Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Horse 100 from 2012  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   We were settled in for the night of Sunday movies, showered and ready for bed.  The wind was up outside but it was not until I saw out the window our 10 x 10 ft tent FLY across the backyard, that I realized something was not right. We both reacted quickly and hit the back door with slippers forgoing our boots.  The tent had been staked firmly into the ground and been up for the past week sheltering our young peach tree from the summer burn of a week of 105 plus temps (heat index well over 110).   The tent was upside down and push into the branches of a large red oak mid yard.  The tent would have been in Waco by now if it had not been for the tree.  It took both of us wrestling the metal stand to hold it still while Terry unhoo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Lonely Boy    Prints Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “I restore myself when I'm alone.”   Marilyn Monroe .   At times in my life being alone was terrifying and other times I craved it. When I was younger, there were times I was really uncomfortable being alone. What I have learned in the past years is that silence and alone time builds a strength in understanding who I am, and that I can be comfortable in my life as this person created by God. Perhaps when we master the solitude of aloneness and quiet, we begin to find our self worth.   Too often in life today, we are pushed by our own thoughts and needs to finish or accompli...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Strength in Him  16 x 20  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”   Eleanor Roosevelt  I began this blog on Sunday but here it is late on Monday. Terry and I are heading to Fedex with two large packages heading to Mirada Fine Art for a new Southwest Show coming up. Things have been crazy here. I was finishing up three rather large pain...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Seven Sail Away 24 x 30 Moonlight Madness  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings for sale by Laurie Pace          “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” Aristotle Can I really believe it is possible to be more organized with God?  You tell me.  How about listening to him, waiting on him, and even losing the worry that constantly creeps in your mind? Listening seems to be one of the first things our parents try to teach us .  Memories ring back of me speaking to my own children...  "DID YOU HEAR ME?"     "LISTEN TO ME"  "WHY DON'T YOU EVER LISTEN?" "ARE YOU LISTENI...