Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Never Ending Love 36 x 48  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. After the second scrape from five horses to three... it made sense the next morning  to scrape it again and muddy the surface making it tonal to earth colors.   It takes guts to do this. You have to take a deep breath and start pulling the colors together allowing them to blend a story... You no longer look for horses when you do this... you create a single powerful horse... stately and magical and beautiful. Add sweeps of contrast colors can be seen once the horse is established. This is the harmony brought to the painting. It is also the strength of the painting... the blending and the top strong colors.  The Painting sold the first day it arrived at the Gallery. I miss the days of free painting like this. Ready for any commissions! Contact me.   “This is what th

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 36 x 48  Second Composition for Never Ending Love.  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I can only say it was near one in the morning when I went this direction.  I stopped and left it on the easel just to return in the morning. I knew I would either love it... by feeling it work (Looking back I like the other first one better!) or I would wipe it again.  What do you think will happen? In our lives we are challenged by many things and sometimes sink into desperation or sadness or even frustration.  I have always stepped back, walked away to do something else besides paint or think... and in this case it was sleep.  This is part of the frustration of being a painter that paints intuitively. I can sketch all day long but sometimes that just does not work out. Being BRAVE is essential to success. Remember our Lord is with you in lif

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Never Ending Love in Process 36 x 48   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  ALSO I have a new category, Under $200 for paintings. I just created it today... I put many pieces in there plus five new ones... and several reduced from $350 and up to be in the Under $200 category. I sold a wolf painting immediately!  Stop by and grab your favorite...  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. You can see how the paint was spread from small squirts and blended in the photo above. The photo below is a close up of the upper right mid area you see with the reds and greens.   From there... I proceeded to find the horses and establish them.  I was working late at night, probably close to midnight and working by one spotlight lamp. (Terry redid the studio lighting when we moved from this large house where this was painted, to the small house across the street. I have the best lighting and I thank J