Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Boy and Pig Oil on Canvas by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Linen Panel Contact me: Laurie This weekend I began a few more small oil studies for the My Buddy and Me Series that I started this year. This captures a little boy in his cowboy boots feeding a baby pig with a bottle. This reminds me of feeling of childhood. When you are a child you have such basic needs. As an infant you are held, fed, changed, talked to, played with and rocked. You know not the full implications of what lies ahead in life and if you did, you would have voted to stay in the warm womb floating around. Growing up is filled with responsibilities, disappointments, joys, self destruction, (Like others don't do it to us enough, we have to do it to ourselves.) relationships, and life in general both good and bad. (again according to your perception.) Sometimes I just get weary. Weary of taking care of so much in my life that I brought into it. I can only blame myself and no one else, but I am weary. Four times

HORIZON SPIRIT Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 27 inches To inquire: Laurie This painting was done following an early morning walk when the sun was just coming up. It is that moment that the gorgeous pinks are in the sky....Simplicity and color, thick paint and lots of JOY!!! Is there conflict in your life? Is it inner conflict or conflict with others? If you reduce it down even conflict with others starts with inner conflict. Each of us is battling something in side right now. It could be an unwanted habit, mine is eating too much sugar; an undesirable behavior or an old pattern in our lives? I know in my life there have been times that I felt detached and alone from my childhood family. The inner conflict of wanting to be apart of what you once knew as a family and the reality of them not wanting you to be apart is very painful. Blame in my mind flew both directions. It was a journey I had to take because it really boiled down to self acceptance for me. God mad

Appaloosa Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches To purchase please email me: Laurie Shalom Aleichem What is peace to you? If you sit and meditate, what do you conjure up in your eye's mind as peace? One of my favorites was the first time Terry took me sailing on the catamaran, (DART Catamaran) Morgan was with us. We were up on Lake Skytook in Oklahoma. Has to be one of the most beautiful lakes I have ever been on. At one point, Morgan being the precocious child he was, had Terry pull him by rope behind the boat. Yes he had on a life jacket. We were in a quiet cove with no one else around and we were gently moving. I laid down flat on the trampoline of the boat and closed my eyes. I felt then like I was in the hand of God. Weightless and floating with the sounds of the water and Morgan's laughter echoing in my ears. That was a peace moment that took me through some of the most difficult times of my life raising three children. "I lay down and

DETERMINED SPIRIT Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas. Inquiries: Laurie I am awake and in the studio! Ready to paint in fact! Yesterday I painted and Mom was helping out here in the studio with edges and today I will be varnishing. We ran a few errands yesterday and are preparing to prepare. We are heading to Canada in about a week. My son will be moving in to care for animals and the house. He is off most of the time we are gone so it works out well for both of us! Billie and Stephanie have found us a place to stay on the BLUFF of Lake Keuka. It is a three story lake house. Geez I wish we could bring our sailboat... Need to ask Terry about that one. Might drive and take it! Right now we fly into Toronto and will drive to Penn Yan. We are flying on passes and that seems to be the only city we can get through to. I will check more out today though. Paddy Dog is missing Annie Dog. She went to stay with Morgan this week follo

ALMOST BEDTIME by Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas Inquiries: Laurie It is morning and I have managed to make Terry late for work. I took his truck over and left it at Mom's yesterday so we could get her SUV for running around in. It is difficult for her to manage climbing in and out of the truck... so we swapped vehicles. She wanted to keep her car here for today's Doc visit etc... and of course I forgot Terry needed the Truck to pick up boxing material for me. SO he is going to be late for work. He had to drive over there to get the truck before he could leave. This schedule has been rough on him and on me. Double Shifts six times in less than a 10 day period is too many. Consequences. As my grandson would say, YUCKY. Everything has consequences. Remember this? "If you do that again, you will have to sit in time out." My kids always laughed once I was out of hearing range, or so they thought that I was. But true to my work, they would be in Ti

Morning Tea Pot Still Life Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inch on Linen Panel Inquiries: Laurie It is time for some new mental skills in life. Are you ready for this one? I am not, but I am praying that God leads these fingers across the keyboard in front of me. I just got notice that my blog has been 'hit' or read over 30,000 times. Can I say WOW? Praise to God! I am inserting this note after finishing the blog below. After I complete my blog daily I usually go to either Dailyword.com or to Biblegateway.com for my bible verse. At Biblegateway I look up passages and at Daily Word I stop to read their message for the day, something I have been doing for over 40 years. I am always surprised when I do how often what I write ties so closely into their lesson for the day. I never go there first, I always write first. I went back into this blog and inserted some of the phrases from today's thought infused with in my thoughts. As a baby you learned thousands of thi

NIGHT WIND 2008 Horse Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 24 x 2 inches Hangs without a Frame Inquiries: Laurie Well, I had an email about my Sovn bed. I still have to stand by my testimony that I have not slept this well EVER that I can remember. The bed puts us both in a very deep sleep and we both wake up refreshed, rested and no aches or pains. I have to adjust that this morning as I grabbed the wrong pillow last night and my neck is not the best it could be this morning. But No More BackAches... no more snoring from Terry...yeah... and he has no more pain in his shoulders and back at all. As far as the look of the flat tire bed in our huge four poster bed, the Sovn representative came out and is getting us a deeper base for the bed to set inside our four poster bed. This will not affect anything but the look. The cost of these beds is a bit heavy on the pocket book but when we weigh the rest and better health and happier body and moods, you cannot place a price

True Grit Horse Oil Painting By Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 18 x 2 inches Inquiries: Laurie Tuesday dawns with over 25 triple digit heat days in Dallas. Can I say HOT??? I am taking the day off today so no painting. I will turn energies toward grocery shopping, getting mom's passport updated and general wash etc. Sometimes sorrow creeps into our lives. Painful events, deaths, dark moments etc. Last night Morgan arrived home to find his apartment broken into. I am thankful he was not there. They didn't clean him out, and I am thankful for that. They took some key very expensive things and somethings that cannot be replaced. Not just physically things but the emotional security of feeling safe and not violated. His Mac Laptop is gone along with the book he was writing. I only have through page 26 so there are 50 pages missing. Often when we are so distressed we don't even know what we should pray for, or how we should pray. That is when I believe the Holy Spirit within

Nanie's Tea Service Still Life Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 9 x 12 inches Oil on Linen Panel Inquiries: Laurie I was smiling as I read the article written about me in the Dallas Morning News. I do not think the writer got the jest of the situation. She made is sound like I snapped my fingers to do what I have done. It has taken me 55 years to get where I am today. Every life experience, every job I have had, from head artist at an ad agency to modeling, to fashion illustration, to singing with a band... every experience brought me to where I am today. Her article made it sound like I did it all in four years. I just wanted to share with you that it takes more than that. As I appreciated the coverage, I did not appreciate the downgrading of the total amount of work that I put in at the computer and in my studio. The study, the painting day after day after day, hour after hour. I am NOT a weekend painter. I did NOT look at Galleries in Jackson four years ago and say, I CAN

APPY TWO Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches SOLD Private Collector AUSTRALIA Contact me for commission work: Laurie I am posting some extra paintings which is NOT NORMAL. Usually you see one painting a day, but with this article coming out, I wanted new visitors to see some extra work. Scroll down to my thoughts for the day below the paintings. This is the link to the Dallas Morning News Article about my Summer in Todays Sunday Edition! CLICK HERE In the Dark of Night $1800 Available here at my Studio Spirit of Fire Rare Gallery Jackson Hole Wyoming $3200 In Her Father's Arms Rare Gallery Jackson Hole Wyoming Commissioned for Collector through Patina of Marble Falls. Similar piece: $2500 It is an eager race today to the canvas. I have four canvas sketched out to paint... no I won't paint four paintings today...but I will literally work on three at a time on two easels and a work table in my studio. That is a way to keep the approach to each lighter

WILD FOUR Horses Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 48 inches For Information: Laurie Saturday is here already. I am not sure where the time flies, but it does. I have been up painting. I actually finished this one yesterday so I can share it with you today. It is bound for The Red Tree Gallery unless I sell it before it dries to ship. My Aunt in St Louis is doing a bit better. I thank you all for prayers and I praise the Lord for his swift healing power. Little India is also doing quite a bit better as well. If I was charting this I would be noting the improvements with the prayer. Is your life as complicated as mine is? Seems like all of us have little theaters going on in different areas. I know I have my business theater, my marriage theater, my children theater, my pets theater, my parents theater etc etc etc. From outside looking in, my life is very chaotic. I have had to learn to simplify and refocus on what is essential. With every event I catch myself from react

Fruit and Flowers Still life Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 12 x 16 inches Inquiries: Laurie Painting this morning for sure. Calls from The Red Tree Gallery for additional pieces and that will definitely keep me busy! Yesterday Mom finally went with me to Three Fountains to swim. Brother Kirk went with us. With in moments I knew I could live there and love it. The pool is warm bath temperature, which is really good for me! We stayed in a bit long and got pruney, but she moved around quite a bit; so much so was rather weak getting out. We have a way to go to build up strength. I hope God was not listening to that last remark...reminds me of someone once saying to me 'do not pray for patience'.... I am beginning to get the picture... don't pray for strength or you can be sure some trials are on the way to answer your prayers! How do you build strength in your life? Do you think God will just touch your heart and you will have the strength? A good parent wants the