Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love I loved doing this painting. I took my Mom to a workshop presented by my good friend Nancy Medina. She was teaching how to paint flowers.  We had a blast and this is the piece I did at the workshop. It is not...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography Laurie Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays Do you look around at people you know and see how you stand in comparison? Are you more successful, or perhaps hoping to be more healthy and active, or thinking how you are perhaps better than they are?  Seems to be a human nature to compare ourselves to our peers. Always it is easier to measure objective things, like cars, clothes, and homes.  Here is where we go wrong because self-worth is not related...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography by Terry Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “ I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.” ― Bette Midler I was reading recently an article from becoming minimalist on why self-worth is more important than net-worth. Today in our world it always seems to 'matter' about the net-worth and who can collect the most toys. As an artist, your value seems to be dictated by your gallery representation and the image you portray online.  We all hav...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Summer Winds Size: 40 x 40  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations We are deep into Lent and my heart and mind are more in love with my Father than I was the week before. He not only gives his love, his grace, his light, his comfort, his presence... but he gives us HOPE. Psalm 119:116 "Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed."  ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Joy in the Journey    Size: 30 x 40  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” ― Stephen R. Covey Is there turmoil in your life? Do you feel like the years are tumbling by and you are wasting away as you grow older? Do you live with feelings of guilt and condemnation? Is there a void of peace in your life?  Are you enjoying your life? Most folks I know, including myself, have this weird 'trust'...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 30 x 40  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”  ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose I love joyful moments. While I wish I had them 24 - 7, I realize I could not appreciate the joyful moments without knowing what the sad moments of despair. You cannot appreciate love without knowing hate.  What I cannot figure out though, is why we tend to get so lost in the negative that it often eats away at us. That is whe...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 30 x 40  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice The workshop was a few weeks ago.  It was definitely an eye opener. Carol led the class by demonstrating how she starts a painting...and then turned us loose. My friend Sheryl and I sort of sat there... we picked up our 'rollers' and rolled on with the morning.  There was frustration and timid...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Blue Mist Size: 24 x 30 Framed  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  “The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves This is a painting from my heart. ...