Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

city streets 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning from BRRR land..unusual for Texas for this month of the year...usually we see this in January. I am up even earlier...getting Terry off on the slick roads with a bit extra time to make it to the hanger at DFW...hopefully he will stay warm today. Me ~ I am staying in the studio all day working...painting. This composition above worked itself into being. I started with the palette knife and golds and yellows in the center, working out with oranges and reds...then adding the purples and blues for contrast to the oranges...as I finished the colors I began searching...as I normally do....and I could not see horses anywhere but I could see buildings and streets...so that is what it became.... city streets...with very thick paint drug across the surface. Stay safe this weekend...stay warm and drive carefully if there is bad weather....Sue wrote it was cold where she was...so keep the home fires burning and remember t...

FOUNTAIN BY THE TREE 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day OOZING thick paint applied with my palette knife at four a. m. this morning....as it is now 29 degrees outside with sleet and snow...both dogs are in the studio under my feet....we actually had thunder with the sleet...it was weird. I love the way the colors worked with this painting...and they are applied close to 1/4 inch thick in some places... A scene from Italy from an old book was the inspiration. Grace to all...I am behind for the day with our weather... Laurie "For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”—Ephesians 2:10

Hayden and Aspen Oil on Canvas Commission A Painting a Day Well, I can't help it...he is sooo cute! Another Commission piece of a darling little boy and his friend! I am heading to the easel in just seconds....losing time! This painting is impressionistic in approach, wide brush, lots of color contrast and light exchange! My Daily Word thought today is on peace... So Peace I wish for all of you! Laurie “The Lord created me at the beginning of his work … . and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.” —Proverbs 8:22, 30-31

WINTER WHITE HORSE ONE 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day CLICK HERE TO BID Time for shopping is running short. Terry and I took a few angels from the tree and have to finish that one up...we are almost done. I have one or two things to order yet off the Internet and then I will be done! OH yeah, have to pick up some Australian Port for my dad! It was 75 here yesterday and will be over 80 today, this is criminal this late in the year. Hard for paintings to dry with the high humidity rates. We still have some trees to dig up and relocate on our patch of an acre ...and need to finish cleaning out th e front flower beds. SLOWLY I remind myself, SLOWLY. Charlene and I were talking about the KISS method...hubby says it means KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID...but in my classroom it always meant KEEP IT SIMPLE SWEETIE!!! I try to do that with my art and my life, but kids seem to keep mucking it up in my life! The painting above is second in a series of winter white backgrounds with...

MEDITATION 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A day Click here to buy this one! GOOD MORNING WORLD>... gee I slept 10 hours last night...still battling what ever we have, but I feel more rested with the sinus headache and chills! LOL This is a piece I painted on Saturday when I was on the phone visiting Sue. Good Morning Sue! It is lush and thick with paint and something you can sit and stare into for hours and loose yourself with in...never seeing the same thing as you look. The colors dance and swim before your eyes creating patterns and pleasure! Today is packing and shipping. Many pieces are being wrapped for Christmas and will be under trees. THAT is so exciting to me. A special good morning this morning to Marty and Kate...I especially hope they love their packages that are on the way...I think I am shipping five paintings? This fills me with love knowing these paintings are going into homes to become part of their lives everyday...what an honor!!! I am off to prepare...

COMMISSION PIECES Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day Hayden and Aspen Victoria Yesterday and today have been filled with caring for my husband who seems to be pretty ill...not sure what it is beyond fever and aches.... I think I might have it now. I finished up these paintings yesterday and today started two others which I will post one up tomorrow morning. I don't think the light is right on Victoria's portrait...but I had such fun doing these! Hope everyone is surviving the long holiday better than we are.! A friend, Charlene, sent me these words: "God is my help in every need, God does my every hunger feed. God is my health, I can't be sick. God is my strength, unfailing quick. God is my all, I know no fear, Since God and Love and Truth are here." Hanah Kohaus's Prayer of Faith. Grace and good health to all, Laurie

Poetic Justus 22 X 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day BID HERE I grew up around Scottish Terriers, my mother bred and showed them. Litters of puppies each year were part of our lives...and these squatty characters were woven into the fabric of our family. Mom still has a retired show Scottie right now. Marilyn. Marilyn is deaf...really deaf. She likes my mom, but really likes my dad better. She will not respond when mom has her attention and she is outside and does not want to come in. There has been more than one time my mother has raced out in the backyard fearing Marilyn was dead because she was lying there (sometimes on her back) and not moving. She can hear hand claps..but ALWAYS choses to ignore mother's clap. Now, if Dad does it, she is up and Johnny on the Spot ready to come in. What a personality. Mom also has a Bouvier...a pup that is about 9 months old and is really big of course. Marilyn isn't exactly happy that Gracie is part of the household...but ...

Horse Three Sunset West 4 x 6 inches OSWOA Oil on Watercolor Paper A Painting a Day It is almost five this morning...are you as full of turkey as I am? My daughter and I were going to go shopping, but I think she decided to sleep in! She did a fabulous job with dinner yesterday...her pies were to die for. I shared with Niki last night that I could finally turn over my apron and retire from pie making. WOW! Justin arrived from NY in time for Turkey (Terry picked him up at the airport), and Morgan brought his friend Ron. Stacey had the table set for 10 hungry guests and dinner was excellent...everything made from scratch. If I snag the pie recipes out of her I will post them. Meanwhile painting continues...this is part of a western art series of OSWOA size, 4 X 6 collectible original oils. ACTION AND COLOR! Want to hit the easel quickly this morning, hope to go out later and look at treadmills. Could be leftover thoughts of eating too much yesterday, but it will be that or a...

LEAP OF FAITH 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A PAINTING A DAY Good Morning...Turkey day is here. I am trying to finish my book work and get to my easel this morning but was busy listing things for next week auctions so things are dry for shipping for the holidays. THIS GORGEOUS horse painting was energy the entire time I worked on it....painting to music sent to me by JC, I danced before the easel feeling as if I was dancing around this spirited pony. Leap of Faith is what I titled it. Sometimes in life we have to make a LEAP OF FAITH. I believe this is by far one of the most difficult things to do for most of us because we like to be in control....my friends, it is time to let go and heck, be out of control. Celebrate this day...a day of thanksgiving and rejoice and dance and be thankful for life, family, friends, food and the abundance God provides in our lives. Yesterday as I worked, I was greeted by Trina coming to paint with her little boy Kieran (first grade) and baby sister (...

Pansy Blooms 16 X 20 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning Wednesday. It took me awhile to get here this morning...been catching up on emails and think I have now fried my husband's computer...that is two in less than a week... I think I need to go buy the mac I want....comments??? The painting posted today is soooo very thick with paint...piled in layers to create this. I love the contrast of red and green in deep shades. It evolved with balance of colors and it hangs with a pleasantry to it....shape, balance, form and color binding together in strength. Today is major painting day, but I do have a turkey in the oven. We will eat at our daughters and she is making turkey...but we wouldn't have left overs for those marvelous HUGE turkey sandwiches or turkey soup from the last scrapes!!! So I bought a free range turkey at Whole Foods yesterday and popped it in the oven at four this morning with the thermometer inserted and the oven at 275 to cook slowly!!! Trina...

GATHERING THREE 30x40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day With every "Gathering" I paint, I encounter new friends and new color combinations! This one I adore the brown horse on the left midway up...he has an enormous amount of personality. The red/orange horse on the right side is an eye catcher, but very insecure, you can tell by the look in the eye. The dark brown on the bottom left, he is a character looking for something to get into. It is indeed a gathering of color, of shape, of texture, THICK PAINT and a delightful addition to any home! You can contact me if you are interested. This painting will be listing on auction in the next few days. Today is house cleaning and the switching of my acupressure balls on my ears.... I will reflect more on this after another week of treatment...I can't believe how many positive changes I have had this past week...both in my energy level, my sinus issues totally clearing, and I sleep like a log! Grace to all, Laurie Fo...

Time to Make Cookies 5 X 7 inches Oil on Board A Painting a Day This was fun! Really fun. I used to do a series of Pantry items, and I may have to jump back in there! Click here to bid on live auction through the Sat after Thanksgiving. FUN Christmas/Holiday gifts will be listing all through the next Thirty days! Yesterday I was up early and painted and still made the seven a.m. blowout at JCPenny's with my daughter. She had adopted seniors off a senior Christmas tree and wanted to shop for all four of them...and we did. I also picked up a couple gifts and rugs for my bathroom and the guest bathroom. It was a new store that just opened, so it was stocked well and of course not crowded at seven in the morning. After that I was home painting until after five yesterday. Hoping to see our youngest son here later and Computer guru Mark to help with the transfer of mess to another computer...unless he can figure out how to break down the C divider in my hard drive. Partition Ma...