Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Boys on the Beach Commission 24 x 48 inches  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mid Afternoon and we just broke fifty degrees! Still raining.  This is incredible!  Fire in the fireplace, potato leek soup for lunch and apple cobbler made with crumbs on the top for dessert. A girl cannot want much more! We survived yesterday without internet and television. The storms continued.  I was beginning to wonder about bedtime, but had a book ready to read, when suddenly it was all back.  Depends on your position in the world right now whether that was '...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size 24 x 36 . Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not sure what happened in northeast Texas today, but we broke a low and a high today since 1914.   What would normally be temps in the high seventies and low eighties with lows around 65, has been trumped for the next two days.   We have a high of 42 and it is hovering around 36-38 right now. With it is pouring rain that seems to have no end for the next 48 hours.   That being said, ATT offices in the DFW area were hit by lightning and there is intermittent cable and absolutely no i...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Sunset 12 x 12 inches SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward This was a small painting but so much fun and so full of color. This close up show the beauty of layering the paint on. Looking at it makes me want to paint today!! Maybe so! Meanwhile… we are working in the kitchen again.  A new gas line for the new stove arriving mid month and a new microwave as well.  Terry has emptied Cabinets to cut through sheetrock in prepara...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 First Flowers 24 x 24   Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”  Nicholas Klein Way too much stress in the nation right now.  Are you left, or are you right? Are you a Republican? Are you a Democrat? Did he do it? Did she make it up? The Me Too movement?  Make America Better movement?   I struggle with the ME ME ME Generation that seems to widen the gap. The generations growing up with Social Media, los...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Color Rising 24 x 36 SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” Victor Hugo “Les Miserables Have you ever had a website that just would not let you sign in and kept you in a loop? That is how my morning has been!  Read more journal entires Here.  “And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.” 2 John 1:5 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Orange Sneakers  Commissioned Art  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”  Dr Seuss . Oh, The Place We’ll Go Put on your sneakers today and see where they will take you.  READ MORE HERE. #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards  ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Wedding Day Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” Nicholas Sparks The Wedding I guess I did more Pop Art than I realized.  Here is The Wedding.  And yes it left quickly as well.  This happy paintings seem to bring such joy where they go.  Do you have a special wedding you have attended or was it your own?  READ MORE HERE. #horsepain...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 The Kiss Sold   Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” Marilyn Monroe Not my favorite, but it is part of the Pop Art I did about 12 years ago. I believe I was more focused on the developing HEART shape between them then I was on the painting itself  ... READ MORE HERE. #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Silent Night SOLD  Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.” Charlotte Bronte  Jane Eyre I truly forgot I had painted this one and I think it was because it sold immediately when I did paint it, so it did not hang around the studio very long.  The quote from Charlotte Bronte...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Prom Night  SOLD  Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.” E Lockhart I only have a few more Pop Arts to share, and then may do some old old portraits or just figurative 10-15 years ago. Prom Night was a favorite for me. Fun and happy and still full of joy when I look at it. After looking at this one, I cannot help but wonder if my La Jolla Gallery...