Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Joy Run  8 x 8 Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   ***** Calendars for 2025 are ready at Magcloud and 25% off through 2 Dec 2024. Use BF2024  The links are in the side bar right up at the top, one for the Horses and one for the Flowers. ***** BRR cold in North Texas yesterday and today. .   Terry and I took a trip out to Paradise TX and saw our dear friend Karen. She is a fellow artist with me and she also gives us a quick haircut with the visit. She is talented.  I will be working on her website and share some of her work as I do that this next few weeks.  The cold front moved in early yesterday plunging us in the high twenties last night with a freeze and today it was still cold.   We had a great time today with one of our grandsons and took him and friend to eat Pizza in Solana at our favorite Italian place and then to the infamous Ice Cream and Candy s...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Together   Available     This painting is filled, not just with color, but with texture, and layers of thick paint. I chose to start with one horse when I began, but I knew immediately there would be a second horse. When horses form a relationship, it is usually for life. A horse is intuitive with relationships with the humans in their lives, and I can only imagine how deep their feelings run for a companion horse. Enjoy the layers of color and overlays woven through the entire painting, while the slight abstraction keeps the edge of realism present.  Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. People Humans have layers of experience but keep the core values they pick up as children growing into adulthood.  In our earliest years, we rely on safety, security, comfort, and care from our parents. With our changing world this is not true ...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Black Horse 24 x 30  Oils on Canvas from 2010 SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. " - Dale Carnegie  Today what are you thinking about? Touching back on two days ago and direction and contentment... I found this quote above.  It struck a chord deep inside.   Where does my mind go with thoughts. Easy to list. Helping with a family member Making things easier for my husband Food prep Cleaning house and studio Walking Dogs and checking they are fed Blogging and painting for others Working for clients on websites daily Just trying to finish my day to shut my brain down. What am I not thinking about, that I really wa...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Escaping the Mountains 20 x 30 inches  Oils on Canvas SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in .” ― Junot Díaz When thinking of 'escaping' I realized this quote is TRUE! Some of us know there is not a way to run away from life, or happenings in life. All you can do is go forward even if you have to go in and go through it.    SLOW DOWN YOU MOVE TOO FAST... You've got to make this moment last... "Feelin Groovy" by Simon and Garfunkel Our lives have become woven to the thought of instant gratification or instant results. The electronics we keep at our fingertips allow us to fly at high speed through life. We also know what EVERYONE else is doing in li...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 THE MARSH  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”   F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Great Gatsby It took a few extra weeks, like six of them, for summer to arrive here in the Dallas Ft Worth area of Texas. The temps the last few weeks were in the 100-105 area with heat index about 10 degrees higher. We had a cool front come through which gave us a few cooler days but we are back over 100 again now.  AUGUST is here.  The painting above was painted last summer when we saw 100 plus for months in a row,  I kept things simple with a simple palette. August is the month I tur...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Celebration 8 x 10 oil on panel  by Laurie Pace   199 paintings for $199 each 2021 All sizes and all subjects. Send me your suggestions of what to paint!! Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I thought the cold was gone, but it is not.  The nights are low thirties and in the twenties. I had hopes of early spring. Yep, it is still January!! Would love to know what you all are up to. Stop by my Facebook business page and drop me a note, or email me from my website from the contact form.  I get tired writing about me!  I am in the studio almost every day for about 6-8 hours... and this year it will be more purposeful. Unfortunately the time is eaten up by blogging, painting, shooting photos and saving them into eight dif files in photoshop. Painting and selling artwork also takes lots of Marke...