Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

RIGHT OF PASSAGE 30 X 40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day Make me an offer on this one! SUNDAY MORNING!!! Terry is home and we are heading for Krum United Methodist Church this morning! It is north of us, but we thought we would go hear the message by a good friend! The painting evolved from Constance Demby's music. Interwoven textures and colors of warm and cool in contrast. Crimson red to symbolize the blood of our Lord and the cross in the faded background with two hands reaching down to gather up the figure. The warm light of the Spirit surrounds the figure, just as it does us. The weather is unbelievable for Texas...we have cool mornings and pleasant days~ Sunshine and happy times! Terry and I planted our tomato plants, squash, okra, cucumbers and bell peppers of different colors. He has been working on our front flower beds as well as is pretty tired, but knows the finished product will be solid. We went out to eat with Stacey and Larry yesterday afternoon to our ...

Moonlight Two 18 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Click here to bid. Saturday early morning and I have a mega painting day ahead. I played too much yesterday only finish a large flower I posted on Artbyus. This painting I finished the day before....GORGEOUS colors if you enlarge it....and subtle details. Terry is home today and will be working on our front flower beds. Change is in the air, feels more like fall, but it is spring. In our lives our arms are open for direction and we wait in anticipation for the gift God will provide. Meanwhile, we must give thanks for all we do have and know He will continue to provide the best of what we need. (Note NEED not WANT) Sometimes we do not allow ourselves the privilege of what we deserve in life, and then in other times we expect we are deserving of much more. I am only confident I have the tools and gifts He has given me and the wisdom to use them. Grace to all, Laurie It often amazes me as I write this blog daily, I do not re...

Arabian Nights Two 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD Good morning from Texas! It is a balmy 55 degrees outside and will be warming up to 80 today! I am going to be painting for my New York Show this weekend and working on a second commission piece for Spirit and Eddie's mom. Also need to finish up pieces for a shop in Rowlett Texas. This Arabian is painted in a soft spirited way with my trademark use of odd colors in places! Part of that fauvistic flavor I love to add. It sold the day I painted it and posted it in my store on eBay. Forgiveness and finding peace is important in our lives. With small things and big things. You cannot find a peace or light with in yourself if you are harboring ill feelings towards situations or people in your journey. Trying to let go of your anger is often difficult. We always hang on to thoughts and things, reliving the pain because we won't let go of it. It is not what others do to us, it is what we do to ourselves. Sto...

TEXAS MISSION TWO 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Click here to bid. Aching muscles. Should not have worked in the flower bed yesterday. UGH. BUT I will paint... well maybe. Might sit to paint. This is my second Mission painting for Texas. I thought I had posted it already but did not see it when I looked back...if I did, enjoy it a second time! Gorgeous violets, blues contrasting with yellow and creams... My cousin left today to return to Boise Idaho. I don't think he liked the Texas weather and our bugs. He wanted to return to his mountains. Today I will be cleaning up the aftermath of a guest in the house, but remembering some of the fun moments of the visit. My cousin was deep into astrology and the planets controlling his life. I listened patiently as he often spoke of the planets controlling his future and his past and how different planets pass into different houses in his layout of life. For me it is easier! My Father created this world and it is His p...

UNITY SPIRIT OF THREE Horses 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Click here to bid. The storms have passed through the area and I do believe we received about 8 inches of rain or more. The streets and bar ditches were all under the same lake as it crept near our homes. The unusual part was this storm did not press through swiftly as they normally do...it was moving slowly and the storm moved at an angle keeping us wet and stormy for almost 8 straight hours. Very unusual. SO, I did not paint yesterday. Something about wet paint and wet air...hummm...But this painting is in a new color series for me with the deep blue and violet backgrounds. I thought I had posted this one and my Texas Mission, but I couldn't trace them back this month in my blog, so I hope I am not repetitious! Very unusual colors pulled through on this one....enjoy it! My cousin is still visiting from Boise. He has his treat of Texas with the weather. He spent several hours at the sink cleaning and...

HORSES galloping to Hong Kong 24 X 24 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day SOLD This is a Commission Piece on its way to an interior decorator in Hong Kong! Neighborhood meeting last night discovered we all have mineral rights under our acreage and there is a gas well being drilled about two miles away that will be providing revenue for the area....could be $0 or it could be $10 or it could be several hundred a month. We had no idea. Terry and I are both environmentalist and really do not like this, but there is not much we can do about it. You will hear more as the process continues! This painting is going to Hong Kong, along with three others! They horses are excited about the travel. The first painting leaves today and this one and another will follow next Monday. Yesterday found us planting the trees that arrived! No I haven't had time to breathe or load the pics yet, but I will. We took my visiting cousin into Southlake Texas to eat at a Fabulous Mexican Restaurant...yum...

DAYBREAK Seascape 18 x 24 inches Oil on Panel A Painting A Day Bid Here Starting bid $169.00 OUR TREES are coming! Our Trees are coming. I have been up early waiting for the tree man. He got lost. He was trying to come before morning traffic but was using a Ft Worth Mapsco and we are Denton County. Doesn't work! I really need to take pictures of the progress in the back, hummm, another blog? Eeek I don't think so, but maybe I will just to post pictures on of the changes in the house. My cousin Bruce arrived safely from Boise Idaho. He is visiting here and then on to Washington DC to stay with my friend Niki. He does absolutely wonderful things with antique toasters and appliances and loves to redo OLD homes, not the huge ones but the old ones that were sold in total from like Sears etc. Did you know in the old days you could purchase HOUSE kits like that??? Pretty darn cool. He also can do regular old homes and has a flair for things like this. I didn't know him...

Spirit and Eddie 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas Commission A Painting a Day Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie Pace Janis had purchased one of my "the Gathering" paintings and had me do a second one for her living room. She contacted me recently to do two paintings for her mom in the same style...definitely contemporary impressionism. BOLD colors and black outlines all playing apart of the composition. I will start the second one when my white paint arrives. I am totally out. Ordered it weeks ago...got all my other colors, but not my white. Can't recommend DICKBLICK for fast delivery at all. EVER. Don't know why I continue to order from them Just returned from a three mile walk with my neighbor Cathy. I love the stimulating conversation that flows about our children, God and life in general. She is a bit younger by maybe 10 years and her kids are college age and a senior in high school. Mine are all over age 26! But the love Cath has for her dad and mom and for...

HORSE and DOG 30 X 40 inches Oil on Canvas... the beginnings of a Commission painting A Painting a Day CONTACT ME for Commission Work. Laurie Pace This is really not the title for this, but the beginnings of a commission piece I am working on. The collector has an older Appy and a gorgeous Airedale. When I asked about positioning and the relationship between the two, she laughed and said they do not talk or share! They are both jealous of each other...so I chose to use the original pose of the Appy she sent me and put the Airedale at an opposite position with his haughty stance...or should I say naughty stance....if he is ANYTHING like my Kerry Blue Terriers, there is some arrogance there. The Appy has a dark tail and we will be going with VIVID colors in the background with marigolds, crimson reds and greens... very startling effect as the collector desires! Will post the final painting tomorrow! The weather is ABSOLUTELY HEAVEN SENT!!! I just walked almost two miles with Talena ...

ROOSTER FIVE 24 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas A Painting A Day. Contact me if you are interested in this painting. Laurie Pace Well, I am ready to paint this morning...and I have a list of TO DO things. I put up a LARGE white posterboard that I can write on and erase for things to to. I have this issue with memory now that I am over fifty! So as I think of things I list them immediately. As I do them I wipe them off. Was doing really good yesterday starting with about 18 things on my list and made it down to 6 things left and now this morning I am back up to sixteen things and I can think of about four more to post! I painted with Trina yesterday and played catch up here and there with bills and house work and wash. I have class this afternoon and have to finish my lesson prep but hope to paint a bit more today. The above rooster is too impressionistically recognizable for me. I want to swing back to the more abstract pulls of color, but meanwhile this one is full with col...

SUNFLOWERS HWY 287 South 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day A vivid fun sunflower painting with contrast and color! Contact me if you are interested in this painting. It goes on auction this week on eBay. Thoughts this morning were based for all mothers out there. As I woke this morning I realized how much (Everything) is out of my control. As a mother you are always running around planning things and trying maintain control on a diverse family unit going ten directions at one time. Releasing that control is next to impossible, but has to be done or only anxiety and frustration result. I prayed this morning for all mothers...with thoughts directed not only to the moms of the injured and deceased students from Virginia Tech but also for the mother of the young man that killed and injured so many. Can you even begin to imagine what emotions are rolling through that family and that mother? As a mom you only want what is best for your children and when the child becomes an ...

Santa Fe Afternoon Shower 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day It is going to be a rainy day today...and varnishing will have to wait.....we are expecting storms today....so I won't paint much today either. This painting is a fascinating use of color and balance. It is for the contemporary art buyer for sure! Niki phoned from Virginia where all the Noreaster hit...she was on generator power until the generator broke. She just phoned from her cell phone this morning. It is 50 degrees and dropping in her home and she is hanging on. The generator folks were there last night and could not fix it, coming back today...but that is after a TOW truck had to get them out of the area last night. I will remind myself that a little hail and wind is nothing to cold and wet and wind with no power. At least we have a fireplace and can build a fire. Prayers are that way not just for her but for everyone and on top of that for the families of the victims of the shooting. Sometimes our...