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Living Color Contemporary Art Daily Painting Horse Palette Knife by Laurie Justus Pace 20 x 20 inches of astounding color! Contact me for commission work or information on this painting. Laurie Normally I would read from Luke this morning, but I have minor issues to handle so it will be tomorrow. Minor issues are folks needing artwork DRY and shipped for Christmas. I am up after only 4 or 5 hours of sleep and working late last night to HOPEFULLY finish up today the last one. Here is the beginnings of it: I sneaked out the door for an hour yesterday morning to do Target with Mom. She is in the holiday mood. I need to just stay out of stores and then I do not spend money. I picked up a few gift bags, and a few small stocking stuffers and was in the men's department buying Terry some more long sleeve heavy pull over the head shirts to wear under his uniform at work. The others have shrunk as he gained weight. Must be all that candy I found in his backpack and the hot chocolate (h
Ready To Ride Contemporary Art Daily Painting Oil on Linen Child and Horse by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 Oil on Linen Panel PAY AS YOU WISH! Merry Christmas. Contact me with YOUR best offer. Laurie I will ship it out immediately. This pay as you wish is pretty powerful. I sold one piece for $15 and one for $350. So, just send me an offer if you see something you like. Thursday arrived this morning with groans. One of the few days in the year I did NOT want to get up out of bed. I worked until after ten last night on commission paintings that need to dry and be shipped for Christmas. I will probably do another 18 hour day today as well. God is good. Remember the Joy and Abundance, I still chant that as I paint. Divine Order is in place. The granite man comes this afternoon to give us estimates on the kitchen counters and bathroom counters. YEAH! Terry brought home two more finished clean doors that he worked on at work. He took two more with him today. THERE IS HOPE! I guess I sho
The Chapel Contemporary Art Watercolor Landscape Daily Painting Approximately 9 x 12 inches PAY AS YOU WISH! Merry Christmas. Contact me with YOUR best offer. Laurie I will ship it out immediately. This is one of my watercolors. I rarely do watercolor, but I have some! I am hoping it calls to someone for their collection. Do not hesitate to make an offer, even if it is a very low offer as I will look at all of them and choose one. I do not always choose the highest, so PAY as you Wish. I sold the trees yesterday, they are going to Utah! My dear husband is doing my kitchen cabinets for Christmas! I am so impressed as he is stripping down the wood. He began yesterday and I almost like them natural. We may just varnish them. While he was doing that I cleaned out closets. I might have to take pictures as proof. I have a missing pair of Black leggins I cannot find and it is driving me crazy. So the closets got cleaned out! Also donating the extra to dog rescue and they pick it up th
Country Church Storms Rolling In Contemporary Art Landscape Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches Oil on Linen PAY AS YOU WISH! Merry Christmas. Contact me with YOUR best offer. Laurie I will ship it out immediately. I am continuing to post some PAY AS YOU WISH painting. If you still need some small gifts, email me with your offer. I will not always take the highest or lowest, so email me what you can afford. Play if Forward with your gifts this season. I was visiting with a collector in California yesterday and this one subject kept coming up. We all have mulled over the thoughts that we have to Let Go and Let God; we have accepted the fact if we makes plans, God is probably greatly amused; and we know we are to seek knowledge to provide wisdom to make decisions. This collector pointed out to me her greatest sin was over analyzing a situation every time. Most folks, and especially those left-brained ones, dissect every issue, every problem, contemplate every angle
REFLECTIONS TREES IN A ROW Contemporary Art Landscape Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 11 x 14 inches Oil on Linen Panel PAY AS YOU WISH! Merry Christmas. Contact me with YOUR best offer. Laurie I will ship it out immediately. I am going to continue this week to post PAY AS YOU WISH paintings. If you still need some small gifts, email me with your offer. I will not always take the highest, or the lowest...so email me what you can afford. This is Stacey today. I am going with her to the doctor this morning! The little TINK, Lauren Gracen is growing stronger every day! Poor Stacey is only a tiny bit over five ft tall and daddy Larry is 6ft 7inches so we are all watching Lauren grow. Not sure where Stacey will contain her. More on this tomorrow after the visit. I was very productive yesterday. The first thing I did was walk for about 45 minutes enjoying the early morning cold and the exercise. Then after some spiritually filled time, Mom came over and we ate lunch together. I
Homeward Spirit Contemporary Art Palette Knife Horse Oil Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 30 x 36 inches HEAVY OIL COMMISSION SOLD heading for Como, Italy. Still have enough time to order and get one of your own for Christmas! Laurie "do it with heART" A collection of thoughts and Art by Laurie Justus Pace www.lakewoodseries.blogspot.com THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: For some reason my mind has been stuck on a different mantra the past 24 hours. Ever since writing yesterday about the couple that owned the restaurant, I have been having echos in my head...Pray it forward. This is the second Sunday in Advent. Today you will light the Candle of Peace. The First candle you will relight is the candle of Hope. Today's candle is Peace. We light this candle to remind us that our Lord Jesus brings peace to all who trust in Him. That works for anything in your life. PRAY IT FORWARD. Yesterday I went with my brother and mother up to Bonham, TX to visit my Dad again at the VA Home. F
The Awakening Contemporary Art Palette Knife Horse Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 3 ft by 4 ft Commission still wet! SOLD Contact me for a special painting for your home: Laurie Don't forget to email me if you want a signed book "do it with heART". I have a small shipment coming in today and two are spoken for. I need to order more if you want signed copies for Christmas. Otherwise, just click here to get a copy with in 7-10 days. " do it with heART" Visit my www.lakewoodseriesblog.com for updates from Lauren Mooring, one of the main characters in my new Lakewood Series Book One. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY: What would you do if you were shopping and you found what you wanted and asked the price. The answer came back, Pay as you wish. There is a restaurant in Bloomfield NY that is doing that right now. Pay as you wish at the Grapevine Cafe. During this time that money is so tight and everyone is cutting back, they eat out less. The owners, John Caputo and C
Racing the Wind Contemporary Art Palette Knife Horse Art Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 48 OIL thick! COMMISSION SOLD and still wet, waiting to ship for the holidays Contact me for a gift, still time to paint and ship it to you! Laurie RED, she told me she loved the painting I posted yesterday. She had seen the original I posted 10 days ago before I repainted the orange background. RED, she wanted Red. She had also seen the one I painted that was three horses in a 30 x 36 inch venue...she loved that red, so I combined the two looks into one for the PERFECT RED painting for her. What is fun is sending pictures along the way so the collector can see the process as it goes and grows. This is painting that is enjoyable and very creative. Racing the Wind will head up to New York where it will live in the gorgeous four season state! Texas only has two seasons, Hot and Warm. Thank You Notes . I remember as a child my mother keeping lists at birthdays and Christmas and
Posse of White Contemporary Art Palette Knife Oil Daily Paintings Horse by Laurie Justus Pace I repainted the background, I think the thicker orange pops out the horses better. Contact me to purchase. Laurie I had this one hanging in the studio and decided it needed more orange paint so I attacked it again and am re-posting it. I have been busy with commission pieces I will start posting tomorrow. I can't wait to share them! I am late posting as I was working on the Lakewood Series Book Submission this morning. I decided to combine some of my chapters. My word count is enough but my chapters were too many. Takes a while to go through 175 pages renumbering and retitling chapters with out confusing it all. I am sure God feels that way when He is sorting through our individual chapters. We tend to be controlling and heading off in our own directions to do things. He has to take the time to untangle what we have done and create distractions in our lives to head us back onto the pa
Sunrise Contemporary Art Daily Painting Horse Palette Knife by Laurie Justus Pace 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD PRIVATE COLLECTION Contact me for your commission work: Laurie Okay so I took heat from my daughter. No she is not lazy in the sense of lazy... she is part of the generation that likes Lean Cuisine and the EASE of using it. I am a control freak that makes 98% of everything from scratch. The only frozen stuff in my freezer is meat from MT Vernon and Sheriff Elect Paul Fletcher and his lovely wife Vicki, some old Klondyke bars, and some frozen corn and peas in bags that we use to treat injuries! On to new things! If you heard the words, LET ME BE THERE . What is your first thought? Let WHOM be where? As a teen in the sixties and seventies I grew up with some truly inspiring music, both good and bad, but of course I loved it all. I played my guitar in church, took it to church camp and also played and performed at an airforce base north of Sherman TX. We could ada
THE GET AWAY Contemporary Art Large Brush Horse Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 12 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work. Laurie Don't forget to scroll down on the right side and see my newly released book of art and spiritual thoughts inspired by this blog and all of you who asked WHEN would the book come out! do it with heART by Laurie Justus Pace We are out the door shortly for Whole Foods and shopping. Last time I took my camera in there they confiscated it. Can you believe that? I wanted to take pictures of flowers and garden center and people drinking coffee and they said NO. They didn't want competitors taking pictures of how they set things up. I have to respect their privacy, but I love shopping there. We have been organic buyers for 15 years now. From the net veggie bags to the canvas tote bags, we have saved many trees in 15 years. I might suggest that as gifts for folks you don't know what to get them try this site: Reusablebags
VIOLETS Contemporary Art Watercolor Violet Flower Daily Painting by Laurie Justus Pace 8 x 10 inches on 300 lb watercolor paper. SOLD Contact me for Commission work: Laurie Monday is almost half way over and I am just getting here! NO I did not sleep late. That is wishful thinking. We were up by six thirty this morning and had breakfast together watching the news in the kitchen. Terry is busy boxing 10 pieces heading to The Red Tree Gallery in Atascadero California. She has just about sold out of my work. This takes more time as the pieces are all framed and more precautions have to be taken with boxing. I did this yesterday. Enjoy and be kind. Me, I am doing all the darn bookwork and lists and pricing and COAS etc. More work today, rarely a day off. Although yesterday we made a ran to Asel Art for Canvas for some commission paintings and then stopped by to see some of our oldest friends, Mike and Cindy Davis. They were part of the same high school group with Sheriff Elect Paul