Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

'Running Beyond' 30 x 30  Oil and Acrylic Overlays on Canvas with High Glazing Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010  The Painting :  A painting of love, depth and emotion. I do not know what else to say... the Spirit was in control and it shows with this beauty. The Thought:   Last night as I was finishing this one up the studio was filled with the most serene calm we have had in weeks.   There is an essence of vitality to this painting and this picture does not do it justice. In the lighting in here now I cannot shoot a decent picture and would need to wait until mid-day to correct this shot today. It is still dark outside right now. It is very early morning as I type this blog. It is at this time of day I begin my meditation for the day.  Each morning I pray before I begin typing, listening in my heart for what I should share on this day. God usually sends me a direction so fast I cannot type quick enou

'Call of the Wild Mustangs' 24 x 30  Oil/Acrylic  on Canvas SOLD ALREADY!  Thank you. Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting :  This is charging up the new colors with my latest signature style.  This is stunning in person and I cannot wait for the oils to dry so I can varnish it. The Thought: My mind is still on the word TRUST.  In every moment of the day and every experience, we must trust.  Things get so overwhelming in the daylight and the dark... and the mind wanders into hidden caves where it should not go. TRUST My dearest friend has written me about a young one (age 5) in their family that has been hospitalized and they truly have no idea what is wrong, but he is critically ill. We can pray. Would you pray with us all?  We can TRUST.   In this and in every situation we have hope and we must trust; when we try to push things our way, we find our way is never His way.  We were suppose

'First Bloom' 20 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas SOLD Commissioned Painting Contact me for commissions. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting: This is the piece I finished for a Canadian buyer.  I really loved the colors on this one and my jpg is not that good!  Sorry about that.   The Thought:  Busy I thought I would be yesterday painting, but I was not. I was fleeing and balancing dogs with five showings of the house yesterday.  It kept us hopping.  It was a beautiful day to look and many folks were out doing just that. It was one of those days where you had it all planned but nothing went the way you planned.    God was having a good laugh of course.  Terry and I took it in stride grabbing up the dogs and jumping in the truck and parking up the street to watch when they leave.  I decided by noon I was not going to be able to paint.  The smell alone would drive a looker out.  I will be painting at night and opening windows every morni

'Trigger' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting : This is a piece returning from a closed gallery in California.  The Red Tree Gallery closed over a split in the family.  I have four pieces coming home from the coast and this is by far one of my favorites. Even last year I painted a similar one in a large version for a collector as a commission painting.  Trigger has rich deep caramel browns and golden sienna's.  The paint is palette knifed on in thick pulls of color carving out in ridges of paint. The Thought:   I placed my order today with Asel Art for canvas and supplies to begin my big painting session for this week .  I am preparing pieces for a show in Colorado in April.  If Trigger does not sell from the blog, I may send it as part of the collection. Preparing is where my blog is heading today.   Preparation is needed in our hearts as a process to prepare our

'Bowl of Roses' 24 x 24 inches  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 The Painting : Fabulous fun with colors revisiting this older piece done in 2007 .   I will be massively painting the next few days as the Mirada Gallery has inquired about work for a show the first of April. Watch for new things in the days to come. The Thought :  THE OPEN HOUSE IS DONE .   There were 46 groups of people through the house. I am hoping someone falls in love with it as we have. I have LOVED living here in this home.  If I won the lottery tomorrow I would stay in it.  I love my studio.  I love my bedroom, my wonderful shower and my fabulous kitchen and my music area with my piano.  Did you ever see my home?  I entitled this show "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" but only the Frank Lloyd would fit. We worked until 2:00 pm when it started yesterday and we took the dogs to my mom's house.  At four we r

'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