Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Blue Hills in progress, Landscape palette knife painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas     There are four layers of color on the sky right now and three layers on the blue hills in the background. The line of trees in the distance has about six layers and I have not actually started the three trees that are blocked in yet. The back field has four layers of color and will get more today. I am working my way forward in the composition. I was excited by the tiny bit of reds in the back tree line peaking out and hope to discover more seasoning colors as I work today. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Prosperity "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance." Matthew 25:29 Prosperity does not translate only to money.   Whatever you put your energy into will grow, so choose wisely

Base Coat Blue Hills 40 x 40 inches This is the beginning or actually the second step after sketching on the canvas. It truly did not matter what colors I used in blocking right now..and these are NOT the colors you will see once I begin knifing my paint onto the surface.  This basically covers up the white already primed canvas with some colors. Progress will be shown tomorrow. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Joyfully Existing in life from day to day, working to live makes it hard in a way To stop and take a breath, to look around and see the joy that can now be found. Moving round you is His Spirit bright, waiting for you to walk in the light. Lifting the burdens you shoulder through time, opening your vision to what you may find. Joy is an awareness and creative expression, it's there to light your dark depression.

More Longhorn Sketches from Texas Artist Laurie Pace We still have not narrowed down the direction on the longhorns but hopefully we are getting closer. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Life Softly Spoken With over 30 years of teaching experience in both public and private schools and my own art studio, I have learned early on that speaking softly and saying less controls children the best. When you set the mood of your classroom, it always works best to keep it simple.   The KISS method was one my husband told me was used by all the mechanics at American Airlines. They referred to the acronym as Keep It Simple Stupid...but I had to adjust that for the classroom to Keep It Simply Soft. My classrooms were home away from home for these children as they spent more time with me during their waking hours than they did with anyone else.   I wanted that

More Longhorn Sketches by Texas Artist Laurie Pace  This is another sketch for the square paintings. It is one of the only ways I could sketch to get longhorns on a square canvas and that was to angle them. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Shared Moments The treasured moments of friends is such a blessing.  I promised updated photos with Jan and Arlo from this weekend and you are are getting just that!  We spent a wonderful time with them catching up on old times and making new memories.  Lady L decided Arlo was her other Grandpa and of course with Jan being my 'sis' Lady L decided she was 'grandma' as well.  It has been two years since I sat face to face with Jan and I wanted to cry when they pulled in the driveway. I finally could look into her eyes and feel the warmth of her hug in person. My Sister of the Heart. Jan and Laurie Spring

More sketches of longhorns for a longhorn painting coming up. I am doing rough sketches for some longhorn paintings next week. This is on my down time between painting layers on my Blue Hills.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Old Friends This morning breaks with excitement for Terry and I. We are going to see our dearest friends Arlo and Jan today. They have traveled all the way from Arizona to Texas for a granddaughter's wedding and driven to the area for us to see them. Make new friends, but keep the old, some are silver and the others gold. TP and I have lost twenty pounds since this picture in 2010. This is Terry, Laurie, Jan and Arlo at our Lake. Old friends are so dear as they have walked so much of your journey in life with you. Jan has seen me through many moves. Prayed me through many crisis and been there as my sister though th

Beginning Sketch Blue Hills Landscape Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 40 x 40 inches Oil on Canvas   Sold  - Commission I will block in color in acrylic next and then begin my knife work. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Monkey See Monkey Do When Bampa and I are visiting Lady L, the two of them, Bampa and Lady L are like monkeys.  TP loves to take her out on her "Park".  That is what she calls her swing set, the Park. He does stuff and she is right behind him imitating everything. She and Bampa are two of a kind when it comes to Monkey Business.  They are best friends always and the trust is that based on unconditional love.  When a child trusts an adult in their life so simply... that is an opposite reminder of how we do not seem to trust God so simply. We still want to control everything.    Terry will never let Lady

Crowning the Hill Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 4 x 4 ft Oil on Canvas I would love to see this painting find a new home. It is at Mirada Fine Art in Denver and if you think it might look good at your home... email Steve.  Tell him you saw it on my blog and ask for Special Pricing. If you purchase it, I will also create a collectors book for you. I usually ONLY do those with commissioned paintings, but I think I have enough of my progress shots on this one to do a fabulous hardback collector book in your name. ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      ENERGY  Saturday Tumbles I cannot wait for this morning to arrive. We are going to watch Lady L play soccer. I also will have paints and canvas for her this afternoon and maybe another fabulous painting will emerge. Remember what it is like to get up in the morning and be excited and full of energy

Fury Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace 30 x 40 x 2 inches Oil on Canvas Well the journey on Fury is complete. Drying time is next and then varnishing and shipping to MiradaFineArt.com into the capable hands of Gallery owner Steve Sonnen. Contact Steve if you are interested in Fury.   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Morning Glories This morning when I settled in at my computer and began reading email...my google search that reports things on the interent with my name jumped in with this one this morning from  FIRSTPACE.com It is something that someone on YOUTUBE put together of my artwork, (Some pretty old) and Just Us May IP and Gary Murphy created by  Laurentziu Ro, from Romania.  Terry and I chuckled watching it and truly enjoyed the music. God blesses us with "Morning Glories" all the time.  We miss many of them w

On my Easel in Progress: 30 x 40 inches Oil Each day I approach this horse painting waiting and watching with my eyes as light from the day travels across the canvas.  I love seeing the layers magnify and come alive. Still more to go....  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece:  Laurie Letters from Home Received a letter from home yesterday... no not a postcard from Him, but one of those big white and green envelopes from my Mother.  Inside was a note from her and some copies of things she discovered that my Dad had saved over his lifetime. Writings and articles that truly meant enough for him to cut out and save in a folder.  There were not many, but what was in there was powerful. "Imitate your way to success, researcher says"....  written by  Maury M Breecher . I had to google the name to see who it was. The article was from 27 years ago. I did find a website