Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 32 x 48  Oil Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?” ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance The next step after squiggling paint on the canvas surface was to begin knifing it around and finding composition in what you are knifing based on the movement not on a proposed idea.  So the laying out of the paint at this time has a rhythm to it.  This is the scarey step...the lonely one that only you can make on your own. You know you are brave, but it does feel mighty lonely. Trusting right now as I move ahead. Giving

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 32 x 48 Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne Steve Sonnen at MIrada challenged me to some new pieces for the gallery in August.  He was wanting some of the freedom in other pieces he had sold. Sometimes that 'freedom' in a painting can seem daunting.  I have very little control over it past this point above.  I have surfaced the canvas with acrylics and once that was dry, began squirting the oils in the chosen colors all over the surface.  At this point I have control. After this I loo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Summer Horse 5 Sold.  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde Sometime in our lives we have taken delight in teasing someone. Sometime in our lives we have annoyed other people. Sometime in our life we have hurt someone's feelings.  Today many of us hold grudges, resentments or thought of revenge against someone or somethings and it will often lead straight into health problems. I love Oscar Wilde's phrase about annoying them more by forgiving them.  It truly will help you move on to more peace and a healthier life.  Through this process y

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 28 Night  Windbreak   Small Collectibles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more." John O'Donohue When you think about sleeping... is it the end of the day when you go to bed... OR is going to bed the start of a new day?  Seems like a good night sleep is what jump starts your good day, so maybe we should think about that when we turn in tonight.  When you go to bed it actually is

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Day Break 40 x 60   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.  Miguel Angel Ruiz Have you been thrown any unexpected curves lately?  How do you handle them?  It is your reaction that determines the outcome, whether you can find the good in it or not.  With this new living arrangement we are still on the 'honeymoon' with occasional glitches that make us take cover and want to think about what was ...before.  We are committed to stay this course and continue to find the good in

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Horses 40 x 60   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain." Steven Bochco Every painting has it's own rhythm and voice.  I paint by music. Each painting has a variety of songs and words behind the process. Our lives are no different ... we have our own rhythm and voice.  Each a unique timbre of sound in the melody of life.  What is your melody? What is your life? Here at the "Lazy Ours" we all have our day to live in the best

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Traveling Home  Size: 15 x 30   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I chose this painting from my store, so if you like it click it. It is on sale for $399.  It will require a frame, it is painted on a panel with beautiful thick paint.  The story felt when being painted, was one of finally feeling at 'home' in the house we moved to two and a half years ago.  It always takes a period of time to adjust to a new place and we were really feeling the joy when I painted this one.   I love this quote I found so very much, I may have to use it in my newsletter.  "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horsin' Around  3 x 4 ft oil.  Available at Kasum Contemporary Fine Art Oklahoma City ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You really did not believe that did you?  Playing at the easel is one of my greatest joys and it does take some horsing around to get to some places.  This pretty baby is heading to Oklahoma City and under the care of Tony Morton at Kasum Gallery. When I finish a painting I usually have that 'feeling' that I have nailed it.  If there is any doubt, I always take that step to make it into something else that does give me that sense of completion. When creative love surround me it is inviting like a warm bath.