Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

JAMBO ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas COMMISSION PIECE SOLD Jambo is a Canadian horse. I could tell from the pictures he has an attitude, but it seems to me although he is assertive in his mannerisms, he is loving and kind on the flip side. He is a powerful playful horse and I hope I captured it. His owner is as adventurous as his horse and I think they must be well matched. Had it not been Thanksgiving time and me in a move, I might have flown up to meet this horse before painting him. Yes we ate much yesterday at Stacey's. She and Larry out did themselves and Morgan and Hillary helped in food prep arriving early in the morning. By the time I arrived everything was completed but Larry's roasted vegetables. Stacey made pies pies pies...yum. There were 16 of us there yesterday. Tom brought his contribution of bacon wrapped goodies that disappeared with in minutes of his arrival. In the midst of celebration

ORANGE POPPIES by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD! 30 x 30 inches Gallery Wrapped Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home. Thanksgiving dawns. I will be finishing up some commission horses headed for Smitty's Restaurant in Canada. I did a wonderful image of the owner's Black Beauty yesterday. Haven't taken pictures of it yet, but will try and post it this week. Today I will be working on a 30 x 40 inch for the main part of the restaurant of a happy horse in the sun. Sunny side up you might say! It is cold here this morning. Stacey Beth, my daughter, is handling all the food prep at her house for Thanksgiving. I will paint all morning, then clean up and join the crowd. I think there will be 16 eating at the table. ah, two tables! So today I will be thankful for so much...family, friends, health, home, our community, our church, our country, our leaders, our troops here and away from home and most of all to our Father that has given all this to us. He is truly the reason for th

FIVE TRUE ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas SOLD on Daily Painters! Thank you! Contemporary Art for the home. Wednesday finds a turkey in the oven. We are eating at Stacey Beth's tomorrow but she has a crowd coming and we would have ZERO leftovers, so I normally fix on Wednesday for Terry and I to have left overs for the next few days! He is coming home and making CHILI too! It is going to be cold shortly . Seventy degrees right now and hopefully falling soon! Tom are you ready to eat tomorrow? Can't wait to hug your neck. Charlene I wish you were here. We would share a glass of wine and many laughs and hugs. Niki I hope you have arrived in NY safely. Give my best to Helen and Joe. Jan, I know you will be neck deep in family, enjoy them all. Kathy, I share my deepest prayers with you today. I know not what your group is doing, but I know you will be serving those around you. Yesterday I began packing up referen

ROAMING TWO ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas Contemporary Art for the Home. Contact me for pricing or commission work. Click here. It is Tuesday and I slept in! Niki called at six thirty and I jumped out of bed to get the phone. She is on her way north for Thanksgiving. Morgan just arrived and he will be doing office stuff for me today as I paint and pack. The painting I just posted is a second piece to the one from yesterday. They would work separate or together! We visit our new home to be yesterday, spending about three hours there. I am eager in anticipation. The trees are thick and the pecan tree in the front yard has the paper shell covers to them. They are good. Terry and stood there and feasted on some we gathered from the yard. Much to do! Embrace your day today and know you are a child of God. He is the Father that will care for you. Climb into his love and protection and feel his warmth and light fill you

ROAMING ONE ~ Abstract Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Art for your Home. Click here to contact me on prices or commission work. Laurie Pace Once again I pulled two canvas on each of my easels and painted a second composition of the abstract horses on color fields. The first two I posted on my blog left to live in Marble Falls Texas. They will arrive at their new home on Wednesday. Today I am posting Roaming ONE and tomorrow I will post Roaming Two. They can be owned separately or together if someone wants lively color across the room! Monday dawns and the sun is already peaking over the horizon. I slept in until six thirty. Very unusual. I am blogging, then feeding my dogs, maybe walking the dogs and then painting for a few hours before we head into FEDEX and then Dallas to go measure at the new house. The rest of the day will be filled with Whole Foods and eating of course. Tom mentioned that I always tend to m

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