It was too late. I had begun layering new colors over a painting of my heart. She was gone and there was no turning back.
©Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 2026
Juxtapose
Oil on Canvas SOLD by Laurie Pace
Two Days Too Late — The Painting I Wish I Had Kept
I loved that painting.
It was called Juxtapose, an expressive figurative painting filled with color, movement, and exaggerated forms.
It was supposed to go to a gallery in La Jolla, California, before COVID changed everything.
But the gallery decided the painting wasn't workable at the time, so I never sent it.
BUT... I had a commission waiting, and the canvas was exactly the size I needed. So I began painting over Juxtapose.
Two days later, the telephone rang. It was the gallery in La Jolla. She had a buyer for my painting!
But by then, I had already begun merging colors over the figures. The painting she wanted was disappearing beneath the beginnings of a commissioned horse painting.
There was no going back.
The canvas eventually became 'Two Together Always', and the commission was completed.
But I have never forgotten Juxtapose.
Not simply because someone wanted to buy it.
Because I loved painting those figures.
Yesterday, I shared the story of Grazing, a painting that improved when I was willing to paint over it.
Today is the other side of that experience.
Sometimes we change something and discover a better direction.
And sometimes we wish we'd waited just a little longer.
Isaiah reminds us:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. — Isaiah 55:8 (NIV)
I cannot bring Juxtapose back. What eventually emerged from that canvas was a commissioned horse painting called Two Together Always.
But what did that painting become? And how much of Juxtapose remained beneath the surface?
Come see the complete transformation, including the finished painting, on [Threads of Grace]
The Spirit of the Paint.
Laurie Pace | Elle Pace
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Laurie Pace shares the story of Juxtapose, a beloved figurative painting she painted over just two days before a gallery called with a buyer.
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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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