Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Windows in Time 16 x 20  Oils on Birch, Shadow Box Frame Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? So also Abraham 'believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.' Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham " Galatians 3:5-7 THOSE TIMES Have you had some of these recently? In my younger years I waited for postcards from God. I knew that was not real, but I would wait for a message or direction. As I got older I accepted the reality that abiding meant abiding and waiting on HIM meant doing it patiently.   The hard thing today is letting it ALL go to the point that joy fills my thoughts and my life, my words and my actions . Not as easy as I

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Refraction Trees 30 x 40 FRAMED  Acryilc on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.  For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king. " Esther 7:3-4 TREES Refraction is the bending of light (it can happen with sound, water and other waves) as it passes from one transparent substance into another.  Trees are a passion for me especially in winter just as spring hits. The spirit and the shape of branches of each tree is unique.  The painting was to celebrate the beauty of the design of the bra

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Hard Wired 24 x 36  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few."    Ecclesiastes 5:2 Are you Hard Wired? The year was 2008 I do remember painting this beauty above- the horse. A one and only. One of my favorite collectors bought it even before I put it online in my store. She always checked my blog as I would post in process pictures of what I was working on! Not sure what took me this direction, but that was the joy of painting back in that day.   Posting work in an auction situation.  The work always calls to a heart or two or three and it allowed the paintings to sell and me to paint more. Yes not everything sold at a high price, but most of my horses did.  I am rememb

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Movement of the Spirit 30 x 40  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  " When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. " John 16:13   The Movement The year was 2005 This was one of my first time off the reservation finding the horse in the movement of the paint.   Yep, studio in Justin, Texas. I loved the home we lived in there. Plenty of room and large ones too... on two acres with a creek on the back. This is where I put down my brushes and Impressionism and took up a knife with my buttery oil paints. Again you see lots of red with orange and yellow. Contrast built with accents of blue and green and purple. Opposites on the color wheel.     It was

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 RIVER CROSSING Triptych 24 x 60  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  “The sea that he made belongs to him, along with the dry land that his hands formed. Come! Let us worship and bow down; let us kneel in the presence of the Lord, who made us.“   Psalm 95:5-6   River Crossing The year was 2005 IT IS THE HORSES!  We lived in Justin, Texas when I painted this one. All in knife work and every horse has his individual personality. I love the way the sunset light fell upon the back of the horses... and their reflection in the water.  What do you think? Did you notice it is RED YELLOW AND BLUE?  These are primary colors and the horses contain the golden browns.    You can compare this to earlier paintings this week where the pull of the knife was vertical. In the painting the pulls are horizontal.  My horses are going to

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 ROSES  ROSES  ROSES 30 x 30  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “But the rich should take pride in their humiliation– since they will pass away like a wild flower . For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.”   James 1:10-11     Everything's coming up Roses! The year was 2005 I just realized... lots of flowers, and tomorrow needs to be a horse!   Repetition, patterns, lines, movement and it is all in sync to keep your eye actively busy while you explore the painting.  I see anothe