Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2025 Princess Commissioned Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Princess  painting was a commissioned portrait painting for a client that has commissioned animals as well as their young daughter at the time. I loved painting this one! Painting children is true to capturing their energy in the process, definitely a challenge. Commission a painting today. Philippians 3:10-11 " I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,   and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead."    Been stuck on a phrase  "Looking with the wrong eyes" in a book  written by Julie Klassen, one of my favorite authors in Christian Historical Fiction. We always used to hear "Right in Front of your Eyes" but that is really different than her writing intention.  When you are looking at s...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Being a Princess 11 x 14  Oils on Canvas Figurative Child Portrait - Commissioned Painting SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess It is obvious we now live in a fully established 'material' world with everything based on material things and promoting yourself.  There are several generations slipped in here with "all about me"...."give it to me" and "gotta have it".  There is also the "what's in for me" gener...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Being a Princess  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess It was 11 years ago that I painted this young princess. My own granddaughter was a tiny baby at this time.  This princess lived in a nearby town in a castle with her family. Notice her ONE SINGLE RED ROSE.  I treasure fun small paintings like this.  I hope to embark on new color in the studio in the next month. The older you become, the more you realize it is the small special things in life that stick with you in your memories.  When you are in prayer with the Lord, remember he places multitudes of small simple things in your ...