Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress 5 x 6 ft  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all lines drawn through all stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood." Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Just a 'funny face' from the painting... love/hate f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in progress  Oil on Canvas. 5 x 6 ft ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged." Veronica Roth, Insurgent This painting was a work of the heart which covered three weeks of my life in paint and progress and now another three as it is curing to ship out. It is a 'mother' feeling when I invest so much blood, sweat and tears... and then have to say goodbye to a piece of my spirit spilled across the canvas.  My spirit uncaged. When I feel like maybe I should not paint anymore, I became aware that I would be not using the great gift God has given me.  In a wa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf painting nearly done!  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf."  George R R Martin, A Dance with Dragons NOT DONE... but the last time I post until it is done unless I take a left turn somewhere in the process!  I cannot believe that June is nearly over as I sit here blogging.   So can you tell me which is the leader of this small pack?  There is not a right or wrong answer. For me right now it is the wolf on the far right.  I thought it would be the one on the left...but I am still debating. What are your thoughts? Isaiah 33:15

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf painting in progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?"  R. L. Lafevers, Grave Mercy I actually did a few videos at this point but having to deal with music in the background have to be careful what I post online. Copyright is not a laughing matter!  More rising personalities as the wolf on the left begins to solidly establish who he is. I am going to have to stop posting so many images now as this has stretched out over more than two weeks.  Will try and wrap it up, but I have a long way to go on the painting!. Acts 6:3 "Therefore, brothers, pick out from

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "if only, if only, " the woodpecker sighs, "the bark on the tree was a soft as the skies."  While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moo-oo-on, "If only, If only."   Louis Sachar, Holes Here they come!  Not much to say as I am just getting started this morning. This is how it was left last night.  I am really needing to work out the back legs on the wolf on the left and still feel like the center wolf is squeezed in a bit.  Also still debating on the sway and set of the back on the right wolf. Progress is slow but

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." William Ralph Inge  I am really excited at this point as I feel the personality of each of the wolves in the painting.  I am still glazing on layers of subdued colors creating the wolf in their environment.  You can still see a lot of the markings from the very first on the surface as the wolves build outward with their definitions and personalities.  Romans 12:9-13  "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Lo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept." Jack London, White Fang Still watching the battle in the surface of the leader as I slowly form the wolves.  Seems like the largest wolf is on the left and I am not there yet... and you will see once he is in, he will be the one I begin with.  Jeremiah 23:1 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" declares the Lord."  #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My W

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul."  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron You can see from the photos above the two steps I am sharing here... blocking out on the top one and then forming the wolves in place on the second o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 28 x 42 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Leaning into experimenting on this next painting. Starting with a glazing on the foundation first and then building layers on top of it. Terry says I killed this brush because (oops) I forgot to clean it. Brush shopping I shall go.  I have had this 'hankering' and image floating in my head of wolves... seems to be something I am drawn