Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

American Kestrel 10 x 20 inches A Painting a Day plus one! Well, this is the painting I worked on today. The sense of touch places a huge part in painting a bird and remembering to treat the feathers differently than the wood so that they have a different texture. This was a request from J.C. and I still have a few more small ones to do. As I write this tonight, it is Sunday night, it is RAINING outside. THANK YOU SUE...for sending the cool rain!!! THANKS for not sending the sleet! God Bless, I have to turn my computer off now with the lightening in the area. Laurie

Mid Day Work 30 x 30 inches A Painting A Day This is my third in the series I am doing of Reining Horses and Riders. Inspired by great photos in Quarter Horse News and editor Katie Tims, this composition continues the dance of the cowboy and horse. Thick brush strokes create a lively movement. It is early, 4:30 a.m. here in Justin Texas. I am up early to work on some birds that are commission pieces. I long to crawl back into bed, but the American Kestrel called to me and I am a pushover when it comes to birds and dogs! I have both. Yesterday I was able to mess with my new camera attached to my computer. Sue and I visited cross country as I set it up with Skype and she could watch me painting at my canvas!!! My intention is to use it to both record or to allow someone that has me working on a commission piece to "tune" into the studio and see how their painting is evolving on the easel. Pretty cool!!!! Modern technology at its best. I guess I have to make sure I shower

Clydesdale One 24 x 24 inches A Painting a Day I am not entirely sold on the background on this painting, but decided to let it dry and watch it for a while. I love the horse and the movement with in and the colors but am debating on blues in the background. Click here if you are interested in this painting. Saturday and it is definitely cooler outside! I shall be working on bookwork this morning in the studio (Yes there is drudgery too) and then hitting the easel. The fall leaves are quite inspiring outside, we actually have some color this year! A special good morning to Sue and warm wishes in their snowfall...send it to Texas please! Larilyn, I joined the Sweepsheet this morning and gave them your name! SEE I told you I would! Fellow artist, Conni Togel is at an art show this weekend. Visit her site by clicking here. Or visit the FIVE GRACES web site. Diane Whitehead, another fellow artist from the Five Graces, is just home from visiting her first grandson. WOW.... he is

MAGNIFICENT SEVEN II 18 X 36 inches A PAINTING A DAY Friday Friday Friday! And they say cooler temps are on the way. I will be in the studio working this morning and then escaping to clean house as the cool front makes it way through. NOW it is in the mid seventies outside and warm!!! HUMIDITY is not cool for my paintings to cure for shipping. This piece was finished up late last night and is a fresh looking pianting with it's color combinations and the upfront composition of the horses across the length. THICK THICK paint applied with a palette knife... ridges and edges popping out everywhere! Have a cool weekend! Laurie "You may tell the next generation that this is GOD, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide forever." Psalm 48:13-14.

Fall Ponies OSWOA 4 X 6 inches A Painting a Day Good morning....summer seems to have crept back into our area....highs in the mid eighties today. UGH. I painted most of yesterday from four in the morning until six last night. Then Terry and I unpacked our crystal and china that has been in boxes for 7 months! This is my first OSWOA card to try out. It is oil on watercolor paper and follows in the mood of most of my paintings.... a little to the left! Collect some of these today! Click here to bid on this one....the bidding started at $9.95. CLICK HERE> Grace, Laurie "Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interest of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:4-5.

Vase of Fall Red Poppies 16 X 20 inches A Painting A Day The paint on this painting is thick...there are actual ridges for the flower edges! Painted with a palette knife, the curves of color jump out in your vision pulling you in closer! Available from me but will be listing on eBay in the next few days. Click here to contact me. Went into Dallas today to pick up more of our boxes for me to unpack. ALSO learned to polka Dance with my father in law! OH WHAT A BLAST!!! Terry is trying to learn too.... we had to pull out the old Two step and almost triple time it to polka! We then hit WHOLE FOODS for our weekly groceries and dined there on a huge salad and some navy bean and ham soup. YUM!!! Tomorrow I will be up early at four thirty painting away! Grace to you all, Laurie "Therefore friends, select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this task, while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer and to ser

Sunrise Ride 15 X 30 inches A Painting a Day Morning light bounces around this composition with lighter pastels and contrasting values! Large brush strokes adds freedom and personality. Contact me if you are interested in this painting. CLICK HERE Grace, Laurie "Remember me oh Lord, that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, That I may rejoice int eh gladness of your nation, that I may glory in your heritage." Psalm 106:4-5

The Dove 30 x 30 inches A Painting A Da y Good morning. I am recovering from overeating last night at the duo birthday celebration for myself and my dad! We are both old now. Italian Food from ABOCA's in Dallas off 75N and Beltline (SW corner) was FABULOUS beyond belief as was the Chef's Italian version of Tres Leche cake...wow, with lots of rum in it. Enough of birthday fun...pics may follow if I get the camera downloaded! This painting is a "MAYBE " finished. It is a soft stroked image of a dove descending with the deep blues, indigos and golds. Detail shows feathering delicately blending together. I have not decided but am thinking of this going to the show on the 18th of Nov at the Underground in Denison Texas. This piece is for sale now, so contact me if you are interested. CLICK HERE. Grace, Laurie "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path." Psalm 143:10

A PATH TO THE SON 36 x 36 inches A Painting A Day COMMISSION PIECE COMPLETED! She arrived at the house about nine thirty yesterday morning. A sweet breath of fresh air as she entered the studio....Lana had arrived! I must connect the pieces first. Last year as we were selling our monster house we discovered there was an easement line running through the property and our home as well as a flood plane that had not been earlier identified. How the property had ever closed five years prior was questionable. I had to find a hydraulic engineer to re shoot the area and establish where flooding could occur (Near by dried up creek) and petition the city to abandon a one acre easement off the back of our property. That is where the Lord placed Otis in our lives, Lana's husband and a hydraulic engineer. The city engineer gave me a list of 10 hydraulic engineers. I was praying as I scanned the list and chose Otis. God answered prayers. This man did his job swiftly as needed, thoroughly and s

GREYHOUND EYES 11 x 14 inches A Painting a Day If you are interested in buying this piece, contact me. It goes on Auction a week from Today on eBay. CLICK here to email me. Niki has been painting Newfies....I couldn't stand it. I had to paint two dogs, so I choose the greyhound, which I have painted frequently and the scotty, which I grew up with. I feel the eyes are the door to the soul and when I look at a greyhound I see this life and even deeper. Their enormous eyes speak volumes of their love and their desire to please us. This sweet painting is on board and painted with a wide brush and lots of movement...hence it is impressionistic. Why do you see in this greyhound's eyes? Today is Friday. I have Lana coming over to do changes on a commission piece for her home. I am doing a Tuscan field scene....36 X 36 inches and we have to finish up the last minute things she would like to see in the painting. Other than that I will be working on a large dove for an opening in

Hilary's Horses 3 ft by 4 ft A Painting A Day For a similar commission piece, contact me. Click Here. She lives out west and wanted a huge painting for her "dull" living room. She was going to bid on a painting on eBay that had the colors and the power she wanted, but it just wasn't big enough...so she wrote me. From our correspondance I was able to paint her very own personal canvas with the hand chosen colors for her room and the correct size for her wall. She poured over the images I have on artspan, my web site and my blog. She decided on the horses she wanted as far as how much body showing...and then CHOCOLATE...she wrote me as I painted, more CHOCOLATE. Dark Reds, burgandies, blues, golds and chocolates....she got what she wanted. I just finished it up and we are both praying for it to dry. I will ship it over night to her if it dries in time for a party she is having on Nov 10th. Keep your fingers crossed for both of us! Meanwhile with holiday gift seas

Late Fall Peonies 18 X 27 inches A Painting A Day It is four thirty in the morning and I am preparing to hit the easel! Today is work day for sure. The painting pictured above is a loosely painted impressionistic composition of pink peonies. In person it is almost magical with movement as if a breeze was hitting the blooms. The paint is very thick and applied with a wide brush. Click here if you are interested in this painting. I believe it goes on auction on Ebay tomorrow night. (Thursday night) But if you catch me before it lists I can sell it to you! Grace to all, Laurie "The spirit of the Lord speaks through me, his word is upon my tongue." 2 Samuel 23:2