Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

  © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Color Rising 24 x 36  Oils on Canvas SOLD    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. When the sun rises... the first light of day has not broken through the deep mist of night and the quiet tones across the landscape.  When it does make that push upward and light fills in between the leaves, grass, gardens etc... the earth is alive with color!  Same with these horses I entitled Color Rising. Layers of color and overlays create this entire painting, keeping part of the realism and losing to abstract shapes throughout the horses. The Painted Pony Pulls! Should I paint more of them? Triggered by color and thick buttery oils, they have been the life dream of painting since 2002. Picking up a palette knife and starting to lay color up is always exciting. Sometimes I will use a tube of paint and dot mark...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Shower Play  by Laurie Pace - Available .  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always .”  Mahatma Gandhi Painting This is the second of the new series of the pulled Painted Ponies. I have not painted these in many years. I did do a large one for a show in Denver, and it sold that same month.  There is a magic in doing these that amazes me and propels me to do a few more. I have thought of painting flowers and will do some, and I thought of finishing a commission of two children, and MUST do that, and I want to do more of my women. They hold the same spell to me as do the horse...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Sunrise Friend  9 x 12 oil on panel - by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Just jumping straight into this painting and the process.  I began with a different surface as I sketched out three horses and began pulling the paint.  It looked painful, so I put it out of its misery and began pulling colors together and flipping the canvas around.   Then I saw the two horses as clear as can be. Forward with more pulled paint and you have Sunrise Friend.  The beauty of these painted ponies is the style. I have been collected for these since about 2005, so over 15 years. I paint other styles of horses and lately really pretty ones on birch. But these paintings are freedom and love knitted together on the surface with intuitive painting and discovery.  Remember on my site ri...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 NEW PAINTING!  View it here. Five Return 12 x 12 x 1.5   Oil on Birch Painted Pony Pulls on beautiful birch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I felt a bit wild as I started this painting this morning. I have not done many painted ponies in a few years.  I never truly know where it goes or how many horses will happen from it and I found five on the surface right away. Gives the feeling of wild horses and with it winter, yes, snow had to be involved.  Did not throw in green though, so it is bright in color for the holidays but not necessary full Christma...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Out of the Canyon  Sold  24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Here it is Passion week and in our home, our Bible study is about these days with Jesus leading up to his resurrection.  He paves the way for us.  The 'windstrom' he endured served us God's true beauty of Salvation.  The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shal...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Rites of Spring SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Spring is the time for rebirth and renewal, but there are a few of us who cling to the joy of fall into winter.  It is the winding down of being outside and staying more indoors together, closer, enjoying intimate moments. I always look forward to fall and still waiting right now for those cooler nights...

FLORIDA SUNRISE 18 X 27  SOLD  © LAURIE PACE 2014 CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT HORSE PAINTING    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Florida Sunrise 18 x 27 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.” ― William Blake Summer thoughts sent me back to a memory when I saw this painting in my archives.  My cousin Dawn was visiting from Florida with her granddaughter.  One morning before they were to fly home I took the little girl into my studio. I think she was about six ... and I painted this painting. Part of the joy ...