Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Bevo  8 x 10 inches Oil on Canvas.   Sent to new home! Thank you. Email Here to Enter your name in the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways.   The fourth painting is a Texas Bevo painting.  This was painted about a year ago and just came home from The Dutch Art Gallery. This one is in oils and reminds me of the larger pieces I do with Longhorns. *Remember the winners will be chosen AFTER two days because the blog comes out on one day but it is emailed the next to my subscribers, so there will always be a delay of one day.  *If you live out of the continental USA and you win, you must cover your shipping.  Just email me to be enter for the 12 Days of Christmas Give Away . Enter just once for the full contest.  Lord, our Lord,     how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9 Laurie Pace A Texas Arti...

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Longhorn Way 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas.  Cannot seem to get away from those Texas Longhorns. Always a favorite to paint.  Using my same personal technique of pulled paint... away we go on this longhorn painting. My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards          CFAI.co      GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   The White Dog Gallery Carbondale, CO. The Dutch Art Gallery Dallas TX   SR Gallery Hong Kong

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2012 New Pastures Longhorn 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. Available at Dutch Art in Dallas Texas. Contact Pam Massar Here.  I revisited the colors on this magnificent longhorn and will be delivering it to Dutch Art in the next week. It would make a fabulous gift for someone special that is a Texas Longhorn fan.  This is the perfect Longhorn painting! Words of my heart... Sometimes it is so easy to say 'I am a believer'... but how easy is it to actually be one?  It is hard work. It takes sacrifice and giving of yourself to help others. It is not just sitting at home reading the bible...but it is working and striving to be the best you can be in His eyes. Striving to please Him. Time to renovate.   Click here to read more . My Blog     My Website       Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards        Th...

      © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace                                                                 Graphics One Design 2012 The Paints of Autumn  Texas Horns 40 x 60 inches of power and paint coming... This is the beginning sketch. The canvas has been surfaced with transparent raw siena. Using Charcoal, Laurie Sketches the longhorn across the canvas. Tomorrow the paint will begin to pull across the surface. From Words of my Heart “Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”  John 3:20-21 Yesterday was a welcome day of rain. All day slow rain.  I h...

Big Tree Longhorn One by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 Oil on Canvas sold I have continued on painting beyond this but even this changed around the eyes and the coloring pulled in the head area. It is close to completion after about three days of work...so hoping today to finish it entirely. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      He provides exactly what we need each day. He provides our daily bread.  We struggle with nutrition and weight, and we keep missing the picture. Do you eat to live or live to eat? The emptiness inside of you cannot be filled with ice cream and cookies, OR with margaritas or a cold beer. The stress inside of you cannot be quieted with candy bars or wine coolers. Get more basic.  Return to Him to fill the emptiness and allow Him to handle the stress.  Live ...

Sketches on Canvas Longhorn Land One 40 x 40 inches Oil    As I am waiting to work on the sky of the Blue Hills, I sketched out the next palette knife longhorn painting that is on a 40 x 40 canvas. Rupen of Canvasplace.com hand builds my canvas and allows me to choose higher grade canvas that is smooth for my knife to work the surface easier.  Rupen has been building my canvas since 2006.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Tender of heart seems to escape the thought of many these days. Driving into Dallas and back home yesterday more than proved that to me with the questionable driving skills and determination of many on the road. Our new Passion Vine is blooming! Be aware of others around you. Be open to their body language as well as their words. They may  contradict and it will take  praye...

More Longhorn Sketches from Texas Artist Laurie Pace We still have not narrowed down the direction on the longhorns but hopefully we are getting closer. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Life Softly Spoken With over 30 years of teaching experience in both public and private schools and my own art studio, I have learned early on that speaking softly and saying less controls children the best. When you set the mood of your classroom, it always works best to keep it simple.   The KISS method was one my husband told me was used by all the mechanics at American Airlines. They referred to the acronym as Keep It Simple Stupid...but I had to adjust that for the classroom to Keep It Simply Soft. My classrooms were home away from home for these children as they spent more time with me during their waking hours than they did with...

More Longhorn Sketches by Texas Artist Laurie Pace  This is another sketch for the square paintings. It is one of the only ways I could sketch to get longhorns on a square canvas and that was to angle them. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Shared Moments The treasured moments of friends is such a blessing.  I promised updated photos with Jan and Arlo from this weekend and you are are getting just that!  We spent a wonderful time with them catching up on old times and making new memories.  Lady L decided Arlo was her other Grandpa and of course with Jan being my 'sis' Lady L decided she was 'grandma' as well.  It has been two years since I sat face to face with Jan and I wanted to cry when they pulled in the driveway. I finally could look into her eyes and feel the warmth of her hug in person. My Sister of ...

Progression Texas Land of the Longhorns Preparing the way for this painting seems timely with preparation of Advent for the birth of Jesus. This is the second, third and fourth layer of oils on top of the beginning acrylic layer of Indian yellows.  Wait as it develops and you will watch the building of layers over time creating a unique painting unlike any other in my Longhorn Series. Each is different with layerings and colors. 35 x 53 inches Oil on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Anticipation - Preparing the Heart In this second week of advent we begin to really anticipate the coming of the Christ Child. No matter what messes remain in our lives, it is time to look above to Him to be set free. If you still remain head down concentrating on things in the worldly existence, this week it is time to lift your face to God's light. I...

'Longhorn Love' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD but I can do a commission! 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 Fundamental Screw Up.  I had not heard that one before my husband muttered it earlier today.  He was calling himself that, not me... and then another artist referred to herself as an idiot when it came to some computer things.  What do you call yourself? Sometimes I think I am a screw up. Sometimes I think I am undeserving.  I could go on but will stop there.  We are all susceptible to thoughts like this. We are human. We are able to go negative pretty quick on ourselves.  Our feelings get hurt and we get frustrated. We allow this to happen. We bring it on ourselves and we use it to validate our feelings at that time.  It is simply not true.  Keep yourself focused...

'Longhorn' 18 x 24  x 2 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase: Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace    Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting:  Pulling paint for longhorns varies so many things in the face area.  Each longhorn face is a unique as a human face,  thus the pulls bring in an interesting variable.  The Longhorns are popular for holiday gifts.  I usually get two to three commissions for them.  Contact me early for the holidays. The Thought:    Chameleons are interesting animals.   From an artist standpoint they are ever changing as they match up to their environment.      Robert Fritz once said, " One of the most importnat results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be ."     For me it was an artist . I always  believed I was an artist. My entire life I have not swayed from this gift or belief.  I have explored and participated i...

LONGHORN SUMMER SOLD Monday...WE ARE PACKING TODAY and Morgan is moving in for the next week. He is the best house sitter with the dogs. Our dogs are not the friendliest dogs to strangers. We taught them well on stranger danger. In my head I am compiling one thousand things to be done today. The other side of my brain is in prayer saying, GIVE IT TO GOD. One thing at a time and we will get to where we are suppose to be. Yesterday I spent the day in the studio tying up last ends and cleaning up. Still have to mop the floors. I have wash going, already cleaned out the pantry for traveling food...we are heading to Whole Foods for last minute travel things and water and then we may take on the washing of the dogs. They are pretty dirty and I could not get them in at the groomer. I do not know if I will be able to blog every day when we are on the road. Most places do have internet but if it takes any thinking other than turning on the computer I struggle. In fact I need to add to the ...