Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

White Horse Escaping the Carousel Available through Mirada Fine Art. Contact Steve. 3 ft by 4 ft    Oil on Canvas    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      There Comes a Time "There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living." I tried researching who said this and if you know let me know so I can credit them.  One of my high school friends posted this on Facebook and I loved it. Are you ready to do this?  Hard to do it with your immediate family...even adult children, but I believe we have to do it to survive and live the way God intends for us to live.  After spending two days w

Touch Ups on Appy 3 This baby is ready for 'adoption'. 3 ft by 3 ft  Oil on Canvas     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Affirmation of God We were on the run early yesterday in Roanoke. We did not sleep well on the guest mattress at Stacey's house and had to find another. Rising with a harsh backache I knew another bed had to be bought. Terry affirmed the need for a new bed as well, so by 8:15 we were out and on our way to Grapevine.  Bampa and Lady L heading into Target An affirmation is a declaration of a fact. We both affirmed it had to be replaced. Affirmations can be powerfully used daily in our lives. Stating out loud to just yourself or to the world, gives credibility and believability to your words. The Affirmation of Faith I learned as a child is with me through out my day every single day.  At the mattress place, Mattress Giant in Southlake, Penny helpe

WaterPlay Sold 6 x 6 inches   Oil on Canvas     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      OPPRESSIVE That was Terry's word as we arrived in Dallas yesterday. We were back at the doc for his stitches to come out of his wrist. He developed a minor infection in the incision, so we still have some healing to go. Terry was saying OPPRESSIVE for the heat. As we left the doctors office it was already 107 and only noon.  When I called our housesitter Carol to check in on the dogs, she said it was already 110 in Mt Vernon. That means it will be 116 at least this afternoon for the third day in a row. I spoke with Vicki Fletcher (Sheriffs wife) and she was very down trying to keep up with her cows and horses.  Hay this summer will run over $10,000 to feed her animals and there is NO GRASS for the fall and winter.   One of her babies born about two months ago was rejected by the mother cow. Vicki has been bottle f

SIX PACK completed ... and on its way to the Rare Gallery in Jackson Hole. contact Hollee if you are interested in purchasing this gorgeous wildlife wolf painting. 24 x 36 inches  Oil on Canvas      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Energized? Well is was 116 degrees outside yesterday. How do you get energized to do anything? I started out early scrubbing our bathroom, cleaning out drawers and cabinets and washing rugs. I proceeded on to our bedroom to dust and sweep but I was wearing out fast.  Terry jumped in the fray and we cleaned all the leather furniture in the den and he did the floors while I dusted and did the glass. Today I will face the kitchen! I am not sure we were ever 'energized' but we had to do it. Including changing bedsheets and washing the mattress pad and both the winter and summer quilts. Normally I send them north to NY where I bought them and they launder them an

Abstract Horse 24 x 30 inches  Acrylic on Canvas   SOLD ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie       A Sacred Gift Look in the mirror. Your body is a sacred gift... your physical body. The design of the human body is incredible. It is a complex chemical and electrical process in motion... a pure miracle.  God created this body. God created your body. Appearance is nothing compared to divine perfection.  I have lectured my adult kids on weight and taking care of themselves. I had to set the example this year and continue to try to lose a bit more. I was never heavy but I was heavier than I needed to be.  My clothes did not fit.  I was not taking care of the body God gave me.  Food choices and lack of exercise did their damage over the past eight years.  I had gained 25-30 pounds.  I was too thin when the weight gain started but I went soaring past the healthy weights... and I literally craved carbs,

Summer Sunset Sail 2011 This was commissioned for a movie that is being filmed in SLC. It is a small painting but the entire film will eventually involve this tiny painting. SOLD 6.5 x 6.5 inches Oil on 300 lb watercolor paper      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Reflections Mother said to me at age 82 she cherishes all of her memories made over the years.  She encourages Terry and I to continue making those memories because they will sustain us in hard times and lonely times ahead. I look back often on memories of my mother's mother, my Nonnie.  She lived part of her year in Dallas with our family and then the rest of the year with my aunt and her family in St Louis, which was Nonnie's home. I learned so much from my grandmother and if she had not given of herself to spend part of her life with us in Dallas, I would have missed out on many things in my life that I have used and loved.  S

Red Horse SOLD 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas    ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Sharing the Love We are home after being gone almost a week. We saw my mom and dad and our daughter, son-in-law and our precious grand-daughter Lady L.  We drove home early afternoon yesterday and were busy remembering so many precious moments with Lady L. Every morning when she wakes she is so excited about the day... she is two and a half years old.  She wakes with out worries or fears...just happy to be awake and cannot wait to see another face smiling at her.  She throws herself into her day looking for joy in everything. She loves sharing her toys with us and playing. She and her 'Bampa' did a lot of that today. I watched her carefree movements and marbled at the beauty of being so child like in innocence... which is where we need to be as adults with God.  TRUSTING so easily and not worry about

Three Horses of Color Available at Mirada Fine Art Final Weekend of the show. Email Steve to purchase . Mention seeing it on the blog and get special pricing. 3 ft by 3 ft  Oil on Canvas     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      COMING SOON.... We are almost to August. I am still battling heat fatigue and temperatures over 106 degrees daily.   I am thinking of what is ahead that I get excited about and giving praises every day. In Sept I begin my FIFTH ANNUAL year of Painting it Forward.... Playing it forward, Paying it forward... etc   For the months of Sept, Oct and Nov if you contact me for commission work, I truly try to paint for your budget. I only do a limited amount of paintings at this discount rate, but I love doing it and every year there are some truly thrilled collectors.   I do it at this time of the year in preparation for Christmas and the holidays.  Paintings are pretty special gifts and I

Progression on Racing the Sunset Click here to buy this painting....at Ugallery. 9 x 12 Heavy Palette knife Oil on Board   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Complete Whole Health Optimizer I started drinking a wonderful vegan protein drink from Numedica that has really changed my body and energy level in less than a few days. I have been drinking it for a week now.   It is not the high in fiber drink but the high in protein drink.  24 grams in one shake. Unfortunately I cannot drink a whole shake...so I am only in taking 12-14 grams.  I mix up about one scoop with a banana and some fresh blueberries.  I put in my tablespoon of my Carlson Lemon Fish Oil (NO taste or aftertaste or burping) and my two drops of Carlson Vit D and I am set. I was struggling with the yogurt every morning with my lactose intolerance and I am not a heavy breakfast eater at all. I use to be, but not now. This really has mad

Horse in Day 5 x 7 inches Oil on Board Click the Painting to purchase at Ugallery .     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie   Who are you? Really, who are you?  Think about it for a few moments. If you were going to guess how people view you, who are you?  Our view of our self is NOT what others actually see.  What do they see? You are a pure reflection of your thoughts. They actually affect your facial expressions, your mannerisms and your speech. So who are you?   You are a product of your thinking... describe yourself by describing how you think.     "I am a rose colored glasses person. Negativity is not my way."   Hey wait I say it is not there, BUT it is there.  WHY?  Because I have negative thoughts through out the day.  I worry and I think of things that I should not dwell on. Even though I do not describe myself that way... that is how people see me if they are aroun

Sunset River Crossing Available at Mirada Fine Art Final Weekend of my show... Contact Steve to purchase this powerful Equine Painting. Mention the blog and he will honor a special pricing for you. 28 x 42 inches framed in a gorgeous gold frame flecked with deep russet reds. Steve can send you a full picture. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Closing Doors and Open Windows Have you ever felt closed in a room and the door was locked?  You tried to open windows and they were basically stuck having not been opened in years?  Often panic will set in as you see only lack and limitation. You lack a way out and you are totally limited by the confines of the room. The door is locked from the outside. There is no key on the table in the room...but if you will slow down and look around... you will begin to see all the wonderful things in the room that you have right now.  Open your

Looking for Trouble Available 9 x 12   Oil on Board      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie   SOLD at UGALLERY!   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011      WOOLGATHERING  I was reading The Colonel's Lady by Laura Frantz today and came across the term woolgathering.  I had not heard that term in years. The more I thought about it the more I realized we all are intense wool gathers.  As we try so hard in life to make things work our way...our way is the wooly way. It is what we have gathering up in our brain to be the way things should be. You can find the definition as: Indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness. Laura's book was anything but that, and I did not put it down until I finished the last page.  But the term woolgathering stayed with me as I reflected on it.  Then I had picked up my Bible and was reading Joshua today... I was onl