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The Good People- Contemporary Figurative Painting by Laurie Pace celebrating colors!

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Good People - 60 x 90 inches Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace - Available at Mirada Fine Art or through my website.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” C. Joybell C. The Painting 🖌 The Good People is the very last one I will paint in this series. I believe I have maybe 8 or 9 variations out there in different sizes, all inspired once again by Jack Johnson and the song, "Where did all the good people go?"  Using the abstract pull of my palette knife in downward strokes, the contemporary painting celebrates color representing the people. This palette pull of color is something seen in my horse paintings dating back to fall 2006. Contemporary Paintings of action by knife infused with co

The Dark of Day by Texas Artist Laurie Pace.

Cypress Spring Roses by L Pace    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 The Dark of Day   Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Make sure you check out Daily Paintings for $100 each. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”  Walt Whitman Some mornings I think my head is going to explode if the TV is on and hubby is watching it... all the 'news' of the day, or should I say yesterday or last week. He watches You-tube for news. ??  Anyone can say anything and put it up on you-tube. Actually any newscaster can create a factious story and put it on the 'regular' news.  I have been overfilled with politics already and we are not even in the last stretch of the election for Nov 2020.  The media has the world painted black as doomsday between the ongoing negative rhetoric of the sky is falling and our nation is failing. Only a few politicians and leaders speak with a kind

What is your legacy? From the studio of Laurie Pace, Texas Contemporary Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.” — JOHN ADAMS, LETTERS OF JOHN ADAMS, ADDRESSED TO HIS WIFE Legacies are truly important in our lives. From a young age we begin our memories with those older people in our lives.  How man

A Taste of a Memory

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meatloaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.” Mitch Albom I think most of you know that Terry and I try to eat Whole Foods Plant Based no oils at home and even though I strive to eat that way away from home, he chooses to eat whatever he wants.  meanwhile over this journey of seven years... and 45 pounds lighter, I have learned so much.  Right now I joined the Forks Meal Planner.  It has been an eye opener. I had taken the Forks over Knives Cooking Schoo

Tiny Bubbles Laurie Pace Contemporary Paintings

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Tiny Bubbles 30 x 40 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."  ―  Adam Lindsay Gordon This reminded me of how we tend to fill our pockets with problems all the time. If we could just learn to let the problem bubble just float by us... we would have more thoughts free of worry. This was the underlay to a horse painting but I wanted to paint something different.  I am doing that right now... in my studio, working on some little piggies and a bride.  Contrast and freedom as I work...    He replied

Beginnings with Light and Warmth, Contemporary Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Beginnings 30 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  I know it seems discouraging to see SOLD on the painting before I start, but I have to for Daily Painters. This is a specific piece for a specific friend... a brother in faith with me and he carefully chose the Bible verses for the foundation of the painting. I coated the canvas with a tan ivory acrylic to prepare the surface. The verses are in black acrylic.  As I begin the oils today this will slowly become the foundation that you will not see, but you will know it is there. He and his wife will know it is there.   I truly have no preconceived idea how this painting it going to work .Eric sent me photos of the area around Boulder, Colorado... from mountains, to sunrises, sunsets, images that capture the glory of God in each and every one of them. As I looked over everything sent to me, I realized how important 'light' will be to this