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The Colors of Life

  © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Face Within .  This painting led off in my woman series of warriors back in 2022. Returning to figurative painting for a small collection, this one is magical. Can you find the second face? Layers of color and overlays criss cross this entire painting mapping out two faces.  Can you find the second one?  30 x 40 inches lush bright colors. Piled and layered by brush and palette knife. I am known and collected for my intense color.  The Latest Quest Putting God first.  In the Bible it makes it seem very simple. From my understanding, we need to move our thinking process and all our thoughts to a divine level. Once we do that, we’ll see that God‘s actually got all the physical stuff taken care of. Had to think about that forward to really define what a divine level might mean. And Colossians, chapter 3 verse two, it says “Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.”  In Matthew, chapter 6 verse 30, it says “Seek firs

Finding the Light with Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Caterpillar Photography  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The unending summer heat in Texas is dragging us all down. The garden is burned up, the trees have to be deep watered constantly and we are now not mowing because the only way the yard will survive is not mowing low. Terry has been using the deep water probes moving them throughout the yard so no water is lost through evaporation using our sprinkler system.  I am waiting for a reminder letter from our HOA to mow. The endless days of 105-110 degrees (feels like 5-10 degrees higher with the humidity) curtails outdoor activities, including swimming after 2 pm. or even being outside to walk in the evenings at seven when the temps are still 107 outside. The heat and closeness in the house with drapes closed to bar the western sun, makes the day seem unending. I love barefoot in the grass.

DEAD or ALIVE? Terry brought me dead flowers this morning.... Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Dead or Alive? Grow with God.  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Terry brought me in cut flowers this morning!  I was thrilled....Dead flowers, are they really dead?   Absolutely NOT!  Through death they provide the seeds for new blooms in our lives.   ( By the way... these are Zinnias) There is always a gift or legacy that survives a person's death as well, and new things to grow. Memories always remain, some dimming with the years. The trust and love of someone dear that has left us through death journeying on to Heaven,  encourages us to live forward and carry on the the very things we have learned in life from them.  Only three out of our seven grandchildren knew my Dad.(His great grandchildren) He lived a life always serving others and I pray the seeds he planted served every family well. We lost one of these grandchildren when he w

In Awe of the Lord... His gracious unfailing love for us. IN AWE Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 In Awe 20 x 30  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I have not been good at hitting the blog the past few weeks.   There are still health problems with a dear family member and between traveling, keeping up all our home stuff with gardens, mowing, dogs and food, not enough hours in the day! ALSO BEEN CREATING for OUR CRAZY LIFE and I am in AWE! In awe of God's touch in our lives! If you think about it... Read Acts 2:43:  “A deep sense of awe came over them all, and all the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.”  Tomorrow, if I remember... I will share a special piece of art I did back around 1998.  It keeps me in 'awe' thinking of the Lord God and how He is every faithful to us.  More on that tomorrow! With everything going on in our family, we missed updating Our Crazy Life Plus One website.  Have not done instagr

The Color of Horses Dancing in the Sun, The Story of the Greatest Artist- GOD

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Rites of Spring 20 x 30  Oils on Canvas © 2010 SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” ― Richard Dawkins I write of color tonight as the world around us is filled with color...both silent color and high bright noisy color. Reading the quote I found that I am in agreement on finding the beauty all throughout the day and night.  The painting above has the high intensity colors contrasting beautifully