Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Pumpkin Patch Single 8 x 8  Oils on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The painting is the first of three I will share with you. All from the Pumpkin Patch Series 2023. they are all small collectibles that are $125 each.  " Surrender your heart to God , turn to Him in prayer, and give up your sins—even those you do in secret . Then you won’t be ashamed ; you will be confident and fearless . Your troubles will go away like water beneath a bridge , and your darkest night will be brighter than noon . You will rest safe and secure, filled with hope and emptied of worry. "    Job 11:13-18 (CEV) . What do you read above are Three commands from God: 1. Surrender your heart to God  2.Turn to Him in Prayer.  3. Give up your sins even those you do in secret.   T hen in ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pumpkins on a Vine 9 x 12 Oil Is it black or white? No.. not really. This  pumpkin   painting  started in shades of black and white...and slowly color was added to the  painting .   No situation in life is simple as black and white.  We are fast to judge and look at others in judgement when we do not know the entire story or the entire person.  How can you ever really know?  Slowly as you get to know a person, the "colors" or experiences begin t...

Line Shape Form Space Value Color  "Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline,  on where that is put. " (William Blake) Th e Pumpkins began to bloom in the studio and it is now time for color.  Working in Acrylic, which is not the medium of choice for me for still life painting, I plunged ahead with student Lisa eagerly jumping into the challenge. Both of the above are my pieces. Remember last week, we began with just values using black and white. Now it is time to begin applying color.  I found it easier with the acrylics to do it layers letting some bleed through from below and you can watch as some change through the process. This is Lisa at work and her progress with her pumpkins. She will be back tonight for more and we will be gearing up for TEXTURE! ( I really see a lot of texture in her current work.) Here are my pumpkins as they...

Line Shape Form Space  Value "Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. " John Singer Sargent    Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.  One of my favorite painters current day that uses this in many of her pieces as an underpainting before she paints her colors in, is Texas Artist Rebecca Zook . Her work is incredible.  Working in acrylic, she lays in her values before layering the colors on top.   Texas Artist Nancy Medina , sort of does this but with transparent colors creating the forms and backgrounds of what she is painting.  When I took one of her floral workshops we worked with browns and moved forward.   With this lesson being on values... I want to take Rebecca's challenge of the black and white acrylic painted first and then layering of color...so this week I have examples of two pump...