Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Abundance' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  This one is still available and is calling to a heart somewhere!  I will be taking it to the Dallas Gallery this week, but if you are interested now, let me know. The Thought:   Simple abundance... of heat, light, and hot food .  So much we take for granted every day and now that our power has been restored... we will continue to give thanks for those simple things provided to us without much effort on our parts to have them.  You are always caught up in your day with the challenges of life and you forget to notice the true miracles around you. We watched on the news that some homeowners were fighting the repairmen to keep them from whacking their trees down.  The trees had grown into the lines or fallen on the lines.  That is routine maintenance for the city...or it use to be before politics got in the way.  The ci

This painting is available at one of my galleries and is framed.  It is I think framed about a 16 x 16 size.  Please contact me if you are interested! Thanks.   Laurie We are heading into Day FIVE/SIX without power.  This is getting old and patience is wearing thin. We picked up a generator but I can't function with it. It is like HUGELY noisy.   I believe we will have to bear the cold and return it.  I cannot believe this is so difficult.   I am writing this on Sunday night to post on Monday. Most of our neighborhood has left... only a few of us stay guarding our homes and those around us. Two other family members and their households are with out power too.  Dallas is not prepared to handle the emergency that occurred this weekend.   I promise as soon as things return to working power I will be blogging and posting paintings...well, once I can paint again.  We have the gas burners on low in the kitchen maintaining heat for our birds. The dogs seem to be fine.  Maybe

72 hours with no power.......Mom will post again as soon as she can.  Blessings for today!  Stacey

'Trying to post via iPhone. Should we say UGH? I cannot post a painting because I am on my laptop at my brothers just to say Good Morning and to ask for  prayer for the 250,000 households in Dallas with out power.  In our neighborhood it is so bad because there is a round of age 80 elderly and they have had to leave their homes. We will not leave ours as the area is open to be targeted and it is a more affluent neighborhood.   This is day Three, and I simply had to have a shower....but home we will go to keep working on the house as we will be listing it on the market in about a week.  We truly need our power back on. Patience is ours as we wait.  My brothers are in the kitchen here at the youngest ones home fixing breakfast. Terry and I ate at six with Peter Togel and sent him on his trek home to South Carolina with my huge printer.  He and Conni will love it and use it and I know it is at a good home. Please stay with me and know there will be things posted again as soo

We had record breaking snow fall here (last count was over 9 inches around 10pm last night & it was still falling) yesterday and Mom has been without power for about 20 hours.  She will post as soon as she can.  Have a blessed day! - Stacey

'The Piercing Night' 30 x 40 inches  Oil on Canvas SOLD COMMISSIONED PAINTING Contact me to commission a painting. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  Well, this collector liked a painting I did last year called "in the Heat of the Night." I strictly do not like to try to recapture paintings as it is virtually impossible with contemporary art to do that. A realistic painting you can do it....but not with expressionism.  I decided I liked the horses better on the 30 x 40 inch spread allowing them a bit more space in development.   The Thought:   Well, I promised to share this morning, so here goes.   Ken Vaughan graduated from Lake Highlands High School in 1970 with Terry and I.  He was one of the founders (with me) of the art club, and I want to say the first president.  We named the club "Arabesque" which they dropped somewhere along the way. So much for respecting the founders.... Ken has been so good to me

'February Snow' 20 x 30 inches  Acryilc on Canvas Available to purchase. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Rich acrylics in this Signature Painted Pony Pull...colors of winter and cool shades of blues and violets. The Thought :  I am still tired from our trip yesterday. We drove up to Bonham for Terry's dad's VA visit and to see my Dad, who is there with Alzheimers. It is an all day trip from 8:30 in the morning until we arrived home after five last night.  I worked until 8pm and gave up finally to head to the shower and bed.  My blog is short this morning, as I have something special in the brew today and maybe tomorrow I will reveal more... it is something every artist needs to do... and I pray I am able to carry it off!   That should keep you guessing.... I will either do it 100 percent or I won't do it at all.  Prayers are requested. I call this "perfect fit". 

'Nuzzle' 30 x 30 inches  Oil/Acrylic on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  This is another new piece in my Earth, Sea and Wind Gallery Series 2010.   Using one of my signature styles on canvas, you have the blended underlays and overlays with runs and layering of Oil paints on top of those layers.  Tender emotions and solid play of colors create an world of intimacy. The Thought : A long time ago I wrote a poem about Intimacy. Unfortunately I saved it in publisher on my PC and I cannot open it on the MAC.   I am hoping Stacey can open it and I can post it later this week.   There is an intimacy that exists between friends and lovers, but the truest purest intimacy is between you and God. The personal relationship you have with Him is only as close as you allow it to be; He is after a strong relationship.  I believe as humans, we tend to pull away from this intimacy because

'Rain Puddle Ponies' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas Sold Yesterday from the little picture!  Thanks. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting : I finished the puddles and someone was already in love with the colors and it is gone...well not gone from here, it won't be dry for a week or more...but it has a new home and the horses are anxious to get on their journey. The Thought:   Well yesterday gave new meaning to the word jet setting for me.   I met Stacey at the airport at 6:45 and we boarded a 7:30 a.m. flight to Shreveport.  I am learning more about American Eagle... the little 44 seaters are the best. They fly the fastest.  They almost fly as fast as the 777. We were no more off the ground and climbing that we leveled off for 10 minutes and we began descending.  The trip was under 30 min from gate to gate.   By 8:45 a.m. we were in a car heading south of Shreveport to the Lee's house in the c

'Rain Puddle Ponies' IN PROGRESS... stay tuned tomorrow for finished painting. 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: NOT FINISHED, but in progress.   ...Stay tuned.  Laurie and Yvonne last February 2009 The Thought:  WOW...by the time you read this I hope to be in the air flying to Shreveport...that will be true ONLY if I get some sleep tonight. Over the past two nights I have had only 6 hours total.  I cannot believe I am still awake and functioning. Of course you must realize I am blogging my Sunday morning post on Saturday night .  Today I filled the day with "stuff" including my complete Tax stuff ready to send to Julie in LA.... the start of the painting above... I can't wait to finish it.... I am way glad to finish the tax stuff. For some reason this year it was easier. The bad news is my sales were a bit less but the tremendously good news is that

'Wading Ponies' 6 x 6  Watercolor on Aquaboard $100 includes shipping and handling Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Just a free watercolor I have worked on a few days and finished it last night to post. It was a long day yesterday as we are still trying to get a grip on things here. The Thought:  I was in Matthew reading this morning, in the 20th chapter.  Jesus was talking about a ransom being paid to release a slave from bondage.  Jesus had already told his disciples that he must die, but it is here in this chapter that he tells them why he must die.  It is to redeem all people from the bondage of sin and death.    I asked a local Pastor about that again last weekend as I wonder about why he had to die such a gruesome cruel death...and we discussed it. Little did I know my own close friend would do this as well.  Jesus told his followers that only his death would save them.  Perhaps it

'Reclining Kitty' SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My blog is late today and not going to have much to say.  I attended the Funeral of my sister-in-law's mother, a gracious woman, wonderful mother and a loving wife who had lived an exemplary 87 years.  When I arrived home from the funeral I had one of those calls from my daughter that started out, 'Mom' and she was crying nonstop..."Mom, you have to sit down." Those words put more fear into me than anything else.  Immediately my thoughts are to the safety of my sons.  I was shocked to find out my dearest friend for over 38 years, sorority sister, my daughter's godmother, had been brutally murdered in Shreveport Louisiana on Wednesday night. Yvonne Lee had been executive director of Shreveport Greene for over 20 years helping troubled teens find work and establish a better life.  She is well known in the community for her