Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Progression on Max 4 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas       ©Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design Contact me: Laurie  Passing It On I have continued to work on Max and Lucky everyday adding more layers of oil with color beginning to mix and rise to the top. I want to share that Contemporary Fine Art International and Artist of Texas have both sent money through a private individual working in a church in Japan. The two pastors are Rick and Connie Justus . Connie and I have been friends on Facebook since I first went on Facebook years ago.  I have to be related to her husband somewhere in the years prior as Justus is not a common spelling of the name from Germany. We have connected in prayer, our faith and a good friendship through the years.  They live south of Tokyo and their church jumped into the fray early on obtaining permission from the police to make journey by truck with supplies such as food, blankets, clothes, diapers, formula ...

Progression on Max and Lucky Commissioned Abstract Contemporary Equine Art 4 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas        ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting. Laurie Opinionated 2 year olds .  My daughter kept us in stitches yesterday. The baby is no longer a baby and so we are changing nicknames.  She grew from Tinkerbell to Lady L.  When she was still Tinkerbell, she was not in the frame of mind to think about potty training.  When she turned two and became Lady L, she grew a mind  of her own.   We have been through several attempts at potty training; two months ago she was totally taken back by things coming out of her and dropping into the potty or even on the floor. It was terrifying to her little mind.   I heard from other Grandmothers terror stories of 3 and 4 year old still not potty trained.  My toes curled. So daughter ca...

Beginnings of Max and Lucky Commissioned Equine Painting 4 ft by 4 ft  Mixed Media on Canvas        ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for Commission Paintings. Laurie COOPERATION What exactly is cooperation?   1. an act   or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action. Working together for a common purpose or benefit .  I like the sound of that one.  We are all made in His image and have the innate ability to design and create through all of our many senses from the physical to the spiritual. The gift of creating is woven into the fabric of our being as it is woven by God from the very threads of His being. He has gifted us with His passion to create.  With God as your partner in life how can you miss creating the perfect life?   Many times I miss because I take off in my own direction oblivious to the need of taking the time ...

Direction 9 x 12 inch  Oil on Board      © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 BID HERE Contact me.  DIRECTION Wisdom and knowledge tie into direction in our lives.  When facing decisions we have to discern inner qualities of people, relationships and situations before we can decide to take action or not. Biblical wisdom, Hebrew word chakmah , was referred to as something more than common sense.  Chakmah involved cleverness, skill, cunning and prudence in living life. Today we need to go to the highest power, God himself. God has graced each of us with our gifts and knows our callings and how they are to be used.  He is available to help us develop our lives to use those gifts.  He alone knows what has been and what will be and will protect us through the changes we face daily as we move in our chosen directions. Laurie           “Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is ...

Crab Apple Tree in Bloom 15 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas      SOLD  © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for Commission work: Laurie Keeping Time We were out late last night enjoying the sliver of golden moon and the brilliant stars lighting up the heavens. JR and Kelly had a group of us over for hamburgers, wine and dancing. JR used to teach country and western dancing and there were many of us not doing it right and we wanted to learn.  They have a huge back concreted area with an entertainment cooking area, and a fire pit.  The temps began to drop about 7 but JR built up a huge toasty fire in the firepit and we gathered with four other families and the children in fellowship eating and enjoying the beauty of the clear night.   We spent about an hour or two dancing the two step to 3/4 time and to 4/4 time.  We learned how to do the fancy twirling and laughed and enjoyed ourselves.  Believe ...

Commission Painting SOLD Four Crossing 28 x 42 inches Oil on Canvas © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011      HEALING GRACE Annie is home. She is sleeping right behind my chair. She did not want to get up again this morning...but she is eating and moving so much better than two days ago.  We do not return to the vet until Monday to have her bandages changed out. PRAISE GOD! We are praying she will be with us another year or two before she head across the rainbow bridge.  She loves it here in the country and loves being outside.  She had been staying with Morgan, our youngest son in the city and we brought her back with us last week for the first time to our new place. She is happy to be home with Paddy. The Lord offers up healing grace as a gift to all of us.  As we all know we are not always healed in this lifetime but we are whole and healed as we continue into His presence.  Healing can be offered physically or spir...

Progression on Four Crossing 28 by 42 inches  Oil on Canvas   SOLD COMMISSION Painting © Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011        MISSING YOU I missed blogging yesterday. Entirely too much going on with Annie Dog. As I write she is sleeping at my feet. She does not want to even stand on her leg and the sparkle is not in her eyes. She does not respond to the parakeets, her favorite friends in the house... they tweet and sing for her and she cannot seem to hear them. We did get some cheese down her and some apple along with some chicken and brown rice that I cooked up. The took blood late yesterday and we take her back in for more results today, and more IV. Missing you... I am missing my spirit Kerrie Blue Terrier.  My life has had her in my studio for over 10 years now and I cannot imagine not having her sparkle back at me. God is at work always in our lives and if it is truly Annie's time to cross over the rai...

Progression on Four Crossing 28 x 42 inches Oil on Canvas Commissioned Painting SOLD     Contact me for you own Painted Pony! Laurie © Laurie Pace     Graphics One Design 1998-2011  MOVING ON In this family the MOVE word is not allowed. We have moved way too many times. The longest we lived anywhere was in Justin TX for 6 1/2 years. Three years is about the average...but we have lived here on the lake almost one year and I still love it as much as the day we moved in here last April 5th. Moving on leaves your mind wide open to new things. Unless you are the empty glass person and moving on is sadness. It is leaving the comfortable and the expected for the new and the unexpected.  I choose these words today as we will be picking Annie up from the vet this afternoon. They amputated part of her right paw and then removed another cancerous lesion on her leg further up.  Had we known it was all cancer we might have chosen to put her down now, bu...

MARCO POLO Lily 18 x 24 inches  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD         Contact me for your own painting. Laurie © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 2011  WALKING IN FAITH Many things pop up unexpectedly in life. This morning we are taking our Annie Dog to the vet for surgery. She was diagnosed with cancer of the bone in her paw. We know they will amputate part of her paw but until they go in they do not know how much or how bad the situation is. Annie was born in 1999, the same year we bought Terry's truck. She did not arrive in our family until 2001.  We say we rescued her because the home that was GIVING her away was not the best home. Sure it was in the expensive million dollar homes in Dallas, but inside that home was a very unhealthy environment of anger between the family members. The mother sobbed uncontrollably as we took Annie away to come to our house.  The boys and father sort of snickered at us when we pulled out of th...

A Walk at Sunrise in His Garden 3 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas      SOLD commissinon Painting   Contact me for your own painting. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 WHY DOES GOD TAKE THOSE WE LOVE from us in this life? Finishing this painting this week has been very emotional for me. It is close to its finish, enough to be posted.  Touch ups follow next week and then varnishing. If you have followed the story of this repaint of In His Garden, you know from my blog that at this time last year a young woman was battling for her life against cancer. She had been diagnosed on February 19, 2010 and the cancer took her life less than 90 days later. The odd part of this journey is her husband and I share the same birth date and we are the same age, born only hours apart; he in Michigan and I in St. Louis. Tom is not a computer person. He does not do the internet. As he wife died, many emotions were crashing in on hi...

Riot in Spring 7.5 x 5.5 inches Oil on 300 lb Watercolor Paper          BID HERE. Contact me. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 CONTAGIOUS   What in your life is contagious? Well my daughter and her family has dreadful colds.  We are suppose to go visit but are double thinking that right now.  Colds are very contagious... and if I am going to catch something I would rather have it be a smile, a hug or even some laughter. Sharing love and kindness comes naturally for some people. Smiling at a stranger on the street or in a store, helping an elderly friend with their yard work, or hugging a child that just took a spill on their bicycle... all of it is a contagious sharing of joy.  Each of us has been blessed with abundance in our lives.  Sometimes we have to stop our negativity and count those gifts, but they are there.  In addition, we receive back from others in same when a thank...

Urgency       30 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas         Contact me for your own painting. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2011 CLOSE YOUR EYES Yesterday I wrote about courage... and this morning I revisit it slightly...close your eyes in an instant around here and things change. With courage, I scraped the painting I posted yesterday... It was tooo...tooo... whatever, but it was not there. BUT I had to go there before I could get here.  These are the paintings that seem to do the best in the galleries...the transformed paintings that were scraped.   I literally close my eyes and scrape the paint.   Last year I had a large one about this size that was tooo tooo... and it was scraped. It had so much paint on it I had to pull it off onto a palette.  I reused EVERY single bit of paint making three paintings out of one. Two of the three sold at Mirada this past year and the l...