Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Progression on Racing the Sunset Click here to buy this painting....at Ugallery. 9 x 12 Heavy Palette knife Oil on Board   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Complete Whole Health Optimizer I started drinking a wonderful vegan protein drink from Numedica that has really changed my body and energy level in less than a few days. I have been drinking it for a week now.   It is not the high in fiber drink but the high in protein drink.  24 grams in one shake. Unfortunately I cannot drink a whole shake...so I am only in taking 12-14 grams.  I mix up about one scoop with a banana and some fresh blueberries.  I put in my tablespoon of my Carlson Lemon Fish Oil (NO taste or aftertaste or burping) and my two drops of Carlson Vit D and I am set. I was struggling with the yogurt every morning with my lactose intolerance and I am not a heavy breakfast eater at all. I use to be, but not now. This really has mad

Horse in Day 5 x 7 inches Oil on Board Click the Painting to purchase at Ugallery .     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie   Who are you? Really, who are you?  Think about it for a few moments. If you were going to guess how people view you, who are you?  Our view of our self is NOT what others actually see.  What do they see? You are a pure reflection of your thoughts. They actually affect your facial expressions, your mannerisms and your speech. So who are you?   You are a product of your thinking... describe yourself by describing how you think.     "I am a rose colored glasses person. Negativity is not my way."   Hey wait I say it is not there, BUT it is there.  WHY?  Because I have negative thoughts through out the day.  I worry and I think of things that I should not dwell on. Even though I do not describe myself that way... that is how people see me if they are aroun

Sunset River Crossing Available at Mirada Fine Art Final Weekend of my show... Contact Steve to purchase this powerful Equine Painting. Mention the blog and he will honor a special pricing for you. 28 x 42 inches framed in a gorgeous gold frame flecked with deep russet reds. Steve can send you a full picture. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Closing Doors and Open Windows Have you ever felt closed in a room and the door was locked?  You tried to open windows and they were basically stuck having not been opened in years?  Often panic will set in as you see only lack and limitation. You lack a way out and you are totally limited by the confines of the room. The door is locked from the outside. There is no key on the table in the room...but if you will slow down and look around... you will begin to see all the wonderful things in the room that you have right now.  Open your

Escaping the Carousel ~ White Stallion 3 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas    Available through Mirada Fine Art Contact Steve . I reworked this abstract horse painting and rebalanced the yellows and oranges. I added some sharp greens and turquoise to the composition as well.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 contact me: Laurie      COURAGE Challenges often seem daunting and take over the center of our lives.  It is humanly impossible to not take them seriously or to even try to walk away from them. The hardest for me is facing a challenging decision I know must be made and not wanting to deal with it.  Avoiding it as long as I can truly makes it seem worse than it is.  That inner voice has already answered me with what needs to be, but often my ear is turned away. I am overwhelmed with trying to tie in together the last things I need for the workshop as well as making sure I have everything submitted to Mirada and Western Art Collector.  In the midst of this o

Partner Midnight Dance 20 x 20 Acrylic on Canva s        This was painted similar to a piece I did last year with a single horse in it. My reference photo as two horses in it so I decided to paint both of them in it this time.  I think I am done, but will look at it one more time later today. Contact me for your own painting. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011   One of those mornings... When you wake up at four a.m. and cannot go back to sleep.  I chose to tiptoe out of the bedroom early this morning and work on my backlog of computer things.  The goal was to get it done so I would have time to walk this morning. We walked yesterday about two miles... about an hour walk around the lake shore drive by us. It was cool with the wind blowing but still feeling warm at near seventy degrees. What drew my attention was the symphony of the trees. Here at the lake we have tall pine trees, short oak trees and probably at least 30 different species of trees.  S

'The Dance' 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards The day yesterday was full of snow.  So I am going to share a slide show of God's glory in Texas, a sight rarely seen. We must have had 8-10 inches of snow. It is a big thing in this area of Texas to even get one inch a year, so to get a full day of snow and have this much on the ground and it is in the mid twenties outside... wahoo, time to build a snowman... HONEY are you awake yet?   Laurie “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21

'Continuation of The First Race' 5 ft by 5 ft   Oil on Canvas Commissioned Painting SOLD Contact me for your very own painted ponies. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011     This is Jace, the son of one of our friends here at the lake. He has an awesome command of his paint brush.  The painting will evolve slowly over the next month, but I will post his progress.     My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   New Year, new life each day, new breath each moment, all filled with the presence of God. If I suggest anything to add this year I would say learn to let go and breathe.  With each new breath comes new life and a time to affirm the power of God.  With each new breath will come a calm as you affirm the greatness of God. You are in His presence 24/7, but is He in your presence? Stop holding your breath and exhale.  Think back over the past year and all the highly emotional moments, some filled with fear an

'Continuation of The First Race' 5 ft by 5 ft  Oil on Canvas COMMISSION SOLD The work continues in my studio. I have to heat it up with electric heaters every morning for about two hours before I can paint. Contact me for your own Painted Pony. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   Do we ever really know what is on the road ahead?  When you drive you still cannot be totally confident what is ahead. Even using your IPhone for traffic maps showing accidents etc, things can change in a blink of a second.   In life I believe we all have plans and goals. They begin indoctrinating you at a young age to plan ahead, or make a list of goals, or a to do list.  What should be on that list?  I am not sure as everyone's is different.  The list I am interested in is not filled with goals and plans but it is a list of simple affirmations that you can recite every day.  God's pl

'Soul Mates' 24 x 36  Mixed Medium on Canvas SOLD from a past posting. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 **ADDING THIS TO MY BLOG LATE.... Message from Marine Corps League ~We are asking everyone to say a prayer for "Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families. They are fighting it out in Afghanistan & they have lost 9 marines in 4 days. IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE the message spread if more could past it on. Semper Fi, God Bless America and God Bless the United States Marine Corps... Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever    Claire FitzGerald, Chaplain Marine Corps League, Dept. of Washington** SNOPES finds it true. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/prayer/darkhorse.asp This is my DAY OFF... lol... I am painting all day and do not even want to be blogging this morning...so forgive me as I jump straight into my work. I have to write a second though remembering a scene from th

'Red Knight' 5 x 7  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog   My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog "Great and unexpected good is coming to you now.   You've been waiting for a shift in energy, and that shift has occurred. All you have to do now is get ready to receive your new-found good. Be on the lookout. It may come at a time and in a way that you could not have anticipated or imagined. " Neale Donald Walsch  When I received this today I thought about what I wrote last week about giving up the good for the better.  It might be a thought as you wake up each day to be child-like as you start your day.  Be eager for the surprises that are ahead of you.  Have you hands open ready to receive and stop dictating these long schedules that keep you moving and moving always in your direction.  Free up your day and find the best God has to of

'Four Abreast' 30 x 40 inches BIG!  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Website     On Golden Pond Blog We may see this one in reverse.  I want to share the pictures of how it came to be so the next few days I will post progress shots. I realized late last night my blog did not post yesterday. It did, but it did late.   If you missed it, scroll down because the new painting is one of my favorites! New style and new approach. Yesterday when I worked on this one, I had another one on the second easel.   I worked on it too. Yesterday was an 18 hour paint day.  I am tired still this morning.  The second canvas was scrapped twice.  My record is three times, but I have a ton of paint scrapped off that must go into other paintings.  I do not waste paint ever.  Some of my best pieces are from scrapped paint. I can only hear God chuckling over that one. Some of His best ma

'Intent' 20 x 30  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting: Another approach I have been playing with. Part of being an artist is the need to explore and try out other approaches to representing things on canvas.  It needs to be original as well as part of who I am and the spirit within me. Here are the links to the Appaloosa Website to see my art work. The Magazine is out in print as well.  Cover and front INSIDE the Site Life at the Lake:  RAIN RAIN AND MORE RAIN.   I painted all day yesterday, still catching up from being gone. I would again have preferred to play. Terry is playing. He was modeling all day long.  And I mean all day long.  He is in charge of cooking and cleaning, but we did not eat until dinner time.   Our day adventures found us heading in for groceries around 3 pm so he

'Colors of Summer Appaloosa' 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting: Playing in color as I begin feeling out the direction for a new series. A totally different approach to the canvas and I will have to watch and see what feel comes from it with the next one.  I think I will be painting more on this one... so stay tuned. Life at the Lake:  Terry spent the day yesterday mowing and mowing and mowing some more.   I did pick two tomatoes from one of the tomato bushes and Vicky gave us some more squash from her garden.  I wanted to go out on the lake yesterday afternoon but I had to work. The Thought:    “What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything

'Seven in the Herd' 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 www.lauriepace.blogspot.com www.ellepace.com www.thepaintedpony.ne t The Painting: A smaller version of my larger Painted Pony Pulls. Life at the Lake:  Nothing more but  a trip to Winnsboro to the Friends & Co for a hair cut... and then... tada.... The n ew thing is internet and streaming NETFLIX on our Wii.   Terry loves 24 hours a  day movies on demand.  I have to remind him of sleeping too. Oh, and don't forget about the Lake outside.  Actually he mowed the rest of the lawn yesterday.  It is an acre and a half and the riding mower is needing a new tire. The Thought:   Streaming NETFLIX, oh my gosh, what more could anyone want?   Well, I am not a movie/tv watcher, so I could list a bunch ahead of this, but your typical citizen around here would be glued to the set with a mini refrig and microwave hooked up

'Out of the Canyon' 24 x 36  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD COMMISSION Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This just was finished two days ago and is in Dallas at the Dutch Art Gallery being framed for the collector.   The Thought: As I reflect on yesterday and the long trip into Dallas and our over-stuffed day... I get tired thinking about it and I have had some sleep last night. More travel in the next few days as well... What did I learn yesterday? That another family must have died in a wreck on I30 traveling east into Dallas. There were five new white crosses with names and flowers on the right side of the road going into Sulphur Springs.   Terry and I prayed together as we saw the new crosses and I could only read one name as we whizzed by at 65...it was a little boys name on the cross.  This accident wiped out an entire family. Made us stop and think how this custom has grown

'Santa Fe One' 30 x 40  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD  Painted in 2007 but sold this spring 2010 to a new collector in China through the Red Tree Gallery. Contact me for commission work. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Had to repost this beauty. I will be revisiting this style this week.  It is fascinating to work with so many of the acrylic additives and subtractives.  I was thrilled when Santa Fe Shipped to Shanghai two months ago. The Thought:  Turtle Races. The first thing that probably comes to your mind is the tortoise and the hare.  Close but of course not where I am going. I have learned by experience when I feed the fish, the turtles come.... their little heads peeping up over the surface of the water like a submarine slicing through the water.. .but the body is more cumbersome and more round than a submarine. Proven fact, they move faster in water than on dry land. Both the turtles and the submarines. I just g

'Horse 2' 9 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas SOLD  Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Vibrant and defined by color. The Thought: We made several trips to the neighborhood work area. Once every month or two they bring in a dumpster and you can load it with anything but brush or trees or grass.  It is here about a week and then it goes away until the next time.  We happened to notice there was a sign up that said DUMPSTER is here.  We have truly been working hard the past few days emptying the stuff left by the prior owner and finishing up and sorting the rest of our stuff too.  Terry has made three runs so far and we will go once more this afternoon.    The men that work the yard here in the neighborhood have one of the digger machines with the scooper on it. It is a tall one.  What they do is as the dumpster fills up, they sprinkle smell good on it and use that digger as a masher, mashing al

'Sunset Herd' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD COMMISSION Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This baby will go to live in Missouri...my home state, also known as the 'Show Me' State. The Thought: Last night Terry and I were sitting outside on the swing about 8:30 p.m.  That is when the symphony of frogs begins each night and Paddy the dog begins to freak out.   I noticed last night that the Old Bull Frog starts the evening out with a few low croaks.  Then the older frogs all begin their part in the music. This lasts about five minutes and they get totally quiet and the tiny frogs begin their chirping.  This continues in repetition for the entire night.  After those baby frogs sing... total silence. Then Old Bull Frog croaks three times and immediately the old frogs begin to sing...and lastly the tiny frogs. Such magnificence is from the Almighty and only He is the creator of this chorus.

'Day Break' 30 x 36 Oil on Canvas  This is not quite done...but close. I will post it one more time later this week.  This is a commission painting.  It is SOLD. Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  It was so bright an sunny outside and I saw Paddy (the dog) rear up by the fence like this and though cool... make him into a horse... and I did. The Thought: Yesterday Terry and I drove into Dallas for a wedding shower for Justin and Tara. They do have a website:  Taraandjustin.info  The shower was wonderful and we met many of her parents dearest and nearest friends and share refreshments and laughter and love as she opened many beautiful gifts.   My favorite is my mother's special gift of giving Newly Weds an empty vase called the Forgiveness Vase.  She wrote a special poem for it and inserted it in the vase.   The vase is to be filled with flowers whenever one partner or the other needs to say t