Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

More shots from Saugerties New York.  She was the youngest rider in the final competition day. She was beautiful on her horse. Contact me for commission. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 We are in Dallas with Family.  We lost a loved one yesterday morning from our immediately family.  There is so much going on right now, tears, laughter and lots of memories.   Hospice was involved. Faith Hospice here in Dallas. They were wonderful to work with.  You could not find more tender care than we experienced with the wonderful nurses that were there for our family. I may be absent from blogging for a few days, but I will try and post here and there as I can.   There is a new angel whistling in heaven right now and holding us close as we walk this path. Laurie He took bread; and giving thanks to God in the presence of all, he broke it and began to eat.--Acts 27:35

HITS Saugerties New York Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       On Golden Pond Blog   Not sure I have many "rested" thoughts in my head.  I spent time reading in James last night before falling asleep in my own bed. Today I will be in Isaiah.   This morning will find us back on the road again into Dallas to check on family that has fallen ill.   So please keep us all in prayer right now.  It may be a few days before I will be painting and posting new paintings from all of the images I took in New York. I believe this one was the winner of the event this past weekend, but truly did not have time to sort through my shots.   May His light shine upon you this day... May you find peace in the beauty that surrounds you and rest in His arms, Laurie   “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children”- Ephesians 5:1

'Collecting Shells' 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for prints. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010   We spent the night in Memphis last night. We had decided to stop in Jackson TN but every single hotel was booked.  So it meant continuing on at 9 pm for Memphis about 80 miles away. We arrived about 10:20 and fell into bed by eleven.  I felt so bad for Terry  as the truckers are thicker than bees on honey on interstate 40 and they are doing an avg of 80-85 mph with NO state highway patrol around.  It was extremely stressful.   I was able to have Justin locate a Marriott for us to stay in near the Memphis airport... and from this very comfortable bed, I am blogging this morning.  We have about six and a half hours to go and we have to stop in Mt Pleasant to pick Paddy up. ... and maybe some groceries somewhere to take home. We are both excited to pick up our dog. We have not seen him in 9 days.  LONG time.   There is much to do co

'Race to the Lake' 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website   Painted Ponies       Wish I had good news this morning and could tell you we were almost to Texas, but we are not.  When we arrived at the VW bug shop in Blacksburg yesterday morning, the wrong part had arrived for the Passat.  More damage was discovered from a tree we had hit several weeks ago... and more parts are being flown in from New Jersey. We could not even stay at the Marriott in Blacksburg because there was a game last night and all hotels were booked with reserve lists.  We ended up at the Marriott at the airport in Roanoke, but had to pay full price for the LAST ROOM available. We did explore some gorgeous back country roads that Jamie would have loved to have painted. I took some images along the way.  The views were incredible.  This morning we will go wait for the part to arrive at the

'Summer Grass' 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me for commission work. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      We are back in Blacksburg VA.  I did not blog yesterday as we left New York before seven and literally drove most of the day to get back here.  The car was not ready when we arrived....but should hopefully be done by noon today.  It is still 14 hours home from here... and most likely a two day drive. We are heading down to the pool for an early morning swim and then will eat breakfast and maybe explore downtown. I did post some new pictures on Facebook for the Don Fogerty concert.  I have not unloaded the pictures form my camera from Sunday's show, but by the weekend I will share some with you. God is good as He continues to watch over us.   Laurie Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.”-

'Sunset Herd' 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas COMMISSION SOLD Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     I have been up for a few hours...but we did sleep in till about 9 this morning.  We actually hiked a little last night.  Jamie called Gretchen Kelly to come join us.   We had lunch outside on Jamie huge second story veranda and then we took two cars and headed up the mountain behind her house. On the winding road up we passed a huge rescue going on.  There are falls on this road and folks do not follow the suggestion of NOT climbing them. Then they climb them and fall. Only one person has survived the fall...the rest died.  We passed no less than 20 rescue vehicles and ambulances.  We drove maybe another miles and again six cars stopped on the road with a beautiful doe in the road, struck in the back area by a car. She was struggling on her front legs to pull up but both back legs were broken.  We

'Dancing in the Moonlight' 24 x 24  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies      On Golden Pond Blog Woke up after a refreshing night sleep and had a hot shower, opened the window to 58 degrees and sun and gave Thanks.   We are staying at Jamie Grossman Williams home in Palenville.  It is a respite welcomed to us.  Jamie's Catskill home here in the Hudson River Valley area was originally an old brick chicken house.  It stands on the side of a hill with the basement and open basement to the back yard and the next two stories on the entrance level.  The home is open like the outdoors... surrounded by nature, the beauty and sounds and peace and God.  Jamie's downstairs studio is absolutely everything an artist could dream of and the upper back deck extends out into nature and invites you to sit and be lulled asleep by the

'The Race' 20 x 30  Oil on Canvas SOLD Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     Painted Ponies       OH my Gosh, we are here! We arrived in Palenville NY around 9 pm last night.  We are up, showered, dressed and heading down stairs for a full breakfast.   We ended up yesterday morning finding out the Cam Sensor was not working on the car. Had we continued driving, the engine would have blown up.  God was truly good as we had stopped at Wendy's and baby car never started again.   They ordered the sensor to be overnighted and it should arrive there today. BUT meanwhile we had to continue north on our journey.   The Enterprise Rental in Christiansburg had three cars.  A tiny yellow something, a paneled cargo van and a Dodge Calibar.  We went with teh Calibar.  About 25% smaller than the Passat and no trunk or luggage room.  Terry figured out had to cram everythin

'Dallas' 4 ft by 8 ft  Oil on Canvas SOLD  Contact me for commission work. Laurie    © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 I am actually blogging on Wednesday night and will post it automatically tomorrow morning as you read this.   We made an error and filled up with fuel at a station that obvious did not have good fuel.  We made it about an hour or so from there and the car stopped.  We were in the middle of nowhere in Dublin, VA.  After two hours of patience we tracked down a tow truck and were towed to Blacksburg to THE BUG SHOP.   That is where the car is now. The tow truck driver was very nice and dropped us off at the Marriett where we await word of the car.  Not sure of alternate plans.  God's hand is in this because there was a huge wreck on the 81, the highway we were on.  The weather today was HORRIBLE, treacherous, and dangerous. Rain, rain and more rain made it difficult to see and truckers were literally doing over 85 mph in the

'Orange Poppies' 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas SOLD  Contact me to purchase by check or paypal. Laurie  © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     We slept well last night but tired thoughts linger before we get on the road in a few moments. Thought I would have to go buy a hair brush.  LAST trip to NY I forgot my hairbrush.  Must be something psychological about this.  But in the middle of the night I did one of those Sesame Street things were I though back over all my motions before we left and found it this morning.   We spent the night in Cookeville TN at a brand new Marriott Fairfield Inn. New rooms and beds never used before. That does not happen very often.  Not sure what our stop over will be tonight...but it will probably be in Pennsylvania. Made the mistake of eating at Cracker Barrel.  We won't do that again on this trip. TOO rich. Our diets have changed so much and that was way rich.  I had two eggs and part of a pan

'How Great Thou Art' 22 x 28  Oil on Canvas SOLD COMMISSION  Contact me for commission work. Laurie     © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     This is a short blog. We are heading out for New York this morning.  Housesitter/dog sitter, bird sitter in place, paintings all boxed and ready to ship. The piano piece is a new commission I just finished yesterday. So hopefully we will make Tennessee tonight... Memphis or Nashville.  I would love to make Cookeville but don't know if we will make it that far.   So this will be updated every morning before we leave and cover what we see along the way. Kimberly Conrad is meeting us in Palenville NY and Terry and I will be staying with a fellow Daily painters from that area.  I am looking forward to the auction on Friday night to see what all the artwork looks like .... and then photographing the horses in the arena.  Laurie   “Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he w

'The Omega' 4 ft by 5ft  Acrylic on Canvas SOLD COMMISSION Contact me for commission work. Laurie   © Laurie Justus Pace     Graphics One Design 2010 My Blog My Website     ArtistofTexas.org CFAIntl.com Well it is finished. It truly evolved from the original first layers and even with the changes as they occurred I trusted Him for the outcome.  I had my occasional doubts, but the final piece is truly breathtaking in person.  It made me brave and yesterday I took another one that I have posted before and did the same process with it and you will see it tomorrow. This one ships out on Tuesday going east...southeast. Terry is taking it off the stretchers for shipping. Preparation is always important in life. Sometimes we get so caught up in the preparation, we forget to let things happen naturally.  Life has a flow to it. When we stop it up and build damns and levees and irrigate things... we divert the natural flow of life.  Paintings are the same way.