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The Triple Stop at the Tone Guitar Shop in Southlake with TX artist and musician Laurie Pace.

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Tone Shop Guitars Southlake Texas  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This past week’s journey took us to the Tone Guitar Shop in Southlake. I have been in there a half dozen times, looking or with someone buying a guitar.  It was to be an expedition as I decided to trade in two of my guitars for one newer something. This is the only place to go. Everyone there is one of the best I have worked with.  I laughed over this photo…I had them all trying to find my guitars for values and they had each picked them up and played them and truly felt the beauty of them….and to work they went.   The photo was my second trip of three to accomplish this.  I have an injured arm, my right arm is out of commission until I go through Physical therapy. Richard, the far left on the photo has worked with us many times…when I arrived the second day, he played several guitars for me,

Playing for Papa, How do you deal with Stress? Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Playing for Papa  Mixed Media on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. My Dad died in his eighties. He never tired of my playing the piano, and if it was hymns, he was singing along.  I remember my Grandmother would come in and sit in our formal living room, where the piano lived... and she would knit or sew while I practiced each evening. Made me feel special.  That was about 11 years ago we lost Dad.  In 11 more years, I will be his age when he passed. Sobering thought.  Seems like daily something hits me in that manner to make me realize I want to live this last part of my life in a good place mentally.  Stress is a killer... and we are good about stressing ourselves out, and anxiety grows and blood pressure pumps up and depression sinks in. I watched a young 6 yr old help her mama through a panic attack. She held her hand up, finge

Sounds of Music in Studio with Laurie Pace, Texas Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Violin, The Sound of Music 18 x 24  Oils on Canvas Commission   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " This is love: That we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love ." 2 John 6 The Violin The year was 2008 and I believe in the summer or early fall that I completed this painting. The love of music in my life made it like a craving to take this commission of a young girl and her violin.  This painting is in my "Do it with Heart Book" and a break in life showing you more of my roots in the tech age.  I do not have much from before 1998 in photos on the computer.  My style was always more impressionism than it was realism and back then I had tasted the freedom of a palette knife and thick oil paints which in itself was an addiction.  No

First Love by Texas Artist Laurie Pace, The Sounds of Music via brushwork and canvas.

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 First Love 18 x 27 Oil on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The painting is the daughter of a friend I have known all of her life.  Soft and precious and real in so many ways.  A young girl lost in the music of her instrument.  Reminds me of how easily I get lost in playing my piano or one of my guitars.  If you look closely you see the triangle that is the main part of the composition rising from the bottom of the painting.  The eye actually enters at the top left of the canvas and you come straight down the instrument to the beautiful hair and face of the young girl. The concentration is only broken by her arm parallel to the bottom edge of the painting. The arm stops you from leaving the painting. You are to stay, study and enjoy the story unfolding before you. Have you played an instrument in life?  What

Music... it flows through my body like breathing, eating and sleeping!

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 MUSIC! Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Tom Bodett I spent the afternoon getting reacquainted with my guitar.  Not sure if I have played at all since this photo was taken in early December.  Up until 5 years ago, I played my guitar continually, singing and playing and learning still.  I started playing in 9th grade at age 13. My parents purchased an Alvarez Classical Guitar from a shop up in Sherman, Texas where my older brother was attending Austin College. I still have that guitar close by. It shared many a bus trip and plane trip over the years, as well as the rule with my children (teasingly) that if we had a fire, the oldest was to grab my guitar, the middle was to grab the family Bible and I would grab the youngest, the baby

The Light in New York City... Queen Esther by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Summer 2002    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 The Apollo with Queen Esther  by Laurie Pace  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “In an effort to be the change that I want to see in the world, I'm officially one of nine board of directors for @jalopybrooklyn #Theatre and #Music School in #RedHook. I'm so grateful to be a part of a performance space that's committed to #Americana and #folk music traditions worldwide. # .” ― Queen Esther @queenesthermusic (Instagram 7 Nov 2020) It felt like a tale of two cities but it was more more like a tale of two musicians in two cities. It was in 2002 when my hubby brought home the New York newspaper several times a week that I came across an article on the Apollo Theater doing "Harlem Song" with Queen Esther starring in the production.  I loved the cast photo and was determined to paint it, but not to sell it ever. I sent it to Queen Esther. It was the first ti