Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Old Red  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." Douglas Adams We love taking quick trips out to Mount Vernon. We miss our country life and our friends. Some date back to high school.  We stay on the main highways so it is not as tempting to take off on a country road and possibly get lost. During our journeys Terry always refers to me as "the navigator". There are always a few times I have misguided us…but for the most, I am steady in the job. ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 18 x 27  Morning Get Away   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."  Anais Nin   This morning will not be a painting morning. It is a house cleaning morning, bed sheet changing morning, dusting, etc. If you stay so focused on "the positive” and trying to control things you might miss other important things. Sculptors start out wi...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Into the Light 28 x 42 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." Helen Keller Woke up early. We had been promised rain and cooler weather…it came and now we are back warm again. I guess it disrupted the sleep pattern a bit. The dog is restless. I put him out and of course the grass is wet so he has to do his business right outside the door. When daylight hits I will be out there scrubbing the patio. Terry is still sleeping. He seems really tired for some reason. I do not think he feels well....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The Baptism Watercolor  Sold Private Collection of Artist ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. he is accessible to all who will seek Him." Gordon B Hinckley  There is something comforting about seeing my husband’s cowboy boots or running shoes on the floor by his red chair. Usually his socks are stuffed hanging out of the top of each boot or stuffed in the running shoe. It tells me he is home and when he is home I feel his protection and love surrou...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Sunlight Play  24 x 36   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."  Elizabeth Gilbert  I think I reached that over saturation point of worrying too much.  I think I hit the wall. I know there are others out there in much worse shape. I only have to listen to the news to arrive here.  Today’s world is a frightening place filled with scary things. At the same time the bible promises me that God is able to protect us and help us and often He has to use miracl...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Relationships 24 x 30 in  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso Even in Dallas we get our fair share of dust storms from west Texas. You can see it coming across the horizon in the west and the sky begins to turn a murky yellow. You have about 20 minutes to get where you are going and get everything buttoned up and shut in the house.  The dust begins blowing through and it is worse than fog because it hurts if you are out in it. It stings and bites as it hits your face and your arms...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Fair Flowers SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C S Lewis Have you ever heard someone say, "Wishful thinking!"?  I know today I was out in the garden cutting roses. I had high hopes or WISHFUL THINKING of collecting a vase full for the weekend. I found two roses, one yellow one from our Orphan Rose that belonged to Terry's mom, and one red one from my JFK ros...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Summer Horse 79 2012  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas.Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room I agree our nature is renewed day by day, but I also need my sleep by night. That certainly recharges my batteries. I read somewhere that your ‘day’ begins the night before when you climb into bed.  Think about that.  So when you pull up those covers you are setting the stage for what you now think of as tomorrow.    Every new day/night brings to you a new change ...