Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

My Mother Portraiture by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD Private Collection of Artist Contact me for portrait work. Laurie This was painted about ten years ago... I never finished it and I think I will. It truly looks just like my mom. The tribute below was written in 1979 for my mother for a Mother's Day Banquet at her church. I lived out of town and had two small children and could not make it up for the Friday night banquet. I sent flowers and had my best friend Candy read this to my mother at the dinner that night. A Tribute to Mother To paint upon a canvas the glory of life, the total of love, the beauty of earth... One could close your eyes and imagine never ending fields of brightly colored wild flowers, cool meadows surrounded by the quiet of a shade trees with echoes of drops from a nearby waterfall. In the distance you can both hear and smell the sounds of a cool rain on the horizon and anticipate the sunrise of a new day. One could imagine endless pictures of the beauty of na...

MAGIC MOMENT 18 x 27 inches Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas Commission Painting A Painting a Day Well, this is a hugely busy time for me with the late shipments to Earth Works for the Show opening this weekend, but I had a request for a commission painting. It started with talk of a small 8 x 10 and after we visited and I saw the photos I suggested the Pop Art approach... and here it is! Finished in time for their anniversary next week and I will be shipping it immediately! I still want to do a small panel of them kissing ....but the photo that was sent was really blurry...but I am hoping I hit it close enough. All in shades of grays, with touches of flesh and crimson tones for accents. Unusual and pretty cool. Today is Terry's birthday. Not sure what the day will hold. He is still asleep. I was up early to finish this painting...and now I get a two to three day break from the studio...will try and post paintings that I have been working on for Wyoming. As I am taking a break, ...