Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sleeping Cowboy Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” ― Ernest Hemingway This was a favorite painting from way back in 2004 era for a friend that lives in Mt Vernon. I love to visit because I get to see it framed and hanging and very very loved. Do you love sleep? I do.  The older I have gotten it sometimes evades me and that is frustrating. I use to be able to sleep almost anywhere. My Dad was that way as well.  Sleep at night is truly the beginning of the next day. It is the sle...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painted Pony 2008  Sold  TEXAS HERD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays I found this quote along with a few that really shook my brain... but I know each of us faces fear in our lives.  Then think about herd mentality and fear.  Seems to me like the media here is the USA thrives on presenting things through FEAR and it keeps a hold on us, swaying us all to certain beliefs that may or may not be ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 18 x 27 inches The Race is On    Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.” ― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain The painting comes from early 2010.  Takes me back in time because Terry had pneumonia severely and I was total caretaker for him, while taking care of the house, our foster daughter and painting full time.  I was just coming off of eBay with contracts with galleries.  I was not sure I wanted to share this one today but I rea...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Tea Time Sold Watercolor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.” ― Helena Bonham Carter The quote almost stands entirely on its own. Remember your mom or grandmother telling you "pretty is as pretty does"?  That is where I was goin...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil Painting. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”  ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Zow... really going back to 2004 still. This was of a group of motorcyclists from a Church Riding group in Argyle.  Wish I had a better picture that was not so fuzzy. This is not one of my best pieces but it is in my heart.  I guess it is the state of our nation, or maybe I should say the LACK of the state of o...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Watercolor Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.”  ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Things are never as they seem.  This is an old... wait for it... contour drawing watercolo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook I might have to do a repaint of this one. Not sure where my original photo is, but  a new sketch might provide new thoughts and i would love to see how I approach a second paint on it.  Not often in life d...