Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lila - Ready to Party  by Laurie Pace - Commission Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This is the granddaughter of one of my dearest friends.  This little girl is the spitting image of her beautiful grandmother.  This was a crazy day photo with her wearing all her favorite colors and the net layered colorful skirt that grandmother brought to her!   Do you remember in your lifetime, being surprised by a gift from a family member that made you feel special?  I do... with several memories and my favorite was a soft yellow sweater at age 3 with tiny rosebuds near the neckline.  We used to be able to smile and greet people with a warm hello. Cannot do that these days. Covid Masks. How about if we used sign language... with our sparkling eyes and the sweet uplifted hand like a salute with a wave?    https://www.babysignlanguage.com Southern men might pull their hat slightl

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 THE MARSH  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”   F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Great Gatsby It took a few extra weeks, like six of them, for summer to arrive here in the Dallas Ft Worth area of Texas. The temps the last few weeks were in the 100-105 area with heat index about 10 degrees higher. We had a cool front come through which gave us a few cooler days but we are back over 100 again now.  AUGUST is here.  The painting above was painted last summer when we saw 100 plus for months in a row,  I kept things simple with a simple palette. August is the month I turn my thoughts to September.  At the top of the thought list is Cooler Nigh

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lotus Painting in Process - Commission Painting Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 400 Plus “ When you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light. ” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah   Def: Dark  -8: closed to the public “Life is dark in shutdown” Over 400 days Terry and I have been living in this new land of shutdown. Even with vaccines, things remain fuzzy on what is allowed and not allowed. For sure this time is the first darkness we have had hit us that has lasted over a year in length. When our nation was shut down in early March 2020, people were sentenced to stay home with their children and a virus spread across our country. Both Liberals and Conservative have their slant on the last year. For Terry and me, it has brought us closer… closer to God and to each other. Never did we believe we would be tested with times like those from the

   © 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 right now this year is 199 paintings for $199 each.  I think I am up to abou

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 In the Wild Contemporary Horse Abstract Painting by Laurie Pace  199 for $199 each for 2021  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This baby was wild fun! Started out stately and a jumper horse and the colors were basically blues, oranges and greens.  I ended up accenting in reds. The paint is ever so thick!  Will take a bit to dry, but grab it now if it calls to you!  I am not sure my brain can blog and paint and list at the same time!  I am usually good about subjects and sharing. Think for now I will keep it to the wild paints!! God always knows! “ For I know the plans I have for you, " Declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. " Jeremiah 29:11 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   Shop for Large Paintings   |   Shop for Small Paintings   |   Shop for Prints

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Shiny Red Shoes  by Laurie Pace  24 x 30 Oil on Canvas Available with small black frame.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”  ― Mahatma Gandhi Shiny Red Shoes was so much fun to paint!  Notice the thick thick paint and the exaggerated strokes of color.  Exaggerated is the correct word for the story of Hans Christian Anderson.  Anderson's story "The Red Shoes" was written in  1845. If you have not read it, it was about a young peasant girl that was adopted and in her life she was very vain. She had an old pair of red shoes as a foster child that she loved so much, she had her new foster mother buy her a new pair of red shoes. They were elegant and fit for a princess. Sadly the young girl was so attached to them she would not take them off.  Along the way to church one day a mysterious older man, a soldier with a red beard

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Come to the Water . 8 x 10  Oil on Birch . Christmas Gift.  by Laurie Pace  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.    1 January 2020 -  I was doing it wrong.   28 years of marriage.  We have known each other over 55 years.  So when he confronted me about his work jeans and told me I was folding them wrong, I almost laughed!   I have always taken pride in taking care of him.   When we married a lmost 28 years ago,  I learned to fold his underwear exactly like he wanted it folded.  ...  Read more here about folding laundry.   Romans 8: 26-28. “In the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.   And he who search our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.   And we know that in

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Beneath the Branches 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas  SOLD   Contemporary Horse Paintings . Pure Justus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” A.A. Milne   Beneath the branches... beneath the bridge... beneath the stars... God's beauty surrounds us. We should instantly be reminded of Him... He surrounds us with His gifts and creation. Sometimes I wonder how I can forget how He is part of me constantly with all the reminders. He is aware of everything that takes place in our lives. He knows our thoughts before they form in our mind. He knows the words before we speak them.