Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Heart Painting 6 x 6 inches framed in a black contemporary frame.  Acrylic on Board. $135 includes shipping.    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Building to a  Crescendo I marvel at God's greatness each daybreak as I wake to Terry starting his coffee or Paddy rustling around to wake us both up. The new brightness of this day and this moment and the many blessings that are surrounding me and God's love lifting me up from a good night's sleep. This morning I woke to the sound of Lady L's feet pattering in the hall and her loud whispers of "Bampa awake?" The reminder on this Friday in this second week of advent is accept God's direction in this day. In our self-reliant independence we often forget He truly knows what is best for us.  In our stubbornness it is easy to assert our way claim...

Golden Rod SOLD at Mirada! 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie       We are traveling... so short blog... but I was excited to hear from Steve Sonnen at Mirada that Golden Rod was on his way to a new home in Pennsylvania.  I am thrilled. This is a very powerful painting and one of my own favorites. Between Jackson Hole Rare Gallery and Mirada that is five pieces in this past week! I am leaving you with simplicity today... Joy is not in things; it is in us. For me that means God is joy.  If God is in you, joy, love, light, peace and love are in you.   Laurie           Psalm 97:11 Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. My Blog    My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards      The Five Graces     The...

WISE ONE Beautiful Wolf Painting with expressive wide brush and thick paint. This will go with my collection of wolf pieces I have been working on this summer.  Each of them in a different style. Available.   Email Me. 3 ft by 3 ft  Oil on Canvas        © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 LOVE When I was a teen I consulted my Grandmother on happiness.  It was not that I was an unhappy teen, but somehow I felt something missing in my life.  She would hug me and say happiness is like a butterfly. You can go chasing it but you will never catch it.  Happiness lands on you when you least expect it. For Lady L that was falling asleep while reading her book, "I LOVE YOU THROUGH AND THROUGH". So then I think of life in general and what most of us want is acceptance. Acceptance for who we are right now in life. We all want love; we all go searching for love with that acceptance.  My grandmother wou...

Crowning the Hill 4 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas   Contact Steve to purchase. This painting is a lead in piece for my summer show in Denver at Mirada Fine Art .  It is a huge 4 ft by 4 ft.  © Laurie Pace     Graphics One Design 1998-2011 contact me for Commission Work: Laurie      I reposted the pieces I finished up for the show. Terry and I shot them together yesterday.  Ken Vaughn arrived mid day to work more on the video that is up and coming.  He was kind to shoot a new bio photo for me as well.  Ken travels internationally with his photography but never has put up a website.   A bit old fashion but he is a whiz kid behind the camera!  If you need him, email me for his contact info. Positive Outlook, the Forecast of the Day. Do you meet life in a positive way every morning? I do because I am a morning person.  Not sure why I am up at 11 pm each night but that does not slow me down....

In Awe       18 x 24 inches  Oil on Canvas   SOLD        © Laurie Justus Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me: Laurie Confidence This could be a hot topic.  Some of us are truly confident in our abilities.  We are often confident in results about things happening around us. We can be confident in God's promises.  If we take someone in confidence, we must trust them a great deal. Seems like confidence can go two directions.  Obviously there is confidence that leads to over self-confidence and bragging or boasting; secondly there is confidence that leads to an inner self assurance that the Bible describes as boldness.  With God at our sides we can 'boldly' do His work in confidence that the results will be His way through His direction.   With God's assurance we can doing anything we need to do for Him to accomplish what needs to be done.  This confidence come from that...

Spring Princess I finished this last night. I went with a toned down darker background. It was lighter and very chaotic.  I wanted the horse to dominate.  It is not quite as dark as this image shows. The light was not good for the photography end of this.  This is a different approach for me. If you follow my horse paintings, you know I tend to pull toward the abstract.  The painting is finished withe deep sides continuing on with the content of the mane and the horse itself. Thank you Darci at the Double HP Rescue for sharing your horses with me. Available Contact me: Laurie 20 x 30 x 2 inches   Oil on Canvas       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Late Night Early Morning Okay so last night I blew it.  I was watching a Kate Hudson movie called You and Me Dupree and fell asleep about 10:30 only an hour into it.  I woke up at 11:30 and Terry was still out in the den watching the Borne Ident...

'Continuation of The First Race' 5 ft by 5 ft  Oil on Canvas COMMISSION SOLD The work continues in my studio. I have to heat it up with electric heaters every morning for about two hours before I can paint. Contact me for your own Painted Pony. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   Do we ever really know what is on the road ahead?  When you drive you still cannot be totally confident what is ahead. Even using your IPhone for traffic maps showing accidents etc, things can change in a blink of a second.   In life I believe we all have plans and goals. They begin indoctrinating you at a young age to plan ahead, or make a list of goals, or a to do list.  What should be on that list?  I am not sure as everyone's is different.  The list I am interested in is not filled with goals and plans but it is a list of simple affir...

  'Blocking in Color for Winter Solstice' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas IN PROGRESS ndp Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We were surprised with a Christmas Card from someone dear to us that lives far away.   The image of the kids and the parents smiling for the traditional card made my heart warm and brought a huge smile from Terry when I shared the picture.  I pulled out the 'newsletter' included and began reading about the past year for the two young ones, happily sharing the details with Terry as I read. A first broken bone, speech therapy, basketball, baseball, Playhouse Disney etc.   There was a point my voice broke and I stopped reading.  The tears were falling and the world seemed to turn upside-down.   The youngest son, only age 3, was diagnosed in October with a rare form of kidney...

'Four Black Horses' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas  SOLD but I would love to do one similar for you! Contact me for commission work.  Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Slow to recover this week.. still sort of weakly moving and a headache began yesterday, but I have high hopes of a better weekend as I heal.   I also hurt my wrist last week and probably this time off from painting was needed.   Terry has been working on brakes on the truck and hopes to finish today before the cold weather hits. It will be in the low twenties by tomorrow night.  Me, I hope to finish cleaning up the studio and the rest of the house. I did half of it yesterday....slowly slowly. Contemporary Fine Art International has been growing steadily.  We have been visiting on the vision for the future and setting up our goals accordingly.  We are still...

'In the Beginning' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     This painting was done earlier in the summer and then I plucked it back on the easel for more work. A strong visualization with stunning coloration.  Email me if you are interested in this painting. Laurie God colors our lives with so much every day.  There is no humanly possible way to take it all in even if we are trying to.  Look for those special things today. The uncommon things you normally do not stop to look at.... or the things you miss feeling because you are too busy with your 'stuff'.   Laurie The Verse

The Commission Piece continues 4 ft by 5 ft  Acrylic on Canvas Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      On Golden Pond Blog   It is that time of year...just  a few days away . Those of you who have known me for the past years know that from Sept through the first week in December I get excited about painting. When I do commission work for families and gifts it brings double joy back to me being involved with surprises and special pieces.  So for the next three months if you have a desire for a painting for yourself or a gift, now is the time of year to do.  Every year for the past four years I have called this my "Pay it Forward" time.  Other artists have followed suite doing this and I think that is grand because it is allowing God to work with us and spreads the gifts. The painting above is one...

'Rocky Mountain High' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Contact me directly or STEVE at the Mirada Gallery in Denver. Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog We made a mad dash to the vet last night to board Paddy. We have a round trip into Dallas and back and he is still suffering from his allergies.  We had decided the vet was the best place for him.  The housesitter can enjoy fishing and keeping up with the violets and the birds inside and out. He is one of the best we have had with the exception of Vicky.  She would be here if Paddy was here. I hope he remembers my inside violets. This morning we are attending a political gathering in Mt Pleasant.  I do not address politics often in my blog and only go so far to say I am very conservative and that probably tells you enough. The ...

'Some in the Dusk' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Just painted and SOLD! Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website   I have to share the story of early this morning.   The dog was up and down all night with allergies...skin broken out and massive scratching. We did not go to bed until after midnight trying to rub tea tree oil on his skin.  About four in the morning something went crash outside the bedroom window.  The dog woke up, Terry work up and I was awake but not out of bed. I wanted to sleep.  Terry took Paddy outside and immediately the scared dog took off into the dark. Not a normal move for the dog. He is usually hiding out behind Terry's legs.    Terry rambled back in and found his flashlight to look for the dog.   Still barefoot, he carefully followed the patio walk toward the hot tub shining his little mag light in the night.  (...

'Morning's Journey' 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas COMMISSION SOLD This is painted similar to a piece I did back in 2004.  It is for a bride to give to her groom for their new home.  The couple lives in Colorado and will be married in early fall. Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog   When I was teaching art classes several years ago in Justin, Texas, I had a student that was very gifted.   She wasn't necessarily the best drawing student I ever had, but the child/young adult was gifted with color.  She saw and felt color in every thing and every one.   I did not realize until today there was a name for this,  Synesthesia.    She would win our student competition almost every year for best painting because she worked with color so naturally w...

'Playing in Sunlight' 24 x 36  Acrylic on Canvas Playing in Sunlight For details click HERE . Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Usually when I am down I take that time to go right back up. (Ben says that all the time..." you can get glad just like you got sad. (or mad)."  You do that by counting your blessings.  Aunt Dorothy (Ben's sister) use to say if she could not sleep at night she would start with the letter A and say a prayer and bless every person she knew with a name that started with A. Then she would move to B and through the alphabet.  She never made it through with out falling asleep. She said often she would start at M and go forward just to cover new territory blessing her friends and family. This might be a good exercise to actually sit down and do to see ho...

'Texas Herd' 30 x 40  Mixed Medium (Oil/Acrylic) on Canvas This is at one of my representing Galleries and it is reduced to sell this summer. The two other pieces from this series have already sold.  They were smaller than this one.  This composition has deep reds and other very strong colors in it.  Just email me for pricing if you are interested. The piece will ship from Denver to you. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t Check out our new site for our Texas Artists.  If you are a professional artist in the state of Texas, you need to stop by the site and the blog and email us if you are interested in joining us. ArtistsofTexas.org     www.ArtistsofTexas.blogspot.com     On Golden Pond    aka   Life at the Lake   Last night was Thursday night and ...

'Cowboy continued'  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting:  Worked more on the cowboy today...but spent most of the day scrubbing the studio down. Vicky is staying here while we are gone to mind the manor and fill Paddy with her home cooking. This painting will be on hold until we return. Life at the Lake:  We are in the countdown mode for leaving this morning for Dallas and the big wedding.   Vicky should be here by nine and we should be on the road after that.  Tonight is the Barbecue at Tara's parents home... tomorrow will be filled with shoe shopping, getting nails done etc. Saturday is the Bridesmaid luncheon and Sunday evening the wedding.  I will be missing the quiet of our little pond and home. The Thought: We received in the mail our NURSE LI...