Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

OUT FRONT 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day This was so different for me ...a race horse, and combining my abstract with my impressionism to the point that you see the horses...the color doesn't run through them but up to them. Painted mainly with a palette knife....the leading horse is literally carved out of paint, thick ridges and contrast throughout. I am preparing to prepare to paint today...and I teach today. We are learning about negative space. My assistant teacher, Ashley, is down with a huge cold, so my handy dandy husband, Terry, gets to assist today! It is brrrr cold outside. Just heard on the news that a neighborhood over where Terry and I grew up in Lake Highlands, is on fire. The fire is actually next to where one of our oldest friends live....but no way to contact them at this hour...everyone has had to evacuate the area...the fire started in one home and now four are involved. That is scary for winter time...I would be first to get my dogs out, th

MOOOOODY BLUES 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day HAPPY HUMP DAY!!! Well the wind blew 60 mph all day, but I worked in the studio from four this morning until two. Trina drove in from Gainesville and arrived about nine and we painted together until almost two....she left to pick up her brother at the airport and I made lunch for Terry.... brown rice and carrots smothered with Sweet German Sausage and Onions. It was pretty good. Then I made a batch of homemade choc chip cookies, but I was out of chocolate chips and had to use butterscotch...he didn't seem to mind as he gulped them down! We finished off the afternoon playing dominoes in front of a roaring fire.... I need to get back out there and enjoy it but wanted to post a painting today! This is MOOOODY BLUES.... I am not NOT the cow painter Diane Whitehead is...ARTOUTWEST on eBay...she is the best of the best, but I had the hankering to do this...when I finished it, I almost wiped it clean, but Trina said NO NO NO.

HIGH KICKER 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day Good Tuesday morning to everyone. I think it was the influence of the last part of the Beatles Anthology that we have been watching each night.... Day Tripper kept bouncing through my brain as I painted and this aboslutely delightful horse emerged...High Kicker....The texture build up and the colors are startling and the combination of colors should fit in with almost any decor. Palette knife and thick creamy Holbein Duo Oils created this beauty. Contact me if you would like to purchase this painting prior to me listing it on eBay. It is schedule to list this weekend on the 19th. CLICK HERE FOR ME> Today is more work around the house. I am going to try and sneak in a quick start on a painting this morning. With Thanksgiving coming on I am unsure of what is happening on eBay or at the galleries or what folks are buying. I will be doing some small things for my NY gallery, Earth Works Art Gallery and Studio in Upper State

Scenes of Fall One 16 x 16 inches A Painting A Day ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WEATHER> God is good...we made it through the summer. This week will be perfect weather! Painting is flashing about the colors out side my window. We took a long drive on Saturday, I might have told you already, through an area northwest of us in Drop Texas. I did take a ton of pictures. You will be seeing some appear on the canvas over the next few weeks. We are going to start on the storage building in the back yard and then we will open up the garage area for my studio. AT LAST!!!!!! I am so excited to have my space back again. Grace to you all...enjoy the day, the moment and every second in between and remember to say I LOVE YOU to those close by. Remember to say I APPRECIATE YOU to those that do for you and most of all REMEMBER TO THANK GOD for all that is in your life and for your life. Laurie United in thought and prayer, link your mind with mine, heart to heart in oneness with the Spirit. " I ap

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