Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Over the weekend....  28 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  Have some friends in Bartlesville, Oklahoma opening a new restaurant, The Painted Horse. Steven Sonnen is shipping Crowning the Hill from Mirada Fine Art to them....and I started this new one as a opening warming gift.  Mark says opening is in two weeks... hoping to get this done and dry and yes, Terry and I would love to drive up for the opening...depends on the whacky weather here.  See the almost finish painting tomorrow.   © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Crowning the Hill 48 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. Heading to Oklahoma. There is so much excitement when you 'begin' something new.  The anticipation of what you hope will be the journey does not always pan out... sometimes your expectations are n...

The Beginnings of an Equine Painting This is the first step of a new painting. 30 x 40 is the canvas size I am working with. The first thing I do is come up with the theme or reason for the painting other than playing in paint. I chose to paint about all the horses involved with the Lone Ranger. His first horse was Dusty. Dusty was replaced by Silver, a beautiful white horse he saved from an attacking buffalo.   Pre-Sketch for Pace equine Painting Tonto road a horse named White Fellar in the beginning, so he was actually on a white horse while the Lone Ranger road Dusty a Chestnut mare.  After Tonto gave a Chief friend White Feller, the Chief gave him a Paint Pony.  I could not find a name for this one, but the final Paint Pony Tonto rode was Scout.  The Lone Ranger had let Silver go to run free and Silver returned with Scout.  Now you have the full outlay of the horses  Home Work of the Lone Ranger and from this...

SNOWFALL Contemporary Art Horse Palette Knife Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission work: Laurie As I close out the year of 2008, the flashes in my mind recall the rapid decline of my dad with his Alzheimers; my mom with her health and three hospitalizations; the closing down and moving of my mom from her home of almost 40 years; the horrendous months of no gas or electricity in this house and constant construction all around me; the free fall of the stock market and our economy; my youngest son's two bad motorcycle accidents within one week; etc. Then I smile with the joy balanced out by my daughter's pregnancy; my gallery shows in New York, Jackson Hole, Dallas and Marble Falls; an increase of sales of my art work; my mother's health improving; finding a new relationship with my older brother; watching our oldest friend be elected Sheriff of Franklin County; having electricity and gas working again in the house;...