Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Yellow Tulips 5 x 7 inches and Available $199  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted”  Marianne Williamson These were inspired by tulips at the store a few weeks ago. Came hom...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Jubilee 9 x 12 oil on Panel Available.   by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “We're inches apart yet worlds away.” Meagan Spooner The Shattered World   DAY 300 in Locked Down for Covid. Each day we really need to each focus on something that makes us smile. With Hubby near 70 and me newly at 68... we fall into "THAT" category... he feels like we are jailed.  304 days ago, we were living retirement life and enjoying our grandchildren and looking forward to things like visiting the arboretum, traveling to see friends in East Texas and a trip planned for Mascoutah, Illinois.  None of that happened. What have you done this year, or the past 300 days in lock down?   We grocery shop at the early open hours for people of our age...?  We are in sync with our daughte...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Early Roses  5 x 7 Oil on Panel Available  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” Alphonse Karr Soft moments remind me as I begin to see the sprouts of new bulbs peeking out of the ground. It is the spring that brings me hope with all the green sprouting up around the year and beds. Still January here... and nights are in the 30's but today it will be 70!  Only in Texas do we see such contrast in weather and people.  Stop by my website and find your "heart painting"... $199 is still happening and I am trying to load 3-4 a week for you to check out.  Paintings   These roses are fresh and ready to fly home to you and brighten your special spot. Think with palette knife painting...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Winter Chill 24 x 24 Oil on Canvas (available)   by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. ““I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ― Louis Carroll - Alice In Wonderland  Nothing is more chilling that the rawness of winter.  Winter is here in full force.  We are almost to Feb and the memories of Feb last year are crashing in around us.  A close family member was hospitalized, an aunt died at 94 and Covid arrived... with a shut down March 2nd.   The rawness is still with us. The Covid is still with us. The "WINTER" is still here forcing us into isolation and madness.  Meanwhile I...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Pink Peonies  6 x 6 Oil on Panel by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This was fun to paint. It will take a few paintings to settle back into painting flowers, but it will be welcome with all the color that comes with it! When Covid finally lets go of the grip on our lives... I want to take on a few students privately and push them past their comfort point in creativity.  That is where real work begins. Working with both brush and palette knife, the idea is to welcome the challenge and then do it! Stop by my website and 'contact me' if you might want to come paint! “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas A...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 In the Wild Contemporary Horse Abstract Painting by Laurie Pace  199 for $199 each for 2021  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This baby was wild fun! Started out stately and a jumper horse and the colors were basically blues, oranges and greens.  I ended up accenting in reds. The paint is ever so thick!  Will take a bit to dry, but grab it now if it calls to you!  I am not sure my brain can blog and paint and list at the same time!  I am usually good about subjects and sharing. Think for now I will keep it to the wild paints!! God always knows! “ For I know the plans I have for you, " Declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. " Jeremiah 29:11 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   Shop for Large P...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Sunset Alberta  Horse Painting by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The painting journey continues. January is almost half over.  We have several birthdays this month so there will be cake in a few weeks!   One of my collectors sent me photos of a sunset in Alberta with lush grey blues and red orange and yellow skies.  That was the inspiration of this painting!  When she saw it, she bought it.  Stop by my facebook page and tell me what you might want painted and I will put it on the growing list!  Sizes of these vary from 6 x 6 up to mid sizes of 16 x 20 etc.  Facebook link is below!  Join the group.  “ Be Strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you....

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Carrots  12 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas Panel $199   by Laurie Pace  199 Paintings for $199 in 2021  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Carrots... the breakfast of Champion Horses! Really did look around for something 'cheesy or carroty' cute to put in this blog. We are into January and I am slowly getting into a painting cycle again. BUT blogging... that takes more than most things.  Carrots in our family are loved and beloved. Our adult children all eat carrots both raw and cooked.  Why? Because they learned to eat what was put on the table and did not complain. Exceptions:  Oldest cannot eat cold eggs.  Middle child cannot tolerate mashed potatoes or corn.  Youngest child, he was breast feed until he was 18 months old.  Yes he had food about 10 months old but he ...