Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 She is Mine! No Painting with this post, only laughter and home schooling and rich remembrances.   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This morning I was homeschooling my youngest granddaughter and we always have fun. She is a mini me with music, art, and dressing.  I snapped this photo of her ankle resting on mine while she was working her math problems, lost in numbers, and me, finding myself following in love with her more every single day.  BE BRAVE "Be Brave" are her words anytime she is confronting something new or uncomfortable.  They have rubbed off to me considerably. More on my next post about that.  Meanwhile, she is moving forth in her first grade curriculum decently well and anxious about going back to school this fall.  Hopefully this mes...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Last Roses Before Winter 5 x 7 in Oil on Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The weather is turning cold finally. We had a long late Indian Summer from Thanksgiving till now and we are more than ready for some cold. I went out and trimmed all my roses and brought them in. They will be dormant in a few days.  This painting truly surprised me with color. It is small but packed with luscious color. I had promised to do some floral paintings so it is going to happen!  Stay tuned for more!  Color is constant in this rose painting and vibrant. Easy to frame or put on a small easel.  BE VIBRANT Hoping you might be laughing. Cold winter and I am still deep in color. I told Terry today there is a thing about older women often piling on too much co...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 The Awakening Commissioned Painting. Sold  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The Lotus... my first and only I have painted and it was painted as a gift for a good friend in NYC for his Mom in Singapore. Trying to decide my approach to this painting had me ditching the knife and picking up my brushes. I adjusted the colors on the lotus petals many times to push it to the perfect color.  And yes, I realize the angle of some of the lily pads is off in the back group, it holds up well as they float along and with those I used jewel tones for the pads and the water. It was a painting of precious jewels after that. It was also very large.  38 x 58 inches.  At the arrival to Singapore, it went to be framed. They put a simple frame around it and then defined it with a part...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Changing Seasons 20 x 30 inches  Mixed Media On Canvas Sold.  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " Painted in September of 2010, this painting grew in my heart and I fell in love with it the further I worked on it that fall. It was almost as if the leaves around the pond and the lake inspired the colliding colors and patterns. Living on a 5 acre cat fish pond and Lake Cypress Springs in East Texas, gave us a lot of waterfront. (as well as a plethora of snakes and oak mold.  My studio was a beautiful glassed in porch across the back of the house with plenty of room to paint big or small and have the view of the water at all times. It was more than water, it was wildlife of all sorts including those slithering ones. I painted every day and loved the continuous feed of ...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 First Love 18 x 27 Oil on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The painting is the daughter of a friend I have known all of her life.  Soft and precious and real in so many ways.  A young girl lost in the music of her instrument.  Reminds me of how easily I get lost in playing my piano or one of my guitars.  If you look closely you see the triangle that is the main part of the composition rising from the bottom of the painting.  The eye actually enters at the top left of the canvas and you come straight down the instrument to the beautiful hair and face of the young girl. The concentration is only broken by her arm parallel to the bottom edge of the painting. The arm stops you from leaving the painting. You are to stay, study and enjoy the sto...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Captured Blooms Sold  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "Every painting has a reason and a season. It felt like abstract but I did not know how it would progress. I sectioned the canvas in quarters and laid basic colors in weaving them between.  I worked while the paint was crazy wet. I wanted the edges to form the boundary defining objects.  Can you see repeated patterns in this painting? The purple, red and blue merge through three times.  Yellow patterns in quarters three times... and three yellow pulls on or close to the vase.  Three large turquoise areas around the outside of the vase. Two on one side and one on the opposite side. So much of this is accidental, but is it truly accidental?  Part of painting is the intuitive pull of the palette knife as if in rhythm t...