Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Better Together SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I love this painting... I painted this for the youngest daughter of my dearest best friend in my life. Take the Netflix Series, Firefly Lane and start it with us being young moms with small children. Life was always better together and especially with Charlene and our kids. I cannot leave out MaryEllen Maddox. She was the dearest of our 'Nanny' members of our family. She was a student from Stephen F Austin State University and she helped with my children while I worked or had classes. My degree was finished but I wanted to teach and had to take some extra credits. MaryEllen was the best! We were all slightly crazy. Charlene and I loved to take off in her Suburban and go east on the country road they lived on, suddenly taking veering tur...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Strength in Him  16 x 20  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”   Eleanor Roosevelt  I began this blog on Sunday but here it is late on Monday. Terry and I are heading to Fedex with two large packages heading to Mirada Fine Art for a new Southwest Show coming up. Things have been crazy here. I was finishing up three rather large pain...

In Progress Horse sketching on Canvas from Laurie Pace on Vimeo .    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Painting in Progress 24 x 48  Oil on Canvas in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can hear a tiny bit of Celtic Woman "Walking on Air" if you know the song... otherwise it is very faint.  Music is important when I work.  Messy fingers are leaving a trail of graphite on my keyboard as well.  Will be finishing this up and then doing a coat of clear gesso on it before painting. I...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Walking the Line  9 x 12 Oil   Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors."  Hunter S Thompson To walk the line is to maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.  OR, to behave in an authorized or socially accepted manner, especially as prescribed  by law or morality...to exercise self-control OR to make a boundary by walking it.  What is your position in life ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  A Pair of Horses  Size: 22 x 28 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Such a pretty pair you make, like matched horses in my stables."  Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad and the Undead. I remember when I painted this...layering on paint over three weeks and from it was this simple painting. I worried it would not appeal to anyone and it did... it sold quickly.   I am learning not to doubt what is as things are created... resting in the Lord, through quietness and trust is my strength.  "When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Blue Mist  24 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  This is a painting completed last year. It is indeed available on my website with close up shots, and if you love it and want to make an offer, please email me . It is in my top ten favorite list for the past two years.  I have the photos I took as I worked on this baby and was looking at them yesterday and thought... how did I do it?  It is the Holy Spirit working for sure through my hands.  I often feel I am on a journey without knowing the destination. Having to just sit back and not try to control is always the hardest thing for me.  For some reason this past week a bible verse or rather an entire Psalm has filled my every thought.  As I recited it over and over in my head I knew I was missing a line but could not figure it out and turned to my b...

Patina Series One Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 3 ft by 4 ft, Oil on 2 inch Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact John Stange to purchase: JOHN This is a first in a series for this wonderful new store/gallery in Marble Falls Texas. John and Marnie are almost ready to open their new shop! This one will be shipping to them in the next few days. It is a HUGE painting filled with color, THICK buttery paint, ridges and texture. Follow along as we make our way through the PATINA Series! Yes, the store is Patina! I am not accustomed to being up so early.... well, I have been my entire life, but since the flu and then the loss of heat etc.... Seven thirty was early....here I have been in the studio working since five thirty, about 45 min ago. Terry is back at work today. Hopefully he will continue working on the light issue in the evenings. It is not too bad living like this...I have to play my piano in daylight though. I usually play at night about eight, so I will have to adjust my s...

NOT A STEP CLOSER Horse Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 Contact me for pricing or commission work. SOLD Okay so I forgot yesterday. A lot going on! MORGAN did get a full time sub position with Nothwest ISD as a special Ed teacher at Nance Elementary. Your prayers were of such great support to him! Thank you! It is not official yet, but I think he starts Monday. They did not offer a "Contract" as in Full Time Teacher because we are passed the half way mark in the school year. This way the district does not have to pay benefits. Will keep you posted on progress. This is a quick entry this early early morning. I could not sleep due to shoulder pain and am up in my jamas to paint awhile. Terry is sound asleep where I should be, but my rolling around was keeping him awake. I have been unpacking his stuff now. Probably why my shoulder and neck hurt. I shake my head in disbelief at the accumulation of plastic model kits that are in this house. Remembe...

The Gathering Two 24 x 36 inches SOLD This was the first painting I did last year in my Gathering Series last year. I will be working on a new one this week. I am unable to post a NEW painting today as I am on laptop and not my big computer. I will encourage you today to have a joy filled heart no matter what is happening around you. The Lord provides JOY to us totally FREE!@!! No strings attached, only an attitude adjustment is needed. When Terry and I got married I used the idea of the attitude adjustment. In my art classes I had a large sun hat decorated with little tassels and soft balls fringing off the edges...bright flowers attached, feathers etc. If a student was stumped or uncreative they could opt to wear the hat. You would be amazed at how fast they lightened their day and their direction often producing some of their best artwork. Well, with Terry I didn't wear a hat, but someone had given me a beautiful black nightgown at a shower before our wedding. I saved it ...

Haunted Reds Two ~ Equine Horse Abstract Art by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas Contemporary Art for your Home. SOLD SOLD SOLD on Daily Painters! Thank you! There are two paintings in this series and they would look wonderful bought and hung together. The bottom pictures shows them hung together. The colors literally run from one to the other engaging and blending. This is one of my favorite approaches to painting! Tomorrow I will post the second half of this series. Haunted Reds Two. We were at Fed Ex yesterday visiting with Pam as I shipped things out. We were talking about balance in our lives. God provides so much for us all the time. BUT, do you hear yourself when you are tired....if something is not wrong with things in the house, it is your spouse that is not fixing them; or your neighbor has left things out you don't want to see; or something is off with one of your children, and if it is not your children it is your parents; Or something is happening ...

Flashes of Color ~ Abstract Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 X 36 inches Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home It's Friday. YEAH! I posted the above painting to show my work in acrylics. I had not done my pulls in acrylic before so this is the FIRST. Sometimes we are afraid or hesitant to step out try something new, so I did. I need to explore acrylics more. I was surprised by a phone call this week from a man named Rick Armstrong. My thanks to Diane for connecting us. Rick has a new gallery opening in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Diane is represented there as are some additional awesome artists. Rick had goggled my name and the first words from his mouth were, "You certainly have a web presence." He has invited me to be apart of the new gallery and I am sending work out on Monday. Here is the new website they are working on. Rare Gallery There are some interesting pieces and fascinating approaches. It is a gallery with great appeal. Last ...

AT ODDS ~ Abstract Contemporary Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches angled Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas It is good to be home, but it was a sleepless night. The effects of sunburn, ozone and heat stroke are powerful. The show was great and a total of 14 paintings sold and maybe 10 prints. Also sold a handful of books and quite a few posters. BUT, it did remind me of why I don't do tent shows. It has been three years and this will most definitely be the last one. I always enjoy all the folks I see and meet and hopefully trade off positive energy. The above painting is a typical pull painting for me with a twist of an angle. It is powerful in person but may not look right on this blog. No telling. I think God is like that for sure. He is powerful but the situation may not always look right. Falls back on that trust issue again. Boy today's Dailyword.com is right on. "I may not always understand the reasons that my life is unfolding as it is. I have faith, how...