Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 2022 Last Days of Summer 24 x 24 in Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost THE PAINTING The one positive about the end of Sept is I get to see the sunrise.  When I take the dogs out at 5:45 I can stand and stare up at the stars.  I can walk on the treadmill and watch the sunrise. This painting is about the end of those LONG HOT summer days that lasted through the middle of September for us in north Texas. It was not just HOT it was DANG HOT.   The painting holds the fresh bliss of that new sunrise in September. It has a softness to it. It is beautiful.  This is from Sunday Morning around 7:30.  Does not get much prettier waking up to the soft autumn sky.  Can you see...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 First Winter Chill 12 x 12 Mixed Media on Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse. ” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny  The Truth of Experience It was about 20 plus years ago that I came to the realization that you cannot appreciate love if you do not experience hate. You cannot appreciate joy unless you know sa...

  ©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2022 Two Loose Horses 9 x 12 x 1.5 inches Mixed Media on Canvas Available   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.   “Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'” Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit TEMPTATION and CREATION I am back painting in the studio with a changed studio! A New Day, A New Way… and yes these paintings will be available.  If they are tiny, they will be $125 and if they are mid small and up, they will be $145. They will be all sizes, so keep up and watch. Good time to pick up pieces that will appreciate over time.  Fall arrives this week, but it really still feels like 100 plus outside. They say by next Sunday we will have cooler te...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Spring 1976 Shop my Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  "We don't remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese I was on the treadmill this morning watching part of a movie doing my 3 miles.  This quote was in the movie and it stuck with me. There are some days I remember, but truly only because of moments in that day.  I remember vivid moments of securing my first job at age 16.  I saw an ad in the Sunday Dallas Morning News by Neiman Marcus hiring an artist's model. Back in that time they hand drew the ads using people wearing the clothes.  Personally I like it better than today.  I was hired and I worked there that summer and all through my Senior year in high school... I took one morning class and hoped a bus to downtown Dallas.  The time I remember it happening but the memory is the ad that I cut out...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 The Glass Vase  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I believe the drought of summer 2022, has been one of the worst we have experienced in our lifetime. Yesterday, for the first time in two months, temperatures fell below 100 and it rained.  It actually stormed. Terry and I had left the house to travel to Keller Texas, to Bear Creek Running Co . We are planning on walking the dogs as temps drops, and I needed new shoes.  I drove us in BlueBird (My new car) home in strong winds and torrential rains with thunder and lightening. While I wish I had flowers to be worried about, we struggled this summer to water the grass and all of our trees.  We had nine trees but the weather last year took out a 20 yr old red oak. It left a huge vacancy in our back yard. My hope is to break away from...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Quilted Memories Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Yesterday I was doing Saturday morning pick up and was carrying some books into my bedroom and I heard the word "USE". I looked at the stack of books I had collected to move and it was the Torah, the Chumash and two Bibles.  When I read and study them, I usually compare passages and cross reference things.  I believe God was making a point of giving this word to me for many reasons that will reveal themselves over the course of time. The immediate thought was over those books first.  I usually read in my Bible in the evenings and spend 45 minutes to an hour in study with them.  Use it....your Bible or your Torah. Spend time during the day with the Lord. Later in the day, I pulled out two large cloth containers with quilts in them. Some were family quilts and some were Ebay quilts I bought...