Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Bursting Out HORSE 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day GOOD COLD EVENING TO ALL!!!! amidst the sleet, ice and rain.... I did paint. GLORIOUS color splashed across the canvas and emotions Burst OUT!...you can almost feel the muscles moving on this stallion! A collector saw a preview picture and has already bought this beauty so he is drying and awaiting his trip north! My grandson is here visiting and I have spent the majority of the day playing CLUE. Do you remember that game? Oh what fun. We even played some GIN and he is now playing Chess with his grandfather, THE BAMPA. Yes, he named us, and I am the MUM. He is our one and only and rather spoiled since we raised him six of his nine years here on this earth! It was a gift from God to have him apart of our family so close. After his dad moved to NYC last year, his mom took physical custody and basically has refused us the ability to see him, so when he is here it is cherished time. Funny how some folks say one thing

Poppy Morning 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Click here to bid. Good morning from Texas! CLOUDY SKIES....WIND out of the south blowing 45 mph...and a cold front trying to push through....it really gets my bio system flipping around! I will be painting in the studio this morning and cleaning house and doing wash! This smooth creamy composition was completed in studio yesterday. It is from the angle of falling asleep in a field of poppies and what you might see as you wake up! Light filtering in between the tall blooms on their spindling stems...thick and lush! Have a safe weekend.... Justin is in from NYC and will be moving back to Texas the end of January. He and Morgan are apt hunting. ( I do not think this is a good idea...they couldn't live in peace as children, not sure what they are thinking as adults) We get to see our grandson Jonathan this weekend as well and I am DOUBLY excited about that! Grace to each of you, Laurie “Our heart is glad in him, because w

SPRING WALK OSWOA 6 X 4 Watercolor A Painting a Day Memories of my husband and I when we were young! I have known him most of my life. A simple watercolor done in the OSWOA size with a quick sketch and addition of fast color to keep it all fresh. Grace to all, Laurie “And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”—Mark 4:20

Molly the Horse OSWOA 6 x 4 inch Watercolor A Painting a Day End of day and worn out...more conversation tomorrow... This is Molly the horse down the street! Perfect model for OSWOA painting. grace, Laurie

Early Spring Snow 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day What a joy to paint this piece! It speaks of that time between spring and winter...where the earth seems not to be in balance, but only to our human lives...not to mother earth. This piece captures horses in motion with snow on the ground partially melted and a bit of blue sky hinting of the turning weather. Grace to you all...today is Monday and Packing day! Laurie “For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.” —Isaiah 61:11

Gathering Flowers at the Sea Shore 8 x 10 inches Oil on Board A Painting a Day Just a hurried note. We drove to Gainesville this afternoon and visited a beautiful old home built in 1896. Was very impressed by the hard work that had restored this home to such a nice state. I painted early this morning, and son Morgan was over painting as well. Tomorrow is packing and shipping for my work to be mailed. This painting is an oil on board...very whimsical and impromptu and definitely a painting a day. Grace, Laurie

Crossing Over Horses Oil on Canvas 22 x 28 inches A Painting a Day Good Saturday Morning! Our weird Texas weather continues HOT and COLD all in one day yesterday...mostly cold though, but I fear this leaves the major populous in the schools and work places closer to the flu. This painting plays with contrast of midline values. I believe the next one I will work with a similar pull and add a bit more of a contrast in with a complimentary diagonal. Again I mixed Impasto with the paint. The Holbein oils are very rich and creamy and adding the impasto to this creates an exciting thickness which reminds me of icing cakes! Kelly Williams, a collector from Dallas, that purchased Celebrating Life before it went to auction, came by yesterday to pick up the work and was again astonished (his second piece) by the piece in person. Evidently the photographs of my work cannot seem to capture the thick paint and the edging that occurs, the surfaces that build around bone structure in the faces or t

Pushing On HORSES 24 X 24 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning from the studio...FOG is very thick outside. BUT I am painting inside. This one is on auction this week. I painted it last weekend. Three horses on their journey are captured in a split second of light flashing through the woods they travel. Yesterday in art class we began a four week study of telling stories through painting and work. We looked at works of Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, Donna Howell Sickles, Morgan Weistling and a few others, and from each piece we investigated the story the painting was telling. We discussed how some pieces leave blanks in the story that your eye and your imagination has to fill in and some give you every detail you could imagine capturing your mind to look further for more. They then used pastel on paper and created a story about SPRING. We covered words for spring, things they do in the spring, holidays in the spring, and colors associated with spring. Outcome was thunderst

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