Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way 48 x 48 Oil sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beannacht/ Blessing On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble,  May the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you, May a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the currach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you,  May there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours,  May the flu

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His way Progress Painting 48 x 48 oil  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 piece seems to grow out of this quote. Look at the waves in the horses where they are crossing... the c

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way  Progressive shots of Painting 48 x 48 oil on canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen."Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water."  Not sure why I liked this quote, but think it is the mention of the inner eye.  Our outer eyes open and close to the physical world, but our inner eye is perhaps our soul.  As a believer, the Holy Spirit lives within that in

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way Progress painting 48 x 48 oil on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green and the music would run down my legs." Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"  I buy the gel pen packs that come in many colors.  I love to write with different colors of ink when I am journaling or writing notes or cards to people. Color creates an amazing energy for me in my life, on my palette, in my paintings, my writings and my home. God is a creator of many colors. He is my cons

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way in Progress  48 x 48 inches Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness When I start painting I am totally into color, movement and raw emotion. The music is playing loud.  I am literally carried by the spirit of the music and the feel of

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His Blessings, He will hear our prayers."  Gordon B Hinckley The beginnings of a new painting for a friend and her husband... they are basically newly weds by definition.  When I am beginning a painting, I start with

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles." I love the entire section of this quote, but did not want to have such a huge quote for the beginning.  Here is the rest of it: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness; for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard." J. Robert Moskin Before we drown our sorrows and prayerful words in what is wrong with us, what we need and what is upside down in the world, it would be best to think of all we do have and be thankful for it first.  Going to the Lord in prayer only when you are in need, will rarely bring change in your life or situation. We should count our Blessings 1 Thessalonians 5:18  "Give thanks in al

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come clean with a child heart, Laugh as peaches in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song, Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June." Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt I know at my ripe old age of 64, I think more of wanting to just shake off all the worry and the work and remember my  'child heart'.  Should we think more of stopping to listen to the wind or rain, and to run outside and play in it? If we were eight years old, what would we be doing this summer?  Where are our child hearts? Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For