Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Found Love Commissioned painting 2013 by Laurie Pace   IT IS THURSDAY!    We have official reached Heat Advisories here in north Texas. I heard the Severe Heat area is both  north and north east from us. Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee ... and more. I think I will be thankful for ours and thinking we might break 100-105 through this weekend and into next week. Wondering if the power is still off in Nebraska from their week of storms.  These two horses were a commission painting and it was a larger one as well. I am remembering MAYBE it went to Missouri? I know it left the state. It was 24 x 30 and of course Holbein Oils... buttery and lush! Would love to paint for you! He guided them by the skillfulness of his hands." Ps 79:72 In our lives it is impossible for us to predict the storms we may face before they arrive out of no where. Leaning into the Lord and giving thanks ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Sunrise Race 8 x 8 inches Oil on Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   This painting was done today and one of the first I have painted in several months. The new light of day behind the horses is the light we should carry on through this day. Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "A nd Lo I am  with you all the appointed days - Matt 28:20     This morning I was drawn into the thought and reading of the day with Streams of the Desert. It was reflecting on two words, fear and hope.  What do you live with?  I realized immediately I need to redirect my thoughts to remember God has this and I need to stop trying to deal with things my way. Yes I need to have hope, but this hope is based on all He has accomplished through me in my years here on earth. He has never left me behind, he has walked through the shadows as well as my ...

New Pastures © 2012 Laurie Pace    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 New Pastures  Contemporary Abstract Longhorn Commission by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures..” Henry David Thoreau, Walden It is that time of the year?   In my brain from a young age I always 'saw' the calendar in my head in an L shape like the old wall calendars.  January through September coming down the sides of the flip open and across the bottom Sept through Dec.  I feel we are at the end of the L shape and making that jump Dec 31 back to January at the top of the new next year.  2020 has been a challenge for everyone in the world. I have had maybe less than 5 or 6 b...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Life After Sixty: A Season of Hope. A Season of Prayer.  by Texas Artist Laurie Pace Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. ” ― Mother Teresa We are coming upon the start of Advent of the Christmas Season. on the 29th of November is the first Sunday of Advent.  In preparation of a healthier mindset, I have decided to steer pretty clear of engaging in anything but this season of Hope and Prayer.   Yesterday I woke up early.  Sunday mornings I would rather sleep in a bit past 5 am! I decided to grab my ipad and listen to Pastor Morris' message from Saturday Church at Gateway, Southlake, Texas.  I do believe his sermon was meant to stir us into preparing our heart for what was ahead, bot...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Sunning  by Laurie Pace - Available Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   This is a beautiful painting on birch wood with layers of acrylic glazing! It is ready to hang and does not need to be framed. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson My father-in-law had a saying.. "You can get glad just like you get mad."  We find ourselves quoting him often. Between the headlines or...wait, the SCARELINES and the current pandemic, who really knows how to react or what to believe.  1. Where did it all start to unravel for many of us?  When did so many stop believing in God?  We like to claim credit for everything we do. "I" is a large part of our outlay to others. God works in all of us, and for 'I' to take credit for it all really is not going the right direction. Now sometimes "I" chose...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Christmas Memories with Grandson Jonathan probably in about 2008.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas memories are strong with the holidays here upon us. We are in the midst of the third week of Advent and Terry and I are enjoying reading our advent study each morning and in the evening we have been studying the book of Mark and how his gospel compares to the other ones.  This evening study prompted us with some tough questions to answer in our lives looking back .  First it asked the simple question of what it meant to 'follow' someone.  In today's w...