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The colors tumble across the canvas like someone emptied the entire candy store onto my palette!


Think of every color and a mid size palette knife bring loads of paint in Red, Orange, Blues, White, Greens, Purples, and yellow of all flavors and thickenesses using a palette Knife
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Sun Blaze
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Laurie Pace  

SUN BLAZE — A Birthday and a Candy Store!

GOOD MORNING TO YOU!!! ☀️❤️🎨

Today one of my grandsons turns ELEVEN!

Red hair, beautiful blue eyes, and a love for the little candy store in our town.

Oh, that candy store! Bright colors, sugary treats, ice cream, and POP! LOL!

Looking at my newest painting, SUN BLAZE, I couldn't help thinking about him.

This 24 × 24 palette knife oil painting is bursting with orange, yellow, turquoise, pink, purple, and blue. The colors tumble across the canvas like someone emptied the entire candy store onto my palette!

And there's a horse in the middle of it all.

The orange reminds me of his red hair, and those brilliant blues bring his eyes to mind.

I didn't paint SUN BLAZE as his portrait, but today it feels like the perfect painting to celebrate him.

There's something wonderful about the way children experience color. They don't worry about whether orange belongs beside pink or turquoise belongs beside purple.

They just enjoy it!

And after all these years of painting, I still feel that same excitement when I pick up my palette knife.

Happy eleventh birthday, Monkey!

May your year be full of laughter, adventures, wonderful discoveries, and a little candy-store magic.

And may you always see the world in glorious color!

🌞 Read the complete story and see SUN BLAZE on my Threads of Grace blog:

From my heart and my easel,
Laurie Pace | Elle Pace
The Spirit of the Paint
 

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Laurie Pace celebrates her grandson's 11th birthday with SUN BLAZE, a colorful palette knife horse painting inspired by candy-store joy.

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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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