Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Still Working... but not done... 24 x 30 inch oil on canvas Sold but not really... again the journey continues on this canvas...  Horses appear and I may have a direction. Go figure.      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Soft Serve of Patience We are leaving behind the days of summer. Gone are the 115 degree days and in are coming some nights falling closer to freezing. I find myself wearing a sweater at 80 degrees outside.  Soon we will be eating chili and soup and not thinking of cold ice cream and soft yogurt. The reviews of Braums soft serve Yogurt are off the charts.  Something reminiscent of my childhood years in St. Louis and soft serve ice cream.  Read the Review from Dallas. So when Terry and I are living OUT where it is an hour to drive to Braums and an hour back, we think twice before making the ...

NEXT came this one.... from the Moonlight Madness. 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD but not really... just painted over again... a week in the life of a canvas of a frustrated painter.      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Enfolded Inner Peace is something sought by all of us. Inner peace is a state of mind where we are mentally and spiritually at peace inside of us despite what is happening in the world around us.  It prevails to keep us strong with we face stress.  It prevails against anxiety and worry. At the top of my list for inner peace promoters... is God's abundant color in nature. The colors of this flowers are vivid and the beauty is raw. Loose yourself in the moment with me. Walking each day provides a perfect retreat to drink in the beauty in your neighborhood and get exercise for your body as well.... ...

Changes on the Canvas SOLD for DP but actually non existent. What happens on a canvas when it does not feel right to me as the artist? I scrap it, repaint, re-layer, scrap again and again...  This is a story of becoming... This WAS  Moonlight Madness... but it is not more.  Stay tuned for tomorrow to see where it goes to.     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Trapped Inside Yourself There was a darkness outside the door this morning when I walked the dogs out. Hidden between the leaves of the trees I caught a glimpse of the brilliant glow of the moon, but I could not see much because the moon was blocked by the thick forest we live in. A cool breeze began with the moving cold front reaching the lake this morning. Change was in the darkness.  Is there growth in darkness? Pausing under the tree was like disappear...

Progress... Moonlight Madness 24 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas   I wanted to revisit IN AWE a horse painting done about 15 months ago.   I sketched it out with charcoal on the prepared canvas surface and then began moving the paint around and finding the spirit of this horse on this painting.    Will finish this horse painting up today.      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie          Do you Make a Difference? We have of course the many individuals that serve us in our communities. This is Sheriff Paul Fletcher (Franklin County Texas) and his wife, Mount Vernon Police Officer Vicki Fletcher.  They both served as Dallas Police officers for over 24 years before retiring to Mount Vernon.  They were 'retired' for about four years and missed 'serving'. Paul was el...

Crowning the Hill         4 ft by 4 ft  Oil on Canvas     Available at Mirada Fine Art in Denver. Email Steve to buy this painting at 25% off the list price. STEVE   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Unlimited Growth If money was not an object, what would you do or where would you go? Are you limiting yourself in life for the wrong reasons? We start out so simply being born into the arms of our family who then tend to our needs and cares. Depending on the 'soil' we grow in... comes our attitude for life. It grounds us in His miracle grow.. or we may be planted in poor soil promoting fears and anxieties.  Sometimes the soil is weak and we become weak even as we grow. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE. Laurie         My Blog...

Yellow Roses in Palette Knife 11 x 14 inches   THICK Oil on Canvas. This beautiful Palette Knife Rose Painting is the perfect gift for someone special this Christmas. It is on stretched canvas and can hang as it is or be slipped into a frame. $145 includes shipping and insurance. Email me to purchase this beautiful original painting. Laurie   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting  or to purchase this piece: Laurie      SIGNS I watched the radar yesterday.  I watched on the computer and on my phone when we went into town. Rain was predicted and Dallas had been blessed with 18 hours of solid rain. Not much was on the screen to our disappointment.      The ground is dry and much has died around us. I gave up watching the computer scene hearing my grandmother's voice echoing in my head, "A watched pot never boils".  Cl...

In Awe    20 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas SOLD This equine painting was done in 2010 and it sold with in two weeks of completion.  I love the energy and the colors that explode behind the horse in the painting and the powerful strength in the horse. When looking at it now I realize I want to paint it a again and tweak the neck area coming into the chest.   I guess that is why artists revisit subjects to paint them again and try new things.  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie          Colors of God God is the light that surrounds me. God is the love that enfolds me. God is the power that protects me. God is the Father whose presence watches over me day and night. His artistic touch was present yesterday when I was visiting a my friend Ann at her country home. Her gardens were in late summer blo...

Delta 24 x 30 inches Acrylic on Canvas SOLD This was part of my Greek Series.  It was painted this past summer. I will be started a new painting this week for the Greek Series. There is only one available right now at a gallery  in Santa Fe. I will post it tomorrow. Contemporary Abstract Equine Horse Painting by A Texas Artist Laurie Pace      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Feel the Wind, Prepare your Heart for Change. Sitting outside on the deck swing this morning I closed my eyes and emptied my mind feeling the breath of God around me in the strong early morning southern breeze. Anticipation is of gulf moisture bringing possible rain tomorrow. The trees blow caressed by  His early sunrise breeze, they are waiting. What is it they can do? Nothing, they simply wait and feel the wind touching through their br...

Apple Tree Blooms SOLD Several years ago I did a series of trees, especially Texas Oak Trees. This is a tree filled with apple blossoms. Spring tree painting that sold the week I painted it. 15 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Grace by the Moment Many time in life we turn ourselves outside the grace of God . We are often too busy for God. Or we think we are too good and do not need His grace. It is only when your heart is open to His saving race can you have a true relationship with God. His saving grace for us become His sanctifying grace. We grow both in His grace as well as with His grace. Growing in love following Him brings peace to life. God's grace covers us through our trials and hardships guiding by His light from our darkest places.  CLICK here to read more... ...

Red River Crossing at Sunset   FRAMED  28 x 42 inches Oil on Canvas This happens to be one of my favorite paintings I did this year. It is at Mirada Fine Art in Denver.  There are seven horses in this Contemporary Equine Painting. The contrast of colors bring both energy and balance to the composition.  A perfect gift for that special someone and right now 20% off at Mirada Fine Art for my Paint It Forward.   Steve will work with you to make it happen. Email Steve. or call him: 303.697.9006 Steve can send you an image of the painting in it's frame. It is a contemporary dark gold with deep flecks of red. Customed framed at The Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas.     ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011    Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      The 'Scent' of Fall This week we have found our toes cold as we climbed out of bed. Forty eight degrees. ...

Moonrise Through the Mountains 40 x 40 inches  Oil on Canvas     Beautiful contemporary Abstract Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace. Layers of paint create the painting surface with colors of evening mist filtering through the mountains and the horse keening its nostrils sniffing the cool of evening.  This painting is available. Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011 I've Got your Back Artist and dear friend Debbie Lincoln is in the air flying to Haiti this morning. I promised to pray. Debbie is not keen on flying. A far cry from her horses, her cow, her chickens, her bees, her painting, her garden.... not to forget her husband, friends and family.  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.... My Blog    My Website     Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards      The Five Graces ...

Rooted in Texas by A Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches of Thick Oil and Color Tree Landscape Painting, Texas Oaks by A Texas Artist Laurie Pace I went into the studio yesterday intending to do horses but this came out instead. Colorful and slightly Fauvistic in nature, but true to nature in colors, shadows and light. Sold      ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011       Eat Your Vegetables A command that still lingers in my head from childhood. Or ...remember the starving children in the world. As an artist/mom I would make sure the plate I put before my children was colorful. I had one that would not eat eggs. There was one that would not eat corn or mashed potatoes. Finally there was one that ate everything. He is that way in life too...he has to try everything, the good and the bad.     CLICK HERE TO READ MORE> My Blog    My Website   ...

Golden Spirit an Arabian Horse Painting 24 x 30 inches  Oil on Canvas   This was a commission painting for a dear dear friend, Ann. Please read more about these special people that come into our lives below. She wanted an Arabian and wanted to 'fall in love with it'.  I hope I accomplished this as I used her favorite blues, greens and violets contrasting the background with golds and soft oranges.  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      Artist of Love Sometimes in our walk we meet those special people. You know immediately who they are when you are introduced. My Mother was the first one I meet. Then for sure my daughter's close friend Shannon. Then I had a workshop this past year and I meet Ann. At the workshop, every person that attended was special.  I felt blessed by every single artist. When I say special people,...