I am experimenting and trying new products and surfaces.  This may be a boring work week for you to see the same painting in steps, but for the week between Christmas and New Years, this is the best I can do. I am working on a birch mounted p

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!”  ― John Greenleaf Whittier Christmas Blessings on this Christmas Eve Day.  I wish you joy and love on this incredible celebration of Christ's first coming. Be safe this Christmas Eve and know in your heart the love God has waiting for you. It is his most precious gift to us. Luke 2: 4-7 "So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house an

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Framed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”  ― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts This beauty was painted the week before Christmas a few years ago and is by far in the top ten of my favorite pieces. 24 x 30 and framed... and it is available HERE.   Everyday social media, television and movies portray love as a feeling. It is something that ranks at the top of our list.  So is love a feeling that can be controlled?  I am thinking it is a feeling that is responded to. If you love someone that love is unconditional and not con

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent It has really really been cold here. Last Saturday we went from 74 degrees at noon to 19 that night... the temp from 12 to 2 went from the 74 to 41 and kept falling from there.  This has been the first cold snap and I pulled out my FAVORITE winter hat Terry bought me last year and I wore it and wore and wore it and had warm head and ears. It looked pretty good as well. He found it at Whole Foods last year.  They do not carry them this year... I lost my winter hat yesterday m