Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Monday Morning Cleaning Hints ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.” Sarah Dessen This is the way we wash our clothes, wash our clothes, wash our clothes...every Monday morning.  Deep-cleaning comes with the seasons.  Our grandmothers did not work outside the home often,  but they kept a calendar for everything....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Two Together Always Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” JK Rowling This is the final contemporary horse painting, Two Together Always!   I pulled up the dark values for a navy couch and I softened the stark white with Brilliant Yellow.  This is a gift for a treasured heart that loved a small 9 x 12 painting that is similar.  I wanted to catch the flavor in the larger piece.   I feel like I came pretty close...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”  JK Rowling Imagine a World Where . . . Slowly the figure began to disappear.  What was in mind was a larger version of a painting from four years ago... a small 12 x 12.  When I was approached for a print of the 12 x 12 LARGE... I knew it could not be done, but I also knew I had the color needed on Juxtapose and it was time for a transformation.   Can yo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. Transforming Juxtapose ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transforming and Creating Contemporary Art  “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” C. G. Jung So this painting is no longer.  It was transformed and you will see the process over the next few days.   A reason . . . A purpose . . . and A need.  Sometimes you finish a painting and you love it. It is part of you and the creative process on Juxtapose was a tremendous growth fo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Dawn's Early Light  Sold  Size:30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist My double life as web designer and artist seem to be stretched to the limit right now.  I love doing both but my journaling always seems to take too much time.  Are you stretched to the limit? I am. So I know I am not wanding by moonlight... I am usually sleeping.   This week...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Monday Cleaning ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”  John Lennon Remember the simple days?  Remember when school was a place you loved to go to learn and see your friends?  Your teacher was kind and knowledgeable  and life seemed simple? Well, I feel that way about products in our lives....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Rocky Mountain Sunrise  SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your Bible, you'd better get that Book open.” Lori Wick Where the Wild Rose Blooms Flashback Saturday.  Although I have started a new painting, I am not ready to share it.  This is another painting that was totally a different subject horizontal. In fact it was wolves... big faces. It just did not make me smile so I flipped the canvas vertical and began scrapping and mixing thing...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”  Linda Grayson Well, do not be thrown off by the three plus rating... my group loved these brownies. I made them last Christmas Eve.  Find the recipe online here.   The ingredients do not make enough so DOUBLE the recipe to use an 8 x 8 pan.  The ingredients below are NOT doubled.   INGREDIENTS ⅔ cup pure maple syrup ½ cup unsweetened applesauce 2 tablespoons almond butter 3 teaspoons ground flax...