Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

MORNING HAZE 30 X 40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD THE FOURTH OF JULY! Celebrate the freedom and give thanks to the Lord! This painting I finished this week on Monday. It is deeply moving with the background of blues and aquas contrasted by the strength and combination of colors used in the horse. It is a LARGE canvas, 30 x 40 and will frame out at 42 X 52 inches. I have this one hanging in my living room to dry! Painted with a palette knife, the paint is deep and smooth in layered vibrations of color! Contact me if you are interested in this painting. Click here. Today will find me hopefully dusting at my mom's. She put in new wood floors and they finished up last night. My daughter and her husband have volunteered to come help as well. Terry returned to work today, so he will be exhausted this afternoon when he gets home. Last year at this time we were boarding a flight home from New York and the art show in Geneva NY. This year my show opens on the 14th and I

EMERGING 30 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas A Painting A Day SOLD SOLD Good morning! This one was finished up this weekend. You can click here to bid or buy this painting. RICH colors sweep across the surface in a reverent majesty...I was praying and meditating while pulling the colors, part in delight, part in frustration, part in awe...and all the time in anticipation of what would evolve. We stayed quiet yesterday but did drive into Dallas to have lunch with my parents. Dad and Terry had blackened Salmon with veggies and a large cup of gumbo. Mom and I stayed with talapia and veggies. It was some of the BEST fish I have had yet this year! Yes, we were at Mainstream, our favorite restaurant. A trip to Whole Foods can bring tears and laughter always. There was a woman there (close to my middle age) pushing one of those carts with a child in it...long story short, I kept hearing this strange noise...the woman was in the store and she had ACTIVE LOUD WHOOPING COUGH. After

CELEBRATION LIFE 30 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas NOT LISTED ON EBAY for another week. Contact me if you are interested. This is painted in the same style as the horse I did last week, but the colors on this painting are deeper and more intense in personality. The strength is not only in the brush strokes, but the color as well. I did not intentionally start out with the head the same direction, I just began painting! Need to think opposite. Today is house cleaning, dog washing and all those fun things! Especially when it is still hard to move my neck. Terry can't do anything yet. He hopes to go back to work next week. We will see. Be happy, whole, peaceful and secure in the Love of the Lord. Laurie “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.”—Proverbs 16:24

CALL OF THE WILD 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day CLICK the painting to see it close up! SOLD Thursday did not find me in the studio today. We left for Dallas early this morning to attend the wake and memorial service for Terry's aunt. We are just now arriving home at 10:30 pm, but are back in our little passat. More tomorrow. CALL of the Wild was painted over the past seven days with SEVERAL layers of paint, pulled by the palette knife...It is an evolving painting! Many things to find as you survey the piece! Grace, Remember God paves the way! Laurie “Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.”—Matthew 21:22

THE POWER OF THREE Three Canvas 18 x 27 inches totaling 54 x 27 inches hanging Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD SOLD SOLD Contact me for a commission piece. Laurie Pace Saturday morning and I am preparing to paint for a short time. This painting was worked on all through this last week. It began with a simple vision and I normally do not paint across separate canvas, but this time I did. The paints are extra thick and the colors are a contrast. From the wild I present "the power of three". Not much on the schedule this weekend as we stay mostly at home staying out of traffic and where we can sit and move as we need to. Thanks for all your prayers! They have helped to sustain us, along with the grace of the Lord! Grace, Laurie “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”—Matthew 28:20

Father's Day in Blue 24 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD Thick buttery Oils applied with a palette knife....gorgeous colors play in contrast as the true strength of a stallion emerges across the canvas. The paint is very thick....applied in 1/4 inch thickness in many places! Monday today. We have to manage loading the dogs to get them to the vet to get their stitches out....other than that it will be a quiet day here! Typing is painful so my blog will be short. I have to type with my left hand and that is slower...LOL Enjoy your day and give thanks for everything that surrounds you. Grace, Laurie “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”—Matthew 19:14

DOUBLE TIME Oil on Panel 6 x 6 inches A Painting a Day Friday, Friday, Friday. This painting was done on Thursday. With the muscle pain I am not able to paint very much and with this I could sit and paint! I believe I was able to capture the movement and joy of color and energy even on this small board panel. My car has made it to the auto repair shop. It is a tough baby and we should know something hopefully late today on its repair. Meanwhile we are working on our repair. Terry basically limped through a two day course he had been scheduled to take four months ago. He was in pain sitting and sitting and then trying to move around out in the sun. It has been a laugh trying to find a doctor to see us. When it is associated with an accident NO one will see you. What is wrong with this picture??? So I have been turned down by our Primary Care Physician, the doctor in our town, the Orthopedic Team the ER referred us to and now I am on hold for another clinic and they can only see

REBIRTH 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Okay, I am moving slow and typing even slower! More about that in a minute. This is a painting I finished on Sunday. I will be painting some smaller pieces this week and some more midsize...but this was a celebration of life and color. TODAY as I paint I WILL CELEBRATE LIFE and GIVE PRAISE FOR IT!!! Yesterday was a day and a day and a half rolled into one. I went for lessons on the MAC and have a whole bunch of new stuff to learn! YEAH. Stopped at Starbucks for Terry to get an coffee thing and I saw Paul McCartney's new CD...had to have it and I LOVE IT! My new theme song is "I DON'T WANT TO COME DOWN". You would have to hear it to understand it, but like hiding up in a tree and no one can see you and then someone spots you and says you have to do something and then a hundred others appear and they are all wanting something and you cry out I don't want to come down!....My husband chose the song GRATITUDE.

A NEW DAY 22 X 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Click here to bid. Painting is listed on eBay. FRIDAY is here....storms are on their way...I have several things sketched out on my canvas this morning and eager to paint! My dad is doing fantastic after some adjustments with his heart yesterday. Mom seems relieved so hopefully she will rest easier this weekend! Last night I cleaned out two hall closets and piled books in boxes for Half Price Books. Also finished adding music to my Itunes from all my CD's that I paint by and now will have MANY tunes to listen to instantly with out shuffling plastic boxes around. Last night I fixed a late dinner for us...part of the RICE DIET we are on....no rice though. I made a recipe for black bean and corn salad witha sweet sour spicey sauce on it. I served it on lettuce with fresh tomatoes from our garden! YUMMMMM. I caught Terry eating ice cream an hour later and informed him that ice cream WAS NOT on the Rice Diet. But I have lost

PICASSO PONY Acrylic on Canvas A Painting a Day Maybe I should have entitled this BAD HAIR DAY!~ Actually played with this one several weeks ago trying out some new underlays with impasto....and in person it is pretty cool. I set it in the dry room and forgot about it. I found it last night and decided I loved the movement after all! Today I am going to finish up some red flowers that are a commission piece and start a new piece exploring another area in painting that I dabbled in last year in the spring. I am anxious to push new limits and explore more. Here is something interesting I read this morning: Something to think and pray about this week There is a story from the desert fathers. A certain brother came to the abbot Moses seeking a word from him. The old man said, "Go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything." The ability to sit still, in silence, with nothing except the silence (not even a mobile phone or the sound of music), really does frig

FULL PAINT 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Not sure where I woke up this morning, but it decisively does NOT feel like Texas. It is in the low fifties outside....I am going to blog and then go sit by the open window and watch the sun rise and play my harp. I anticipate sipping hot peppermint tea with a touch of honey and watching the glory of the Lord wake the earth. THEN I will be back to paint! So this is short and sweet today! FOR YOU, I suggest the same. Find something to focus on that is part of God's creation...his gift for you. Don't ignore gifts given so freely. Stop wasting time on the stress and the worry, put it down for a few moments and give HIM your attention! Grace, Laurie “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?”—1 Corinthians 6:19

PINTO PONY EVOLUTION 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day RAIN and more rain. Still have to varnish. We did not get to pack paintings yesterday...we had to cut the grass...it was thigh high and we have an acre of it! Terry spent six hours in the sun doing the yard and I spent the time scrubbing and cleaning the house. We will pack the paintings this morning IF I am able to spray the varnish sealer. This painting was a pinto pony on a grey blue background....I came into the studio on Saturday and saw something else on the canvas and it evolved! Thick paint and contrasting pulls....very startling in person. I am up early this morning for one of those I HAVE TO PAINT IT images floating in my head. The household is quiet because we were with out power last night when I fell asleep....I think I slept 8 or 9 hours. Terry is still sound asleep so I am hoping the phone does not ring to wake him. It is only 5:30 a.m. here right now....and I am itching to paint! Faith and Patience

OUTWARD BOUND 24 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all of you out there! I woke early this morning at four and have been continuous praying for the Tögel family. Conni's mom and dad had just landed in Germany for a visit and her dad was rushed to the hospital. I am not totally clear on exactly what, but think it was a blood vessel issue in the head. PLEASE keep them in prayer so far from home...altho Germany was their home until a year ago. I have been in Dallas the past few days, so not here painting or listing or doing my blog...but spending time with my mom and dad. Wish there was a manual for getting old and guidance for all the decisions we face. Our society has changed so much with families moving so far from each other and everyone working to keep up with our hunger to buy more and have better. I would love to have my parents living with us. My household is not quite as tight and neat as my mom's but I run it very close to how she runs