Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Horse 59 Roundup  ©Laurie Pace Horse 59 Round Up    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This one is already gone...but I had to post it along the way. I have been a bit under the weather for the past week and trying to catch up puts me at the computer for a long stretch!  I want to share every contemporary horse painting that comes through this studio.  The colors were strong in this piece. They rang clear and bright for the eye to enjoy. Trace Adkins played most of this week. As mentioned early I am leaning more into my ...

Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:36 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took awhile to get this where I felt in sync with the process and the lower layers bleeding through. That is how life is. Where we have been is always apart of who we are today. This is available on my website above.  Vivid contrasting colors in this contemporary horse painting bring it to play a strong point in any room.    Some close ups. Click on them to see the layers beneath. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel o...

Amazed  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 40   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country and Western Music seems to penetrate my foggy summer brain in this heat. I do believe it is the restful cadence to the sounds.  This painting as the music of Marv Green in it with AMAZED, the song.   So I just happened to have a music book from the early nineties with the actual music in it... and that with some carefully chosen Bible verses...the background has been laid in on this contemporary horse painting. Amazed   © Laurie Pace 201...

Horse 58 Circus Horse   ©Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a prior horse painting now with new colors and new layers and a new look. Imagine yourself under the big top... I remember going to the circus a few times, Ringling Brothers in Dallas when they came.  When you are little everything is magnified to you, the lights, the colors, the action... it is all so impressive and at times even scary.  When the horse is brushed to shine, you can almost see the reflection of lights on its coat. In the patterns of the horse...

Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm   © Laurie Pace   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still working on my 100 horse paintings for this year... small affordable ones for collectors.  This one is named for the scene outside my window...storms to the west, all dissipating before they arrive at our house. I can only gaze into the storm, not actually feel the rain! Contemporary Palette Knife Horse Paintings alway lead to lots of layering of paint. Here is a close up. Click it to see it large. August really caught me off guard. I ...

Been There   © Laurie Pace 2014 Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  It is finished... I can say I have been there officially.  The composition of this painting literally grew from the story that I felt in my body of the daily movement of the world and the sun and moon.  Inside that is the movement of each of us... routinely doing the same thing over and over again.  You have been there I am sure! This contemporary horse painting uniquely captures that moment that you realize it is time to do new things and bring new moments into your lives. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;     I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor,     and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done     and what I had t...

Progress Been There   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  The patterns have begun to establish themselves on the surface. The strength in the horses neck is evident by the color choice. I am an artist that goes after 'contemporary horse paintings' with brilliant colors.  I had hoped to finish to post but taking this composition slowly as it develops and not rushing the energy. I want the painting to evolve naturally.  You can see the rough music through the layers of oil paints as I progress into the next layers of paint. Still caught up in the 'been there' as I think more of the sun and moon and the daily journey and how our lives are totally situated around this natural happening of day into night repeated to what seems infinite or until the sun bursts and flares out leaving the earth cold and dead.  What do people g...

Been There    ©Laurie Pace 2014 Progress Painting Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  I am constantly looking for neat things to mount as the foundation of my contemporary horse paintings. I came across a CW book of older music and chose the Clint Black song "Been There" .   I shredded it and glazed it onto the canvas. "did you ever wake up in the middle of the night" "did you ever wake up in the middle of the day" "did you ever wake up in the middle of a dream" Those were the lines that struck me as I worked... and as you can see there are spheres in the painting... When you think of how "rote" our days have become... Work, Drink, Eat and Sleep... and do it again the next day. Both Parents working, children in day care.... everyone forgetting how to live... how to be alive.  We have all BE...

© Laurie Pace2014 The Beta  A Contemporary Horse Painting    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 20 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Such discovery fun.  Creative play. Painting full of joy.  I could make hash tags on all of these:  #discoveryfun, #creativeplay, #paintingwithjoy, The Beta is power and strength. The Beta has many things woven across it surface and joy literally bounces from side to side. Yes, I have said this often this week, A road traveled but once.... but I did do another one similar that was larger.... two in fact and they all turned out with different personalities.  Beta I believe sold from my Jackson Hole Gallery, The Rare Gallery.  Abstract Horse Painting FUN! The unfolding of your words gives light;     it gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130 #horsepainting  #...