Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Tomas 2Horse abstract Art by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 36 x 2 Oil on Canvas, Commission SOLD Contact: Laurie Here is today's reading from the Daily Word - everyone have a blessed day - Stacey Comfort Divine love comforts me and inspires me to be a compassionate friend to others. When something happens that leaves me feeling down and ready to run away from life as it seems in the moment, I take an inward journey. This is a journey to the love of God at the core of my being. As the one source of all true compassion that has ever been or ever will be expressed, the love of God strengthens and reassures me. Uplifted by my prayer experience, I am both filled with strength and blessed with peace. Because I have had the personal experience of being comforted by the love of God, I am able to comfort those around me who need to be consoled. I give from a compassion that arises from within me. Through God's guiding love, I am truly empathetic, finding words that speak to others of t

Bauman Horse Horse Art by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD This is me at the Bluff home, relaxed and enjoying 68 degree weather. This is Mom on the Deck outside the Bluff House over looking Lake Keuka, one of the Finger Lakes in Upper State NY This is the view from our Lake House on the Bluff of Keuka Lake. The home is three stories and Lake view and surrounded by gardens. It is probably five acres of gorgeous gardens on the bluff overlooking the lake. This is Terry with the Red Anniversary Corvettes outside McGregor Winery. Wishful thinking. I am on borrowed internet this morning and told Stacey I would blog. Our trip has been incredible in so many ways. The weather is unbelievable here.... cool nights in the low fifties and days in the mid seventies. No rain yet, but Morgan (who is staying at our house) said it has been raining. He reports both dogs are doing well and are spoiled. I just hope he is not allowing them to sleep in our beds! Yesterday morning I

Stallion Spirit Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches oil on Canvas Contact: Laurie Sorry that I am a little late posting for Mom today. I have not been feeling very well and am sleeping as much as possible. I spoke to Mom this morning in between naps and she said that they are having a blast. Yesterday was filled with family fun at the McGreggor (possibly misspelled) Picnic. Mom learned how to roast corn with the husks on and nothing else. While waiting in line to receive the roasted corn (along with 500 other people) Mom finally made her way up to the front of the line and all that was left was corn where the husk was completely black. Much to her disappointment and not wanting to hurt anyones feelings Mom took the corn and started to peel back the husk and found some of the kernels were a brown color and looked toasted. Being adventurous while on vacation Mom took a bite of the toasted kernels and found that they tasted better than the roasted ones. So l

Preparing for the Ride Horse and Child Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 X 10 Oil on Linen Panel Contact me: Laurie Here it is early Saturday morning (about the time Mom would normally post) and I find myself thinking about the unexpected and how we react to it. I spoke with Mom around 5:30 pm Central time last night and they had gotten lost and then stuck on Hwy 81 (I think) and were scheduled to be somewhere in 30 minutes and they still had an hour and a half to go. Do you get angry, frustrated or just say "God you are in control and there is not one thing that I can do about it". I have learned that I need to embrace all challenges (expected and unexpected) with a positive outlook and know that with everything that happens always give thanks. I know that Mom always shares a bible verse so I have decided to share mine and Larry's (my husbands) favorite. It has always gotten us through the unexpected, even in our darkest hour. Blessings - Stacey 1 Thessalonians

Morning in Sangre De Cristo Abstract Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie Good morning from Woodbridge VA. I have arrived with Terry and my mom at Mama Nik's house. We flew into Dulles arrived around nine thirty. Got to Niki's about ten thirty. Stacey will be posting my photos during most of the trip. So if you are tuning in for pictures, tune in later today. She said she would try and post before she left for work, but with her being pregnant, sometimes she sleeps in! We leave to drive from here up to upper state New York where we will be staying in the care of Billie Bauman the Gallery owner of Earth Works Art Gallery. We will be guesting in a lovely home on the Bluff of Lake Keuka. THERE IS NO INTERNET WHERE WE ARE GOING! I will take pictures. Today I have to stop somewhere and buy the card reader I left at home. We left in a haste trying to make the plane we caught. We travel on passes with American and i

Midnight Blues Horse Acrylic Painting by Laurie Justus Pace Acrylic Overlays 24 x 30 x 2 inches For information, please email me and include the title of the painting: Laurie Not sure about much this morning. We travel on employee passes and the flights continue to book beyond us getting on. We were suppose to fly to Rochester tonight, but that flight filled with other non-revs. We are traveling with my mom so we have the disadvantage of her on a family pass that falls behind all employee passes. Makes us last on the plane. SOOO, it will either be Buffalo today or Toronto today or tomorrow. While I am gone, I have learned that there is not internet service where we are going. I am going to provide my daughter with a photo to use and a small SMALL thought. I am hoping she expands on it a bit. She is a pretty good writer. I just didn't think I had it in me to do 7-10 blogs in one sitting... so I may just give her a painting and a bible verse and she can throw in updates on th

DOG AND BOY IN PARK Figurative Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches Oil on Linen Panel Inquiries: Laurie Lazy dazy moment in the park. Beautiful golden Retriever and his master, a boy of about 10...collapsed in the shade of a tree. The boy appeared to be watching the clouds scooting across the sky. We haven't had many clouds lately! Preparations are underway for the trip late today. I will work this morning. Yesterday I picked up some framed pieces I commissioned from a fellow Daily Painter. Micah Condon has such a unique style that absolutely flows in my home! I had him do two pieces, one with a guitar and one with a piano. I had them matted and framed and wasn't sure where they were going, I thought behind the piano but once they were home it was a no brainer: Micah's work are the two pastels on each side of my abstract, the only painting I have in my house! GUITAR FINGERS Piano Fingers I have had worked framed at The Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas since I was

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