Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace 2023 Steps at the Arboretum   Oils on Canvas SOLD   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “... a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’ ” Mark 1:3 Arboretum The year was 2005 It was quite a drive from the wilds of Justin Texas all the way into the Dallas Arboretum.  We packed up our 5 yr old grandson and his best friend from next door and headed into Dallas one fine Sunday afternoon. There were not many people there. Today if you go on Sunday afternoon,  you could not stir them with a stick.  I had my canon camera with me and got some delightful shots of people being people.    My favorite photo I took that day was of an older woman carrying a basket with flowers in it. Looked like she bought them somewhere on the grounds or brought them in for photos to be taken. She had a large straw hat.  The next group I

THE PATH Landscape Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD The Path excerpt from THE ART OF LIFE With every journey we find a path to follow. I often wonder how I get some of the places I do, and then I look back at where I have been and what I have done and I know I am in the right place. Even when I feel I am alone, I am not. He is there. He is there in my deepest moments of fear and pain. He is there when I cry out in delight and laugh with happiness. He directs my path. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him and He will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:4-6 Just a quick note from me as I begin painting this morning. This is something that occurs on a regular basis in all of our lives. Forgiveness. Wikipedia: Forgiveness is the mental and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation, or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake,

FALL KOI ONE, Contemporary Art by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD After a trip to the arboretum last weekend I came home with quite a few pictures to paint from. This is one of the koi that I took. GORGEOUS colors! Most of my koi are painted with blues and purples, this one is different in the cool greens of the pools at the arboretum. Today is a bit of painting this morning and then the house cleaning I did not finish yesterday. I did get the studio cleaned up though. Rachel came to visit from across the street while I was doing it. Sort of kept me on task too! I have been reading Louise Hay's new book "You can Heal your Life" . It has a remarkably simple view if one could keep focused on it. "Every moment of life is a new beginning point as we move from the old. This moment is a new point of beginning for me right here and right now. All is well in my world." Her first chapter is entitled "Life if Really Very Sim