Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

PIGGING OUT Farm Animals Pig Art by Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me to purchase: Laurie My deep reflection certainly DOES not match the painting I have posted. This was painted last week on Thursday as my world began to shift and change. When my father arrived he was quite taken by my piggies and every time he sits here in the studio with me watching TV, his eyes drift over to the pigs on the wall and he begins to chuckle telling me what a fine painting of pigs I have done. Yesterday morning I fed him breakfast at Terry's second desk overlooking the TV close up and personal. He was involved watching the local news as they spun cameras around at over 800 wrecks in the icy snow. (yes this is Dallas and it is March) He would shake his head and tell me that he gave up driving a few years back and Mom does all the driving now. I heard that sentence about eight times and then he expounded his thoughts. "Some things change and you need to chan

DUTCH BLOOMS Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 22 x 28 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD Looking a bit closer: SOLD thru Daily Painters. THANKS! JOY JOY JOY! This painting was pure Joy. I had been to Asel Art to pick up some light yellow paint and bought some big brushes. I used them on the back ground on this painting and then piled the paint dimensionally on the flowers. It is thick! The painting smiles at you when you look at it. Pure Joy. From a suggestion by someone that wanted a painting and missed it, I have added the Paypal buy it now button! Will see if this works I guess. Thinking back over the years I remember the words ACTS. I know many of you remember it is for praying. Adoration Confession Thanksgiving and Supplication. So many times when we rush to pray it is in desperation for a panic situation or a frantic need. Doing this too often you forget to thanks or to praise the Lord for His greatness. Remembering how to act with ACTS sometimes brings me back to ce

Yellow Bowl of Roses Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 inches on Linen Panel SOLD RAIN RAIN RAIN...and then SNOW SNOW SNOW. Yesterday it was 75 degrees and beautiful for the past three days. Late last night the rain moved in and temps have plummeted to the low forties and still dropping. The storms woke us both about three this morning but we dosed back asleep under the warm blankets until almost nine this morning. What a blessing it was! We are off to Whole Foods, Asel Art and back home to work. I have several commissions to finish up here. The painting I posted today was from an antique yellow vase I have that has to be close to 100 years old. I just repotted things out in the garden room and pulled the use of some of those flowers in the antique bowl. It bring life and light on a rainy day. I did not want to use the word gloomy attached to rainy. When the rain woke us at three I began to pray and meditate. I imagined reaching my arms to heaven up through the rain and

SUN ON THE PATIO Flower Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 inches SOLD on Daily Painters! Thanks for Supporting the Self Respresenting Artist! Sunday has dawned with bright sun and warmer temps. They will fall by tomorrow with storms predicted to move in! This is a fast blog this morning as it is late already. I painted this yesterday. Kay was over painting again. Yesterday I painted from five thirty in the morning until seven last night...NON STOP. My feet really hurt this morning. I am pretty tired. I had several commission pieces I was working on as well as paintings for the Galleries in Massachusetts and California. The gift of light is obvious on this painting. The play of shadows and light are exciting to paint and I know they bring excitement to our lives. Our journeys take us into the dark valleys and we must remember that faith in the Father will see us through the darkness. I give thanks today for the light of a new friendship with Kay. She stayed painting yes

Hiding Out with A Friend Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD From the easel yesterday another MY BUDDY AND ME! The moment of security when you nuzzle underneath in the protection of your best friend. Thick oils applied with a palette knife. Underneath the protection of your best friend...that is easy enough to expand on this morning. My eyes are a bit bleary from not being awake yet. Lately as I have felt overwhelmed by the surmounting cost of the money pit we live in, I remind myself that the Lord brought us to this house and here we are under His protection. We are busy nurturing this house back to life and there is much more to go. Under His protection we can only proceed in faith that He will provide what is needed for us to progress. Receiving two bills yesterday, one for the heater at $4200 and one from the plumber for $2400...I was in a panic. Within second though, I felt a calmness and knew I just had to work a bit harder, paint a bit

MOONLIGHT Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Contact me to purchase: Laurie I began a moonlight series yesterday very taken by the gray violet paint I had in my chest. I started a second one to finish today. It spoke to my heart of mystery and things in the dark that we cannot see, of unexpected pleasures and hidden pain. Our path can only be lit by the moonlight. We all travel into the night in our experiences pulled by others into the dark and it is up to us to bring the ray of light of the Lord with us. In our lives every day we have endless opportunity to bring light and love into the lives of those around us. I have a friend that lives very far from me and she is like a sister. Her wisdom is accountable and reliable; her love is unmistakable. She brings light into my life daily. Can you carry some light to someone today? This morning I have a "blind date". I use that term loosely. I have a woman from the neighborhood coming to paint. We have

First Poppies Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 15 X 30 inches SOLD The wind is howling outside this morning. Our 90 degree temps are back in the thirties. Only in Texas! I saw some poppies in a garden this week and that prompted a fun painting of their brilliance. Yesterday Terry and I finished up replanting and re potting the garden room. We had purchased new pots for our roses that we brought from the country as well as his mother's rose that we have nurtured along. I will have to take pictures and share them this week. It is nice in there, a very peaceful retreat. The roses and azealas will thrive in their new soil. Re potting is a thought to consider for us today. Often as a plant grows older and there has been no weekly maintenance to feed and nourish it, it begins to get yellow leaves and even shriveled leaves. I feel that applies to us as well. We stumble along in life often neglecting our connection that is wide open with God. He waits so patiently to lend his ea

CRAB APPLE TREE BLOOMS Landscape by Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches, Oil on Canvas SOLD Wow, yesterday was an active painting day! This is one I finished up and I love painting Texas Oaks, but in the spring, the Crab Trees bloom with beautiful pink blooms. This is my impression of the crab tree in bloom. Even Crab Trees do more than "Crab". This can be said about people too. I know everyone has one of those in their lives. The complainer. They are always complaining about everything. We often grow weary of being around them and make excuses not to be. In actuality you might find if you give some attention and demonstrate a happier more positive attitude around them you might see them relax. Dig around and smile at them and offer up a true compliment to them. My hunch is folks like this are unhappy inside and the only blooms that come out are negative blooms and thoughts. Perhaps with a little prayer and some TLC you could bring some light and love into their lives.

TEATIME Watercolor by Laurie Pace 14 x 16 Watercolor on Paper contact me to purchase: Email: Laurie From the musty infected cold dirty studio I enter this short blog. This is day nine with out heat. The interior thermostat reads 52 degrees in the house. We have warm temps thru today and over the next week predictions starting tomorrow of cold, and by the next weekend possible sleet. My brother dropped off Mucinex last night and it seems to be helping my congestion break up in my chest. I found out I have to fend for myself and started a pot of chicken vegetable soup this morning that will last me at least three days. Terry brought home sourdough bread which makes me feel like I am eating lemons, but maybe with the soup it will work. So no cold sweet potatoes today, hot soup in about two hours. I am only up because I had to get bills paid and pull paintings for shipment. Stacey, my daughter is coming to help me get the bedroom clean and change the bedsheets. She will finish

Before The Storm Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD Thanks! I have begun my to do list for the day and it filled two pages of paper. Not a good sign that I will make it through the list. I have decided I will not answer the phone unless it is my mom or husband calling. I have committed NOT to check my email until lunch time once I get up from this computer. I am still three commission paintings behind, need to do my taxes, need to do my wash, etc etc.etc. SMILE Morgan was over painting yesterday. He completed a small abstract and a contemporary nude that tastefully shows nothing but a bare back. It works nicely and I didn't hover over him when he painted. I was busy doing a landscape that turned into a horse of course. It seems when I approach the canvas I have something in mind and I begin to work that direction. Things change as I begin working the colors and the shapes and others things pull to emerge differently. I th

HERD IN MOTION....The Disciples By Laurie Justus Pace Oil On Watercolor Paper 15 x 25 inches SOLD off DAILY PAINTERS Thanks for your support! I am determined this morning to get to the easel BEFORE six a.m. Still behind and trying to stay organized to take a few steps forward! This is a painting that I did ten years ago. Light stroking develops the horses with clarity and the feel of their coat when you stroke them. This painting was rescued from the west coast. It literally had been stolen at one time and it is now home! Hopefully it will find it's true home over the next few weeks. Yesterday I believe I did 8000 plus steps. I had my step meter up to close to 5000 and somehow bumped it with my hand and I reset itself. So I do not know how far I went before I noted that. But by bedtime I had done another 2800, so I am guessing right at 8000. I did better on eating, but still felt over stuffed last night. Will begin watching calories this weekend. OH, and I did my tummy hold

EXPLOSIVE FURY Contemporary Modern Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD I am surrounding by a huge pile of TO DO's on my desk. Not sure if painting or cleaning comes first! I decided to do the blog first. THEN jump in and paint. Then I will clean off my desk. I am trying to get organized. This is an explosive painting that evolved this weekend. I finished it up last night. Colors pulling in the down direction created a mighty force on the surface. I was working also on a small commission piece of a little one (Dog) named Sugar. I almost have Sugar finished too. My next commission piece is of a young girl playing in an orchestra at the Meyerson. Her Mom sent me pics from home but the ones from actually being on stage are unbelievable. Terry's cousin Sandra came to visit yesterday. We worked in the plants out in the garden room for most of the day. I prepared pasta and meat sauce with fresh salad and hot bread with cheese, tomatoes and garlic on it! Yummm. Leftov

QUILT AT NANIE'S HOUSE Impressions by Laurie Justus Pace 5 x 7 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing. Email: Laurie Remember when? I remember playing under the quilting group at church where my grandmother would quilt. I remember running and playing in the wash at my Aunt Marie's house when my grandmother and I would hang wash and I thought it ever so much fun to run between the sheets hanging double and triple rowed across the backyard. Days of no responsibility and all discovery. God wants us to be like a child in our faith. Run through those sheets in feel his love and the warmth of the sun! I could use that warmth today. It is six thirty a.m. and the old heater which should have been replaced last week just died. There was a loud rackety rack noise as if the fan blades where speeding up and slowing down, like a shifting of gears.... a clatter and vibrations. I just left the blog and computer and threw off the switch next to it listening to it gravel

Catching Minnows ~ Figurative Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie The dog is watching the minnows, the boy is desperately trying to catch them...but they are elusive. Reminds me of life. We watch what is going on and see things we want to "Catch" or be a part of. Often it is not part of God's overall plan for our lives and I think we end up frustrating ourselves by trying to grasp onto things that will never be ours. Pray for the wisdom to know when to wade in the water. Timing is everything....that is a GOD THING! Yesterday morning early found me painting. I finished up one that I will post on Sunday most likely. It truly makes me catch my breath when I hit the studio and see it on the easel. I hope it finds a warm wonderful home. It is large, 24 x 36 and of course one of my equine paintings. Mom phoned early yesterday. We decided we would go visit Cousins' Pianos over in Garland as I

SISTERS IN THE SAND - Commissioned painting of children by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission work, Email: Laurie FLASH ADDITION I FORGOT>>>WILL POST AGAIN TOMORROW FOR EARLY MORNING READERS MORGAN GOT THE JOB!!!! Thanks be to God and to all of you prayer warriors!! This was the original painting I did for Lynda in Connecticut. Her little girls were really little in this painting and are at least three or four years older now. Maybe even six years older. I believe when she sent me photos they were older even when I painted this. She also has three little boys. A well rounded crew to be sure. This painting took honors in an international art show when it was done. Well, yesterday was full of surprises. I want to share with you right now. YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOING TO GET BETTER. That is the bad news....here is the good news: YOUR LIFE IS NOT GOING TO GET WORSE. Things happen every single moment in our lives. We cannot live our lives waiti

Sisters Chasing Butterflies - Impressionistic Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas SOLD /Commissioned Painting Contact me for Commission Work: Email: Laurie WE HAVE HEAT! I even took a hot shower this morning and got to wash my hair. PRAISE the Lord for the plumber. This painting was a commissioned piece for a collector in New York. I painted these two little ones when they were VERY little. Sisters in the Sand. I will post that one tomorrow for you. This is for their room. I kept in mind pinks and purples and light greens! Today is full of packing paintings and trying to clean up the house a bit. It was neglected over the freeze period. Also am battling with Quicken on both the MAC and the PC. Any Quicken Coaches out there? No one speaks English with the Quicken HELP on the phones. Can't get anything from the forum either. So much for working on taxes. It is obvious the Lord wants my energy directed elsewhere. Make a plan and hear the chuckles from heaven.

Brilliance in Red ~ Silky Red Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 16 x 16 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing at Email: Laurie This is a familiar composition to others I have painted. It is a relaxing composition of assertiveness. I hope you caught that one! They are gorgeous in person and make you feel like you are in a garden. A warm garden would be nice right now. The house is at 45, my studio is at 62. There is no hope for heat until probably Wednesday or Thursday. The men got the hole about done. It has to be 24 inches deep for city inspection. We have to do the plumbing part and then get a plumber to OK the work ...of course that is after the permit procedure from the city. WHY did I move to the city? Someone remind me again. I just pray at this point to have heat before next Saturday when I am hosting an open house for perspective students and their parents. Meanwhile I went to bed dirty, cold and hungry. I felt homeless, but knew there was a structur

A HUG BETWEEN FRIENDS ~ Child and Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 x 2 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for pricing. Email: Laurie Still freezing outside and inside. I have issues that I am dealing with on a both a physical and spiritual level. Trying to understand how we will have heat before the ice storm hits on Monday...and all the pipes freeze below the house because we have no heat in the house to keep them flowing. Morgan arrived yesterday about four and chopped down huge bush/trees by the gas meter. Then TP arrived with a jack hammer. Morgan is suppose to return today to jack hammer. TP will cut rebarb when he makes it home at four. OF course my brain goes entirely a different direction. We are turning Morgan loose with a jack hammer and NO experience... while Terry toddles off to work. ( BELIEVE ME as I watched Morgan trying to do this yesterday and had to remove myself from the window out of laughter and fear rolled together.) Morgan has no jack h

BURSTING BLOOMS ~ Flower Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie If I could type with rattled teeth I would be doing so. Hard enough to type with gloves on and will be more challenging to paint with gloves on this morning. I was happily chatting with a friend when hubby arrived home yesterday and announced it smelled like gas outside the front door. I hurried through the door to the outside and almost passed out. We did further investigation and he did leave the propane turned on at the grill on the patio next to the kitchen. He promptly cut it all off and we waited ten minutes and investigated again. More gas smell but not as strong. We called the City Gas company. The Instructions left me shaking with laughter despite the seriousness of the situation. Realize it is 34 degrees outside at this time. The woman is saying do not flip any switches in the house on or off. Do not turn anything off that is running. Gather your

POT OF COLOR ~ Abstract Flower Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for Pricing Email: Laurie COLORS COLORS COLORS...swirling and piling. This painting if full of color! It makes you smile when you look at it! Well, yesterday I made 8,023 steps. A bit better than the 3000 the day before. Not sure what will happen today. Waiting for a sign from the Lord on Direction. Things are changing here rapidly and I know in my heart I need to hang on and float along with the rough waters. The acronym would be WORD....WAITING ON REAL DIRECTION. That is where trust comes into the picture. I read a book once called You Can't Walk on the Water if you do not Get out of the Boat. Or something close to that. The water is a bit scary at the moment. I believe Daily Word is a treasure this morning. It speaks on the key word of Prosperity. Believing that divine abundance flows into our lives and prosperity is ours. Of course this is addressing not t