Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Bits and Pieces Hospice Heart Painting 2012 Auction available, contact me. Laurie   24 x 24 inches  Mixed Media on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Four Candles This last week in Advent is a full seven day week fr us to become aware of what is truly going on in our lives these days and if it is truly bringing us in the season for the right reason.   As our minister Jack reminds us, Christmas is often the loneliest time of the year for many people. Often there are sad memories attached or the death of a loved one. Sometimes is just purely being alone with out family or someone to smile at or sing Silent Night with.  Terry and I were watching a movie on the love channel called Lovely Still by Nik Fackler. Nik was only 22 when he wrote the script for this film. His a...

Bits and Pieces Hospice Heart Painting 2012 Auction available, contact me. Laurie 24 x 24 inches  Mixed Media on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to  purchase this piece: Laurie        I am demonstrating today at the Dutch Art Gallery. If you are in Dallas, please come by and watch me work.  No pressure of course!   I love Pam Massar and her husband Hans like family.  I could not say no. They are awesome folks and the gallery is home away from home for me. I could not think of a nicer place to be invited to come paint.  I have not decided what I will work on but I am bringing two things.  Come join me! Life - Round and Round it Goes Why do we get so mesmerized by trains under the tree going round and round?  Adults and children alike will sit for an hour watching the shiny engine pull its line of ca...

Bits and Pieces Hospice Heart 2012 Available through auction. Email me if you are interested. Laurie 24 x 24 inches  Mixed Media on Canvas    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie         Turning to the 'Son" As the third week in advent comes to a close, my mind and actions are surrounded by the joy of the season.  This time of year seems to bring more smiles and hugs. This time of the year the grumpy-pants become the happy-pants. This time of year the SON brings out the best in all of us as we bloom in His light. My poor Christmas Cactus almost did not make it this year.  This summer Paddy the dog decided they were bathroom targets and he hit one pretty bad and the other one, Annie the other dog tumped over and laid in the dirt on the back porch. (BTW... Schlumbergera is the cor...

Progress on Heart Painting for Hospice Ball 2012 24 x 24 inches mixed media SOLD I am in the midst of creating this and not sure yet of my full direction or intention. It could be mission failure or it might work. I wish I had taken a shot of it yesterday with only the base colors on it. It started with peach and pink... then came dripping and running and today came paper layering.  I want some more color in it with Tar Gel so stay tuned.        ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      JOY Over the centuries we have celebrated the advent of the Christ Child with different customs from all over the world as well as different customs with families. Growing up in the Justus household Christmas Eve was the magical time. Early supper and church at six thirty. The service was always filled with carols and a short message fr...

Landscape 2 12 x 12 inches Acrylic on Canvas Ready to ship for Christmas...$135 includes shipping.  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011  The Colors of Christmas Traditionally most of you think of red and green and think Christmas. The holly and the ivy, right? Do you have all colors on your tree for lights or only white ones?  Do you thematically decorate your tree or is it full of family ornaments from past generations? The Colors of Christmas are just about as diverse as we are individually.  God is undeniably the greatest artist I know working with three dimensional creations. His palette lacks nothing in values and hues. If we all all part of His creation, just think how brightly we shine in our many reflective colors and personalities.  Life would be pretty boring if we all looked the same or acted the ...

Midnight Run Sold   This was painted in 2009 in the fall.  I want to do a series similar to this approach. Using media thinner and acrylics the backwash with FLO was applied on the canvas. Then I used charcoal and sketched out the horse on the canvas and then begin adding layers of color with varnish in between.   Watch for something new this week along these lines.  Mixed Media on Canvas...    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Light Leads the Way I was up early this morning at five a.m.  Paddy dog was rustling around. Terry has been down for two days with headaches and dizziness.  I believe it might be his glasses are the wrong prescription. We just picked up new ones last week. I love mine.  My sun glasses are in the picture. Obviously Terry's glasses are not correct. So at nine this morning I will be c...

Heart Painting 6 x 6 inches framed in a black contemporary frame.  Acrylic on Board. $135 includes shipping.    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Building to a  Crescendo I marvel at God's greatness each daybreak as I wake to Terry starting his coffee or Paddy rustling around to wake us both up. The new brightness of this day and this moment and the many blessings that are surrounding me and God's love lifting me up from a good night's sleep. This morning I woke to the sound of Lady L's feet pattering in the hall and her loud whispers of "Bampa awake?" The reminder on this Friday in this second week of advent is accept God's direction in this day. In our self-reliant independence we often forget He truly knows what is best for us.  In our stubbornness it is easy to assert our way claim...

Texas Sunset Longhorn   8 x 10 inches Solid Thick palette knife paint. Celebrate UT and Bevo with this unique palette knife painting  of a Texas longhorn herd.  Available at the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas and I know  Pam has it framed and ready for Christmas. Contact Pam.     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie        Third Week in Advent Begins Last week we prepared our hearts for grace. The third candle we light as we begin this week represents the spirit of joy. Paul's words, "the Lord is near..."  If you have candles with colors, the Joy candle is usually a rose colored.   The faith of Mary, Joseph and Elizabeth show us how they prepared the way for Jesus' life to begin. Faith and generosity overcoming  adversity and impossibility.  If your life situations are as upsid...

Second Birthday 2011 Lady L 5 x 7 inches Oil on Canvas       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own painting: Laurie       Threads of Family Too many memories to sort them all. Families are a basic weave of lives with different personalities. The fabric that comes from the weave is either strong with evenly spaced threads that are carefully threaded through evenly pulled and spaced.  Loosely woven threads create a weaker fabric. You never know with family. You don't choose them. You choose your friends but not your family. God seems to match us together ahead of time. It is how we interact and respond to each other that determines the weave in our family. We make those choices, not God.  Tomorrow would have been the 16th birthday of our Grandson Grant.  God took Grant from us about five years ago. As a special needs autistic child, he brought so much love to...

Texas, The Land of Longhorns 35 x 53 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      St Nicholas was Here.... I shared on Facebook that my kids grew up different than most on the block.  Coming from a German family, we always had a visit from St. Nick on the evening of the 5th of December.  As children we hung our stockings awaiting the decision of St Nick if we had been naughty or nice. Mom filled the stocking with small presents, fruits and candy. Back in the 'old days' we did not really get expensive big gifts. So as my children were born we continued the tradition of St Nick. Christmas was reserved more for the spiritual aspect and all the wonderful happenings wrapped around our advent wreath morning and night followed up by Church and all of its Christmas pageants and Christmas Eve services. I know we did a sma...

Progress on Texas, Land of the Longhorns 35 x 53 inches Oil on Canvas  Commissioned painting This is one of the background longhorns. The color palette on this longhorn painting is built around the UT colors and the feeling of BEVO. Can you tell?      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie   Looking Out the Window Each of us has inside something we are looking for or something we think we are missing in life. It is that 'object' or 'event' that if it just was resolved or if it just happened we could be happy.  We wait and wait on that to come to us...watching out the window for it to 'arrive'. This second week in advent would be the perfect time to turn away from that window of desire.  Talk to Him about it. Let Him know what is in your heart and mind and then let it go. As you pass through this day begin new ways of respond...

Progress Land of the Longhorns 35 x 53 inches Oil on Canvas  Well the palette began to change with some additions of grey blues into the mix. I really like the contrast of this against the rich quinacridone oranges, but the buyer wants less of it... so I am in transition on this one, working out the blues waiting again for a color update from the decorator.      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      An Incredible Promise of things to come, are you ready? The holidays bring to mind a time of preparedness or getting ready. I am always amused by the stores that begin 'preparing' in October for Christmas.  Each year it seems to get earlier when you see all the teasing lights, wrapping and ribbons.  The colors trigger our minds to think of the holidays ahead and what we have to do to be ready. Either drag the tree down from t...