Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

T HEN THERE WERE FIVE Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 inches Contact me with inquiries. Laurie Okay I am behind more before I even started this morning. OUR POWER has been out since eleven yesterday morning. JUST came back on. I have only a few hours to work before Dad comes to visit so this is a SHORT blog today! Terry and I did two and a half miles late yesterday so our walking continues. His dad joined us and then we went back to his place to visit and share memories. Always a pleasure. His dad is one of those light/joy passers and always leaves you feeling positive and uplifted when you leave his presence. Your worries and frustrations just melt away. He shared some cherished moments with us and made us chuckle. He lives in an apt condominium for the older folks and he was created a beautiful garden for the residents to sit in and enjoy. We were honored with a tour of the flowers and plants he is growing. The center is helping with benches strategically placed

RED FIRE Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches framed in wide gold frame. Contact me for inquiries: Laurie Can I say my feet hurt? I told Terry I had to get some exercise before we head to Jackson Hole for the show in July. Elevation is 6500 feet and we are at what maybe 200? So I started wearing my step counter and we did laps at North Park last night. Boy my feet hurt this morning! Must be time for new shoes. I started working on a commission painting yesterday but my time ended as Dad woke and I prepared breakfast for us. Then younger brother scooped him up to take him home to shower and change. Older Brother scooped him up to take him to the office. The rest of the day was spent checking on movers, painters, piano tuners and piano movers, getting both deals closed on the selling and buying end of their homes, getting mom settled in from the hospital as everyone left from house signing. (Many thanks to Janet Pendolph at Republic Title for her house call.) Runni

CALL OF THE WILD HORSES Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches The Rare Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming For inquiries: Laurie Dad is sawing logs in the next room. Bless his heart as he is pretty frazzled with Mom still in the hospital. He is a brave trooper. Yesterday morning as he drank his coffee sitting with me in the living room he said, "I feel like I am in the service again. I wake up in strange beds in strange places and have no idea what is on the other side of the door when I walk through it." Spoken with such dignity for an Alzheimer's patient. We are hoping mom is released today from the hospital, if not Dad will continue his stay here with us. Mom looked quite a bit better at the hospital yesterday. She is not very hungry though. The nurse walked in and said, "as soon as the IV is disconnected I need you up and walking and we need to see a productive bowl movement." The nurse disappeared as lunch appeared. As I lifted the cover

Inspired Back Nude Oil by Laurie Justus Pace Inspired by William Merritt Chase late 1800's 11 x 14 oil on Linen Panel Framed in beautiful ornate gold frame. Contact me for availability. This is heading to Jackson Hole for the July 12th opening. But it is available to purchase. Laurie What a busy Saturday! We did make our CPS Behavior Management Class. It was taught by Patricia Miller out of Euless, Texas. She was AWESEOME! Every parent should have to take a class from this woman. Her teachings are to the point on handling children. She is a way better personality than Dr Phil on teaching and engaging you into role playing and understanding the mind of the child. As we were in class I received a buzz from brother that mom was having emergency Gall Bladder removal. She came through the surgery fine and hopefully will come home today. She looked pretty rough still last night when we popped in for a five minute visit. Dad is here sleeping soundly (I hope for awhile). (I want to

White Pony Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 12 x 16 inches SOLD Thanks for Supporting Daily Painters! Our journey changes with in seconds. I know I wrote about predictability yesterday, and God's sense of humor NEVER ceases to amaze me. That is another fact, make a plan and you can hear God laughing. My parents are moving in less than a week. We have been busy packing up and downsizing their contents to move into a smaller home. I was there packing yesterday and Mom was not feeling her normal chipper at all. Long story short, a trip to the ER and admission into the hospital and she has severe gall stones. Let's see, closing on their house is Monday as is the purchase of the new house. Movers arrive on Friday. We have a lot to do. We need a lot of prayers. This is not a time for long reflections or my normal exchange. Need to get Dad going (he has Alzheimers) and off to my youngest brother. Terry and I have a CPS class today and time is already running short. Grace

VEILS UNDER THE STARS Contemporary Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase: Laurie Yes, this painting is not predictably something I would paint. Sometimes different is good. The paint is hugely thick with edges everywhere. Used a lot of paint for sure! Predictable. Are you a predictable person or are you more spontaneous? I can't help but wonder as we get older if we get more predictable. Some folks are predictable at age 2 and never change. Others you never know when or where they will show up and they are that way their entire lives. But on the average I am thinking most of us get more predictable as we get older. There is something about NO SURPRISES that keeps us over fifty living longer. I like new places and new things and meeting new people, but I predictably like sleeping in my own bed with my own pillows. I figure that is why the older generation is so fond of pulling those travel trailers behind their pickup trucks, or why th

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