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The Race is On.... are you in it?? The Horses have left the canyon... Come along with Artist Laurie Elle Pace



  ©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2023

 The Race is On
20 x 30  Oils on Canvas
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I love this painting. It was done in January of 2010. Looking back through at some favorites inspires me before I paint today.  I am starting a paint it forward piece for someone that needs inspiration and light and color in their lives right now. My art is a gift from God and it is a privilege to use it to lift up hope and love. 
 

The Race is On

I remember these days in my second most favorite studio, the one before the lake. We had purchased a 1955 home built by an architect that studied under Frank Lloyd Wright.  400 sq feet... in a house I could have lived in my whole life and loved. Curved walls, open space soaring ceilings... even the master bedroom had a spiral stair that went up to a library area.  The things coming out of my studio then were amazing... well some of them were!  Color and composition were not really planned. When you stand to paint and you feel certain colors you use them and eventually the horses begin to show up. Are there four horses above or are there five? Note the thickly applied paint with my palette knife and the strong use of composition with the strength the line up of running horses through the central portion of the canvas. Then a dark sky and a light bottom quarter of the canvas.  Just like salting food, look closely to see the pull of 'red' through the horses drawing your eye from left to the right. The bottom left corner pulls you at an angle into the race itself with the dark against the light, almost giving more power to the movement.  The Race had begun and I pray whoever owns this painting (It would take research to find them) that the race is still on and loved in their home. 

Wondering what your day race in life is like.  With the political overlays pounding us from all sides, sometimes I want to scream, GIVE US A BREAK. It is time to get back in the race of life and truly live it with zest and contentment. Spread laughter, joy and love where ever you go.  Live life fully and enjoy the gifts you have and share them as often as you can.  The race is indeed on... let's do it together spreading the joy and love needed

“Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1)

Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with Laurie Pace
 


Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist


             


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Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.  



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