Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

DEEP MEMORY Horse Oil Painting with Palette Knife by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD before the paint was set an hour! Contact me for other work: Laurie Good morning Friends! It is five forty this morning as I begin this blog. I am determined to finish a painting after I finish this blog! Morgan is still asleep. We have a doctors appointment this morning to change out his dressings etc. around eight. Then he will be painting the rest of the day. The painting above was one I finished yesterday morning. I knew as I stepped back from it that it was special. I started another to finish today...but yesterday's has such depth to it's beginnings that it is almost alive and breathing with the spirit. Not mine but His that passes through me. All morning yesterday I emailed back and forth with someone concerning my work and purchasing some pieces. When we finally spoke on the phone, they chose the guitar six pack, a commission piece from Morgan and Through the Mist, a painting destined f...

The Horse Within Abstract Contemporary Acrylic Horse Palette Knife Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches Contact me to purchase and mention title of painting. Laurie Are we sure it is Wednesday? I know I slept last night but I don't know how or why. I am not prepared to blog much this morning with the happenings of yesterday so I will first blog about the painting above. All along I have seen only two horses in it, this morning I saw three. Take some time and study it... you might find four at this rate. Want to add a quick post to have you check out our friend Paul Fletchers two new sites. He is running for sheriff of Franklin County Texas. His blog is www.paulfletcherjr.blogspot.com and his website is www.paulfletcherjr.com I have been reading a book for our CPS license for RESPITE FOSTER credit called hummm , that I don't remember and I sent it to work with Terry today. In the first few chapters it talks about behavior and the basis that there are only two ma...

Practice Makes Perfect... Music Mixed Mediums Music Child Piano Art Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches of 1909-1945 music from my grandfather's collection, layered with varnish and acrylics and more varnish. Probably 10-12 layers of work! Contact me to purchase and mention title: Laurie We slept in late. I guess you realize that since it is almost ten and I am just now blogging. Yesterday I worked on a new commission piece for the 10 cow story man that contacted me, so you will see that one in the next few days. We returned Morgan to his doctor for bandage change and then drove him home to his apt. We stopped on the way at Whole Foods and grocery shopped. We only bought essentials and got out for $149. That is fresh fruit (eight varieties) a chicken to barbecue, fresh veggies, onions, etc and a few core items like Rice milk etc. I do not skim on the organic fruit and veggies. I believe you are what you eat. No different that you are what you watch and you are what ...

GUITAR SIX PACK Guitar Music Contemporary Pop Art by Laurie Justus Pace Six Canvas, Each 4 x 6 inches in size OIL on Gallery Wrap Canvas, ready to hang. Contact me to buy: Laurie Too early for my eyes this morning. Terry doesn't work today and I sure should not be up working at this hour... 4:50 am. WHY? Well he got up complaining to be hot and turned off the fan. Most women do not know this fact, but somewhere around four in the morning or four thirty in the morning EVERY morning, your hormones take a dive. Guess it has something to do with the sleep cycle. So when you finally hit menopause, that is usually when the hot flashes are the worst... four a.m. Well even now I still get warm and so when the fan goes off I get warm, I am awake, and I can hear everything in the room. Now Terry is one of those TV men. We have all the necessities of TV, DVD, VCR, CABLE BOX, etc. in our bedroom. I am NOT a TV person. So, when the electronics are left on at night and it is only a few...

MAJESTY Western ART Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 Contact Marnie Moran at Patina of Marble Falls for Pricing: Marnie This painting is entitled MAJESTY because as I painted it I felt the passion and fullness of the spirit within. Beauty, power and life all woven into color on my canvas... He is good. Above All Else...what do those words mean to you this morning? "God alone is capable of making Himself known as He really is. We search in reasoning and in sciences, as in a poor copy. What we neglect to see is God's painting Himself in the depth of our soul. Always be with God. Do nothing, say nothing and think nothing which may displease Him. Do this without any other view than purely for the love of Him and because He deserves infinitely more." Brother Lawrence I can only speak from my household that we fall short. REALLY short. We profess to be in His light but are we truly there, or are we chasing something we have set up in our minds? God is ...

HEAT OF THE DAY Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contact me for more information: Laurie The next two pictures Morgan painted yesterday. He is unable to work and is painting to try and raise his rent money due in a week. He should be able to return to work on Tuesday but he lost an entire week of wages with his motorcycle wreck! This is part of his OIL POP MUSIC SERIES....contact me if you want to make an offer, even if it is a small offer on either of these pieces. The are both 22 x 28 so they are rather large paintings. CONTACT: Laurie but mention the painting's title. RED ELECTRIC GUITAR ALVEREZ ONE The house is so quiet this morning... I will be dipping into my paints as soon as this blog is finished. Quiet anticipation and meditation as I prepare for the day. Stacey might come over to do maternity shopping. She can't button her pants anymore. She is I think 16-17 weeks now which is WONDERFUL!! Panic Attacks c...

BIG TEX Texas Longhorn Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 inches Previews at my opening at Patina of Marble Falls Oct 11th. This is UT Country. Contact Patina Of Marble Falls $2200 Marnie Moran I am up late an this is short on my half. Baby puppy Sasha kept me up most of the night. I am hoping they are all going home today. Yesterday I finished up this painting for the opening in Marble Falls. It is a beauty and I pray it will find a good home. Did you ever notice how hard it is to stay Faith-filled when everything around you is screaming FEAR FEAR...run for your life? Between the tumbling, or rather FALLING stock market and the soaring gas prices... oh and do not leave out the soaring unemployement and the grocery store prices....life is a bit off right now. Many of us face thoughts of how to eat next week, or what if I loose my job... and next your health begins to fail and your blood pressure begins to rise. Throughout the bible God has always seen His people through t...

DOUBLE SAILS Sailboat Seascape Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase and mention title of painting: Laurie Peaceful easy feeling and giving THANKS our youngest is alive. As more details surface he began to realize he should not be here. Mention was made by him that he will not be riding his motorcycle for awhile. HE mentioned it. Even mentioned the I MIGHT SELL IT words. We go to the doctor at 8 this morning to get re bandaged. We picked up a post op surgery shoe for him yesterday and a cane. Gosh those canes are expensive. I told him not to lose it as it would be Terry's size for later in life and it is a nice cane. We will know more once we see how things are healing. He felt better yesterday afternoon, so he probably will return home today or tomorrow. My Neale Walsch email today talked about TRUTH. Truth spoken is a gift given. When truth is withheld a gift is denied. Part of an old adage says, "the truth hurts". I...

MOLLY AND BEN Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches Contact me for pricing: Laurie SOLD ~ Thank you!! It's a sinus headache morning for sure. WORK TIME! Terry will be working two shifts today, commonly known as a double. He traded out to get last Saturday off for the Family Reunion. I have Morgan here on the couch still pretty banged up. Do not know for how long. Had hoped by tomorrow we would launch him back home after the doctor re bandages all the wounds. Sasha, his puppy is really cute, but a total pain as she is not house broken. I have been keeping her in the garden room because if my dogs see her they want to eat her. She already ripped up the screen door to the garden room. We have a life time warranty on this, so I will call them. I finished up a large music piece of a pianist and a violinist, well, finished part of it. Today are more varnish layers. I will be working on a few others along the way. Will be doing sketches for someone that asked me if...

ALL IN POWER Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches Deep Gallery Wrap Contact me for pricing and mention the title: Laurie This painting was repainted... stay tuned for a new version! Yesterday we were working right along when the phone rang and it was Morgan, the youngest of our adult children. He isn't baked all the way yet, but I think it is time to put the timer on the oven to go off when he is done and walk away from the kitchen. We have seen him through more trials and situations than I would like to remember. I think that is why CPS sees us as STAR parents to be first on the list as FIRST CHOICE for each group of children we have looked at. It was a sleepless night for sure and I will be grouchy today. He laid his motorcycle down while riding it yesterday on the freeway. No, he doesn't have health insurance with the job he got four months ago, he did, but since he waits tables, his actual paycheck is NOT enough to cover the monthly fee...

DREAMY EYES Contemporary Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches on Wrapped Canvas Contact me for pricing: Laurie I am still recovering from the trip to see my father. It was a beautiful drive in the country as we took a back route around the lakes, and we made it in record time despite my NOT driving fast. He was ready when we arrived and begin lecturing us about "presence", and kept saying he didn't mean presents, but presence. For a man "with out" cognitive behavior I found this quite advanced. There are areas of his brain still firing out with reasoning. He was upset because he wanted my mother's presence in his life. He explained he was saying the word PRESENCE not presents. He never mentioned HOME, he only said, "I love you and we need to be together. I need your presence in my life." Needless to say Terry and I were still up at midnight last night (seven hours ago) discussing this. We took Dad out for lunch and he at...

FALL COLLECTION Abstract Floral Paint Pull Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 12 x 24 inches Contact me to purchase, special pricing: Laurie SOLD THANK YOU!!! Sunday Morning and the house is quiet as I get Terry off to work. Later Mom and I will drive up to see Dad today. THEN upon arriving home, I am three days behind after being caught up after the summer, so I will be working late tonight and through the next few days. It is bad when I am out of paintings to post on my blog. We enjoyed our time with Mark Bryant. He boarded a plane late yesterday afternoon to head back to Nevada. I am laughing at the Tomato, TOMMAATO thing the long "a" sound or the "ah" sound. I do not pronounce Nev"ah"da correctly....it is Nev "a" da. I may have to work on that after 55 years of saying it incorrectly. The family reunion was all too fast. It was in a church we had never been to and we were surprised at the small turnout. I think some folks got lost. U...