Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Falling for You  24 x 24 oil on canvas by Laurie Pace.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.   Do good anyway. ” Kent M Keith    We are in the Season of Lent. This is a time of forty days before the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, and we are in day 7 right now. It is a time spent in reflection and preparing to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection. Many spend Lent seeking the Lord in prayer, practicing self control by fasting or literally giving up habits or things of personal importance.  My mind wrapped around Lent this year believing it truly allows us all a time to reset and renew our relationship with God and with Christ. Often praying is a go-to in time of need of bad health or negative things are happening through the year. We t...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Sunrise Friend  9 x 12 oil on panel - by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Just jumping straight into this painting and the process.  I began with a different surface as I sketched out three horses and began pulling the paint.  It looked painful, so I put it out of its misery and began pulling colors together and flipping the canvas around.   Then I saw the two horses as clear as can be. Forward with more pulled paint and you have Sunrise Friend.  The beauty of these painted ponies is the style. I have been collected for these since about 2005, so over 15 years. I paint other styles of horses and lately really pretty ones on birch. But these paintings are freedom and love knitted together on the surface with intuitive painting and discovery.  Remember on my site ri...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” ― Carl Gustav Jung  What exactly is discernment?   Do you think we need it in today's world? One definition I found was: "Discernment: The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure."   I laughed out loud when I read "Discernment is basically a power or ability to see what is not evident to the average mind."     Discernment is the ability to decide between right and wrong or truth and error. How do you make the distinction between them?  In today's world I am struggling to abide with my Jesus in the midst of the storm.   Read more here on my main blog. I am praying for your spirit and your dire...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Yellow Tulips 5 x 7 inches and Available $199  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted”  Marianne Williamson These were inspired by tulips at the store a few weeks ago. Came hom...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Jubilee 9 x 12 oil on Panel Available.   by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “We're inches apart yet worlds away.” Meagan Spooner The Shattered World   DAY 300 in Locked Down for Covid. Each day we really need to each focus on something that makes us smile. With Hubby near 70 and me newly at 68... we fall into "THAT" category... he feels like we are jailed.  304 days ago, we were living retirement life and enjoying our grandchildren and looking forward to things like visiting the arboretum, traveling to see friends in East Texas and a trip planned for Mascoutah, Illinois.  None of that happened. What have you done this year, or the past 300 days in lock down?   We grocery shop at the early open hours for people of our age...?  We are in sync with our daughte...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Early Roses  5 x 7 Oil on Panel Available  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” Alphonse Karr Soft moments remind me as I begin to see the sprouts of new bulbs peeking out of the ground. It is the spring that brings me hope with all the green sprouting up around the year and beds. Still January here... and nights are in the 30's but today it will be 70!  Only in Texas do we see such contrast in weather and people.  Stop by my website and find your "heart painting"... $199 is still happening and I am trying to load 3-4 a week for you to check out.  Paintings   These roses are fresh and ready to fly home to you and brighten your special spot. Think with palette knife painting...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Winter Chill 24 x 24 Oil on Canvas (available)   by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. ““I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ― Louis Carroll - Alice In Wonderland  Nothing is more chilling that the rawness of winter.  Winter is here in full force.  We are almost to Feb and the memories of Feb last year are crashing in around us.  A close family member was hospitalized, an aunt died at 94 and Covid arrived... with a shut down March 2nd.   The rawness is still with us. The Covid is still with us. The "WINTER" is still here forcing us into isolation and madness.  Meanwhile I...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Pink Peonies  6 x 6 Oil on Panel by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This was fun to paint. It will take a few paintings to settle back into painting flowers, but it will be welcome with all the color that comes with it! When Covid finally lets go of the grip on our lives... I want to take on a few students privately and push them past their comfort point in creativity.  That is where real work begins. Working with both brush and palette knife, the idea is to welcome the challenge and then do it! Stop by my website and 'contact me' if you might want to come paint! “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas A...