Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

PRECIOUS MOMENTS ~ Child and Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 inches Oil on Linen Panel Contact me to purchase. Click here . SOLD today on Daily Painters! Thank you. This was the second trial painting on the new linen board. I plan to do another painting of this picture. It came from a collector and I promised to paint it. This will serve as a prepaint. I just sat and painted. No drawing first. I call that being open to create and not bounded by line. Space is all mine. You can do that with God. Be open to divine guidance...be freely floating in His light and love. I am off to paint this morning with a full morning ahead...and a full afternoon. Shalom, Laurie “Then I said, ‘Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.’”—Psalm 40:7-8

16 Roses Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 on Linen Panel SOLD ON DAILY PAINTERS! THANK YOU!! This painting is very similar to the one I painted in celebration of my mom's birthday last summer. I purchased some new linen panels from Ray Mar art and I wanted to try them out. Today's post and tomorrows will be on the panels. I absolutely LOVE them. The paint moves differently .... I think I am going to like it. This would make a delightful gift for someone, email me! Well, I have the movers scheduled...now I need to pack and in between keep painting. Moving a family and a houseful of belongings is one thing, but adding a full art studio, a huge printer and all my stock of canvas, paints etc...well that is a different story. Trying to keep harmony in your life during a move is a challenge. Trying to remember WHAT you have to update and change is a pain. My youngest son fell off a roof yesterday. He was working hanging Christmas lights and went down over 35 feet. He

ORIGINAL THREE ~ Abstract Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home Click here to contact me to purchase this painting or talk about commission work. Friday dawns and by noon we will know if we will have new house. We were accepted for our contract offer on the modern house that Stacey found for us, but it is an AS IS price. We have Butch, our super star inspector hitting the place at nine this morning. As long as it is stable we will go ahead with the purchase. Should be moved in by the second weekend in December. This is the front of the house. This is an enclosed patio area with skylights across it. It is heated and cooled. I think they called it a Florida Room! I call it a painting room. The Light is FABULOUS. This is the dining room with a side look into that same Florida room... This is the master bath dressing area...with circular stairs up to another painting area...a loft that over looks that same Florida

MEDITERRANEAN MORNING ~ Landscape by Laurie Justus Pace 6 x 24 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home Contact me for commissions or pricing. Click here. SOLD ON DAILY PAINTERS! Thank you. This is a tall thin painting waiting for the perfect spot in your home! Thick ridge paint offers the touch of impressionism on steroids. We are hoping today to know what house will be ours. We are working two contracts with much prayer. One is a large five bedroom with a pretty nice painting area and lovely flowerbeds and gardens. The second came up late yesterday and we scrambled through traffic to cross Dallas to see it. It is a contemporary modern home of the late fifties, early sixties. Round rock walls and unique classic lines. Not much yard but enough for the dogs. It is in a sought after area and we knew if we didn't get over there and offer a contract there would be no chance of it. We left here and thirty minutes into our one hour journey the Realtor ph

MAKE OVER ~ Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas Contemporary Art for your Home Wednesday morning is dawning and I am ready to tear into my canvas. This will be a short blog most likely. Not even sure where I am going with this today. This painting had a make over. It was an acrylic and not real lively in color, so we had a major make over on Saturday. It is HUGE....30 x 40 inches of life and movement. Contact me if you would like it in your home. I will make a good price on this one! Yesterday I encouraged to fill your day and life with Joy. Today I want you to appreciate abundance...what is abundant in your life? (No you cannot count your problems...count your blessings.) Abundance in my life is the love of my husband and family. Abundance in my life would be the gift of my art. Abundance is the world around me provided freely by my Lord. Your blessings, joys and inspirations that make up your abundance are all part of His plan in your life. None

The Gathering Two 24 x 36 inches SOLD This was the first painting I did last year in my Gathering Series last year. I will be working on a new one this week. I am unable to post a NEW painting today as I am on laptop and not my big computer. I will encourage you today to have a joy filled heart no matter what is happening around you. The Lord provides JOY to us totally FREE!@!! No strings attached, only an attitude adjustment is needed. When Terry and I got married I used the idea of the attitude adjustment. In my art classes I had a large sun hat decorated with little tassels and soft balls fringing off the edges...bright flowers attached, feathers etc. If a student was stumped or uncreative they could opt to wear the hat. You would be amazed at how fast they lightened their day and their direction often producing some of their best artwork. Well, with Terry I didn't wear a hat, but someone had given me a beautiful black nightgown at a shower before our wedding. I saved it

RED BIRD MORNING ~ Bird Art by Laurie Justus Pace 4 x 6 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home SOLD Monday is here but dawn has not arrived. I awoke with a painting in my mind so I am rushing through my blog to paint paint paint. BUT today is truly packing and shipping and going into Dallas to house hunt again! I am hoping we can secure the contract down on the house we have put a bid on, but we will see. It is in the hands of the Lord! This sweet female redbird is delightful in color. It reflects the turning leaves outside. I snapped the photo I used from my own backyard. (Trees at the new house is a must...I love seeing the Lord's birds in my backyard!) A friend wrote me after reading my blog asking if I was Jewish because I used the term, SHALOM. I am not Jewish. I am Christian, a practicing Methodist/Episcopalian/Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ background! On the internet on Wikkipedia it says: Shalom ( שָׁלוֹם ) is a Hebrew word m

Passion RED ~ Flower Art by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home CONTACT ME FOR PRICING AND COMMISSION WORK. It is already light this morning. I almost slept through and am still struggling to keep my eyes open. I actually did a commission piece like this one this week and painted one to sell I liked the first one so much. Smooth buttery oils in brilliant red. Very stimulating. Spent the day yesterday house hunting. Found only one but it is in a Neighborhood of the Cookie Cutters...but it does have a huge area to paint in and a four car garage. It is also new, but not in the area we would have chosen first. We received back the house inspection on the house we really like in the Dallas area and it has some pretty complicated issues which makes it truly hard to decide whether to take it on or not. I am praying Lord, I can't read these Detour signs, I need them in English. When we got in last night it was late. Probably cl

JACKSON HOLE TWO ~ Abstract Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 inches Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home Saturday dawns but this body has been up for four hours. I was working on the book I started three years ago. Actually there are three books done and I am doing my reviewing and rewriting. Once we are moved I will be blogging parts of it to you but will let you know where and when at a later date. This painting is an acrylic painting with the combo of using TAR with the paint to create a thick substance. This is used in the mane and the tail and surrounding the horse with color. Today I am shooting my kids. Yeah, that is what I said, SHOOTING THEM! With my camera. They are heading down to Nacogdoches to celebrate their grandfather's 90th birthday and I am doing some pictures of them together and will make prints on the big printer. Hopefully Stacey will get it framed! MAYBE I will post it tomorrow for you to see my grown angels. THEN I am h

2007 Hills One Fall Colors~ Abstract Landscape by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home Contact me for pricing or for a similar commission piece for your home. I have painted HILLS up to 3 ft by 4 ft. CLICK here to email me. This is part of my HILLS Series. I did a few last year. They bring a calm balance to your mind when you stare at them.... you might use it for meditating! Somehow the temps have crept back up outside, but the day seems to hold a note of change. I can't seem to identify it, just a feeling deep with in of excitement. Too bad we can't greet everyday with such wonder and positive thoughts. Maybe it was the hot shower that woke my cells with in this morning. Maybe it was the steam that cleared my head from sleep....what ever it was I feel uplifted and rested and anticipating good from the day. Believe me, not every day starts this way, but it should. Meditating this morning brought a calmness and a chee

HAUNTED REDS ONE ~ Abstract Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home SOLD SOLD SOLD on Daily Painters! Thank you! Contact me for pricing or commission work. G raphics O ne D esign I promised the second half today and here it is! Continuation of blues and deep rich reds contrasted with the solid yellow golds. Isn't that what our life is like? Think about all the energy in your life. Some is positive and some is negative. Our own frame of mind dictates how we view what is happening around us and to us. Have you ever taken care of someone that was sick and very grumbly? No matter what you did to help them or make them comfortable they spewed out biting words or complaints non stop. Man is not with out emotion. God made us in His image, so God is not with out emotion either. I am sure his heart cries when we run off on tangents that are self destructive. He wants the best for us and that is what he provides.

Haunted Reds Two ~ Equine Horse Abstract Art by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas Contemporary Art for your Home. SOLD SOLD SOLD on Daily Painters! Thank you! There are two paintings in this series and they would look wonderful bought and hung together. The bottom pictures shows them hung together. The colors literally run from one to the other engaging and blending. This is one of my favorite approaches to painting! Tomorrow I will post the second half of this series. Haunted Reds Two. We were at Fed Ex yesterday visiting with Pam as I shipped things out. We were talking about balance in our lives. God provides so much for us all the time. BUT, do you hear yourself when you are tired....if something is not wrong with things in the house, it is your spouse that is not fixing them; or your neighbor has left things out you don't want to see; or something is off with one of your children, and if it is not your children it is your parents; Or something is happening