Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

More sketches of longhorns for a longhorn painting coming up. I am doing rough sketches for some longhorn paintings next week. This is on my down time between painting layers on my Blue Hills.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Old Friends This morning breaks with excitement for Terry and I. We are going to see our dearest friends Arlo and Jan today. They have traveled all the way from Arizona to Texas for a granddaughter's wedding and driven to the area for us to see them. Make new friends, but keep the old, some are silver and the others gold. TP and I have lost twenty pounds since this picture in 2010. This is Terry, Laurie, Jan and Arlo at our Lake. Old friends are so dear as they have walked so much of your journey in life with you. Jan has seen me through many moves. Prayed me through many crisis and been the...

Texas, The Land of Longhorns 35 x 53 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      St Nicholas was Here.... I shared on Facebook that my kids grew up different than most on the block.  Coming from a German family, we always had a visit from St. Nick on the evening of the 5th of December.  As children we hung our stockings awaiting the decision of St Nick if we had been naughty or nice. Mom filled the stocking with small presents, fruits and candy. Back in the 'old days' we did not really get expensive big gifts. So as my children were born we continued the tradition of St Nick. Christmas was reserved more for the spiritual aspect and all the wonderful happenings wrapped around our advent wreath morning and night followed up by Church and all of its Christmas pageants and Christmas Eve services. I know we did a sma...

'Big Tex' SOLD 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting:   In celebration of the opening of the Great State Fair of Texas, I painted this longhorn to mark this day.  Yes this is really the second day it is open, but I hit the weekend at least.  For some reason the paint is thicker and adding in some green really popped the beauty of this longhorn right out. The Thought:   I was reading a book yesterday when sitting at the orthodontist office with our daughter.  It was talking about a grandmother's lustrous pearls.  The young grandchild knew her grandmother was very poor and could not own such a luxury as real pearls.  The mother pulled her daughter into her lap and explained that the grandmother always talked about her "pearls".  Over the years the grandmother took those special moments, those "pearls" and strung t...