Together
This painting is filled, not just with color, but with texture, and layers of thick paint. I chose to start with one horse when I began, but I knew immediately there would be a second horse. When horses form a relationship, it is usually for life. A horse is intuitive with relationships with the humans in their lives, and I can only imagine how deep their feelings run for a companion horse.
Enjoy the layers of color and overlays woven through the entire painting, while the slight abstraction keeps the edge of realism present.
People
Humans have layers of experience but keep the core values they pick up as children growing into adulthood. In our earliest years, we rely on safety, security, comfort, and care from our parents. With our changing world this is not true for every child today. If we are fortunate, we learned about integrity, honesty, respect, sharing, and kindness. If we were not exposed to these simple experiences of early life, we missed the foundation we should have had. Somewhere close to the age of 10, accountability is crucial. Children learn about expectations for every day behavior, as well as understanding that there are consequences for breaking rules or hurting other people.
Our eldest grandson left, his Dad and Mom and middle brother.
As children crossover the magic 10 and fall into the teenage years, it becomes more complicated and often depends on what they see at home, or with other adults in their lives. If the child has learned core values from an early age, they stand a good chance of taking them into the teen years. Some of these values are simple, like awareness, belonging, commitment, community, and even communication. Often in the teen years, attractiveness penetrates into a child's vision, along with competitiveness. It is hopeful compassion, kindness, and thoughtfulness encourage the developing teen to grow into a valued adult. With the teen years curiosity and creativity spark thoughts of 'adulthood' and living away from home.
If this simple foundation from childhood is missed, it is like taking a wrong turn onto a one way street. I am older, but I still believe the generations today are missing out on two parent families and grandparents close at hand to fill in when needed. Most households today depend on two salaries and reflectively that indicates the huge push to put value into objects, clothes, toys, computers and more... and not into life or family or richness of being together with out all the 'extra'.
The game of values changes in all of us. Each decade we face new things in life from growing families, to aging, to pushing into new careers and often moving. We are usually not prepared for the changes, not just in our head and environment, but also in our physical body. Routines change, diets change, meal times are rare, food on the run is more common... resulting in the consumption of fast foods, and they are not healthy for a long term consumption.
Relationships change with moves, job changes, and friendships. If you are fortunate and are faith based, the church relationships are the strongest. Financial stability also is affected by moves and changes.
This is me back in 1980 with my middle child... my daughter!
Today you have to throw into the mix Social Media and too much instantaneous news throughout the day... as the newscasters beat the drum to blow up the situation to make sure you want to watch it. You will find by your 50's and 60's you develop different core values. You have crossed over into another phase of life. The optimism of your youth and the obtaining of new goals with a core drive to get there and complete the mission is no longer where you are in life. By the 60's family and friends are your world... yes you can still travel... but your life is changing. This affects your routines, your relationships.
For me, this last year of life, my mother at 94, falling and failing to rally was one of the roughest years I have lived through. After she passed, it gave me days and days in Dec and January to think about life. I am new into the seventies and my husband and I are now the oldest in the family on my side. He still has three uncles living, all in their nineties. The Lord has been with me every step of this year as has my husband, through two months of vertigo, a broken toe, a frozen right arm from computer time and sitting incorrectly typing, and now today... I am in month three of treatment and finally able to play the piano. Talk about weeks of realization of what was actually happening... and the disbelief of not being able to play my guitars, paint or even hand write notes or cards or work on the computer... I have waited on the Lord and his direction. Every day is better right now.
Through this hubby and I have grown closer... and during this fall time... we were without our stove working and got it back in place mid December, and now we are in week three of no kitchen sink. With a bad arm, it hurts to haul dirty pots and pans, or dishes to a bathroom sink to wash them, dry them and then haul them back to a cabinet in the kitchen. Hubby has torn out the island of the kitchen sink and today we are ready for the granite people to come measure to replace countertops. My incredible husband hand built new cabinets for the island. With this happening, he is replacing all back splashes in the entire kitchen. The kitchen was not on the list for renovations...but things happen. He has been incredible, working 12 hour days.
We grew up together in Lake Highlands area of Dallas... our family values were similar and strong including our grandparents involved in our lives. We both attended churches and were involved at our churches. Same with our friends. We grew up in a safe environment that challenged some of us leaving home for college. To have a love that has lasted all these years has been a gift. I pray we have more years ahead.
Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with Laurie Pace
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
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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