Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

CONTRAST SPIRIT Horse 24 X 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Playing with contrast yesterday I worked on this beauty...and she is gorgeous in real life. I am not sure the photo does her justice. Mixing scarlet , Alazarin Crimson and yellow I found the bright crisp burnt orange and as I began working the horse and her face I knew the background would be in turquoise, horizon blue and cobalt....further contrast occurs with mauve and lime green....it was enriching to paint and amazing to watch as the colors began to play off of each other! Today is painting again. I have sold the Iris I posted yesterday. It is hanging in my dining room right now drying out...we still have wet damp COLD weather and more ice for tomorrow. I am not accustomed to this, but we need the moisture. One nearby lake was down 19 ft from normal...and it gained 5 ft in the past week....that is how bad the drought is here. Large cities are still on water rationing in the middle of winter. Well, my paints are

Iris One 2007 Iris Blooming Flowers 30 x 30 inches oil on canvas A Painting a Day SOLD SOLD SOLD off this daily blog! Yesterday I had such joy painting this piece. I have a collector named Iris, and she has been under the weather. I had PRAISE songs playing on the computer and painted away for hours on this beauty. I had trouble getting the light correct though for the photo in the studio..we have snow on the ground, but it will melt today! This is a smooth impressionistic piece of a gorgeous iris in full bloom. More to come. I have spent the morning doing INCOME TAX stuff...ugh ugh ugh... and now I am ready to paint!!! Watch out...it is coming. Laurie “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, ‘The Lord is king!’” —1 Chronicles 16:31

Full Blooms Red Poppies 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting a Day Good morning. It is Wednesday very early and snow is falling outside my studio window...checked the clock, it is 4:23 a.m. Terry is off to work and took my car this morning....the TDI Passat . Left me with MR. BIG DODGE TRUCK. I won't go anywhere because the back end likes to slip around in the wet and ice...so I will paint paint paint this morning. This painting...words escapes me! It is a large pot of blooming poppies painted from a picture of real red poppies in the pot. Known for their spindly stems and crimson blooms, I placed them on a contrasting background of Marigold. Traditional subject meets my palette knife...and it works. Today I am leaning toward some color and the knife and another rainy day poppy. I know I will sketch out horses as well...Wednesday is usually a good painting day because I have taken two days off out of the studio and I am eager to paint! Grace to all. Laurie “Cast your burd

Seven on the Horizon Wild Horses 18 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas A Painting A Day IT is burrr cold and icy everywhere...Yesterday was filled with too many snack foods and a bit of dreariness with the heavy clouds and icy streets! But we stayed warm and I took a break from the studio...I did not paint and that is unusual for me! This is one I finished and just listed...a palette knife pulled painting with horses emerging from the color. It is an absolute delight to hang with all the colors and movement. Your eyes never tire of finding new things in the composition! Happy Week to all as you get it underway! Packing and shipping fill the next two days for me, but I hope to hit the canvas this afternoon after my grandson leaves! Grace to you. Laurie “Let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever.” —Psalm 40:11

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