Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Horse 96 Standing in the Sun     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is not black or white.  Life is filled with energy and emotions.  Happy, sad, joyful etc... we are literally filled with emotions. My work is super infused with emotions. On first site of this painting after I completed it, I realized this contemporary horse painting was done with a split color palette. Two thirds of the surface is connected on the color wheel, the red purple, the reds, oranges and yellow.  On the opposite third is a contrasting complementary color of green.  Hence the name split complimentary. This was not intentiona

Horse 95 Night Escape    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is the fourth day of Christmas already!  Night Escape grew out of deep violets and finding colors with my knife to create the browns and contrasts with the bright green. This palette knife painting is not for the faint of heart.  I cannot tell you how very touched I am by all the email that has come through with the sign up for the 'promised newsletter'.  As you might remember, I have not been diligent of writing or sending one out to you. I told my daughter it almost made me nervous being this responsible because i know how mu

Horse 94 Three in the Snow     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting was way way too fun. Is that possible? Find joy in everything you do. I certainly did. I am trying to figure out how to do this on a large scale. I love it. I loved creating it. Started with a mess and continued to grow. The first one was the Snow Drift painting just before Christmas. Then I played with this one.  As soon as I can figure it out on larger canvas, I will do it! Do you have your favorite jeans or slippers of Jamas? We each are surrounded by 'comfort' items in our lives. Mine is the heated mattress pad on our

Horse 92 Snow Drift    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snow drifts I am thankful we do not have right now.  Usually we see snow in January or February.  Last year we had two major ice storms and one snow storm. Pretty unusual.   Made me reflect what type of weather would have been happening in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.  When was Jesus born?  Most of us know we have the 25th of December as the celebrated date of his birth. I do know this has been discussed over the centuries.  The when of his birth holds very little to the birth itself.  I did find a really interesting site that traced back when Joh

Horse 91 Winter Storm     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRRRR... I can feel the cold. Our temps in the Dallas area are bouncing from in the mid forties during the day with a predicted high of 68 on Christmas.  Might be why so many people are falling sick with the indecisive weather.  I continue to be thankful that i am not sick like I was last year. We are praying my Son in Law through the next few days as he was exposed to the flu.  Had to be by his boss too. With our daughter 8 months pregnant we all want to say to his boss, WHY did you go to work sick? WHY did you feel like you had to share it in a r

Horse 90 Orange Delight    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 6  Oil on Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orange... for some reason orange is an enticing color for me. There are so many intense oranges and subtle oranges, but they really make a painting pop with life. Horse 90 is one of the bright ones in the herd. I keep throwing these closeups at you so you can see the beauty of the paint. It truly is the Spirit of the Paint for me.  It is the salt and pepper of color that finishes a painting.  We went to the Christmas Symphony yesterday. It was a large part of the family. Lady L and her parents, our youngest son Morgan and his wife Kelly...and

Horse 89 Wheat Fields    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Painting Frenzy ahead with my determination to complete my 100 horses this year!  This is a single painted pony on the small scale with very thick paint. Click the image to go to Collectibles and you can find it there to see the close ups.  I love the earth tones on this painting... bringing it down a little from my vibrant palette.  Our granddaughter, Lady L is counting down the days to Christmas. Every time we see her or we are with her we are given the update repeatedly. "Did you know there are only three days until Chr

Race to the End  ©Laurie Pace Race to the End    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every year we begin our year making new year's resolutions.  Here I am Dec 15th and I am struggling to meet my last one, which was 100 small paintings in 2014. I have done this back in 2012 when I did 100 in one hundred consecutive days. I learned not to promise that again, but I did want to continue to offer small paintings for collectors to afford.   I have been invited to a new gallery,  The La Jolla Gallery , opening in La Jolla CA and I am presently working on a body of work to ship. They are doing their