Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Hints of Picasso  by Laurie Pace   I absolutely love this piece painted between 2007 and 2009. There is a freedom and freshness in this painting, even today discovering it in my archives. Vivid reds, yellows and blues predominately with cross over colors of green and orange.  I am still working out the sadness in life missing my Mom this week especially. Probably this is why I was called to share this particular painting.  When we cleared out her home and all the paintings in the household... it was amazing.  She had many from me from early ages through today...along with many from her circle of friends that were amazing artists. My youngest son has a favorite of Jesus. It hung in her front entry area and greeted you coming and going! I often wonder where many of my pieces are these days. I really started selling on ebay in about 2003 I believe.  I miss...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 After the Afternoon Rains 9 x 12  Oils on Canvas A flash back from 2014 and a sweet small enticing painting 9 x 12 in size.  My color addiction really shows in this piece with my collected painted ponies!  Contemporary palette knife horses straight from my studio! One of Those Days  It was a delicious night of sleep... and I woke up late, but still dove into my Bible readings, which I do each morning. JOYFUL CELEBRATION greeted me... with remembering it is Holy Week.  The sermon yesterday at Countryside Church was breath taking at many levels. Factual to the time of Jesus and what he experienced as he was falsely arrested, people falsely testified against him, he was passed from court to court only to be sent back to the original court. The Jewish Court that wanted him dead.  Our Pastor was very moving as he walked us through the timeline.  In truth they remind you of what is h...

  © Laurie Pace 2024 Disasters and misfortune are woven in the fabric of all our lives.  They appear without warning and can leave one with devastation that threatens existence or even life itself.  In most cases we are changed.  From weather related storms, to massive earthquakes, gun violence, illness, anger and misunderstandings, job loss, divorce, auto accidents, and more, we all face them in our lives.  Each one of us will navigate them differently.  " Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight. in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3: 5-6 My husband once said, ”What doesn’t kill you will strengthen you.” With age comes wisdom from experience. With trials comes the experience. What are your coping skills? As a mother or a father, you often grasp at what you have experienced in life, trying to use it to guide and prepare your children for these challenges.  What was missi...

©  Laurie  Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Rocky Mountain Sunrise -> Buy a 24 x 36 inch Giclee Print. Available through March 23, 2024 11 pm Central Time This painting brings back huge memories. It is a big one, thinking maybe 3 ft x 4 ft?  It was horizontal as I began building layers of browns thinking of doing a bear. I have really only painted one bear, but I had a photo to work from and thought... why not?  Well, two thirds of the way through I was not sold on continuing the bears.  I began pulling my palette knife up and down on the area with paint, and then I flipped the canvas to vertical.  I countered in the yellows and then re-pulled grays to cover edges.  I took my knife and began carving in the thick paint. I reverted to my passion of horses and made them larger and more detailed. I imagined them in my head standing on a cliff area slightly higher up in the mountains asa the sun fell to t...

  © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Face Within .  This painting led off in my woman series of warriors back in 2022. Returning to figurative painting for a small collection, this one is magical. Can you find the second face? Layers of color and overlays criss cross this entire painting mapping out two faces.  Can you find the second one?  30 x 40 inches lush bright colors. Piled and layered by brush and palette knife. I am known and collected for my intense color.  The Latest Quest Putting God first.  In the Bible it makes it seem very simple. From my understanding, we need to move our thinking process and all our thoughts to a divine level. Once we do that, we’ll see that God‘s actually got all the physical stuff taken care of. Had to think about that forward to really define what a divine level might mean. And Colossians, chapter 3 verse two, it says “Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.” ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Yellow Sunflowers 12 x 12  Oils on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   COLORS... colors of those cool mornings in spring and early summer. The dew on the grass and the flowers open to the morning light with pink and gold skies lighting up.  The colors are balanced woven together for this beautiful piece.  2 Corinthians 4:6 "For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ." Do not Give into Life, but Yield to God This came to mind this morning when I was walking on my treadmill.  The life we have here on earth is easily swayed and affected by the times, by our friends and our enemies...  as well as our personal journey here on earth. We are distracted by chaos on the internet, social media,  politics, illegal immigrants taking over our co...