Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Longhorn' 18 x 24  x 2 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase: Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace    Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting:  Pulling paint for longhorns varies so many things in the face area.  Each longhorn face is a unique as a human face,  thus the pulls bring in an interesting variable.  The Longhorns are popular for holiday gifts.  I usually get two to three commissions for them.  Contact me early for the holidays. The Thought:    Chameleons are interesting animals.   From an artist standpoint they are ever changing as they match up to their environment.      Robert Fritz once said, " One of the most importnat results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be ."     For me it was an artist . I always  believed I was an artist. My entire life I have not swayed from this gift or belief.  I have explored and participated i...

LONGHORN SUMMER SOLD Monday...WE ARE PACKING TODAY and Morgan is moving in for the next week. He is the best house sitter with the dogs. Our dogs are not the friendliest dogs to strangers. We taught them well on stranger danger. In my head I am compiling one thousand things to be done today. The other side of my brain is in prayer saying, GIVE IT TO GOD. One thing at a time and we will get to where we are suppose to be. Yesterday I spent the day in the studio tying up last ends and cleaning up. Still have to mop the floors. I have wash going, already cleaned out the pantry for traveling food...we are heading to Whole Foods for last minute travel things and water and then we may take on the washing of the dogs. They are pretty dirty and I could not get them in at the groomer. I do not know if I will be able to blog every day when we are on the road. Most places do have internet but if it takes any thinking other than turning on the computer I struggle. In fact I need to add to the ...

Grazing Longhorn Longhorn Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me for details: Laurie My eyelids are propped open with toothpicks. Sleep deprivation is not my friend. Between the harsh rains, my hubby jumping in and out of bed and my dad up and down, it did not provide much time to sleep. This is a short blog. My Mom is having tests this morning and we are scrambling to care for Dad, the dog at his house and getting ready for shipping. My brother Bill picked up my dad to take him to the hospital. I will join them after Time Warner Cable finished repairs this morning for my slow lines, broken phones and not working TV cable. Not working cable, not working phones, not working lights in my house, not working eyes... hummm, that brings me into lines of thoughts of NEVERTHELESS God will provide. He always does. Despite our grief and pressured situations, God prevails. Nevertheless, he always comes through with the change that shall be. Grace, Laurie “But ...

THE TEXAS THREE Texas Longhorns Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 36 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home SOLD on Daily Painters. THANK YOU!! Saturday has not dawned. It is about five fifteen, but I am up to evacuate the area. Today is race day, well today and tomorrow and the Texas Motor Speed Way is a definite problem when you live out here. Stacey and I are bound for an early morning sale and then into Dallas to hunt for a place for Terry and I to move. I have to make a list this time before house shopping. I didn't do that when we bought this house! Pray for our family as we find a new home. Shalom, Laurie "You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.”—Colossians 1:5-6

Florida Brown Longhorn, Commission Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 48 x 72 inches Oil on Canvas CONTEMPORARY ART FOR YOUR HOME Well, it is almost done. Back and forth with Hilary in Florida yesterday from yellows and marigolds to tans and buttercreams...I am hoping it is dry by Christmas...but it knocked the socks off all the art moms browsing through yesterday. One of the students named it Tex! Old Tex is going to live in Florida. Hilary and I are debating on HOW to ship it. I want to let it dry and then take it off the stretchers and mail it. She would like it to stay together and is trying to figure it out how else to get it there. I was giggling when she said she would drive over to pick it up. Well it fits flat on the bottom of my truck bed, but ....not sure about an suv. Maybe a big van! What a commotion yesterday during art class. Careflight landed at the church across the side road from us. The kids were in a tizzy with the noise. Outside we found an ambulance waitin...

Chicago Bound Texas Longhorn 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD COMMISSION WORK I just finished this commission piece for a Texan now living in Chicago. Can you guess they went to UT? This was a peaceful painting for me as I am beginning to get back into my grove of painting. My right hand is still sore but much more functional than it was. This is one of my pull paintings as I pull color through the surface of the canvas using impasto mixed with the oil...then the longhorn emerges! The paint is again close to 1/4 inch in some places! Today is my MRI. OPEN MRI, but the man said it would still be noisy...I am not smiling as I woke with a migrane today. We cannot eat either...having blood drawn in an hour so I can't have a cup of hot peppermint tea. More later...meanwhile be a good steward today...care for all God has given you, the people in your life, your home, the animals....God gives so much to us, every single second...remember to give thanks! Grace, Laurie ...