Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Nine Square Circle 1' 30 x 30 x 2 Acrylic on Canvas SOLD FROM THE BLOG! THANK YOU> Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010  I didn't take the picture correctly above.  It should be rotated to the right once. Here the painting is hanging in the house. Hanging in my breakfast area. The Painting:   Oh my did I have fun yesterday at this time. I started this new painting.  I am not real good at planning ahead when it comes to art. I use to be, but not any more.  I always wait upon the Spirit of the Lord.  Yesterday I was waiting on the Lord...then it was waiting for the Spirit.  Yeah yeah, one in the same.  But if I paint with out the spirit the piece is lacking in a 'soul' or 'spirit' of its own. The Thought:  Painting this piece really was satisfying .   I hate comparing it to eating, but if I did it would be like a fudgey chocolate brownie with dark chocolate of course and vanilla i

'White Out' 18 x 24 Acrylic  on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  Bits of winter are lingering as we approach March. Made me think snow as it is in the forecast for next week again here in Dallas. This is really unusual. The Thought:    Tired weary bones... tired body....tired mind, even after tired sleep .  Wait upon the Lord, we will wait upon the Lord.  Preparing the house for sale is ever so exhausting. I am tired of moving.  Wait upon the Lord. Sometimes reading in Psalms it is easy to feel David's pain as he wrote and cried out to the Lord in his fear or tiredness.  Before when reading it I easily could imagine how desperate he was to share his heart with the Lord God, but now I really understand.    Yesterday started out on a bad step as two of my boxes went in two different directions.  The box heading for Croatia stayed in Texas and the box heading for Texas is

'Running on Air' 18 x 24  Acrylic on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: I really liked the contrast of the gold green and the crimson red in this horse painting . Each horse also is very distinctive.  This is acrylic.  I did not list it correctly the first few days. I use a template bringing the photos in and I simply was so tired I missed it! The Thought :  I remember how much I hate moving...but this move and house sale is truly in His hands. No panic yet.   There will be by Saturday night! The Big trash pick up was suppose to occur on Wednesday and they have not come yet and this is Friday morning. Terry woke up this morning at 4 am and could not sleep. I gave him a Benedryl to put him back to sleep and he was snoring in just seconds.  I began doing my "Arlo" breathing. (For those of you who have never heard me use that term... Arlo Wenstrand is married to my big siste

'Open Run' 30 x 30 inches  Acrylic on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Can't get good color as we have redone the lights in the studio and I could not get a good shot of it.  This one is highly covered in dimensional paint and lots of it. The Thought: Yeah, I slept in a bit and got off to late start.  I sure am glad God does not choose to do that. We would be in trouble if the sun did not rise in the morning or the earth stop spinning.   I noted at night or during the day even, when I am praying with my prayer beads, the first section of seven beads I use as "adoration" and that is where I call to God in His Mightiness in many different names.  Seven each time.  I choose them by the needs in our lives. When Terry was sick the first call was to God the Great Healer, then maybe Praising Him as The Wise Counselor. There are always seven adorations I come up with when co

'Expressions One' 30 x 40  Acrylic on Canvas Available Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting : This was at the Gallery in Atascadero, California and it is shipping back with the gallery closing. The Thought:   Well we are numb with tired. Can you be numb with tired?  We are.  Packing boxes today and tomorrow will be squaring things out and finishing the temporary boxes.  Packing a few paintings...I will be painting on canvas and beginning to put the house back together for the open house this weekend.  Mom and I went and picked up curtains and sheers for the studio that will be transformed into a real den with a borrow couch and chair from my niece.  OH found a rug for the floor for $49.  At that price it is almost disposable.  Terry is still got to give me something to get the paint off the brick floors under my easel where I dripped paint.  It was suppose to snow yesterday another 4 inch

'Wrapped in Color' 18 x 24   Acrylic on Canvas SOLD! Thank you. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  Not sure where my brain was but this pony came out really unusual.  I need to paint but we are busy packing.  This paint is thicker than the norm! The Thought : HONESTY is the BEST POLICY.    Do you ever hear or speak those words?  That is something Terry and I expect from our kids and grandkids ALL the time.   The only time I hesitate to say that honesty is the best policy is when you criticize someone.  It is always easy to find fault with other folks and not see our own fault or issues.    How do you feel when someone criticizes something you do or say?  I keep a smile plastered across my face, tuck my chin in a bit and open my eyes wider and keep direct eye contact with the person that is criticizing me.  Sometimes it is hard being an artist and hear folks make comments on your work whe

'Desert Wind' 20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas SOLD THANK YOU! Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: Acrylic may be the paint of choice as we put our house on the market this next weekend.  I do not have Hanging Walls any more! Terry has everything touched up and painted. This is a pretty acrylic with lots of three dimensional paint. The Thought:   Have you ever asked anyone for a letter of recommendation?  What goes into a letter someone might write about you?  Could you write one for yourself?  Many folks stretch the truth on their resumes and then want friends to take the stretch in the letters of recommendation.   When you are on the other end and you are hiring someone, how can you trust what is in those letters? Can you trust them? Paul never needed 'letters' to explain who he was and what he was doing. His teaching spoke for itself as he reached the hearts of many with the love of Jes

'Traveling Three' 11 x 14  Oil on Canvas SOLD FROM THE BLOG! THANK YOU> Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  This was done the day after the power came back on last week... I love the intimacy of colors and the contrast of warm and cool. The Thought:  Yesterday was Tink's birthday Party... and I ate something that literally did not agree with me.  We had a wonderful time watching her smash her cake and having so many little ones running around...well, some were taking tiny baby steps...it was wonderful .  BUT with my stomach ache there was not any desire to get to the computer to blog early this morning. Baby steps are so important in our lives. We were not made to run first, but to walk first and steady our legs before we take off running.  Think about that one today.  Walk before your run. Always pray to the Father before taking even those little baby steps. Laurie " Loving-kin

'FULL CIRCLE' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas I am not on their website yet, but Mirada Fine Art of Colorado will be representing my work. I am truly honored to be apart of this fabulous new gallery. Come spring, Terry and I will make a trip to visit and see my work hanging, and hopefully later this year you can visit me at a show of my work at Mirada Fine Art near Denver.  I also want to thank Kimberly Conrad for the fabulous referral to the Gallery. Contact Steve at Mirada Fine Art, Colorado to purchase this painting. © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This was the piece I worked on during the documentary. As I finished it I knew it needed to be gallery bound, but did not realize I would be hearing from a wonderful gallery just outside of Denver.  Between the catch up days, I will do a few more pieces to send them and hope to visit there in the next few months. The Thought:  Today you should be open to unexpected blessings.   This was so tr

'Urgency' 30 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:   Lots of layers of exciting color! This is a large beauty that was a two day paint. The Thought.    NEVER drink red wine.    At least for me.  I am not a drinker hardly at all, maybe an occasional sip of Terry's Margarita, or a few swallows of white wine...but never red.  I always get a migraine from one sip... and that is what happened. Wednesday night I had three swallows of red wine.  I should NEVER DRINK RED WINE.   I was out of it all day yesterday and light was a killer to my eyes.  This morning is better, but I am running late as you can tell.    Today I am going to 'bless my body'.  From the top of my head to the tips of my toes I will breathe in and out and concentrate on this miracle of God and never drink red wine again. God's miracle keeps this body going through the marvelous system set

'Santa Fe West' 30 x 40 Acrylic On Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting:  Santa Fe West is a gorgeous 30 x 40 abstract acrylic painting with warm rusty oranges and turquoise blues. It is available and ready to ship next week. The Thought:  Today Ken Vaughan was here shooting for the documentary he is puttin g together of my work. It was lights and cameras for 10 hours. We did break once for lunch and Terry opened a bottle of Rooster Hill Cabernet Sauvignon . We sipped on that while we shot here in the studio from late afternoon till eight thirty this evening.   We will do a bit more next week and then he will compile everything.   During the shoot Ken and I visited over all the old days with the art club, racing around Dallas as teens and how good God has been in our lives.   It is so heart warming to have friends on this journey that have been around for 40 plus years and they st

'APPY - Cover Girl' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas On the Cover of the Peak to Peak Appaloosa Directory 2010 SOLD Contact me for commissions. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This painting was finished in 2006.  I was contacted by the Peak to Peak Appaloosa Organization for permission to use the painting on their cover.  I am honored.  When they sent the Copy of the Directory to me, I was further surprised with a full page inside article on my art work: The Thought:   I am still thanking God repeatedly for the power being back on.   I am sure in a few weeks my thanks will slow down to once a day, but meanwhile it is almost every ten minutes a prayer of thanksgiving. I remember lying in bed on the cold nights shivering and bone cold despite blankets and Terry's usually warm body next to me.  He was cold too.  I would be in prayer acknowledging the situation and praying for the men and women out in the cold trying to restore power for a