Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Gift Painting for  Friend that loves Sailboats 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  SO you will watch this one from beginning sketches through the paint this week. I have a busy month in the studio but it is with three or four large paintings, so you will see the progress peppered in with anything small I do along the way. I am reserving MONDAYS each week as the 'art lesson day' to help beginners with art. Many artists out there are doing paint alongs for other artists, but some beginners are truly not really ready for paint alongs. You have to have a knowledgable foundation in art to learn the basics, train your eye and extend your knowledge so you create things that are apart of who you are and not  imitate the art of others.    This will be a palette knife painting and this one starts with a sketch on the canvas.   I u...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Mid Journey Sunset 24 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas.  It is finished.  I will begin making the book for this painting this week and by the time the single edition hardback book arrives... it will mail out with the painting to the new owner. This is her home in the second image with the painting 'photoshopped' onto her wall. Beautiful experience painting this heavy  palette knife Sail Boat Painting. Laurie Pace A Texas Artist Golden Pond Studio My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards          CFAI.co      GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   The White Dog Gallery Carbondale, CO. The Dutch Art Gallery Dallas TX   South Hill Gallery, Lexington, KY SR...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace                                                   Graphics One Design 2012 Racing the Storm. Sold 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas  Contact me for holiday commissions now! This was one from last year filled with action and color of a sailboat racing the storm. W ords of my heart Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear Genesis 28:20 When I chose this image I was thinking of spent blooms dying off and new blooms popping out. Some are just tiny and others beginning to open. Read more here. My Blog     My Website       Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards        The Five Graces      The Artis...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace                 Graphics One Design 2012 The Paints of Autumn Summer Sail to Sunset Commissioned Painting Sold  20 x 20 Oil on Canvas.  Words of my heart... “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”  Romans 12:2 I am not sure that I have tons of people that keep up with our life.  This fall has brought its challenges to each of us and weighed us with decisions  that affect others with a domino type result.  But when I think of dominoes I think of falling down... not getting up and I pray that our decisions will create the effect of getting up and finding change that calls to new ideas and new ways to serve Him. Read more here My Blog     My Website   ...

      © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2012 The Paints of Autumn  Orange was taken away... and more whites added but we are not there yet... 20 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.  Isaiah 65:2 Ellepace.blogspot.com My Blog     My Website       Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards        The Five Graces      The Artists of Texas        Daily Painters        CFAI.co     Artists of Texas Blog      Daily Painters of Texas Blog     GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY ...

Progression on Racing the Storm at Sunset SOLD 24 x 36 inches Sailboat Painting... Contemporary Palette knife boat painting.  Watch it evolve.    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned : Laurie       They Traveled to Bethlehem...to the Gathering. It was taxes that drew them 'gathering' in Bethlehem.  Each man had to return to his home town for the payment of taxes. Joseph took Mary there, carefully traveling with her on a donkey as they went from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It would have taken them five to seven days to arrive there, so they were well on their way to Bethlehem on the timeline of Christmas Eve and Jesus' birth. Every one was coming 'home' to their village for the census and taxing that took place. Again though, it was a gathering, a returning home. Keep this close at heart this day... as you prepare for the 'gathering' and the return ...

Progression on Racing the Storm at Sunset SOLD 24 x 36 inches Sailboat Painting... Contemporary Palette knife boat painting.  Watch it evolve.  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie       It is a sailboat painting in progress. Follow me daily as the paint layers build. Gathering from the Greek word espepisunagoge . The Greek word espepisunagoge actually means "gathering together" or "a get together". When I think of advent, immediately comes the gathering of family and friends in celebration of the coming birth of Jesus; a gathering with God for the celebration of the birth of Christ. As we make each day in the last week of advent, think of things you need to gather close in heart to be in light with Him.  Prayer is at the top of my list. Prayer is a wonderful 'gathering' time. Another would be the gathering every morning and e...

Look below for winner of the painting from last weekend's drawing.   Early Evening Sail By A Texas Artist Laurie Pace This sailboat painting was a love for my husband because we love to sail. He found an old picture from our albums and decided I needed to paint another sailboat. Sorry this one is not palette knife..but it is brush and delicately done. Perfect gift for someone for Christmas at a perfectly affordable price. Email me.   8 x 10 oil on board  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie       Sheriff Paul Fletcher takes time to draw the winning name. FREE PAINTING:  A last minute entry actually won the free painting give away. The winner came through the Daily Painter site to the contest!  Louise is our winner. Thanks so much for every one that did submit.  I will hold your names for the ne...

Racing the Storm SOLD I will be painting additional sail boat paintings this next month so stay tuned. Our boats are being made ready for sail this weekend and once I am out on the lake, I am ready to paint the wind!        © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for a Sailboat painting: Laurie Memorial Day This is still part of our first year without Ben's physical presence in our lives.  Spiritually we feel him daily in his beliefs and teachings that he gave this family.   He served God first and foremost in his life.  He served his country both in the Air Force as well as in the Navy.    We love him and miss him and are grateful for his giving in our lives and his defending of the country he loved so much.  Our prayers today are for all those who serve in our armed forces depending our rights of freedom and liberty and to the thousands that have gone before them blazing trails for others...

Sunset Sail Commission SOLD This was painted for one of my earliest collectors.  She wanted a brilliant sunset painting with corals, oranges, turquoise, blues, reds and every other color you could imagine.  Done with a palette knife and about 10 layers of paint, she has her sunset sail for her Florida home. Terry corrected my sails before I started on this one. Being a sailor, he is very much in tune with the jibs, mainsails etc and is always quick to correct my drawings if I am off for my sailboat paintings. 20 x 30 x 2 inches   Oil on Canvas     © Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact Me: Laurie   Adversity  I was not sure what I wanted to write about last night but after much prayer and the completion of this painting,  I decide to write about adversity in our lives. When you sail you basically have to rely on the weather, the wind and your skills. There are not motors on our sailboats.  I know last s...

'On a Reach 2' 5 x 7 inches oil on board Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting :  This is my third small sailboat piece for the show in Dallas.  Small palette knife with big action. Note: I just finished helping the boys set up their blog... interest rates are at 4.5% for home loans... check it out! http://mortexlending.blogspot.com  The Thought :  Saying Grace ... that stuck in my head this morning.  When I was driving our daughter to school yesterday and I spotted all the different 'neighbors' out walking in the hot humid air heavy wiht moisture.  Some are older and walking slowly with a cane. Some are middle age and walking their dogs...and then there are the younger ones. These are the ones that still look fabulous in their short shorts and jogging tops and they are not walking, they are jogging. Somehow they still look unsweaty and gorgeous....

'Catching the Colors' 5 x 7 inches Oil on Board Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2009 No 344 Catching the Colors 7" x 5" (17.8cm x 12.7cm) Oil on Panel $100 plus $4.95 shipping and handling in the US E-mail me for International shipping rates or other inquiries. The Painting : With Fall here and sailing days limited, I desperately try and capture the feeling on canvas to have the moment frozen in memory.  Our sails are vivid with colors but when the sun is setting and the sky is alive with those colors, they seem to weave through the sails capturing all the different hues in the sky. The Thought :  My mom sends out forwards and some are good enough I hang on to them. The one thing I do not do is chain mails...remember as a kid getting a "chain letter"?  GROAN.  After I did my second one where I painstakingly copied the letter over six times and found envelopes and address...