Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

BIRD AND BUFFALO By Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas For the show in Jackson but it is available if you like it, contact me : Laurie Terry and I worked in our little mini garden until the mosquitoes threatened to pick us up and haul us away. He grilled sausages and hamburgers out on the grill last night and I prepared fresh Corn on the cob and potatoes to eat with it. We will have leftovers tonight. Makes it easier to cook once for two days. The heat outside is worse than the norm for Dallas right now. This is more like July. Our lives are busy with helping my parents with things at their home coming up this week, along with painting and keeping up with life's responsibilities. One of my new prayer requests lately is for our home to be filled with Joy. Do you have JOY in your life right now? It starts with you. Joy grows out of faith, grace, gratitude, hope and love. It is the pure and simple delight of being alive. Joy is a response we have to feelings of hap

Spirit of Fire Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 40 inches Oil on Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas Available at my Show opening July 12th The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole, Wyoming Contact me to purchase or if you are interested in commission work. Laurie I am itching to paint, but still scrambling with LULU.com on the new book. I had the cover too large and had to rebuild it this morning. I hope to have this all completed in the next three hours and I desperately need to paint. Paint for my sanity! We went yesterday to buy new pillows and came home purchasing not just new pillows but a new mattress too. Svon mattress and pillows. Very interesting experience and the bed is actually built after you buy it. We only buy mattresses every 8-10 years, and I figure it is a worthwhile purchase if we sleep better. This does not have the traditional box springs. I was VERY impressed with their system. When I lay on the individual beds trying them out yesterday, I laid still closing my eye

He's The Baby Cow Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 inches Contact me for information and mention the title of the painting. Laurie Busy Tuesday for us. FEDEX run as well as grocery shopping. Terry boxed yesterday and I started cleaning house...maybe I will finish today! We did get clean sheets on the bed last night and that always feels good. Today I will do the rest of the wash and finish up the house. Surprises yesterday arrived, some beautiful crystal dessert bowls from a dear friend. They arrived safely all the way from Australia. I was not expecting them and it is so fun to get unexpected surprises in the mail. I finished the book that Carol and I have been working on. The name of the show in Jackson is CROSSING PATHS. Carol and I have an ad coming out for the August issue of American Art Collectors. I also ran a half page ad for July too! It is below: My thoughts today run to not only forgiving people in your life that YOU think did a wrong thing to you or

THROUGH THE COLOR Horse Abstract Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches Contact me to purchase and please mention title of painting: Laurie If you are not into deep thought, stop reading this blog right now....I had a lot on my mind last night when I went to bed. After about an hour, I finally let it go, so I could go to sleep. There is so much prep work for the show in Jackson Hole. I have only one more page to complete in the book I am doing with artist Carol Spielman . Sixty some odd pages of FABULOUS artwork. I will hyperlink her name so you can see her work too. Read on with care as I try to express something from deep in my heart. When thinking about the bible verse I posted below it was easy to think about living the straight and narrow. Not making bad choices; living clean and not doing wrong. Then as I sat and reflected about it I decided it goes so much deeper. Destruction. We seem to destroy ourselves. Others do not have to do it for us. We are usually hard

APPALOOSA THREE Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 36 x 36 x 2 inches $3500 Contact me for Information on this painting. Laurie July 12th is my opening show in Jackson Wyoming at the Rare Gallery. If you are in the vicinity I hope you will come! This is one of the pieces I have completed for the show. My original Appy painting lives in Australia and it has been so popular with my posters I decided to paint her a second time in my current style. An artist style evolves over time as they paint. Small strokes change with applied pressure and things just change. Natural evolution in our lives is aging. The world is aging, we are aging; it is all part of the cycle of life that God created in our world. Think of the short span of flowers...as they bud, open and bloom and linger for a short time before they wither on the vine. Trees have a longer life. They start out small and grow tall and spread beautiful canopies of shade for us. They live for years some hundreds of years,

LADY C Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 48 x 72 inches Mixed Media, Acrylic Glazing SOLD Commission Contact me for Commission work: Laurie In the midst of busy studio life I completed the layering on this commission painting. The size is 48 by 72 inches. (4 ft by 6 ft) I did a smaller one earlier this week to see how I liked working with the layers and glazing and it was definitely different. This particular piece does not have the music in the background, but has Lady Chatterly's Lover page by page. Personally I would have like a nude stretched across it, but this family has small children so it was best to be a horse theme. If you really look at it you see the "HEART" or the heART with in. Combine the check of the large horse on the right and follow the heart shaped into neckline and shoulder of the running horse. This was not planned at all, it happened as I worked and I saw it as I was glazing it during the final layers. That is one of God's inputs I a

A Pair of Cows Farm Animal Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches of Thick Oil Paint. Contact me for information: Laurie We completed our Medications class and only have one more class to renew for our Foster License. We saw some of the couples last night that were in our classes a year ago, also renewing their license with updating classes. She had given birth to a baby 8 months ago and had her little one with her. I am thinking they had three other children at home and they are doing fostering. She laughed and said they were licensed 5 weeks ago and they were called with in hours to take a brand new infant from the hospital. SO she has a new baby at home along with her four! THAT is not what we will do! We will offer respite care to foster homes that need it as well as foster adopt a teenager. God is in control on this one and you better believe Terry and I are walking on the water with Jesus with this one! There are moments of pure panic, WHAT ARE WE DOING??? The

Primary Colors Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 inches Acrylic on Canvas Contact me for information: Laurie Quick post and out the door to see and take pictures at the house that has the large paintings in. I will try and take pictures of the paintings. I exploded on the painting above with all the primary colors. It seems a bit raw, bright and edgy but it got some energy out of my system. Sometimes you have to break what you normally do and do something else! This was it. Know you rest in God's care today and release what you can to him. Drop that worry and let yourself rest in His peace. Give a smile to those your work with today and let your light brighten their day. Grace, Laurie “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11

First Recital Acrylic Mixed Media Collage Piano and Child by Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches Contact me to Purchase and mention the title of the painting. Laurie I do believe my daughter starts her day with my blog and goes into a panic mode when it is not up by seven a.m. I was busy again. I was watering plants in my garden room, sketching out paintings to work on this week, making a list for what has to be completed by my July 12th show in Jackson Wyoming at the Rare Gallery, checking for airline reservations, hotel reservations etc etc etc. BUT meanwhile I had been layering and working on the painting posted. It is a new trial and error thing with glazing over old music from great granddaddy Haskell. This particular music was marked 1909 with renewal in 1936. Pretty old music I might say. I chose the Song HAPPY BIRTHDAY, but not the one you are thinking of. This was for Mrs. Corinne Rider-Kelsey. I guess back then they hyphenated names too. The music was written by R Hunting

WAITING TO EAT Cow painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches of COLOR OIL SOLD THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING DAILY PAINTERS!! I am late with this blog. I was out with my mom on appts and had at least five phone calls from various friends worried that I had not blogged yet this morning! We are all well, I am just going three directions at once and been up ginning around since five this morning. May His Grace keep you today! More tomorrow with time. Laurie “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1

YELLOW FLOWERS by Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase and include name of painting. Laurie A very quick blog as we tend to last minute things around the house. I will try and take pictures as we finish up. Terry has the gate done in the backyard. He and Morgan will move the boat this morning so it is not sitting in the middle of the back yard. The extra boat pieces will be stored next to the side of the house. He has the horrible itch to get a second boat trailer for the second boat but I suggested a storage area when he said that. He then said, I have a back yard, and I said...you need lawyer first. I do not think I am over sensitive to TWO huge sailboats taking over the entire backyard. I am on a mission to find out more about Alzheimer Trained Dogs. I now know they exist. I found the first one was trained in Israel. There are a few here in the states, but not many. This is a void that must be filled. With the growing number of Alzheimer

Brilliance of Summer Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 15 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase. Laurie I am aching from work yesterday... one day at a time. Today will be even harder with house work today preparing for one more inspection for our Foster Adopt license to be completed at the new house! Terry is working on the gate for the fence in the backyard and trying to clean up the mess out there. I have the house to contend with following the week of painters and window people. TO work to work! As I take a moment to pause and realize GOD is in control. God is present all around me and He is keeping me safe, even from myself and over working today. Where ever I am, God is. This truth of this will sustain me through this day and every day! No matter where I am I know this. Scrubbing the tub, walking the dog, driving to the store...God is always with me. His presence is with you right now. Grace, Laurie "Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his presence con