Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Never Ending Love 36 x 48  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. After the second scrape from five horses to three... it made sense the next morning  to scrape it again and muddy the surface making it tonal to earth colors.   It takes guts to do this. You have to take a deep breath and start pulling the colors together allowing them to blend a story... You no longer look for horses when you do this... you create a single powerful horse... stately and magical and beautiful. Add sweeps of contrast colors can be seen once the horse is established. This is the harmony brought to the painting. It is also the strength of the painting... the blending and the top strong colors.  The Painting sold the first day it arrived at the Gallery. I miss the days of free pai...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Four Abreast 30 x 40  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   COLOR COLOR COLOR... it meets you coming at you with brilliant yellows and vivid reds in this contemporary abstract horse painting! Painted in my Golden Pond Studio in 2010, I am revisiting the heat wave months of Texas right now.  The horses are painted with a pulled palette knife. I love giving each horse their own contemporary look with different colors, so none of the them look the same. I believe this was a commissioned painting but not for sure. Most of these were painted as commissions at this point because I did not want o flood the market and it allowed me the ability to work with colors the buyer loved.  Commissions are welcome right now. Get in touch with me! Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Terry's hands! When we go to bed eac...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Between the Lines 36 x 48  Oils on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This painting was a journey that started about five or six weeks ago. I have shared some on this blog, but not all!  It is finished. Starting a new painting today with too many ideas floating in my head!   I am known for my Painted Pony Pulls but only have done maybe four in the past five years. There are NO others like it that I know of. Thick rich buttery Holbein Oils and NO impasto to thicken them. The are deep and rich! Yesterday and now Today The church bulletin yesterday..."There are very few REAL emergencies."  and "If you are lucky, you are currently between emergencies." Well, it caught my attention. With our current administration allowing a spy balloon to sit over our nucl...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Blast of Blue   8 x 10  Cradled Panel Mixed Media $199 Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Thinking Ahead Sometime you can get in trouble if you think ahead too far. I have learned to wait and if it seems good today and tomorrow and maybe in a few weeks... then act on it!  I am exploring both in painting and in writing thinking more abstractly I would say.   Blast of Blue was a good lead for me to test skills and it will take a few more like this.  I need to be even more basic.  Will try another direction tomorrow with a cradled Panel.  Thinking these will all be $199 right now as I experiment and take this journey. You will be right here next to me as we go. I know what the knife does... I want to try more things as I go. Abduction is a good word. Don't think of it's first meaning, look at its s...

In Studio with Elle Video from a current painting process. Enjoy!  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I am working on a painting for Mirada Fine Art for their Holiday Push in November and December. I started this piece out more in frustration and celebration if they can be mentioned in the same sentence.  Many of you know of the battle on Facebook for me and why I am leaving the platform. The best part is you will see more of my art and process here on the blog I have had for 23 years.  Hence frustration turning to celebration. Deut.31:6  Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them,  for it is the  LORD  your God who goes with you.  He will not leave you or forsake you.” The painting began with just rust on the surface with a glaze to it. Next came the blues, the whites and finally the orange.  I do have an idea of where I am going ...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shooting Star  by Laurie Pace - Available.   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “In your life you will meet shooting stars. You will see them, make your wish and see them disappear.” Nazhiar Ozar The painting above is available. It is one from a few years ago and it is at The La Jolla Gallery in California. Painted to the tunes of Jack Johnson, inspiration always flows with his music. "Shooting Star is 32 x 48 inches of thick knifed paint and startling colors. It tells a story of life on the open range in Texas and the vivid evening sky, filled with massive constellations and shooting stars.  I was listening to Banana Pancakes as I finished up that evening. Terry was actually making me Banana Pancakes and as I left the studio and walked across the upper balcony of our home, I caught a glimpse of a shoo...