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Stop Trying to Figure it all out.

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Wolf  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. " 2 Corinthians 4:16 Stop Trying to figure it all out. Depending on your childhood and your genetic make up, each of us absorbs mannerisms and coping skills from those near and dear to us. My personal experience created me into a person who likes to solve and fix things. I also learned from my mother, to be a caretaker. What about you?  In our home lives growing up, we have hundreds of experiences every day, repeat it through every week, as well as this first years of our lives. this is the foundation of who you are as a person, how you think things out, and how you respond to the people and situations around you.  As you mature, and go out into the world, you have become an established force of natur

Twilight Purple Wolf Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace, Do you have plans for 2023?

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Limited Prints Available 30 x 40 inch Giclee Print for $225   Special pricing and limited number available through February 13th Available  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Twilight Purple Wolf, a favorite in my collection. Right now the large size of 30 x 40 is available for the next five days at $225 with Fine Art America. They have been printing my giclees for 15 years.  I will be offering specials every week or every two weeks of some paintings I have not offered on Fine Art America before, available in a high quality giclee.  Rain and Cold Returned to north Texas yesterday and today. We made it througw the five days of teens and low twenties and cold and ICE last week...as  We ended up with five inches of ice.  I felt bad seeing the damage to my Austin friends and how the freeze hit there and ice took neighborhoods and turned them into look

Don't let the Wolf in the door.... they are really not your friend. Thoughts of the day from Laurie Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Morning Wolf  by Laurie Pace  10 x 10 oil on Birch  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.” Michael Bassey Johnson The Painting This is my newest piece. Morning Wolf...Wet but ready to post online!  Painting on birch with deep sides, I laid out beautiful glazes of oils layering up the texture in the final painting. This was a good 17 day process with the last colors added, the blues.  It always surprises me how beautiful the glazing is on birch.    The Predator in your Life Why is it we do not see the predator in our lives that intends to harm us or our friends and family until it is too late? If you think about it, a predator is usually wise to the 'game' they play. They can spot the weak

No Winter Lasts Forever ... Contemporary Wolf Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 24 x 36  Wolf Dawn Rising  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland This was the 'second' paint of this wolf in this position but definitely with a change in colors and feeling.  When I saw this one, I was thinking, WOW...and yes I love the freedom in the paint.   Somewhere in my journey the last two years, the joy has slowly left in painting for galleries. Every gallery wants something different.  Just like no winter lasts forever, creativity cannot just stop. What has been churning in my mind is:  Acrylic vs Oil Large vs Small Canvas vs Try

See It Through No Matter What ... Wolf Painting in Progress by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Sorry about the shiny head... lighting was not the best when I snapped this shot with my phone. Somewhere in the Christmas mess, my camera is buried not to be unearthed yet.  Maybe I should be cleaning house instead of painting...??? Predictable colors for this wolf... again not normal for me

Begin Serenely. . . With a High Spirit Wolf Painting in Progress by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 12 x 12 Oil on Birch in progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I am in the studio working this week. I am experimenting and trying new products and surfaces.  This may be a boring work week for you to see the same painting in steps, but for the week between Christmas and New Years, this is the best I can do. I am working on a birch mounted p

Final Look at Saturday Night Live... with the Wolf Pack. Wildlife Wolf Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Edging out at Sunset  24 x 48 Oil  Kasum Contemporary Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, they had fun last night... lots of city lights, especially in Oklahoma City!  You can find these guys on the wall at Kasum Contemporary Fine Art in about a week.  They are still hanging around the studio drying right now. Meet Sid... lots of color and layers of paint.    Sid is the wise guy. He is not distracted by all the commotion around him. He has his eyes set on one destination and he is going there with or without the pack.    You can see all the layers of paint that start from dark to light. In oils I find as I pull the paints that