Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

PURE LIGHT Contemporary Art Daily Painting Palette Knife Oil Horse Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 x 2 inches of gentle thick colour! SOLD I can wrap and ship for the holidays. I am sitting here eating hot oatmeal with cranberries and raisins and MARSHMALLOWS . Well it was an after thought and tastes pretty keen with the melted gooey stuff everywhere. Click on this link. HERE IS MY NEW BOOK! NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. This book has 77 pages filled with both artwork as well as some of my thoughts. Buy now and it will arrive for Christmas. If you want a signed version, you have to buy from me directly and I will send one signed out for you. This book is dedicated to my father. Today is the first Sunday in Advent. Time to light that first candle on the wreath you were going to make. Oh, you forgot to make it. Hummm, well find a candle in the house and light it. Light this first candle with the prayer of HOPE. Light this candle to remind yourself and your family that our hope is si

Finding Peace Contemporary Art Daily Horse Painting with Palette Knife by Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 x 2 inches of thick Oil Contact me to purchase. Should be dry and ship before Christmas. Laurie Don't forget to stop by www.LakewoodSeries.blogspot.com . Stay updated with the events in this new Christian Book Series. Saturday finds me here ready to paint. This is one I worked on yesterday. I think it is done. I like the play on colors and the subtle changes of light. Hence the title FINDING PEACE . First I would suggest we examine the definition of peace. Webster tells me it is a state of tranquility or quiet; freedom from civil disturbance; freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions; a harmony in personal relationships. Who would not want that in their life? The perfect state of tranquility...wow. I would believe in my heart most of you reading this would yearn for tranquility and quiet, even if it were only for a short fifteen minutes. Think what you could

PUPPY LOVE Contemporary Art Daily Painting Dog Schnauzer by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 inches of Oil SOLD Contact me for commission work for Christmas: Laurie I think I am burned out on cooking for awhile. I had everything made but the cornbread stuffing and left that for my eldest son to fix when he got here. It is something that is a no brainer and he actually is a wonderful cook. When he and Jan arrived she and I decided we would work on the tree and I set Justin to work in the kitchen. It only took about 20 min and I had to go assist. What I had forgotten was how totally messy he is. I spent more time cleaning up than I did anything else. I think I clocked in about 12 hours in cooking and clean up. Then when everyone left they took bags full of food and Terry and I will buy another Turkey this weekend so we can have a week of left overs. I told Terry HE could do the cooking! The fresh cranberries were awesome....as was the stuffing. Two of my favorites! I have not had br

Run with the Girls Contemporary Art Daily Painting Horse Oil Painting by Laurie Justus Pace COMMISSION SOLD 36 x 36 x 2 inches CONTACT ME for your own painting. Still time before Christmas! Laurie Don't forget to visit my new blog for my new Christian Books, The Lakewood Series. It is early on Thanksgiving. I just got Terry out the door and the dogs already had breakfast. It is 5:45 a.m. as I type this. Yesterday or rather last night, I finished this commission painting for a young couple with two daughters. The mom liked the idea after I sent her the sketches, that it reminded her of the three females in their family, she as the mom and her two daughters. Hence the title, Run with the Girls. Also yesterday I made an organic pumpkin pie; a homemade, hand-cracked pecan pie (Made with real maple syrup NOT corn syrup); fresh organic cranberries with organic navel oranges, organic Pink Lady Apples; Oey Goey St Louis Butter Cake and organic sweet potatoes the old fashion way with brow

PIGS Contemporary Art Daily Painting PIGS by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD Contact me for Commission Work. There are only two weeks left to order something to be dry and shipped by Christmas! Large or small, just send an email: Laurie Just a thought to post my pigges the day before Thanksgiving. Keep in mind, EVERYTHING IN MODERATION, including eating tomorrow. For those of you cooking, like me, I challenge you to load it with love and presentation at the table. We will have Stacey and Larry, and Justin and Jan for dinner. Morgan has to work all day as does Terry. But Terry will be home by 3:30 and Morgan has to work until eleven tomorrow night. They have over 900 reservations at the restaurant he works at. That is a HUGE amount. Give thanks today as you begin your preparations. Everything in your sight and beyond is from Him. Bask in the delight of His love as you make those pies. Enjoy this quiet time alone to nourish and replenish your spirit to prepare for the bustle of tomorrow.

Searching Contemporary Art Daily Painting Horse by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for a similar painting. Laurie This is a quick blog today. Terry and I have a date at Target to buy gifts for the family we took on the Angel Tree at NorthPark Mall. FIVE children in this group so we are ready to roll with our list. I encourage you to give this season in some way. If you have time to serve food to the homeless, do it. If you can knit shawls for nursing homes, do it. If you can simply call someone you know needs to hear a voice, do it. Give thanks for His Graciousness! Joy and Abundance, Laurie "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."--Hebrews 11:1

KRYSTA Contemporary Art Daily Painting Portrait of a Child by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas COMMISSION SOLD Contact me to paint someone special in your life: Laurie I was searching through pictures for my new book that I am compiling similar to this blog and came across "Krysta". She was one of my art students for 6 years and as she grew I used her often as a model. I think you can see why. She had those eyes that just held the world. This was painted four years ago but I wanted to share it! This is the type painting I LOVE doing but it takes weeks to finish one like this. When doing a painting for someone I pride myself in the personal touch department. PTD. It would be great if we taught PTD in the classroom. PTD would be responsible for teaching our children to do acts of kindness with a personal touch. Helping an elderly lady with her bags of groceries; walking the neighbor's dog; throwing your neighbor's newspaper up by their front do

Tagging Along SOLD contact me: Laurie I have been playing for two days with different mediums. Today I will return to some oil and pack paintings for the Red Tree Gallery. I have to pick up a few frames at the Dutch Art Gallery on Monday before I finish up. Yesterday I worked on my book submission and hope to have it complete next week. It takes so long...longer than writing at times. Checking and double Checking everything so the proposal is perfect for submission. Don't forget to check out my fictitious journal blog of Lauren Mooring a character from the book: www.LakewoodSeries.blogspot.com Today Lauren blogs about Nanie's cookies and includes an easy kid friendly recipe for the holidays. Stacey and Larry came around twelve and picked me up. We went to Target where I got to tag along as they completed their registry for baby gifts. I had her choose two of some things as I know Terry and I have nothing to prepare for this arrival. We met Terry for a late lunch and the

YOUNG GRAY contemporary art horse mixed medium horse painting by Laurie Justus Pace 18 x 24 inches watercolor and acrylic on gallery wrap canvas. contact me to purchase: Laurie Brr, it is cold outside! Saturday morning it is 6:30 am and I just finished taking pictures of this painting above that I did yesterday. This is mixed mediums using watercolor and acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, so it does not have to be framed. I would frame it though. This is my third painting in this new series. I have just started a new blog yesterday called www.LakewoodSeries.blogspot.com . Here I am posting the fictitious journal of Lauren Mooring, a character in my first book of this series. I started writing these in 2002 and I was not directed toward any market, but when I began editing two years ago I switched to the venue for Christian fiction. I have several favorite Christian fiction authors that wow me at times with their writing. Others are more bland and not as articulate, but still go

DANCE WITH JOY Contemporary Art Daily Painting Horse Oil by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 36 inches of COLOUR!!! Commission and SOLD For your own painting, contact me and lets do something to put some light in your life! Laurie I read a line yesterday that caught my eye and stayed with me through the night. When everything changes, change everything. What does that mean to you? As I survey the world around me, it changes every millisecond. BUT my life doesn't change that often, so when it does, perhaps that is the time to change everything. When you are feeling trapped, in the hole, desperate, sad, etc... because of changes in your life, then it is time to change everything. First, bring God back into your life. FULL TIME. When you do and you make it a habit, things will change for the better. Maybe not the situation but for sure the way you look at it and handle it. Some folks need to adjust how they deal with things in their lives and not allow anger and hurt to dictate emotions.

Ava and Eden Contemporary Art Child Portrait Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 Commissioned Oil Painting Contact me for additional information: Laurie We took two photos and combined them to get the girls in the same painting to include their matching dresses from this special occasion. This is a close up of each face. I want to work a tiny bit on shadows on the top cherub. Her mom wants her hair a bit less puffy so I will reduce the side by the flower. The bottom angel has such dark beauty it is hard to capture. I had the painting much looser but the buyer wants it tighter so I will be making some changes in some things today and hopefully will finish up. I am hoping to be done with this painting today. It is a commission piece of two beautiful girls that live in Canada. I know I can't possibly do them full justice, but today I will be finishing up the last touch ups. Please if you see something I am missing, email me! One of my daily messages I read spoke on Hur

Ready to Travel Contemporary Art Mixed Medium Horse Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace SOLD Thank you! Contact me to purchase: Laurie Yes, I know I am late posting. But below is yesterday's painting finished!! And above the one I was working on this morning that is almost finished. Yesterday Terry finished up sheet rock in our bedroom where last March the electrician had blasted through to rewire the house. It has been a long time coming to get that completed. Still needs one more coat of paint, but last night he and I worked dusting and cleaning the bedroom so we could fall into bed! Still need to clean the fan AND the upper deck/loft is FULL of dust from sanding. Next will be the other ten places that need to be finished up! Morgan was over yesterday too, and he hung lights in the garden room for the holidays. I may leave them up as they are white lights and very pretty how he did them. I attempted to take pictures but my camera can't quite capture them at night and when