Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Falling for You  24 x 24 oil on canvas by Laurie Pace.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.   Do good anyway. ” Kent M Keith    We are in the Season of Lent. This is a time of forty days before the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, and we are in day 7 right now. It is a time spent in reflection and preparing to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection. Many spend Lent seeking the Lord in prayer, practicing self control by fasting or literally giving up habits or things of personal importance.  My mind wrapped around Lent this year believing it truly allows us all a time to reset and renew our relationship with God and with Christ. Often praying is a go-to in time of need of bad health or negative things are happening through the year. We t...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Sunrise Friend  9 x 12 oil on panel - by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Just jumping straight into this painting and the process.  I began with a different surface as I sketched out three horses and began pulling the paint.  It looked painful, so I put it out of its misery and began pulling colors together and flipping the canvas around.   Then I saw the two horses as clear as can be. Forward with more pulled paint and you have Sunrise Friend.  The beauty of these painted ponies is the style. I have been collected for these since about 2005, so over 15 years. I paint other styles of horses and lately really pretty ones on birch. But these paintings are freedom and love knitted together on the surface with intuitive painting and discovery.  Remember on my site ri...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” ― Carl Gustav Jung  What exactly is discernment?   Do you think we need it in today's world? One definition I found was: "Discernment: The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure."   I laughed out loud when I read "Discernment is basically a power or ability to see what is not evident to the average mind."     Discernment is the ability to decide between right and wrong or truth and error. How do you make the distinction between them?  In today's world I am struggling to abide with my Jesus in the midst of the storm.   Read more here on my main blog. I am praying for your spirit and your dire...