Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Progress in Painting 24 x 48 inch canvas  Horse Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”  Albert Einstein Today I stepped up to dry clear gesso over the graphite. I can already see what I want to do differently next trip around the studio with this.  Meanwhile I will press on to see what discoveries are made as I go.  Besides looking like a unicorn-horse... it truly is just the...

In Progress Horse sketching on Canvas from Laurie Pace on Vimeo .    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Painting in Progress 24 x 48  Oil on Canvas in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can hear a tiny bit of Celtic Woman "Walking on Air" if you know the song... otherwise it is very faint.  Music is important when I work.  Messy fingers are leaving a trail of graphite on my keyboard as well.  Will be finishing this up and then doing a coat of clear gesso on it before painting. I...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 New Visions 8 x 8  Oil on Panel   Available Here.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”    C.G. Jung  Feels like an awakening here in the studio. This is the latest painting on my easel. a contemporary abstract Horse Painting!  The Lord is here with me and it is because of my husband praying with me and urging m...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Seven Sail Away 36 x 48  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Commissioned Painting.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “ Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they creat...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 NEW PAINTING! Looking Back 8 x 8 on Panel See the painting here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Short blog this morning.  This is called "Looking Back", a rich heavily layered oil painting of a wild horse. Definitely has a determined look!   Sometimes looking back in life brings back beautiful memories, laughter and joy and brings some happy peace to our lives. Other times looking back stirs up negative things or times of conflict...those are things that bring us down. We do not have to allow this to happen. We have the choice. While we must live in this mome...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 MERRY CHRISTMAS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wishing you and yours the blessings of Christmas with the everlasting Love and Light from our Father through the birth of His Son.  The stockings were down from the gathering and gifts last weekend.  Jonathan on the top row, far right, is our oldest grandson.  Then the little ones across the front are our other 'grand' blessings and next year there will be one more!! (I have to mask the faces of our grandchildren under the age of 18.)

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 NEW PAINTING! "Uplift"   8 x 8 on Panel Click here to see it.  Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook            Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. The horse in this small piece is a mixture of what I feel inside sometimes. Conflicted and allowing outer things to invade my thoughts and peacefulness. God is our only sanctuary of peace, satisfaction and safety. It is not in the people around you or in the world around you. Peace if found by uplifting yourself to Him. Especially at this time of year... the eve before we celebrate the birth of Jesus. As we come into this Christmas Eve Day... think back over all your Christmas' past. My favorite was the year Terry and I were first married. He was in Tulsa with American, transferring back to Alliance in Fort Worth. I flew up to ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 NEW PAINTING! Confronting the Fear 5 x 7   Oil on Panel Take a peak, click here.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hot off the easel! We lit our fourth candle on our advent wreath this morning... My eyes were misting in tears just remembering the few days before each of my children were born and remembering exactly what I was doing. Mary was not home, she was traveling a hard journey uphill in higher altitudes on the back of a donkey. Can you even begin to imagine the thoughts weaving through her mind? The new painting is "Confronting the Fear."  It is...