©Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2023
Crossing the Rio Grande
5 x 8 feet Oils on Canvas. Commission
This was one of three commissions completed for a law firm in Houston. We were living out at Lake Cypress Springs during that time and the canvas size was 5 x 8 ft for two of them and I did a panel triplet for the third one.
I have many of the process pictures on this, but am sharing mainly the raw beauty of the final painting and the area of the Rio Grande that has the same colors and wild feel. All was done in Palette Knife with a dance of color and texture creating the story. If you want a personal commission painting for your home... contact me on my website. I would need to know the size and the subject matter, your time table of need, a down payment and the dance with paint can begin.
Strength from Sorrow
Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke into Joshua, the son of nun, saying Moses my servant is dead. Therefore arise, go over this Jordan, Thou and all this people. Joshua 1:1-2
We are all hit with sorrow during our lifetime. I know the past 12 months it has been a rough walk. It can become so great that it overcomes us, and we have to sit down and re-examine and think about it how this change affects our lives. Most of us wake and live with hope each day, and once sorrow arrives, it usually comes unannounced, and hope begins to disappear. Maybe we loose site of it. It seems like we're in a battle during these days, and not sure how to react to everything around us. There has been some harm from the sorrow and it has caused deep grief. (I want to remember Job and what he suffered through. That might be a different blog in the future... but it has the same great ending... Light of the Lord )
Somehow in the grief we must find a way to carry on and continue our life on it's path. Some sorrow will leave scars on our hearts. With it will roll grief through us unannounced. We will never be the same, things will never be the same...but we must lean into the Lord as He will set joy before us again. Our life will grow stronger again. The sun will rise and the clouds will break apart. We learn to press on in our lives and try to avoid the darkness and the gloom, and turn our face to His light. He will provide what we need to grow stronger again.
Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with Laurie Pace
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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