Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Truth is, we all project a false front to the world, peppering our social media pages with witty words and silly emoticons. Life narrowed down to 140 characters, staged selfies, and tirades over opinion posts. Life lived for the approval of the masses, all while tearing strangers down for the slightest misstep." Kristen Callihan, The Game Plan Selfie (n): a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media. Well… Selfies are really rare in our family.  We love t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Photography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset skey."  Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Oh the times in our lives.... they are so full of memories. Some of those push faster to the front because they left a stronger impression. Could be happy impression or a sad impression, depending of course of your life and your remembrances. People come in and out of our lives and each of them bring color to those memories and our lives. Some come for a reason. Some come for a se...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Sock with Dad 24 x 36   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To site with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring, it was peace." Milan Kundera So this painting is for the man of the ranch and his baby dog Sock, who ruled the ranch. I loved painting these two precious pieces for the couple of their babies. Blazing through Judges last week... Terry and I read about the Samson and Delilah debacle. Of course I love the s...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Painting SOCK 24 x 36 Gift   Oil on Canvas. SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in face, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse".  Milan Kundera, The Unbearable LIghtness of Being. Well, I chucked over the quote,...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Painting in Progress  24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A painting is more than the sum of its parts, 'he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic. " Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped This week has caught me behind most of the week. Terry decided we would help get Chunky Monkey back and forth to school. Trying to wrestle an 18 month old is always fun...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 1998 - 2017 Blooms  Size: 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." Amy Bloom Rather off the wall... even for 2005.  I was still exploring and truly having fun and at the time selling art on eBay making a solid living in the area of $75,000 a year. I told someone recently I ALMOST miss those days. I painted one to two paintings a day.  I listed them and sold them. My sweet husband would take Saturday and box paintings ALL day long and I usually had 7-10 pieces se...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Out of the Mist   Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning."  John O'Donohue, Anam Cara:...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the midst of circumstances; because problems is a sense of adventure in Sheep's clothing." Temitope Owosela The richness of paint reminds me of the richness of life.  I write often of the layers in life and the layers in the life of a painting. I love scribing my name into those layers making it part of th...