Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 The Dress Fit!  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”  Victor Hugo Leaning on God and dreaming about my Wedding Dress. Lately… at least for the past 15 months, we have been leaning into God , reminding each other if we begin to slip or slide.  Abiding with him and waiting as he works. We have given up trying to control things in our lives. We simply cannot. As our 30th wedding anniversary passed by in late May, we were not able to do what we wanted with a small recommitment ceremony at the church where I grew up and where we were married. Other things were happening so the day passed. Again we were leaning into God. Sunday Morning, the UNEXPECTED happened.  As I tumbled out of bed, I showered and washed my hair. Coming out of the shower I discovered

   © 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

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Spring Cleaning with many paintings on my website. Up to 50% off. Shop Available Artwork including Sale Items.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales if you want to receive notices ahead of public.  “ So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years. " Judges 5:31 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   Shop for Large Paintings    |   Shop for Prints and Gifts   | Commissioned Paintings        INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog    Facebook Laurie Pace is an international artist with her paintings collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia,  and Ecuador. GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Flower Power Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “I've never experienced true love until I loved my own child.”  ― Mitta Xinindlu It was Sunday last week when she called and asked if I wanted to ride with her to run two errands... Central Market and Costco.  Seems like with Covid and the shutdown of the past 400 plus days, I see my daughter less and yet more.   I see my daughter more as she has grown spiritually and wiser. She is less abrasive and not so quick to make decisions without thought or research. I am watching her change before my eyes over this time and I could not be filled with more love deeper than what I am now.  She is in her early forties and has two growing kiddos and a husband at home.  400 plus days ago,  i n the past life, she was one of those ...  click through to read more. 1 Peter 3:3-4 "Do not let your adorning be exter

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lotus Painting in Process - Commission Painting Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 400 Plus “ When you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light. ” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah   Def: Dark  -8: closed to the public “Life is dark in shutdown” Over 400 days Terry and I have been living in this new land of shutdown. Even with vaccines, things remain fuzzy on what is allowed and not allowed. For sure this time is the first darkness we have had hit us that has lasted over a year in length. When our nation was shut down in early March 2020, people were sentenced to stay home with their children and a virus spread across our country. Both Liberals and Conservative have their slant on the last year. For Terry and me, it has brought us closer… closer to God and to each other. Never did we believe we would be tested with times like those from the

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Pink Tulips  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Color Color Color!!!  Spring tulips are just about done, but I did this for a cousin and I cannot wait to see them framed and hanging.  Remember to stop by my website for those $199 paintings. I am still new new ones but they sell pretty fast. I have a larger commission I will start in a few weeks and spent today ordering the beautiful birch for the pieces, as well as more 24 x 24 canvas for my figurative faces.  I got to visit today with a friend from high school... Lake Highlands High School... go WILDCATS!   We remain close despite the 51 year graduation date.  When did we get so old?  They wanted our class to parade out on the football field the fall of the 50th reunion 18 months ago... Terry and I did not do it.  We kept thinking about our graduation year of 1970 and how it wou

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Face Within  30 x 40 Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Face within.  What does that mean?  Faces are funny in so many ways. We often wear them as a mask so others do not know our thoughts, our insecurities, or even our reactions. When do we lower the mask? In this journey on this figurative painting,  I was repurposing a canvas with a prior painting on it.  There are two faces in this piece.  Hence the name, Face Within.  I do believe we all hide a huge portion of who we are in our heart as well as our feelings of insecurity and worry.  Always look at the eyes. They tell the story within you.  Can you find the second face on this painting?    “ So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter. " 2 Thessalonians 2:15

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Topaz Eyes  by Laurie Pace -  24 x 24 Framed.  Available at Mirada Fine Art . Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Every painting has a journey. This one was a struggle in many ways.  It began totally different than it turned out. The original sketch did not work at all... resulting in me wiping the canvas as clean as I could. Then came sketching a new face that might work. Below are a few progress shots.  I have been a brown eyed girl my entire life. As I aged past sixty, I found a lighter amber and some green in my brown eyes!  Hence I sought such beauty in the eyes of this face.   But the close ups are amazing once the piece began to come together!  Each of us as a human being walking this earth go through the valleys and climb the mountains and experience life in so many ways that is molds us and creates in us a deeper being and soul.  This is true p