Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul."  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron You can see from the photos above the two steps I am sharing here... blocking out on the top one and t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 28 x 42 Wolf Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Leaning into experimenting on this next painting. Starting with a glazing on the foundation first and then building layers on top of it. Terry says I killed this brush because (oops) I forgot to clean it. Brush shopping I shall go.  I have had this 'hankering' and image floating in my...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong." Masaru Emoto  Secret Life of Water.  I would share that this has been a journey over the past weeks. Our youngest granddaughter is not well and while the prognosis is good and she will recover, the weeks it takes to get there are still ahead.  As a grandparent I feel helpless but...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." George RR Martin, A Game of Thrones These babies are beginning to form their personalities here.  Originally I thought the middle one would pull forward the strongest but that is not happening.  Which do you see as leading the trio? Sometimes the strongest personality makes the weakest leader. When we look back at life and think about strong leadership, it is often the quieter thinker that is firm and dir...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be the Sun breaking through the clouds."  A. D. Posey As the storms rage... eventually the sun peeks through.  God wants us to learn from those storms and apply it as we move through on the other side into the calm after the storm.  The rainbow has arched across in the distance... and behind us as we walk through the last of the dark clouds we break into His light. In reality, He has walked through the storm with us. He has never left our side. Those  stormy moments need to be met not with our strength but w...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."  Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Not a day passes in our lives that we are not rocked by storms of life. Some of those storms we stir up into being and others seem to roll into our lives. We feel like we can barely hang on. Most of us try to hold on and outlast the storm, forgetting there is someone we can call on to calm it and bring us peace again.  Look around. We can all find ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I must have flowers, always, and always." Claude Monet I have not journaled much this week... been working on other things in the studio. Paintings, revamping my journey and goals.  We all have to think about those things in life and be aware of the times that require examination and change.  Change is that hard word for most of us. My friend Tom brought me three bulbs to plant and I added them to my iris group out front. About a month later these beautiful pink gladiolus began blooming. They are rich with int...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The First Morning Size: 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Morning has broken like the first morning.  Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing, Praise for the morning, Praise for them springing fresh from the world."  Steven Curtis Chapman In mid June this painting will be in a show opening in New York at a gallery in Watkins Glen. I wish I had time to paint a few more sailboats as they are very calming to paint and to have hanging around the studio.  The song by Steven Curtis Chapman is one of my favorites of course le...