Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Joy Run  8 x 8 Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   ***** Calendars for 2025 are ready at Magcloud and 25% off through 2 Dec 2024. Use BF2024  The links are in the side bar right up at the top, one for the Horses and one for the Flowers. ***** BRR cold in North Texas yesterday and today. .   Terry and I took a trip out to Paradise TX and saw our dear friend Karen. She is a fellow artist with me and she also gives us a quick haircut with the visit. She is talented.  I will be working on her website and share some of her work as I do that this next few weeks.  The cold front moved in early yesterday plunging us in the high twenties last night with a freeze and today it was still cold.   We had a great time today with one of our grandsons and took him and friend to eat Pizza in Solana at our favorite Italian place and then to the infamous Ice Cream and Candy s...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 The Painted Ponies Gathering Three Sunrise Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Each of my painted ponies has a different approach or flair. This is fresh like spring for me and lots of sunlight.  I mentioned yesterday I wanted to share about something that happened Saturday.  We were on our way to our grandson's baseball game and the sky was a beautiful blue and just a handful of clouds. I glanced up and was mesmerized by the clouds and the back lighting and contrast in several of them that were gathered together. Light playfully filtered through. I felt instant joy.  Let me type that again, I felt instant JOY.   We know God gives us challenges. We know He walks before us... with us... and guards behind us . That and only that has sustained us through the last two years marked beginning Oct 5, 2022.  From Oct to the end of Dec was a journey I care ne...

   © +Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 2019 Full Circle 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas  (sold) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW ME  ON INSTAGRAM    @lauriepace91 Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives” Colleen Hoover I have been busy reworking the SEO on my main website Lauriepace.com  Seems like even SEO comes full circle as the ball changes or rolls about 190 degrees. oh wait.... it just spins around constantly. I have simplified my website in the move and will continue to make adjustments to having it work seamlessly for you as well as for me! Did you ever think about how we each get caught and tied up in our own lives?  It is so easy to forget to stop and give tha...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Family  16 x 16  Oil on Cradled Birch in progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  Leo Tolstoy Today finds me working on this painting above for a show in Iowa at The Bereskin Art Gallery.  I am honored to show my work there and thankful to Brad Bisbey for his friendship and help with this show.  I wanted to be there for the opening but we have a grandson due about the same time. I promise to post a photo of the final painting once it is done.  This morning I was reading in Psalm 16. I have read this psalm many times in my life, but it was this morning it t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Losing Direction 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus Contemporary Horse Paintings Sharing my faith and family.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau An appropriate painting.. "Losing Directions".  We have all been there in life ...probably several times more than we wanted to be.  Ultimately we all seek joy in our lives.  Unless you know sorrow, you cannot fully know and appreciate joy....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Advent  The Third Sunday ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Joy is born, not from pretending everything is fine, but from holding both hope and truth together. ... Joy is the affirmation of the thing that is truer than any trouble, any affliction: the affirmation that love wins. Jesus is as good as we hope, it's all worth is, and all will be redeemed." Sarah Bessey  Sarah Bessey.com   Remember this day that your joy is rooted in the hope and confidence of our God. Jesus will return. God will not forsake us or forget us. God will never quit. His promised his unfa...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  "Mary?"  Honking on in JOY! Living in God's Moment Not Mine! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop with Carla is FUN.  These were actually done on the app Pages 53 with their 'implement' that is like a pen/pencil/paintbrush/marker/ etc.   The lesson was just carried over from manual sketching to using the tools on my ipad.  Fun. Really fun. There is an amazing amount of self confidence building with these small sketches of line and color.  I know the power of God within is working for me because I am not in the way of the energy or the proc...