Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Sunbathing Buffalo Available at a special price at Mirada Fine Art . Email Steve and mention you saw the painting on the blog for special pricing. The show ends on Saturday and so does the special pricing. Some of the paintings will go to my new Santa Fe Gallery and some will ship north to the Jackson Hole Gallery.    24 x 36 inches   Oil on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Rest and Peace What do you associate these words with?  Some folks might laugh and say death.  No wait, that is Rest in Peace.  You do not have to get so extreme to get rest and peace or even rest in peace.  God offers that peace to us every single second of the day.  It is waiting to be inhaled in a deep breath and held and slowly expelled.  It is in the small humming bird on the feeder or the bee on the rose.  This simple peace passes all understanding all right... it passes over our heads and lives 98% of the day.

Mountain Appaloosa at Mirada Fine Art Contact Steve for pricing on this beauty... Tell him you saw it on the blog and he will give you special pricing. 20 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie   Enjoy clicking on the detail shots below. Detail One  Detail Two Detail Three Pearls of Wisdom "I did the best that I knew how to do at the time. When I knew better, I did better."  Jan Wenstrand    When visiting with Jan we spent time catching up on the past few months. She is such a dear faith based friend and so helpful with me staying focused.  At the point I was being miserable about what might be...and what was...she told me to focus on the words above. I felt such relief as I rolled those thoughts through my mind... and felt such an uplifting that I wanted to share her wisdom. Living life the best we can with prayer, discernment, di

Racing the Fence Line Available at Mirada Fine Art . Contact Steve to purchase this. Mention seeing it on the blog and he will special price it for you. I have included some awesome close ups... click on them each. 30 x 40 Riding the Fence Line   Oil on Canvas  © Laurie Pace 2011 Close Up 1 Top Horse in Painting Close Up 2 Lower Horse in Painting Close Up 3 Far left side of painting Close Up 4  Lower left Side of Painting Close Up 5 Far right side of Painting ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Through God's Grace We receive all through God's grace. It appears around us in countless ways when we least expect it and often do not even see it. Our Father loves spoiling us and it gives Him pleasure to pleasure us with the desires of our hearts.  You won't see it or feel it though if you have not opened your heart and body to Him. Be ready to receive.... it is right there rea

Golden Rod SOLD at Mirada! 30 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie       We are traveling... so short blog... but I was excited to hear from Steve Sonnen at Mirada that Golden Rod was on his way to a new home in Pennsylvania.  I am thrilled. This is a very powerful painting and one of my own favorites. Between Jackson Hole Rare Gallery and Mirada that is five pieces in this past week! I am leaving you with simplicity today... Joy is not in things; it is in us. For me that means God is joy.  If God is in you, joy, love, light, peace and love are in you.   Laurie           Psalm 97:11 Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. My Blog    My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards      The Five Graces     The Artists of Texas      Daily Painters      Contemporary Fine Art International    Artists of Texas Blog     Daily Painters of Texas

Six Pack Out of the Woods This is the new one I finished to send to Jackson hole...I have a few touch-ups on it but I am close to being finished. Wolves in the snow ... A Contemporary Wildlife Painting. Contact Hollee at the Rare Gallery if you are  interested in this painting. 24 x 36 inch  Oil on Canvas ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Love and Contentment Feeling good... what does it take?  What small things give you goose bumps? Sometimes when Lady L takes my hand and smiles at me... I get goose bumps. The pureness of her unconditional love moves me literally from where ever my mindset is, to a point of pure love affected and conquered by nothing. Those times are few in our lives and we need to nurture more of them. When I taught fourth grade way back in the nineties, I would pick up my class after lunch and we would go back to the classroom to rest. They had gone fr

Three Pack in the Snow 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Soaring Spirits Have you ever awakened in the morning with soaring spirits?  You literally bound out of bed ready to face the world, or you have something really special about to happen that day? That excitement comes from your perspective at the time. Our human brain is limited and that does influence how we react to things around us. The hope is we learn to seek a wholeness when we are ill; to believe in abundance when our financial situation is tight; to work with the knowledge we have gained in our lifetime to be wise in our decisions. Last few weeks I have been struggling with a confused state of mind. (My siblings would probably say I stay this way...) but usually I am very directed and assertive like my father and mother.  I am learning to sit back quietly and find that oneness wi

Return of the Wolf Pack SOLD last week at Rare Gallery Jackson Hole! 24 x 36 inches  Oil on Canvas    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      THE PATH Some mornings when you wake up you have no idea where the day will be going.  This morning when I stumbled out of bed, Terry was already up.  He came back into the bedroom and announced we had to clean out the entire china cabinet and move it.  I admit I looked at him and wondered if I was dreaming, but I ask why and was told Paddy had decided it looked like a tree in the middle of the night. We have wood floors and we knew the liquid would be under as well as against the cabinet.  After I showered we got busy... or I should say he did. Bless him as he removed EVERYTHING; His Grandmother's China, all of our crystal, our Christmas Crystal and serving dishes, our special collectible from the last two centuries.  He was even going to wash it all before he p

McKenzie Painted Ponies Commissioned Painting SOLD  This collector sent pictures of her rugs, drapes, fabrics, walls, furniture and her current artwork.  This helps so much when doing a commissioned painting. 3 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      JOY is Mine. As I reflect more on the wisdom of not worrying... substituting joy instantly into my thought process when it begins to waver into forbidden worry area... I find that JOY is mine...and it is but a blink and a positive thought away. How easy could that be? There are times in our lives that our spirits ebb and drop into a low area. I believe it must be normal because if we did not have our lows we would not have our highs.  Days of deep sadness are balanced by days of laughter and love with family or friends.  Some days we find depressing thoughts creeping into our mind and other days we are bouncing out of bed at first l

Crowning the Hill 4 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas Contact Steve at Mirada to purchase this GORGEOUS painting. It rages with energy and dimensionally thick paint and needs a huge wall at 4 ft by 4 ft.     IF you contact him through this blog he will provide special pricing for you . My show runs through the end of July at Mirada Fine Art in Denver . Click here to email Steve at Mirada Fine Art for Crowning the Hill from the blog.    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011  The Show at Mirada Fine Art, Denver. Summer Memories I have been reading the book Anxious for Nothing by John MacArthur. It seems to be the book of travel as it was in my bags from our last trip a week ago.  Something stuck in just the first chapter, a conversation the author created between Sherlock Homes and Dr Watson.   Holmes is telling Watson he sees things but does not observe things.  They are in a room they have been in many times together. Holmes asks Watson how many times he has climbed the st

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