Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Heart Painting 6 x 6 inches framed in a black contemporary frame.  Acrylic on Board. $135 includes shipping.    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Building to a  Crescendo I marvel at God's greatness each daybreak as I wake to Terry starting his coffee or Paddy rustling around to wake us both up. The new brightness of this day and this moment and the many blessings that are surrounding me and God's love lifting me up from a good night's sleep. This morning I woke to the sound of Lady L's feet pattering in the hall and her loud whispers of "Bampa awake?" The reminder on this Friday in this second week of advent is accept God's direction in this day. In our self-reliant independence we often forget He truly knows what is best for us.  In our stubbornness it is easy to assert our way claiming control and what we define as

'Other Side of the Earth' 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas SOLD to Collector in Virgina Contact me for Holiday Commissions. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting : I found another one from this earlier series...but this goes back to 2006.  Sometimes it is fun to go back and look at the progress of art over the years.  This would be ALMOST 4 years ago. The Thought :  Looking back over life experiences can be both joyful and depressing .  When I turned fifty I remember sitting in the chair  gazing out at my garden and recognizing I had lived five decades and each of them seemed relatively different... different stages in life.  I knew at that moment if I died I had lived a wonderful life to that day. It would not have been the perfect life in any way shape or form, but it was mine and it was full and I felt joy looking back even at the hardest times. With my birthday this week I am turning 57.  Egads when did I grow so old?  I told the kids t

Florida Brown Longhorn, Commission Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 48 x 72 inches Oil on Canvas CONTEMPORARY ART FOR YOUR HOME Well, it is almost done. Back and forth with Hilary in Florida yesterday from yellows and marigolds to tans and buttercreams...I am hoping it is dry by Christmas...but it knocked the socks off all the art moms browsing through yesterday. One of the students named it Tex! Old Tex is going to live in Florida. Hilary and I are debating on HOW to ship it. I want to let it dry and then take it off the stretchers and mail it. She would like it to stay together and is trying to figure it out how else to get it there. I was giggling when she said she would drive over to pick it up. Well it fits flat on the bottom of my truck bed, but ....not sure about an suv. Maybe a big van! What a commotion yesterday during art class. Careflight landed at the church across the side road from us. The kids were in a tizzy with the noise. Outside we found an ambulance waitin