Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Circle of Love 8 x 8  Oils on Cradled Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "It comes in steps before you feel the full power of love surrounding you. Same with this painting... I had an odd beginning with acrylic light layers before the oil joined the circle. I chose horses of course and in their true color of spirit... for me the Spirit of the Paint is God and His unfailing love for us. I bring you Circle of Love to start every day with!"  Elle   CIRCLES Circles are important in our lives. I came across an article on circles. Humans are drawn to the shape and even young babies  prefer Circle to straight lines.  A preference for circular shapes is deeply ingrained in all of us from birth.  "A 2011 eye-tracking study found that at five months of age, before they utter a word or scribble a drawing, infants already show a clear v

  © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Behold Push Against the Wind 12 x 12  Oils on Canvas and Framed Richly accenting the color palette  in the painting. Available    by "Elle" Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8 This painting began with light palette knife sweeps in rich colors of browns, deep reds, and golds. I knew right away it would be horses and I began turning and rotating the canvas to find the silhouettes of the horses in the paint.  They stood out strongly to my eye and I could feel the wind in their face.  Preparing for the Keller Public Art Show, I was blessed to visit The Dutch Art gallery in search of frames for several of my paintings. This frame was the first one my husband found

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 RIVER CROSSING Triptych 24 x 60  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  “The sea that he made belongs to him, along with the dry land that his hands formed. Come! Let us worship and bow down; let us kneel in the presence of the Lord, who made us.“   Psalm 95:5-6   River Crossing The year was 2005 IT IS THE HORSES!  We lived in Justin, Texas when I painted this one. All in knife work and every horse has his individual personality. I love the way the sunset light fell upon the back of the horses... and their reflection in the water.  What do you think? Did you notice it is RED YELLOW AND BLUE?  These are primary colors and the horses contain the golden browns.    You can compare this to earlier paintings this week where the pull of the knife was vertical. In the painting the pulls are horizontal.  My horses are going to

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Movement on the Plain 10 x 10 Mixed Media on Birch cradled Wood. SOLD    by Laurie Pace    Wishing you the best this Holiday season!   Shop other Available Artwork.   (Click Category: Sale for available Sale pieces and enter code: " thanks22 "  available through Dec 12th Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. BE READY The season of ADVENT is upon us... and for our family, this is a special connection working in our lives preparing our hearts for the celebration of the Christ's birthday.  Preparation is good in all parts of our life.  From planing ahead, which often brings a giggle from our Father, to the full realization preparation of the heart, is dropping all your thoughts and plans into HIS hands.   We are truly a hands on civilization, believing we have control over our lives at all times. When you mix in the thought of God into our planning equation, you never kno

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 I'd Go Walking Down the Avenue 16 x 20 inches SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Travel Tomorrow three paintings are heading to Colorado to Mirada Fine Art Gallery in Denver.  The show opens the weekend of Thanksgiving!!  This is not one of them... but just a teaser to stay tuned.  I found this piece to repost from 8 years ago and fell in love with it again. I will have to get past this blocked situation and get to work again! If you have not signed up for my newsletter on my website, it comes out maybe three to four times a year. Mainly for sales.  We all get too much email in our in boxes daily, and will not risk you deleting things from me!  Most of you know you can see what it happening on my Google Blog right here!  Time seems to escape me daily... and I look forward to falling back in a routine again soon.  Do you have a set routi

   © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 2022 Last Days of Summer 24 x 24 in Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost THE PAINTING The one positive about the end of Sept is I get to see the sunrise.  When I take the dogs out at 5:45 I can stand and stare up at the stars.  I can walk on the treadmill and watch the sunrise. This painting is about the end of those LONG HOT summer days that lasted through the middle of September for us in north Texas. It was not just HOT it was DANG HOT.   The painting holds the fresh bliss of that new sunrise in September. It has a softness to it. It is beautiful.  This is from Sunday Morning around 7:30.  Does not get much prettier waking up to the soft autumn sky.  Can you see the colors from the painting?   The horse photo I used was by Helmut