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Rocky Mountain Sunrise, a Horse Painting by Laurie Pace



two gray horses in the rocky mountains at Sunrise
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2025
Rocky Mountain Sunrise
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Laurie Pace  

Romans 12:2 - "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

This powerful painting  of two horses standing in the winter wind was 'not conforming' when it began as a bear horizontally.  An artist just knows when something is not right. For me it is at that point I have to trust in God and in the Spirit within me to find a new path. The original painting had a lot of brown in it and was horizontal not vertical. You can see the dark colors that were pulled with a knife up and down (Side ways above) when I decided to wipe the bear off.  Then I flipped the canvas vertical and prayed. I loaded my palette knife with white paint and I began to shape the figure of the horses into the paint. I used white, blues and golds and oranges to shape out the horses.  From a beginning things bloomed into a second beginning that created this painting. It went to Mirada Fine Art and it sold.

There is always music on in my studio when I am working. Right now as I am blogging,  I am listening to "Great is my Faithfulness  song by Chris Rice. What do you like to listen to?  AND The weather is feeling like 5 below zero and it is 10 degrees outside.  We have two more days of this. I will not be leaving the house. In the studio and actually may paint.  The fire burns well and we are warm.  Praying for all of you as we make it through this day.
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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