Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Gathering Three Two Commission Painting Horses 30 X 40 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day This painting will live in Florida with Gathering Three. It is entitled Gathering Tree Two because of the desire of the collector to have a second painting to hang in the room with the first one! Raining here, yeah....and my classes start back today. It is always exciting planning all the new lessons for the semester for the students. We will study many current day artists this semester with many of our projects. Grace to all!!!! Laurie “I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being.”—Ephesians 3:16

COLORS TWO HORSES THREE Horses 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day The joy in painting is truly expressed in this unique trio of horses. Part of my COLOR series, one can be lost in the creamy blends of hues through out this painting. Don't know about you guys, but I am knee deep in files and bookkeeping preparing my 'STUFF" for taxes! UGH...meanwhile painting brings a smile to my face and buries the work behind me! Terry fixed my broken file cabinet last night so I feel like I can function again! YEAH! Take care and stay warm! Grace, Laurie OHHH . Daily Word was truly a good reading this morning so I have to share it all!!! Daily Word — Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Nonresistance Trusting in God, I am blessed throughout my journey of life. When I read a book, I understand the events characters encounter were conceived by the author with a purpose in mind. Reading the book, I am going along for the ride and seeing where the journey leads. It’s easy to ha

Ricky and Lucy Scottish Terriers Commission Painting 22 X 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Just finished this lovely piece of two beautiful Scotties! I continue to do dogs for Scottie Kingdom Rescue in the Dallas area. They rescue dogs from several states but are located in east Dallas. My family has a long history with lots of love and dogs attached to the Dallas Scottish Terrier Club and they use a logo I designed when I was in high school! Hope your new year is going great already! Grace, Laurie

Celebrating Life Horse 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day HAPPY NEW YEAR SOLD 1/02/2007 Grace, Laurie Daily Word — Monday, January 1, 2007 My Year This new year marks a fresh start for me. I begin this new year realizing that nothing can separate me from God’s presence in this moment or at any other time. The presence of God is within me always. Working with this holy presence, I cocreate my life in fresh, new ways. In contemplative prayer, I honor my past and its lessons and I release negative feelings and attitudes based on the past. I take action this day, this year, to change habits or practices that do not serve me, knowing that God’s spirit expressing through me is greater than any habit. I trust God within to guide me in cocreation, to inspire me with new ways of thinking, acting, and speaking. This awareness ensures that, in every needed way, the new year marks a fresh start for me. “Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in the same year reaped a

Three at Sunrise Horses 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day CLICK HERE TO BID ALMOST happy new year!!! We are going to go to the Meadows Museum in Dallas near SMU today to see the Monet exhibit ...I think they are several other artists, but Hubby didn't share the whos who at the show....I think my parents will go with us! MEANWHILE...I just finished this energetic painting above and it is already on eBay. It is Holbein Duo Oils mixed with IMPASTO to create a THICKER body of paint for the palette knife to move on the canvas. Stay safe tonight! Don't party so hard you get a headache and do not drink and drive. Grace, Laurie “The promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.”—Psalm 18:30

Colors One Horses Five 22 x 28 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day CLICK HERE TO BID Good morning from the studio. I have been up painting for three hours now! My stomach is growling so I decided it was time to take a break...if it lets up raining I will walk the dogs, if not, I put leashes on them one at a time and do circles inside the house...the other follows along...they have fun and at least I get some exercise. This painting is using the impasto mixed into the oil paint creating an even thicker pull with the paint leaving defined edges through out the composition. The colors are bright and vivid. I have been so busy this year I haven't caught up and really not ready to jump into 2007. By this time I normally have all my files pulled and ready for the CPA except for the last day or so...but with New Years eve on a Sunday, my year stops then and I have paintings ending on eBay this weekend, so I have to wait. Need to go buy the macho big container I have to store all the

Wild Yellow Trio One HORSE HORSE HORSE 24 X 24 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day This is the third in this group painted for the New Year...in celebration of life, light and color...all energy with all things in the universe! Today I will paint and explore a bit more color and energy! Grace to all, Laurie “Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made.”—Romans 1:20

Wild Blue Trio One Horse Horse Horse 24 x 24 inch Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day This is the second in the series of three...thick paint with a palette knife...startling colors and a great painting over all! Busy back in the studio today. Have to run up to Pilot Point to pick up a painting in a shop there that sold and Sunday will deliver it to Dallas. We will eat at a FABULOUS Mexican Restaurant there...good excuse to go to Pilot Point! Need to walk somewhere in between. Grace to all, Laurie

Wild Red Trio One HORSE HORSE HORSE 24 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Fabulous colors for the new year... there is this one, a yellow one and a blue one. I will post one each day. They are 24 X 24 and thick with paint, dimensional with ridges and strokes of the palette knife! The day after Christmas will be filled with packing up paintings and heading to FED EX...at least the lines should not be too long! Happy Holidays Laurie

BASKET WEAVER IN GREECE Landscape, portrait 9 x 12 inches Oil on Board A Painting A Day RICH RICH THICK texture...click to see it piled on close up! Merry Christmas to one and all. Tomorrow is boxing day and I will paint again on Wednesday. I am STUFFED...ate too many big meals, visited too many places today and ate entirely too much... I am rolling my body into bed with a good book.... Grandson slept on the couch last night. He is 9. He wanted to catch Santa in Action. My husband and I fell asleep waiting for him to fall asleep...at 3 this morning, Terry, my husband, wakes me up..."WE GOTTA GET SANTA OUT into the stockings.." let's just say I wasn't my normal smiley self at all. We got back into bed about 3:30 and I had just fallen into a slumber and I heard soft knocking on our door..." BAMPA , MUM' whispers loudly erupted, "Are you awake, Santa has been here...the cookies are gone...yes we were eating choc cookies and downing milk at three....S

FARMERS MARKET Landscape 8 x 10 inches oil on canvas A Painting a Day Christmas Eve morning is upon us. I finished this painting up two days ago...I have one I am finishing up now but with the blogger switching over I am a day or so behind in posting. My thoughts are with all my family and friends over the next few days...I am taking a mini vacation from the studio until Wednesday. I may try and post a painting or two until then...but nothing more! Let the light of the season fill your soul so that you may in turn shine into the lives of others. God's richest blessings and love to you all. Laurie

City New Years Rain Cityscape 18 X 27 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning. I missed yesterday because I couldn't get BLOGGER to upload my images...so finally I switched to the NEW BLOGGER ( I was on a beta blogger) and it worked! YEAH!!!!! So a day behind it not bad! This is a peaceful~ restful painting...remember (although it is hard to in Texas) what it like after the rains come...and the sky is only partially cleared?? That is the moment this picture captures! You can feel the coolness in the air from the rain and the city appears Washed CLEAN! Painted with a palette knife and cool colors for a New Years ring to it! Scrambling still here and there for last minute shopping...just small things. We ate at a Mexican Restaurant in the Denton Mall and it was by far some of the WORSE food I have ever eaten and they were proud of that with their prices. As my grandson would say, YUCCA. Hopefully we get to see him tomorrow. We raised him with his dad for over four