Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Night Dance' 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas  Finally mailed off to the new owner.  Lost her address and had to patiently wait for an email .   Watch for the next give away. I will do another small one this week Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards The fickle weather goes from mild to freezing, from sun to snow.  We miss the rain in there somewhere. Short blog today as I must must must work.  I want to thank Micah for the great interview at the Daily Painters Cafe. Click here to read it.  I think we may do something similar with Contemporary Fine Artists International so you can meet some more great artists and have an insight to who they are behind the brush.   After I complete the large horse painting I am working on...it is drying between some layering... I will began a 3 x 4 ft painting that has deep spirit...

'Dancing In The Leaves' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas SOLD at the Dutch Art Gallery on Friday! Thank you. Pam left a message on my phone yesterday that Dancing in the Leaves had a new home! I am thrilled and pray that the new owners enjoy the energy and colors in this dynamic painting. God is good. All the time, God is good. For your own Commissioned painting, Contact me . Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We arrived home late yesterday afternoon.  Paddy was happy to see as was Ms Vicki.  I love coming home to the trees and the quiet of the lake. Yes we are pretty far out here, but I love it.   We had lunch with my Dad and brother Bill yesterday and enjoyed catfish and hush puppies. For those of you from the north, hush puppies are little corn breads in spheres that are deep fried.  Yeah, it was all off of our diet... we didn't e...

"Continuing Painted Pony' 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas In Progress 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 We are on our way home today... but Dallas has many stops. Asel Art, Whole Foods, visiting my parents, stopping by Northpark, and then finally heading east to home. We have really enjoyed our visit to the grand-baby's house. She rules the roost now as she is already in the terrible twos.  She is very bright and knows all her colors, her animals and their sounds, and actually reads about 100 words... at age 23 months.  She will melt down when we leave. She is a Bampa's little girl all the way through.  When you are little like the Tink, you are comforted by your parents, your grandparents, your favorite blanket or toy... by your bed and your pillow.  We pray with her at night and at meals. We sing ab...

IN PROGRESS  NO NAME YET! 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas  I guess it is a wait and see proposal!   Stay tuned. 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 It was a beautiful sunrise yesterday.  Then the skies grew cloudy while we were in church and cold rain was falling in late afternoon.  We had hopes for a nice long walk yesterday but that did not happen. Jace came and painted with me for about two hours and we jammed on the guitars. He is doing so well and has such a nice voice when he sings. He is NOT your typical 15 almost 16 year old.  So it was a full Sunday with church, lessons and time with Terry.  LOTS of good food on our "eat more fresh veggies" diet.  Finally realized I can eat as much as I want to eat of the foods that are healthy... and when I do I do not crave ...

'Catching Up' 20 x 30 x 2  Oil on Canvas In Progress but this is Available  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 It got really really cold again and we saw some light sleet late yesterday. Thank goodness today's high is in the forties!  Power is holding and for that I am grateful. I started this painting and worked on it most of yesterday. Had the heaters going in the studio and classical music playing.  The smells from the kitchen were extraordinary.  (Did I spell that right?) Terry was cooking while I was painting.  We dined on Salmon, baked potato and fresh carrots and mushrooms.  We spent the rest of the evening sprawled in front of the fire playing backgammon.  Bliss. The only thing that would have rounded it out would have been something from Stacey Beth's kitchen. (Just ...

'Purple Rain' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work.  Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards White Bliss is the word I gave to the feeling of coming out of my ' faint' on Sunday morning at one a.m. I think I told you that I fainted while I was sick and woke up half in the bathroom and half in the bedroom on a pillow with Terry sitting at my head watching me. Fortunately he caught me as I went down.  As I began to wake from this white realm I was resting in, I did not want to come out of it...it was quiet, serene, very comfortable and my stomach was not hurting.  I closed my eyes shut and began to retreat back and I stretched and realized I was not on a cloud but on the floor with the door jam in my back.  Still the white bliss called to me and I closed my eyes as the thoughts began to resurface, I remembered I was sick and...

'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 y...

'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 affir...

'Beginnings of THE FIRST RACE'   5 ft by ft feet  Oil on Canvas Commissioned Painting  Contact me for your special painted ponies this year. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   I had seen just the first two lines of this poem posted in several places in my life. I had never found or read the entire poem.  It truly is something to take to heart this first Sunday in the new year 2011. The will of God will never take you, Where the grace of God cannot keep you, Where the arms of God cannot support you Where the riches of God cannot supply your needs, Where the power of God cannot endow you. The will of God will never take you, Where the Spirit of God cannot work through you, Where the wisdom of God cannot teach you, Where the army of God cannot protect you, Where the hands of God cannot mold you. The will of God will nev...

'Night Dance' 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas Decided to do this as a NEW YEARS give away. Please email me if you would like it. It is wet and cannot ship for a week. ALL READY SPOKEN FOR!  Will be shipping this one out next week. Watch for the next give away. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards   It was a long day yesterday at the computer but I have finished outlining and preparing the written areas of my first workshop for 2011.  Now to decide where to have it.  There are beautiful places to stay here in Mt Vernon and I can teach it at our Franklin County Arts Alliance building, or I can have it with Dena Wenmohs at her ranch in Cypress Mill, TX , or begrudgingly I could have it in Dallas. Not too much for decompressing in that congested place!   Have also considered a special place here in Mt Vernon c...

'Conversation' 15 x 15 Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards Christmas Eve Day has arrived. Not much blogging will occur over the next few days as we are immersed in the love and light of Christmas making memories. From our house to yours... wishing you the light of the season in your life from this moment on. Blessings this weekend as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus. This is our 'Tinkerbell' Merry Christmas.   Laurie   “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his fav...

'More Progress on Winter Solstice' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We are back in Mt Vernon and hopefully I can finish up this painting.  I think every thing was mailed off for Christmas.  I have three books here to mail out and that is the last of the shipping.  Now Terry and I are going to relax over the next few days before we head back to Ft Worth/Dallas.   It was hard leaving the baby yesterday. She cried when we left... she thought she should be with us.  THAT was hard. She is a love.  Watch for more pictures....I took some before we left yesterday of her in her pajamas... it was pj day at school yesterday. When I think of this painting and the slow build up on layers of buttery Holbein Oils... I think of our lives and how experiences b...

'Reflections' 24 x 30 Oil on Canvas SOLD  Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards It was a busy busy day yesterday.  Up at four thirty...and to bed by ten last night.  Thinking we will head home in a few hours. Have to go by Asel Art and pick up some supplies and pick up a 5 ft by 5 ft canvas for a new commission piece for a collector in Arizona.  I hope I get to meet her. May have to deliver the painting to meet her and her horse. Meanwhile, Terry and I did make it to ADAMS furniture in Justin Texas. The best place to buy furniture in this area.  Hometown like for sure.  We picked out a queen size mattress and it will be made and delivered to Stacey's next week so we will have a good bed to sleep on for the holidays. We had lunch at Chicken Express and TINK loved it.  After that home for a nap (three h...

  'Blocking in Color for Winter Solstice' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas IN PROGRESS ndp Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards We were surprised with a Christmas Card from someone dear to us that lives far away.   The image of the kids and the parents smiling for the traditional card made my heart warm and brought a huge smile from Terry when I shared the picture.  I pulled out the 'newsletter' included and began reading about the past year for the two young ones, happily sharing the details with Terry as I read. A first broken bone, speech therapy, basketball, baseball, Playhouse Disney etc.   There was a point my voice broke and I stopped reading.  The tears were falling and the world seemed to turn upside-down.   The youngest son, only age 3, was diagnosed in October with a rare form of kidney...

'Hurried' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Do not know who I painted this for, but it is available and can be shipped in the next week out for a holiday gift.  It is a palette knife painting with my well recognized colors and buttery paints. You can click on the close ups and see the work pretty well enlarged. Specially PRICED to sell for Christmas and newly painted. Email me if you are interested.   Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   I left these higher resolution so you can click on them and see the paint close up. My Blog My Website     In church yesterday Pete preached on the word TRANSFORMING.  The childrens word just prior sampled out popcorn seeds...and how they change from a hard seed to a soft puffy piece of popcorn. They kids were studying Saul transforming and changing to Paul.   Pete spoke out of Mathew 24... and spoke about transforming and change...and always being prepa...

'In Progress Sunflowers' 24 x 18  Oil on Canvas SOLD COMMISSIONED PAINTING IN PROGRESS Contact me to commission a painting. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website    WOOHOO... yesterday was a free day. I don't take many of those. Vicki picked me up and we drove to Longview and went to the mall.  WOOHOO... Mt Vernon is only a tiny northeast Texas town, but Longview has a mall, a Target, a Best Buy and many other familiar stores to us transplanted from Dallas. It was also only about 40 minutes to get there.  A bit better than the 90 minutes to Dallas.  Cannot wait to try out the Mexican Restaurant by the mall next trip with Terry. We spent three or four hours in Dillards as we shopped until we almost dropped.  I only have two things to return that did not go with a skirt I was dealing with... and as we made our way out of Dillards to the car, Vicki said, "WAIT, we have to go down...

'Wind' 6 x 6  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Today I will paint.  After being gone I am ready to paint and the weather is warm here, which is odd.  We will have afternoons in the seventies for the next few days.   Watch for some small gems for gifts in the next few days and a few more FREE give aways. I was thinking about doing some different things on this blog as well.  I may start doing a few lessons sprinkled in here and there for artists or at home moms or home schooled kids. After teaching so many years I have a unique group of lesson plans I could share.  Let me know if you might be interested in this and if you are, I will start doing it.  Yesterday in church Pastor Pete spoke about Cain and Abel. When you just basically read the story in the bible it makes you wonder why God would just 'c...

'Grazing in Snow' 18 x 24 inches  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2009 The Painting : From my archives.   Soft with the moment in winter when the wind stops and snow is piled high and even the cold does not feel cold....the horses are business as usual. The Thought : Our daughter is a junior in high school and taking all the PSAT testing etc.   We received a pamphlet in the mail from the school district, SAT PREP COURSE.  Raise your Score on teh SAT, Enroll in the RISD SAT Prep course. WHY?  In the past 10 years since we sent our last one to college, the SAT has become the highest law into getting into college. SAT, ACT, and lots of paranoid parents putting the students through prep courses wanting their son/daughter to get into the best college.  Why are we doing all of this? Why are we complicating our lives so much? WHY so much life pre...

No 149 Painted Ponies Contemporary Horse Equine Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me for more information or to purchase. Include the title of the painting. Laurie "People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." Luke 18: 15-17 Today is Lauren's christening. Tomorrow I will have pictures of course! She will be christened by a minister our family dearly loves. He married Stacey and Larry; he and his wife, who is also a minister, prayed and stayed with the family through Grant's death (Grant died two years ago at age 11.); and now he will christen Lauren, their daughter. Pastor Keith is one of kind in y...

DIRECTIONAL ~ Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 48 x 2 inches, Oil on Deep Wrap Canvas SOLD THANKS for supporting Daily Painters Contact me for Pricing Laurie Pace Saturday early before the city has awaken....I am here at the computer blogging. I painted until almost nine last night on a few pieces, going from easel to easel. Will paint more this morning and then I have to clean house. AND unpack books. This is on a huge canvas 24 x 48. I squirm when I paint on these because Terry hates shipping them. I do not paint on them often for this reason. Carl from Pane in the Glass came yesterday and replaced my broken Kitchen window and fixed the curio cabinet that was broken in the move. He is such a pleasant man and I was fortunate to find him through the internet when we arrived. NOW, Terry only has to replace the sliding glass door in the kitchen. Then we will have all the cracked glass areas replaced. Do you have cracked areas in your life? Are they in need of repair? ...