Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Cat and Dog Portrait almost done! 66 x 86 inches of PAINT! Hopefully today I will put the last touches on this painting. I cannot wait to finish it and I know the collectors cannot wait to get it. I will be making their collectors book this week to. Those are hardback coffee table books created of the painting from first sketches to final varnish tied in with some family contributions. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Pit of your Stomach They say the 'pit of your stomach' is where fear or nervousness strikes first. Fear seems to be the thing that holds us back from enjoying our life or trying new things. Fear keeps some of us on the run. Terry has always said fear controls nations. Fear controls people in masses.  Post Game Mayhem Kentucky Let's face it, fear controls individuals daily. We empower others to control us ...

'Orange Sneakers' © 2005 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas SOLD back in 2005 and live in LA!  Had to grab something from the archive... Let it snow let it snow let it snow. Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Too cold to stick my nose out the window... it is still dark outside. I still have power but blogging quickly as the wind is strong.  The kids came Friday and Saturday but everyone cleared out by five.... heading back to Dallas before the winter storm was breaking. They have sleet this morning.  We survived a mean game of Monopoly that Terry won, and wonderful Ribs in beef and pork that Justin made and grilled veggies... of which th sweet potatoes were my favorite.  I made a huge salad. We call my salads the OMA salads.  They are well known and loved. I have everything in them from raw corn to oran...

'Rehab' 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas I had a request to repaint this subject. I had done the original several years ago and it lives in Oklahoma.  A movie director had contacted me for use of the image so I painted another one very similar for them to use the image to make a puzzle out of it for a movie being made. This new original painting is available to purchase. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     I received my email from Neale Donald Walsh yesterday on the "continuation day".   That is the day you die... the continuation to the next journey where you are embraced by all of those who have gone before you.  When you think about it, people are born and die daily.  We all have to do it...be born and die. Life is a continuation and death is just part of that continuation. I do believe this message came to us at the perfect time.  We k...

Click here to purchase    NDP Well, if you wondered WHAT I was doing today... it was finishing this  up for our AOT show that is in about four weeks. NOW I have to paint for it!  So over the next few weeks you will see some new exciting pieces from my studio. I am starving... it is late and I have been putting in 18 hour days on this for way too long!!! Here is "dotty"... poor tink had the chicken pox. ABUNDANCE to you all... Laurie “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”- 1 Corinthians 2:14

'Zoe's Ponies' 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies    Another long day yesterday. Five hours at the funeral home.  Then lunch and more packing and clearing out.  It was seven last night before we arrived home and we were bushed. Found out yesterday that the grandbaby has the chicken pox.  I am waiting for pictures.  Stace thinks it is a light case as she just had the shot for chicken pox a week ago.  Most of her pox are on her body, not her face or arms.  We are hoping she doesn't understand about scratching yet. There are many irritants in life... all of our lives.  How we react to those irritants matters.  Things can really itch and we can scratch away at the bothersome itch.  What happens next? Infection.  Our nails are always carrying dirt o...

'On the Hill' 24 x 24  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission Work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   www.CFAIntl.com I read somewhere in the past few days that making the right decision is not always the easy decision and often not the decision we want to make. I don't think I have written about this, but I have meditated over it for several weeks. I think it was in a fictional book by Lauraine Snelling. "Ellie" I have most of her books and am rereading this summer the entire series. Silly example of 'curbing' ones need to do what one wants to do instead of what one should do, was last night.  The surveyor was here helping us find our missing stake to mark the southwest boundary of our land.  I was really wanting to walk along and watch as they found the markers and ran the line.  I have this huge desire to learn about new things... OR is it I just want to be ...

'Hints of Picasso' 18 x 24 Oil on Canvas SOLD ~ npdp Contact me for commission work. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog I am tired. Spent 18 straight hours on the computer yesterday, no painting, but I did update the www.ArtistsofTexas.org website. We have several new members and I revamped our membership pages etc.  We have a huge show coming up in Dallas at the Dutch Art Gallery that opens November 2nd through December 31st, with an artist reception on November 6th.  Meet all of the artists from 1-5 in the afternoon.   I still have to update the slide show on the front page.  That takes a day by itself. Stop by and see our new members and welcome them! So there is not much to blog about, oh it did rain at last. We had a good 45 minute rain early evening last night.  It will take much more of that for our lit...

'Appy ' 8 x10  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      On Golden Pond Blog Yesterday I first heard from Judy Mackey in Southlake, Texas.... "It is raining here." I replied, "Short hard rain, or long slow rain?" She answered back, "Looks like on and off rainy day maybe, lots of dark clouds." About an hour later Debbie Lincoln phoned from Morgan Mill, west of Southlake... "Hey it's cooler here..." I replied, "How cool is cooler?" She answered back, "It is only 97 degrees outside." Lord, Please it is time to release us from this heat wave. The entire month of August has been 100 degrees or more.  My day yesterday was a catch up day anyway.  I continued to remind myself to give Thanks for all my blessings, including the 'redos' popping up in my life.  Do ...

'Five Hydrangea' 12 x 12  Oil on Canvas Special Pricing, contact me! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog Starting the week right... yesterday I clean up and out all the cabinets in the kitchen and then I attacked my closet.   I can't believe how much stuff I had in there. I definitely did away with a chunk of it and reorganized the rest. I have many more winter clothes than summer clothes. Yeah, I know winter clothes take up more room. I am up early and we are heading into Dallas. We have been sailing this weekend and enjoying the last days of August. The wind was not cooperative yesterday... it was too calm to sail.  Makes me shudder when I think of the calm before the storm.  Eventually it has to rain again and the temps have to drop under 100 degrees. We went swimming at Pau...

'Mariya's Pink Pony' 20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas Commission SOLD Contact me for Commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting: I can't remember her age, but this is the second one of three for three very very special young girls... each for their own rooms, done in the colors they love. Living at the Lake:  Well, yesterday was more work than play for me.  But at eleven thirty I took a break for us to sail and move the boat back out of the lake to the house.  Storms every day have hit our area and we have not been able to sail to the marina to trailer it home. Read on for more about it.... The Thought:  Storms ascending in life... There is nothing like being out on the lake and the day is partly cloudy and you are zipping across the water enjoying life and suddenly you hear thunder and as you roll over on the tram...

'Anastasia's Dream' 20 x 20  Oil on Canvas SOLD Commission  Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting: She wanted a green horse. Green is her favorite color... Fun and frolic and freedom of just being alive and under ten.  Do you remember life back then? Today I am trying a new approach... not sure if it will work or not Jim, but I am going to try it!  Check out this link for one of my pieces featured in LiteracyHead. Playing for Papa. The Thought:      Life at the Lake:  Yesterday Barbie and Kent (from SLC) met us and the Fletchers for lunch on the square in Mount Vernon at OUR PLACE, a wonderfully refreshing restaurant with delicious food and great atmosphere. We spent the afternoon reminiscing and making plans to attend our class reunion in September.  AND it rained ye...