Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden This painting is another gift for a friend in Missouri. She has in her home her Grandmother's piano.  She loves my piano girls and I do not do many of them any more... but this one I had to do. It has all her Grandmother's favorite Hymns, including "In the Garden".  Each of these paintings is hand created with songs and verses that are part of the family's life. Are there things that are symbolic or special in your life?  Make those apart of who

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “My soul will find yours.” ― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor Have you ever just met a person and felt like they were an old friend that knew you inside and out?  It is rare but when it happens I am amazed.  There are some basic things in each of us defining us and finding someone else who 'gets' it is rare. This painting is a gift for a friend. She loves her horse and he is her protector. I think we named the piece Noble Knight... and it fits Griffin. Psalm 5:11 "But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection ove

   © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.” ― Joni Mitchell I love taking photos of flowers. I know it is that color addiction issue I have!  Terry has the beds in the front yard full of color blooms. I will try and sneak in some more pictures this next month. Think about the seeds you plant every day from the smiles you share to even the cross words you might share.  What you plant is what you will grow and reap.  Plant the best things in life that make others see the joyful goodness of you and of life itself.  Psalm 28:7  "

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 12 x 12  Oil on Panel.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald I signed up for Nancy Medina's class, her new online class.  She has an incredible approach to painting and is a superb instructor.  I used my own tulip images but did use her vase in this painting. I like to be able to sell my work and I do not feel right if I use someone else's photos and there are 400 of those paintings out there by each member in the class.  So these are my sunny red tulips on a gorgeous

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Well I do like it this way!  A bit risky but more of what I am enjoying but still not where I want to wander entirely.  I love the light of the moon and the highlights in the piece. I love the ebb and flow of the paint and feel the strength in the painting itself.  It came a journey and I had to let go of the foundation sketch and let the paint go where it wanted to go. 1 Chronicles 28:20 "David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do th

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 24 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”― Thomas A. Edison Looking at this is terrifying.  Failure and NOT the path I had in my head.  WHY did I deviate?  Totally wrong not trusting myself and the Holy Spirit inside of me to let it go.  Go another direction.  I had that beautiful sketch all on the canvas and SMOOOO comes out. UGLY to my eyes. I scraped it. So come back to the next blog and see what it became.  I took the sketch as the foundation and built upon this mess to get where I am going but NOT where my vision is yet. Deuteronomy 31:8  &quo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner My mind has been going in so many directions with my art. I have this idea in my head but I cannot seem to get there yet.   Hard to let go and just take off knowing there will be quite a few blown canvas in the journey.  Taking Risks.  Risky subject.  If we stay in one place we never get anywhere.  It is a new week... make some changes in life and take some risks.  I will if you will. Deuteronomy 31:6  " Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, fo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Journey Size: 28 x 42  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Notice as I finished this piece up the background values are reduced as I felt they were too strong. Looking back at it now I see I should have brought some of the mid orange into the body of the horse... and not just the red.  But I still love the contrast and

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress  JOURNEY  28 x 42 Sold .  Oil Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness I have dug this progress painting out of my 2012 work... again for a collector in Australia. This is near the end but not the finished painting.  I had to bring up the intensity of the background to match the strength of the horse.   Remember this is a large painting... 42 inches tall... about 28 wide.  Nearing the end of this journey the last paint strokes are the most important. ... Sort of the salt an