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Loosing Direction and Forever Young



Losing Direction Horse Painting by Laurie Pace
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2024
Loosing Direction
Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 Sold from Mirada Fine Art with artist Laurie Pace  


Good morning.  Finally here in Texas we GOT RAIN. Can you believe light stuff last weekend, but Mon, Tues and Wed... it rained. Our trees are going to be beautiful this fall. Usually the summer heat has them turning brown in Sept and Oct and falling without color. Cannot wait to see the beauty in another month or six weeks. Our Red Oaks always go a beautiful red!!!

I have been working in the studio on a Commission painting of a longhorn. Actually have energy to paint today and felt pulled to working the surface and considering what I was doing at the same time!  Multitasking the colors and the paint on the surface.

This Painting Loosing Direction was painted a few years back but I am wanting to revisit some horses in the same approach.   Time to buy paint and canvas for sure.

Life has been busy. Still grieving the loss of a sweet family member that left us too soon... or so we thought. We never know God's timing in our lives, why some are called to Him early in the journey here on earth and others last past 100 years.  This is a tough one to get through right now. This person was walking with the Lord from a young age. They lived their life hand and hand with Jesus and recently had told me they were ready to go to be with Him as the world was not a good place filled with many bad things. I reassured them that God had His plans for each of us and He would bring joy, love and even pain in their life but He would see them through the years ahead until it was time to 'go home' to Jesus. I did not realize it would be just weeks later. 

Teaching over the many years in public schools, I have had some awesome students in my life. It was only in one district that I actually lost two students about a year apart. It was the saddest thing for the small district. One was lost to health issues and the second died over Christmas in a freak car accident with her family. She was a favorite taking both art and Texas History from me... I had her for two years in the art class.  She made me the best mix for Christmas.... I call it "My Amanda Mix":

My Amanda Mix

1 1/2 cup each of Corn Chex, Wheat Chex, Shredded Wheat, Crispex and Quaker Oat Squares
Set oven at 275 degrees

Mix and Pour the following over the mixed cereals above.
2 TBL Sugar
1/2 Stick Butter
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 TBL Apple Juice 
Bake 30 min (Stirring at 15 min)

Then add: 
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup light golden raisins
1 cup dark raisins

Bake 30 min more (Stirring at 15 min)

She left this world at age 13 and here this is 30 years later and I still remember her sweet personality and her smile. I have watched her 'girlfriends' grow up, many on Facebook, with children and families.  My youngest son was in her class... he is 43 now, but Amanda is forever young at 13 in my heart. 


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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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