Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Progression on the lady and her love! Carrying on with this painting..more layering but much to go. These paintings are truly a labor of love.  The plan was to capture the spirit of love between the woman and her horse. Hopefully I am on my way there. Sometimes I hold my breath while I am painting...just waiting and watching.      Winding Stairs I have to go backwards to those Winding Stairs and twisty roads.  Just look at this picture again: Now think about your life.  When I was double checking my blog yesterday before posting it, I realized there was a whole different direction to go with the 'journey' of my blog.  Watching for a second in my mind, the highway on this image... making its way uphill curving and twisting as it goes, it is just like our lives. I am sure the Father's plan for us is a bit less twisty and every time we take off bent to control and go our ways, we are putting in those huge 180 degree curves.  When you stray in your life away from

Progression on Lady and her Love. Commission Painting of a Woman and her Horse. 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas I had to reverse the drawing... Diane wanted this side of Zappa's face in the painting.   This is Zappa... What a beauty!!  © Diane Holt 2011      Hospitality  When we were driving home from Fayetteville AR yesterday, we were driving through the Winding Stair Mts in the Ouchita National Forest area in Oklahoma . Winding Stairs is not for the faint of heart.  Click this picture to find out more online.  I literally could not shoot with my Iphone as it would blur.  We were doing S curves that were 180 degrees each way or more. One on top of another one.  And that was not on flat territory...that was on climbing and descending.  When we first hit this area on Friday... the first speed reduction with arrows was 45... and I said, "Honey try and keep it at least at 55." We were doing 70. The Passat handles really really well. It is a TDI turbo. T

Hearts for Hospice SOLD to raise fund for Cypress Basin Hospice. © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Today is their first married day together, my niece and her new husband. Weddings in the family are always a joyous event.   We just  celebrated Morgan's marriage to Kelly the end of May and now it is time to celebrate this union. Tomorrow on the Fourth of July, it is the one year anniversary for Justin and his beautiful bride Tara.   Marriage is not always easy.  I shudder remembering back to early days of adjustments. Still today I get disgruntled when the toilet paper is put on with the flap of paper going under instead of over.  Simple stupid things. Yet deeper are the chords that tie us together. The experiences and growth that have formed us as a couple. The sad times, the angry times, the joyful times and the times we laughed and loved and fell asleep in total bliss.   His hands are the hands of man that works hard and give his entire heart.  They are rough and

Special Offer for my Collectors  for my Show at Mirada Fine Art in Denver Click this image and give it about 10 seconds to load...   Experience the beauty of Pareidolia and my palette knife at work.       From Owner Steve Sonnen: "This is Laurie's way of saying 'thank you' to all the people who supported her in her amazing artistic journey.  Obviously we're excited to present her works to brand new collectors, but it only seemed right to let her long-term collectors see these brand new paintings first.  We also wanted to offer  them a discount if they would like another one of Laurie's masterpieces for their home.  Laurie's 'Pareidolia' exhibition is a celebration of her broad range of abstract contemporary work.  Pareidolia is the phenomena of seeing animals in clouds or faces on the surface of the moon.  It is also what happens when Laurie gazes at her thickly applied strokes of oil paint and begins to visualize equine forms.  As a coll

Sketches... just found out I have to reverse the horse... so I will be wiping this out and resketching in the opposite direction.  Easy to do as I am working off a photograph and I will take it into Photoshop and reverse it, print it and resketch the image.... watch for the new one. Zappa and her Mom      WISDOM from Friends I had several really 'welcome' emails from friends this week.  One was concerned about the 'depression' I mentioned from exhaustion.  Katarina's email touched my heart and as I read further her words created joy with laughter. "The Sisterhood of Burned Out Women."   I wrote back and suggested she coin the phrase...as I am sure there are many of us out there.  That become more evident when I received a second email from another artist with her wisdom. "Learn to say "no" and focus on a "smaller circle" around you.  Someone told me that the other day and I thought that is a good way of putting it.  W

Country Store This apple is part of a larger painting that I am working on. So in progress you might say. It is a bowl with apples, lemons, pears, avocados and some yellow squash.  When you visit the local country store you can buy almost all of these for a great fruit painting.   Contact me if you would like to see the final image of the painting. Laurie   ©Laurie Justus Pace  Graphics One Design 1998 -2011      Knowledge and Wisdom The Tree of Knowledge is part of the story from the Garden of Eden. We mostly know it as the apple tree.  Eve was basically dared to taste the fruit and Adam stood by her side and never suggested it was a bad thing to do... so humankind took 'knowledge'.  Some references refer to it as the Tree of Conscience, in Hebrew,  .עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע In the beginning, if Adam and Eve lived in the garden without knowledge, they lived simply with all the creatures in the garden. There was no thought to hunger, working, or household chores. It was

Blue Hydrangea and Pink Geraniums Bobbie Jean Pots Talk about OUT of the BOX... this is it for me. I have pots from my decease mother-in-law that are wonderful. THE REALLY old clay pots. Terry filled them with different flowers for the summer and I sat outside and sketch this out on ...hold on... 6 x 6 inch linen canvas paper.  Then I work in acrylics for a change in pace.  If I can get out of my box, you can too! Enjoy this tiny beauty... ready to slip into a frame and enjoy. 6 x 6 inch Acrylic on Linen paper.. frame it with out glass contact me if you are interested.       ©Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 While I was working on my plants and pots... Terry began painting. He is very good in art with drawing and rendering. He has not painted in years. Tomorrow you will see his sailboat painting. MOVING FORWARD I wrote a friend in North Carolina yesterday about my life.  Right now I am so exhausted I am struggling with health... mental and physical. The trip to Sa

The Wolf 5 x 7 inches Oil on Clayboard  ©Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Wolves and Closets When I think of wolves it is generally in terms of Little Red Riding Hood and that awful story of her grandmother getting tied up or eaten by the wolf.  Different versions are heard in different families.  I prefer the one where grandmother is tied up in the closet and the wolf jumps in bed wearing her sleep bonnet and nightgown.  Grandmother must have been cold in the closet. When we stay hidden in closets we miss out much on life.  It is much the same as staying in the box, aka the comfort zone. I cannot begin to tell you how much you miss in your closet, or your box. Some folks never move from their 'boxes'. Well, maybe for a day trip or a week trip, but they come right back to the box and neatly keep their life in control. Life has taught me well. I know I have no control. Only God has control. I believe my early days of my twenties and my severe bouts of ag

Red Poppies in Blue 36 x 36 x 2 inches Oil on Canvas Gorgeous Palette Knife Painting of Red Poppies in a blue vase. This contemporary flower painting is available for  purchase. Contact me. Laurie © Laurie Justus Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011      Divine Order I have many friends that share the thought what is to happen in the future is already written in Heaven.  Sheriff Paul says it all the time.  He is the one that told us this area was like living in pre-Heaven with the beauty of the land and the people that live here. The Sheriff's faith is strong and he lives his life following the Lord. It actually takes a lot of pressure off if you begin to contemplate the fullness of what he is saying. We are accustomed to crying, worrying, grieving and pacing when we are confronted with circumstances that seem to be out of our control. Prayer is the answer, be it offered up alone in conversation with God or if you can gather with others and lift it up in the power o

Scattered to the Wind 28 x 42 inches  Oil on Canvas         ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me to purchase. Laurie Details 1 Details 2 Morning Climb BibleGateway.com is a site I use to look up my bible verses and to cross reference things.  I also subscribe to their daily thoughts but rarely have time to read them.  The one yesterday caught my eye because of all the things I have been writing this week. I personally feel like the climb has begun physically (Challenge 47)  as I began my exercise program of a promise of at least 100 minutes a week.  I am up to 40 min in the two days so far... and should exceed this weekly, but I up till now since last fall, I have done ZERO per week. Last year at this time I worked out almost an hour every day.  I need to get back to that level. When I wrote about the bridge yesterday and crossing the vast misty valley... it rang a bell in my head when I read about climbing the mountain in a swift glance to the mo

Crossing Over   Commission SOLD 24 x 36 inches  Oil on Canvas  Signature Painted Pony Pull by Laurie Pace   ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Close Up Details 1  Close Up Details 2       CROSSING OVER Sometimes there is a long bridge ahead in life.  The bridge is crossing over open deep gorges of things unknown that are lost in a dark mist.  The bridge is so long you cannot see the land on the other side, and yet you have no choice but to move forward and cross the bridge.  You are paralyzed in fear before you even begin with the first step. How would you cross over?   Easy answer for me who does not like to drive. If it were a driving situation I typically hit a bridge and go fast fast fast....I figure if I go slow the anguish and fear have longer to take hold of me... so it is easier to take a deep cleansing breath and increase my speed to cross knowing full well God is right beside me in the process. But what if the bridge is soooo long that you cannot d

Un-named Scraped Painting This is the final shot of this before I scraped it. With out white paint I could not finish it.  I am so thankful to Jim at Asel Art in Richardson that sent me paint that arrived 36 hours later and I am able to paint again... and revisit this same profile starting from scratch. When I work on this painted pulls, my signature Painted Ponies, I work wet. It is difficult to go back and move the paint around or add paint once it is dry or beginning to dry. Someone emailed me and ask if I had a picture of the painting before I scraped it...so here it is. marked SOLD for DP but really non existent. 28 x 42 inch Oil on Canvas        © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Watch as I repaint this painting over the next few days. NEW ME This was a good lead in thought as this painting will begin again, just as I had encouraged you to do this week.  Sometimes starting over seems exhausting as we over think how to reinvent ourselves.  That alone is overwhel