Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Line Shape Form Space  Value "Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. " John Singer Sargent    Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.  One of my favorite painters current day that uses this in many of her pieces as an underpainting before she paints her colors in, is Texas Artist Rebecca Zook . Her work is incredible.  Working in acrylic, she lays in her values before layering the colors on top.   Texas Artist Nancy Medina , sort of does this but with transparent colors creating the forms and backgrounds of what she is painting.  When I took one of her floral workshops we worked with browns and moved forward.   With this lesson being on values... I want to take Rebecca's challenge of the black and white acrylic painted first and then layering of color...so this week I have examples of two pump...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Life Givers  10 x 10 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD  Who are the life givers you know? These are the people in your journey that are always there for you, always giving and providing when you need it. They never ask questions because they know you so well, and they know you only ask when you really need something.   Life Givers ... I believe God has a special gift He gives to some of us.  Just being in the presence of a life giver provides comfort to you.  While some may believe 'things' can be life givers, I personally am drawn to the touch of a hand, the warmth of a smile, the kindness of help and companionship when I am weary.  A life giver empowers you to continue and make your way. They support you.   In art I felt this in the symbol of a heart and from there I did a series of heart paintings. This was the firs...

© Laurie Pace 2013 Red Tulips by Laurie Justus Pace 16 x 20 Oil Painted a few years ago in about 2004 or 2005, I am thinking of painting more flowers while doing my equine paintings.  So look for more Back Yard Blooms from tulip to rose paintings, lots of flower paintings. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.  Deuteronomy 13:4 ellepace.com lauriepace.blogspot.com Galleries: DutchArtGallery.net MiradaFineArt.com RareGalleryJacksonHole.com SouthHillGallery.com © Graphics One Design 2014

Abstract One by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 Oil This was painted at the lake last year.  I did a series of abstract pieces that were tied to a larger painting.  There is always the sense of discovery when you are doing an abstract painting. Show me the wonders of your great love,  you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.  Psalm 17:7 ellepace.com lauriepace.blogspot.com Galleries: DutchArtGallery.net MiradaFineArt.com RareGalleryJacksonHole.com SouthHillGallery.com © Graphics One Design 2014

Bathed in Gold by Laurie Justus Pace 16 x 20 Oil This was completed in 2010 and is available in prints from Fine Art America. Here is a link to purchase a print.   Click here.    This was such a surprise painting for me as it emerged from layering of colors.  Very contemporary horse painting and very loose, it still manages to capture the essence of horse! "To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. Matthew 25: 15-17 ellepace.com lauriepace.blogspot.com Galleries: DutchArtGallery.net MiradaFineArt.com RareGalleryJacksonHole.com SouthHillGallery.com © Graphics One Design 2014

© Laurie Pace 2013 Four Black Horses by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 Oil Painted a few years ago in 2010, I found some opera music written about four black horses. I had done this contemporary horse painting in celebration of that opera. They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.  Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar.  They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. Habakkuk 1:7-9 ellepace.com lauriepace.blogspot.com Galleries: DutchArtGallery.net MiradaFineArt.com RareGalleryJacksonHole.com SouthHillGallery.com © Graphics One Design 2014

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Horse Collage Fall 2013  12 x 18 inches Mixed Media on Canvas.  This was an intentional paint to imitate one of the 100 ponies I did in 2012. That poor little 8 x 10 pony was loved by a company to do very large prints and it was not here for me to even use to scan... so I created something with the same heart, a kindred spirit. The underlays are pages from a western book and then torn papers of different varieties were added along with stains of paint and purposeful areas of paint.  This would not be a painting I would do today, but the goal was to capture the spirit of the first painting. This is available for purchase. Please click here  to see pricing and painting. Laurie Pace A Texas Artist Pace Studio  Graphics One Design My Blog          My Website          Gicl...

Line Shape Form Space Frank Lloyd Wright said:      "Space is the Breath of Art." By definition:   Space is an element of art; space refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Space can be positive (white or light) or negative (black or dark), open or closed, shallow or deep and two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Sometimes space isn't actually within a piece, but the illusion of it is. With little ones we always have donut day when I teach space...but we cannot do that over the internet.  So I took up my pencil and looked around the studio. I spotted first one of my stools in the studio... so I quickly shaded in the space around it.  Then the coffee cup holding my hot tea.... and then just a jack that was sitting on the table. (More of my work further down in the blog.) So how can you turn this into art that it works in a composition? Here is an example by M C Esher.  ...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Magnolias 30 x 40  inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  My mom and dad use to have a huge magnolia tree in their front yard.  I loved the soft beauty of the magnolia blooms and love painting them.  That may be my journey ahead... a new magnolia painting. Sketches are happening right now. “Look at the nations and watch—     and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days     that you would not believe,     even if you were told." Habakkuk 1:5 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist Pace Studio  Graphics One Design My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards          CFAI.co      GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Ho...

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Blooms 24 x 24inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  This is an older painting from 2007. I am really getting in the mindset of this raspberry and deep mauves.  Looking back at past color palettes.  May use them in horse painting with a limited palette. Going from Flower Paintings to Horse Paintings. The hunger for me is the color  and then the composition.  I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;     I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. Psalm 9:1 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist Pace Studio  Graphics One Design My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards          CFAI.co      GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY...

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 White Blooms 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  I have this urge to paint flowers again... or more.  There is something that is burning to be painted with the color Raspberry.... Time to sketch with a journey ahead. "Answer me when I call to you,     my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress;     have mercy on me and hear my prayer." Psalm 4:1 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist Pace Studio  Graphics One Design My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards          CFAI.co      GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   The White Dog Gallery Carbondale, CO. The Dutch Art Gallery Dallas TX   South Hill Gallery, ...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Seven in the Sun 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  I promised seven horses and seven it is. I am tweaking and it is hanging so we have to wait to see for last changes. I have not taken a 'good' image of it yet, this is unlit off the easel. The sun is in the back left quadrant... the blue skies ahead are in the right quadrant.  The horizon line is not the same across the painting.. one side is lower than the other and if you saw my beginnings you know why. The beginnings were in the from of a cross, but not smoothly established but jagged and displaced. So much symbolism while painting. I worked with the numbers seven and eight as a foundation as I laid in colors and piers through out the painting. The top is divided into three sections, the white the sun and the sky.... the fourth portion is made up of the seven horses.   It is officially hanging f...