Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Sunset River Crossing This painting is in my show now open at Mirada Fine Art in Denver.  It is stunning. It is framed in a contemporary gold frame with burnt red etching that looks like the water.  Steve at Mirada welcomes your email and I have arranged special pricing for anyone that contacts him.  STEVE - Sunset River Crossing Inquiry from Laurie's Blog 28 x 42 inches FRAMED  Oil on Canvas       © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011  Mirada Fine Art Denver, Colorado      The Butterfly Effect I am at Mom's... writing Saturday's blog late. I didn't think I would get to blog today. Unfortunately I am Dallas for health issues...another reason I was not in Denver.  Spent the morning at our Doctor's office...but am back at Moms.  We were blessed Carol is housesitting the dogs.  Don't know what I would do with out her. Have you read about the Butterfly Effect? Constantly in my blog I write about smiling at someone you don't know during th

Appy 3  Appaloosa Painting 36 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas       © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design  Patience We will wait upon the Lord... We will wait upon the Lord. So often we go to Him in pray for our needs... our healing wishes, our situations, our supplications for others.  We want to bring down to earth the powers of Heaven.  We want them now...but we must learn to wait upon the Lord. We try to live our lives on our own figuring it all out... and we realize that is not working.  Drama happens, illness happens, life happens.  Sometimes you cry out to Jesus and you never seem to hear the answer.  I always refer to the Postcard from Heaven as I wait upon the Lord. Constantly in our lives we need renewal and strength.  We want to soar with the eagles and fly through this life and not get weary.  We want to face our problems and challenges and not become faint.  How do we do this? We want to experience the fullness of waiting on the Lord and having the powers of Heaven co

Beginning Sketch Appy 3 3 ft by 3 ft Oil on Canvas Why am I painting a similar Appy??  Well Fine Art America does not like the image I have loaded for Appy2.  Dawn wrote and said, Can you just paint another?   Sure, why not. It will not be the same, but I can capture an essence with color.  So Here I go!       © Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Words of Wisdom Lord, I have been listening.  I have been waiting to make the decision for flying to Denver. Yesterday the answer came. I woke up so out of it, dizzy and shaking that I had to realign my entire brain and my body. Allowing Him to point the direction has always worked to the better. It is only when my 'self' gets in the way things begin to fall apart.  Terry has surgery coming up; I have something inner ear plaguing me even standing up and definitely unable to bend over with out falling. Usually I am motivated beyond and packed two days before I have to leave.  I truly believe I hit my limit. The pas

July Sunrise Palette Knife Work Horse Painting at its best.   6 x 6 in  Oil on Board    ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Long Range Forecast We were at dinner last Thursday and discussion came up of course about the unrelenting 100 degree plus temperatures.  We have had close to 30 days over the century mark... the heat much stronger than even last year if you can believe that.  Sheriff Paul told us the Farmer's Almanac mentioned a rainy August. It definitely raised my hopes. I have been praying for rain. Several days prayers were answered in the teasing form of a 20 min shower and then steam heat following it. Rain in August?  So I looked up the Farmers Almanac prediction for our area in Texas.  Yep, it was there in black and white... above average rainfall for August. One might get excited about that prediction, but when you read the July prediction in the paragraph above... it wipes out your hope entirely.  July was predicted to be cooler than average an

WHO ME?   2 For the love of cats! This cat painting is the second look at a photo taken a few years back. The first painting was entitled WHO ME as well.  Lady L will be losing her cat this week. He has to go away and be with Gabby, the dog they lost three months ago.  This will be tough for the little 2 year old brain to wrap around.   9 x 12 inches Oil on Panel    Contact me to purchase WHO ME? ©Laurie Pace     Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Nothing is too Hard...for the Lord. There is actually a website www.nothingistoohardforGod.org I had no idea it existed. I found this verse on my Bible site today and have been studying and concentrating on it...repeating over and over again that Nothing Is Too Hard for God. When I visited the website I noticed they covered everything from addiction to finances, to relationships and illness.  I listened to one of them and thought, they make is sound so simple... and it is truly simple, but our minds are not simple. It is our overw

Abstract 150 16 x 20 inches  Acrylic on Canvas   SOLD        © Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Homeward Bound We arrived back in the Piney woods of Tall Tree around six last night. The heat is very oppressive.  We shared lunch with my Mom and Dad, hit Whole Foods and then hit Interstate 30 Homeward Bound.   BTW....It was Paul Simon that actually wrote that song many years ago. He was living in Brentwood Essex, England and wanted to get home after a performance in Wigan... and yet he also yearned to return to the US. It is a favorite on my guitar from the sixties. We seem to spend much of our lives trying to get somewhere.  Be it a new job, finding a new place to live, or a new church home, or new friends, a vacation, or something that pops up in life. We are rarely satisfied with what we have and are constantly looking and yearning for things beyond our presence.  I know many times I have heard the phrase...Home is where the heart is. I believe Lady Antebellum

Palette Knife Tree SOLD I have decided to do some more of my palette knife trees. This is one I did about two years ago. I have this need to photograph trees in the winter when they are bare.  It is revealing in strength to me to see them with out their crown of leaves.  I have many photos to work from and will be sketching them out one by one. Paintings of Trees 18 x 27 inches  Oil on Canvas     Copyright Laurie Pace 2009      Carol Ani Caver 1952-2009 Weary with Life I am on a borrowed computer and do not type well on this keyboard so this is painful to even type, but my mind has wrapped around several thoughts that I want to express but again not sure of direction until the words come through my fingers. Trust this will show up in words to follow in the next week or so as Terry and I are reading a new book together on worry.  I guess I have heard it over and over that worry is a sin, but some where on a plane in my bran I must think my worry doesn't count. It is justi

"The Dancer" Now Available at UGallery 20 x 30 inches Acrylic Glazing Copyright Laurie Pace 2011    Travel Equates to Storytime Yep, we are on the road again.  Carol is house sitting in this horrible heat.  The dogs literally cannot take the heat right now at 105 degrees. Hey let's face it, neither can we. Storytime 1: We traveled into Dallas yesterday to visit Dr Steve Worrell, our physician for many years now.  I first met him back in the fourth grade at Lake Highlands Elementary School.  We literally use to chase each other around the playground. He gave me my first kiss in fifth grade...but I ended up in love with Terry by seventh grade.  He is still one of our dearest friends as well as our physician.  It was one of this annual trip for prescriptions you have after the age of fifty, but we covered a lot of ground in about 45 minutes.  Dr. Steve, who is our age, has four kids under the age of three.  He also has adult kids and grandchildren.  His wife gav

Glazed Sunflowers 6 by 6 inches Acrylic Glazing in layers.       ©Laurie Pace Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Glazed and Dazed After writing about shutting everything down yesterday morning, the day found our phones out as well as our internet.  I laughed to myself and knew God was chuckling as well.   The phones would work if someone called in, but would not work if we wanted to call out.  Our internet was down as well. As our little box kept trying to 'call' out to connect... it could not do it.  I thought my grandson was going to melt down.  We all thought he broke it when he was in here pushing buttons. Boy did we all kid him about it. Finally we reached the phone company using my dependable VERIZON phone and listened to the sad recording that the lines had been tampered with and cut. About a month ago it happened and it was due to teenagers stealing the copper and it knocked out phone lines and everything.  I am sure it was something equally ridiculous.   God works

Flower Girl 18 x 24.. still in progress.. But soon available. © Laurie Pace  Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Closeup    Still working on shadows and blending. FAMILY Yesterday we had family arrive... Justin, Tara and grandson Jonathan. We helped raise Jon for his early years in life until about age 7.  He is pretty special to us as he approaches his 14th birthday this summer.  I ran around yesterday morning sweeping and mopping and just before they arrived I realized I was missing my bracelets and my cross. I had literally 'given up' everything at the spa the day before.  It was a mad search in my purse to find it all, including my wedding rings.  But all was found, work was finished...and they arrived safely. Our visit will be full of fishing, sailing and lots of visiting with eating involved.  This morning Terry is making those good yeast waffles that my brother and sister in law make.  I am hungry but have to patiently wait. I am heading out to cut up strawber

River Crossing at Sunset Beautiful Available painting of Seven Horses Crossing the River at Sunset. Abstract Expressionism Horse Painting Contact Steve at Mirada Fine Art for Pricing. 28 x 42 inches Oil on Canvas       ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Giving It Up Yesterday I went with my dear friend Vicki to Cooper Leaf Spa in Winnsboro.  We had an afternoon spa package and when I walked out of the door I felt like runny pudding seeking ground.  I was rather excited about going yesterday morning, but had forgotten how wasted one is after the process. Relaxed. Tired. Ready to sleep. Giving up to the therapists and professionals to remold my body back to its natural state. Started with a pedicure and leg massage, followed by a manicure and arm massage and then an hour of full body massage, reflexology and a head massage.  Somewhere along the line I had to give it up. I had to give up the tension and empty my rocks out of all of my pockets. Giving it up and all