Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Golden Boy  Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave.  Yet, when you stop being yourself and pretend to be who you are not, there is a much bigger risk; the people who would accept and love you just as you are, may not accept you and leave." Franco Santoro How do you get back to being genuine and 'You'?  Can you remember what you love to do? Then go and do it. Things will flow easily in your life if you are full...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night pre-tend Verb 1. speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not. We seem to learn this early in life.  As a teacher, I remember instructing children to go into pretend mode to do creative writing.  Somewhere this seems to go wrong in our lives and pretense and pretend creep into our lives as adults.  We can pretend to be anything we want to be, but we can't be any...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf painting nearly done!  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf."  George R R Martin, A Dance with Dragons NOT DONE... but the last time I post until it is done unless I take a left turn somewhere in the process!  I cannot believe that June is nearly over as I sit here blogging.   So can you tell me which is the leader of this small pack?  There is not a right or wrong answer. For me right now it is the wolf on the far right.  I thought it would be the on...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf painting in progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?"  R. L. Lafevers, Grave Mercy I actually did a few videos at this point but having to deal with music in the background have to be careful what I post online. Copyright is not a laughing matter!  More rising personalities as the wolf on the left begins to solidly establish who he is. I am going to have to stop posting so many images now as this has stretched out over more than two weeks.  Will try and wrap it up, but I have a long way to go o...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "if only, if only, " the woodpecker sighs, "the bark on the tree was a soft as the skies."  While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moo-oo-on, "If only, If only."   Louis Sachar, Holes Here they come!  Not much to say as I am just getting started this morning. This is how it was left last night.  I am really needing to work out the back legs on the wolf on the left and still feel like the center wolf is squeezed in a bit.  Also still debating on the sway ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." William Ralph Inge  I am really excited at this point as I feel the personality of each of the wolves in the painting.  I am still glazing on layers of subdued colors creating the wolf in their environment.  You can still see a lot of the markings from the very first on the surface as the wolves build outward with their definitions and personalities.  Romans 12:9-1...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept." Jack London, White Fang Still watching the battle in the surface of the leader as I slowly form the wolves.  Seems like the largest wolf is on the left and I am not there yet... and you will see once he is in, he will be the one I begin with.  Jeremiah 23:1 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" declares the Lord."  #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equi...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." Anne Bronte Found this beauty outside this morning. I live in Texas and there is a wonderful song we learned in elementary school called The Yellow Rose of Texas.  Terry makes sure I have roses of all colors so I can keep my vases full inside.  I tend to leave most of them on the vine so they last longer! Song of Solomon 2:12  The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you." Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn Monday Morning Sunrise to share with you. I walked out the door because I saw the glimmer of the clouds against the sky and realized the sunrise was tingling them with light. Psalm 113:3  "From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!" #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          M...