Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Lake Cypress Springs  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy I am not sure I think of just changing the world because of what I do... my marketing and 'presence' have to constantly be changing to offer up incentives for people to follow my writing and watch my art grow and change. I overthink the 'changing of me'. Change is a constant in our lives. It is the one constant you can predict will be every single moment of every day and you have absolutely no control over it except HOW you respond to change.  Maybe that is the p

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sunday Morning Color  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.” ― C.S. Lewis You really have to read the whole paragraph to understand this quote.  "I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms ar

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Second Thought  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."  [War With Honour, 1940]” ― A.A. Milne How much value do you give to second thoughts? sec·ond thoughts   .   noun  .  a change of opinion or resolve reached after considering something again.   Example: "on second thought, perhaps he was right" When taking a test it is usually better to ignore second thoughts. That is when you start talking

Passion of Seven 2007 Laurie Pace Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I know time is relevant for each of us.  I grew up with the song in the sixties based on this Bible verse.  What you do not see is a time to be angry. Try to let go today of any anger living inside of you.  Free up your life.  There is a time for everything,     and a season for every activity under the heavens:      a time to be born and a time to die,     a time to plant and a time to uproot,      a time to kill and a time to heal,     a time to tear down and a time to build,      a time to weep and a time to laugh

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  California Dreaming Oil on Canvas Sold ----------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You Was recently reading an article that was shared on FB about the five things people regretted when they were dying.  This was one of them at the top of the list.  How many of us, myself included, always take the safe route on choosing?  I rarely have been daring in life and when I did...wow, I really did.  I was constantl

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Orchids  Photography   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white orchid blushing pink.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE We have made February... the month of love and another month for me filled with birthdays.   I looked up on the internet to see where the origin of this holiday started, thinking perhaps this was just another HALLMARK holiday pushed by our economic frenzy to spend money! It actually hit the USA in the 1800's... but started years and years before this.  Here is what I found .  "While some be

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 A Moment  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 With new years well underway, did you make resolutions?  Did you begin those resolutions?  To begin something to bring change to your life, you must begin it.  You must start it right now.  As for this day... if it is beginning, make it the best that it can be. Do not waste time thinking or