Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Autumn Ending Cradled Wood Panel Oil  Size: 8 x 8   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ―  ―  Albert Camus Autumn is here blooming in color.  Blooming is something new to consider for any season.   Every day you have a new opportunity to bloom. You have so many choices. Word choices, action choices, clothes choices, friends, food, etc.  In many places people wake up to the same old every single day, locked into only one available thing possibly for breakfast if not nothing at ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Morning Mist  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”  ―  Charles Dickens ,  Great Expectations Tranquility perhaps a word not used as often but so important in the balance in our lives. It is a quality of state of being... calmness, peacef...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Escaping  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”  ―  J.R.R. Tolkien ,  The Hobbit Just when you think life is on an even keel... you can count on something disruptive to happen.  That is called LIFE.  We cannot  L ive  I n  F ear  E motionally... aka LIFE.  But truly life is filled constantly with change and learning to roll with the waves and not tump into the water is essential.  We have heat and cold, love and hate, jo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Snowfall  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ―  Lewis Carroll   Alice in Wonderland Nothing is sweeter than rocking our grand-babies here. We have a baby granddaughter that is nine months old and a brand new baby grandson.  You kiss their foreheads so gently as they fall asleep and smile down at their sweetness...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.”  ―  L.M. Montgomery ,  Anne of Green Gables I was blessed to recontact someone I knew almost twenty years ago. Why did I search her out?  In my sleepless nights of October when I wandered restlessly around the bed... I realized I was using a cross s...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.” ― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward Painting day! Yes, I will be working on something new today. Have some images I need to get roughed out on canvas. When thinking and praying this morning about thoughts to share I was remembering the parable where the owner of a vineyard needed workers to pick the grapes. He hired workers early in the morning, late morning, noon and mid afternoon. Even at the dinner hour he was still hiring workers just before quitting time at six. It didn't matter wha...

Night Snow, 28 x 42 Oil  SOLD    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening We slept in late. Since I blog before ten, you would not know that! Yesterday I worked on some of the new small cradled paintings for holiday gifts. We went to Whole Foods this morning as well.  As an organic household, we are pretty careful on what we buy and eat.  I believe you are what you e...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Big Tree Longhorn SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” ― Marilyn Monroe 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... a...