Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 2022 Last Days of Summer 24 x 24 in Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost THE PAINTING The one positive about the end of Sept is I get to see the sunrise.  When I take the dogs out at 5:45 I can stand and stare up at the stars.  I can walk on the treadmill and watch the sunrise. This painting is about the end of those LONG HOT summer days that lasted through the middle of September for us in north Texas. It was not just HOT it was DANG HOT.   The painting holds the fresh bliss of that new sunrise in September. It has a softness to it. It is beautiful.  This is from Sunday Morning around 7:30.  Does not get much prettier waking up to the soft autumn sky.  Can you see...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Winds  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Prints Available They say Summer Winds are normally hot. I know they are in Texas, but this morning we spent the morning with our almost five year old grandson on the square at Southlake Texas.  We danced by the fountains, tossed in coins, and ate huge cinnamon buns at a near by bakery.  As we sat beneath the trees in the shade around 10:30, it was about 75 degrees outside and the wind was from the north and cool.  This is unheard of in Texas in August.   Definitely a summer I will remember and attach it to a previously completed and sold painting, Summer Winds! Summer Winds is a contemporary palette knife oil painting of four horses with beautiful summer colors.  “ So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Human Kind - Be Both Portion of a painting... Detail  Oil on Canvas Pure Justus . Figurative Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Bronte   Last Sunday I began a triptych painting, three panels of 30 x 60 inches in oil. It is one of my Good People Series with this one titled Human Kind - Be Both   The entire piece is 90 x 60 and will be heading to California to a new gallery opening.   I promised I would not show the full painting until closer to time but wanted to share a sneak peak at the luscious colors.  I prayed as I starte...

In Progress Horse sketching on Canvas from Laurie Pace on Vimeo .    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Painting in Progress 24 x 48  Oil on Canvas in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can hear a tiny bit of Celtic Woman "Walking on Air" if you know the song... otherwise it is very faint.  Music is important when I work.  Messy fingers are leaving a trail of graphite on my keyboard as well.  Will be finishing this up and then doing a coat of clear gesso on it before painting. I...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." Elinor Glyn Life can be filled with times of "haze".  This particular canvas started out with a haze.  I will be sharing progression on it for the next few posts... but it is not done as of this journal.  For the artist that is reading... this is oil using walnut oil with it to blend the subtle colors together. So soft and so not my normal palette.   I have been contemplating the current changes just in my life as it happens...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The paint is piled high... sometimes so high you cannot see what you have. When you try to drive in a thick fog, you strain your eyes to see through the misty haze, using more intuitive awareness than actual visual awareness.  Scary isn't it? This little collectors piece edges on my Black and White series in miniature. As the paint fell to the surface I felt the movement of the horse more than I actually saw it. My heart knew what to do before my vision did. Learning to trust your intuitive awareness i...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 6 x 6  Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Been a rough week with a cold and cough.  It was time today to meet this day with a smile.  The first thing I wanted to do in this weak state was paint! Have not painted since I left working on a 4 x 4 ft buffalo. This is a small collectible, just to get my blood pumping again.  Told you there were happenings here at the house. There are, and I promise to be forthcoming in the next few days.  Life changes are always challenging and this one will be for some time ahead. An art group I am a m...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  " Love that Calls the Gathering" Size: 18 x 24   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loving the new body of work coming out this month. It has a fresh freedom both inside and out.  I look forward to working each day because of the joy.  Artist's are often up against a wall with fears and frustrations. I have faced it often. When Terry took down the studio for six weeks and I did not paint, I was actually afraid to do it again. I was worried I would not be able to do it. It has been a long time.  My meditation at that time was focused on peac...