Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Return of the Wolf Pack with The Rare Gallery in Jackson Hole . ©Laurie Pace  Rare Gallery   2011       Inner Peace Some how this morning my inner peace is a bit stressed. For some reason on my big Mac in the study, I cannot load images onto my blog. I can do it with my laptop, but there is no fun or gain in doing that everyday working off two computers. It will grow old.  Why does it all work on the lap top and not on the big Mac? The next thing that shakes my inner peace is my Mac Mail. talk about scrambled eggs. My new incoming mail appears in my trash mail on my mac. I have to watch both places now. This occurred this weekend after I cleaned out 15mb of email.  Wish I knew but I do not. After much searching on the Mac Forum I did receive some positive suggestions and I have gone back in and adjusted a few things... so I am praying for a fix this morning. True Inner Peace will be restored by simple silence and reconnecting to God and his steady assurance. A good mantra w

WIPE OUT  Woven Horses With so much scraped paint, I played on the canvas one more time and then Terry scraped it and washed it clean for me. I hope today my replacement paint arrives from Asel. SOLD for DP but truly a WIPE OUT. 28 x 42 inches Oil on Canvas      © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011     WIPE OUT?  WIPE CLEAN! That was easy to predict.  WIPE OUT.  Only I do not see my definition on WIKI.  I scanned the entire page and did not find anything like "scraping or doing away with" . Even if it was doing away with one's self or one's painting...surfing or painting. Do we 'wipe out' in life as well?  I found stories of pollution wiping out ocean life ... and that life on Mars was wiped out from a nuclear catastrophe 180 million years ago.  More segments on America's TV show Wipeout and German Wipeout Racing Games along with the creation of artificial life with a synthetic cell that could wipe out humanity? I do not think so.

The Dancer aka Red Ribbon Lacing I began this painting in February of this year and finally finished it up yesterday. I have written before it has an uncanny resemblance to my niece. Terry spotted that in February.  So as I finished it yesterday I renamed it 'The Dancer'.   20  x 30 inches Acrylic Glazing and Overlays       © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011  INVESTMENT I choose this word after the 'yesterday' I had.  I finished this painting first yesterday and I had quite an investment of time in the layering of all the glazes. Then I worked on a commission painting for an art teacher in Canada. I am doing it basically for supplies as a 'gift' between artists.  I will finish it today. I have a invested journey in it as it is one of my signature painted pony pulls. Then came the afternoon. That is where investment really began.  I started a painting for the Rare Gallery in Jackson Hole.  I have already completed several wolves for their walls

Sisters in the Sand Commission Gift 20 x 20 inches  Oil on Canvas     ©Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 1998-2011   This was painted from a photograph on a beach a long time ago.  I was suppose to do the painting last year but could not find where I have packed the photograph but I came across the sketches I had completed for the painting... so I was able to paint the picture. Two young sisters on the beach, the older one trying to pick up the younger one who is basically leery of the incoming water from the ocean.  The little one looks like she has on someone's t-shirt over her diaper or swimming suit. Forgiveness Seems like an easy thing, a good word, but oh so hard to deal with.  We often allow anger to cause bitterness in our lives. It is so easy to blame someone else for situations when at times we are at fault.  It is not that we need to forgive someone else, but that we need to ask for forgiveness from someone else.  In our mind's eye, we are always the hurt pa

Roses for Papa Oil Painting Palette knife of two young girls in a garden picking roses for their dad for Father's Day. 18 x 24 Inches Oil on Canvas    ©Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for Commission Work. Laurie   JOYFUL May this day be filled with joy. May you radiate God's love in your words and your touch as you share time with others.  Many of us here in the USA celebrate Fathers on this day.  As my younger brother says, it is an American Holiday to make people spend money, but cards and boost the economy.  Every day should be Father's Day and Mother's Day. Every day should be God's day.  No matter what is apart of the day, allow the joy deep inside of you to bubble out and contagiously spread to those around you.  The choice is always yours what to share with others. God Bless Laurie “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 NIV He

Wise One Finished! Well, maybe... I have left Wise One Wolf Painting on the easel to dry and sent images to my galleries. Also gave options if I black out the background which is what  most of my past wolves have had. See images below. 36 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas Available...email me: Laurie With a black background? or gray?  I think it is fine..but who knows....                         This is the original sketch from my sketch book that I painted from... free hand sketching done while TP and I are sitting together at night in the den. He is usually watching TV and I am painting or sketching.  This is WISE ONE in the studio on the easel.   Close up of the eyes and fur lines  Close up of the eye. Close up of the layers of fur and paint.           NIGHT POWER was my first wolf painting back in 2007 I believe. It is with a collector in California. It has that powerful black background. Following the Path Staying focused is not always possible when one mu

In Celebrating Thoughts of Fathers Day I looked back over the year at paintings I had completed and sold and this one  stood out for some reason. Could have been the brilliant red background that caught my eye. This color is my Dad's favorite color. I am not even sure what the title of this painting is and it is way too early to go searching around in old external hard drives. This piece is SOLD.  Contemporary Modern Expressionistic Horse Painting          © Laurie Justus Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for commission work. Laurie YES  You Can Growing up with Gerald as your father made you know in your heart that all things were possible. I am not sure if that was necessarily just his faith in God as much as it was the strength to persevere under pressure. Persevere is defined: "Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success."  Dad have every intention of finding success. He could take a tiny

The Gang SOLD Commission Painting 24 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas    Portrait of the Five. I loved painting this. I did it about a year ago. I have painted these children on and off for the past seven years.  I have never met them in person but I feel like I know them. © Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for a portrait.      Short blog, quick morning. The heat has really cranked up here in Texas. I have to get started earlier to get things done before it is too warm outside.  Terry has been getting up and mowing here and there every morning. He spent three hours yesterday weed eating the shore of the pond. It is very low right now.  He still winks at me and as he drives by on the riding mower...waving his red cap. Paddy barks at him and Annie runs the other direction to get away from the noise. When you think of painting portraits like the one above, so much comes to mind about eyes, features, noses, inherited genes that create the person you are paint

WISE ONE Beautiful Wolf Painting with expressive wide brush and thick paint. This will go with my collection of wolf pieces I have been working on this summer.  Each of them in a different style. Available.   Email Me. 3 ft by 3 ft  Oil on Canvas        © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 LOVE When I was a teen I consulted my Grandmother on happiness.  It was not that I was an unhappy teen, but somehow I felt something missing in my life.  She would hug me and say happiness is like a butterfly. You can go chasing it but you will never catch it.  Happiness lands on you when you least expect it. For Lady L that was falling asleep while reading her book, "I LOVE YOU THROUGH AND THROUGH". So then I think of life in general and what most of us want is acceptance. Acceptance for who we are right now in life. We all want love; we all go searching for love with that acceptance.  My grandmother would tell me it was like a butterfly as well, elusive to my s

The Escape 18 x 27 inches of thick Holbein Duo Oils. The gorgeous chunky contemporary horse painting brings together all  the elements in nature blurred about the horses as they run. I finished this painting too late to make the trip to Santa Fe so it is available from me right now.  Email me if you are interested.       © Laurie Justus Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 ESCAPE Do you ever think about 'escaping' from a situation when you begin to feel uncomfortable or you are ready to NOT be there?  That could include relationships as well as situations.  Have you ever tried to escape yourself? We all have our inadequacies.  We feel we are not good enough, or pretty or handsome enough, or our feet are too big or we are not good enough to snag that better job with more pay.  We limit ourselves all the time.   We measure social success and financial success and when we fall in the bottom it just reaffirms what we have felt.. that we are simply not good enough. 

Together 6 x 6 inches Watercolor on board Framed in a beautiful custom Black frame and available for $145 which includes  shipping in the USA. Contact Laurie to purchase: Laurie    © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 This is a feature editorial on my upcoming show in Denver at Mirada Fine Art. This is in the new JULY issue of Western Art Collector. Click for larger image.      Taking Time to Breath Now that we are home I am controlling things again. Immediately a new schedule is in place. I hope you are laughing.   Nope is not going to happen. BUT stopping to breath will happen. Stopping to reflect and renew will happen. Breathing and relaxing bring peace to both the mind and the body.  When you intake air, believe you are bringing in the energy of God and when you release your breath you are expelling all the pent up anxiety and problems.  With every in and out... release it all and give it to God. Be rejuvenated by the new air filling your lungs and bod