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From Cupcakes to Flowers


From Cupcakes to Flowers — Lady L’s Early Paintings

Studio over looking a lake with a painting started by  a young 18 month old painter. Lots of blue background
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2026
Blue Iris
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Lady L

The Every artist has a beginning.

Lady L’s first painting was pink Hostess cupcakes — sweet, round, joyful — inspired by her mother, lovingly nicknamed “CupCake.” From eighteen months on, she was already learning process in the kitchen: measuring, mixing, waiting, finishing. She was taught the correct steps from the beginning.

Newspaper down with paintings being created by Lady L, a pink cupcake


Her second painting was a flower, the one at the top of this blog — what I believe was meant to be an iris.

We began with a small sketch in her notebook. Then she studied the bloom carefully before drawing it directly onto the canvas, adjusting proportion by instinct. She rotated the canvas to reach the edges. She looked for balance. She looked for light.
This flower painting was the first to sell — for $250.

Cupcakes were joy.
The flower revealed design recognition.
Kitchen. 
Studio.
Mother. 
Grandmother.
Process all becoming art.


Some beginnings are small.
Their echoes are not.

 Elle
 

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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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