Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Compromise in Progress    Cool Colors  Size: 20 x 20  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Been painting today.  This one is in cool colors as we have had cold nights and cold days the past week.  More rain and cold tomorrow too!  Getting ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday and doing my best to have some new paintings ready...  Will show the finished painting later next week. Hope this finds you preparing for the celebration of Thanksgiving.  I know we normally spend $100-125 a week on groceries and I was surprised ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the midst of circumstances; because problems is a sense of adventure in Sheep's clothing." Temitope Owosela The richness of paint reminds me of the richness of life.  I write often of the layers in life and the layers in the life of a painting. I love scribing my name into those layers making it part of th...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 12 x 12  Oil on Birch in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle The eyes are the path to the soul... but I am not saying wolves have souls... but the eyes contain the living part of the animal.  It is the eyes that can often be read to know if you are safe or not.   So I took off on the eyes yesterday before the entire painting was full of wet oil paints.  I am looking at this today and already thinking too much gold.  The green is bothering me too...but I will see it through a...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress  JOURNEY  28 x 42 Sold .  Oil Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness I have dug this progress painting out of my 2012 work... again for a collector in Australia. This is near the end but not the finished painting.  I had to bring up the intensity of the background to match the strength of the horse.   Remember this is a large painting... 42 inches tall... about 28 wide.  Nearing ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 In Progress Painting   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ― Anaïs Nin Well I posted this close up to give you an ideas of the looseness I want but sadly the face did not arrive there. I will post the entire painting tomorrow. It is hanging drying and things could change but my granddaughter loves it like it is.  So I do not know... if I will work on it more or not at this point.  I am using oils and loving the freedom I am achieving it on ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Progress Painting the Curtsey  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein This is how this painting has evolved. The face is still too defined but I want to concentrate on the whole of the body of the painting. The skirt of the dress may not get much more and lots of the canvas will remain unpainted... untold... the story needs to be filled in by the viewer.  Not sure how far to play with it and not ruin the attempt. Face looks too ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw Time to share a journey.. but just the basics over a few days.  It began with a drawing of my eldest granddaughter from two years ago... but I am not a figurative painter anymore... what was can no longer be and I am pushing to go a different direction and I know this painting will not reach it but it will be a stepping stone to where I need to go. Suddenly my tightness has jumped in overcharge. This ma...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.  It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.  Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”  ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Here is the final overlay with medium and acrylic.  My original thoughts were a herd of buffalo on the low horizon and more sky...but the more I think about that the more I do not feel it it the right path to take for thi...