Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

APPY TWO Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches SOLD Private Collector AUSTRALIA Contact me for commission work: Laurie I am posting some extra paintings which is NOT NORMAL. Usually you see one painting a day, but with this article coming out, I wanted new visitors to see some extra work. Scroll down to my thoughts for the day below the paintings. This is the link to the Dallas Morning News Article about my Summer in Todays Sunday Edition! CLICK HERE In the Dark of Night $1800 Available here at my Studio Spirit of Fire Rare Gallery Jackson Hole Wyoming $3200 In Her Father's Arms Rare Gallery Jackson Hole Wyoming Commissioned for Collector through Patina of Marble Falls. Similar piece: $2500 It is an eager race today to the canvas. I have four canvas sketched out to paint... no I won't paint four paintings today...but I will literally work on three at a time on two easels and a work table in my studio. That is a way to keep the approach to each lighter

HERD OF EIGHT Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 36 x 48 inches COMMISSIONED PAINTING SOLD Contact me for your own commissioned painting. Laurie This one is almost done. This is a large rendition of a smaller painting I did last year. I am doing two for this new collector. Today I have one more painting to do and I will be 75% caught up if there is such a thing! Yesterday I worked on this one, and on some boats, another small piece that had to be completed. Today I will be working on a BLUE TREE that will go to Sweden to live in a few weeks. Then I will be almost back on track. I painted so much this week I am out of white paint....and found out Asel Art is closed today for inventory...but hopefully Jim will get some out to me despite the closed doors. Early this morning Mom has to be up to go for a doctor's appt with Dr Steve. Dr. Paul Stephen Worrell has been our physician for twenty years. Ever since I moved back to Texas. Terry and I knew him in elementary school

FACING THE SUN Sunflower Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 on Linen Panel SOLD ON DAILY PAINTERS THANK YOU Short blog for sure this morning! Can you tell me difference between Happiness and Joy? Happiness seems to be the thing we search for our entire lives. My grandmother was the one that told me it came from within and especially when you do for others. I remember as a young teenager sitting with her in my room when she shared this with me. Everything seems so traumatic at that age...so I thought. It is 100 fold at this age. What I have discovered at this age is that Joy is a far deeper richer feeling than happiness. Joy can be felt even in the darkest moment when you are buried in the deepest of problems. Happiness is temporary because it is based on external circumstance, but Joy... Joy my friend, is based on God's presence with in each of us. Contentment is found with in you and it is there but you are usually too busy chasing happiness to know Joy is with in y

PATINA TWO Horse abstract by Laurie Justus Pace 3 ft by 4 ft Oil on Canvas Contact John Stange at Patina of Marble Falls to purchase. This is the second in my Patina Series for the store in Marble Falls. Patina One sold and they were ready for more! Contact John at the link above if you are interested in this fabulous 3 ft by 4 ft colorful horse painting. Life is joy. Life is sadness. Life is love. Life is tears. Life is laughter. Life is beauty. Life is pain. Life is light. Life is dark. Life is glorious and full of the grace of the Lord. Celebrate all the positive He has given in your life. If you did not have the negative you could never appreciate the positive. You cannot have the fullness of joy if you do not have sadness as well. STOP today and appreciate the good, the joy, the laughter, the beauty, the grace; GOD IS GOOD. Through the tears, the pain and the darkness, there is life, there is love and there is God. Grace, Laurie "There is a way that seems right to a