Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Kids Korral 36 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  https://www.tobykeithfoundation.org/ I have two canvas set up side by side in the studio as I begin this journey. The two paintings are donations to the Toby Keith Kid's Korral in Oklahoma.  It is such an honor to be a chosen artist for this charity and to support the work the Keith's are doing for children.  Needless to say you know the music I am listening to as I take this journey. Definitely one of my favorite performers. Please stay with my journey over the next two weeks and seriously consider giving just a little bit to those that really need the lift in life. This particular page on the website is an easy place to make a small donation to help these families.  https://www.tobykeithfoundation.org/index.php?tkf-donate From the site: " Cancer places a heavy burden on the state of Oklahoma. Cancer affects one out of thr

Line Shape Form Space Value Color  "Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline,  on where that is put. " (William Blake) Th e Pumpkins began to bloom in the studio and it is now time for color.  Working in Acrylic, which is not the medium of choice for me for still life painting, I plunged ahead with student Lisa eagerly jumping into the challenge. Both of the above are my pieces. Remember last week, we began with just values using black and white. Now it is time to begin applying color.  I found it easier with the acrylics to do it layers letting some bleed through from below and you can watch as some change through the process. This is Lisa at work and her progress with her pumpkins. She will be back tonight for more and we will be gearing up for TEXTURE! ( I really see a lot of texture in her current work.) Here are my pumpkins as they are sitt

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Two from the Herd 18 x 27 inches Oil  SOLD  So I found this piece too.  This was done a few years ago.. like probably in 2010.  Accidental movements of color becoming a composition for my horses. This keeps the freshness of the painting.  This is something I need to revisit in my work... to allow the discovery and let go of the control.  This contemporary Horse painting was one of my favorites. In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   The White Dog Gallery Carbondale, CO. South Hill Gallery, Lexington, KY SR Gallery Hong Kong © Graphics One Design 2014

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Unfinished Beauty 24 x 30inches Oil on Canvas. SOLD  This is a painting I began with the underlays but I stopped on this one... I only did a little bit more and I sold it as it was.  I wish I could stop myself midway in painting and find a balance because it is here my heart sings. It is here I believe I have found the simplicity of what i seek to express. Is it possible? Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackson Hole WY   The White Dog Gallery Carbondale, CO. South Hill Gallery, Lexington, KY SR Gallery Hong Kong © Graphics One Design 2014

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Lone Wolf 24 x 36 inches Mixed Media on Canvas So I arrived at this place and am really going to study this piece another few days.  I have taken it into photo shop and looked at it in reverse. I have also taken it into the bathroom and looked at it in the mirror in reverse. I realized his head was small and body large but the real feeling of constant power is there and the strong position of this wolf giving a stance of watching you... waiting and watching. You may see it back later and you may not.  Let me know what you think. email me: Laurie  Wait, and hope for, and expect the Lord! Be of good courage and let your heart be confident!  Wait, I say, on the Lord! Psalm 27:14 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards    GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The Rare Gallery Jackso

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Lone Wolf Continues 24 x 36 Mixed Media I am really dragging my feet now. Wolf has become too predictable.  He has also lost the fresh impressionistic presence he had before. Now he is sharper and more defined.  Good or bad, that is where I am right now.  I will sleep on him overnight and will see what my eye sees tomorrow. Terry's Dad always said that if something was good today, it would be good tomorrow.  I always think of it as timing. If I sleep on it overnight, it gives God a chance to work through me while I am resting and praying over it.  Do we get too defined in life? Are we too sharp and controlling? How do we get back to simplicity and enjoying the small things in life?  How do we walk away from all the media, the TV and the computers?    Back away, take a break. It will all be there tomorrow. We must wait upon the Lord.  But they that wait upon the Lord shall

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Lone Wolf Painting progress 24 x 36 Mixed Media  If I had my way I would stop here. I love this. But I know I have to push on with the painting despite the temptation to keep this wolf painting more mystical. I have that fear that I will mess it up along the way. So many times while working an artist ignores the spirit of the painting. They seem to already have a plan for the painting, a path and expectations for where it will end up.  So yes, it presents for me the same conflict with God.  He has a plan for our lives... every single day.  But we have a plan as well.  He gives us freedom to do as we want, but often our decisions and situations end up on a path that is not good for us. Our choices were not the right choices. He will forgive us if we ask and we acknowledge our situation. Allowing Him in to walk with us each day, will allow Him to guide us on our way.    "You ha

      Lone Wolf Progress Painting 24 x 36 Mixed Media  Well I messed up before I started but it always works if I just move forward. Usually I would coat the canvas with some basic acrylic and then begin collaging the pages on the canvas creating a pattern as I go.  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014   Next I began working with the colors creating the surface on the canvas to explore and find shapes and patterns growing before my eyes.  As you can see below the colors are beginning to take form and shape.  The colors are not the final in anyway, they are the builders to the background and I will work forward. Watch for more tomorrow. Each day offers up new opportunities to us and places in life for discovery of who we are and what we are as a person.   French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus once wrote, “Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”  You have that chance tod

Line Shape Form Space  Value "Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. " John Singer Sargent    Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.  One of my favorite painters current day that uses this in many of her pieces as an underpainting before she paints her colors in, is Texas Artist Rebecca Zook . Her work is incredible.  Working in acrylic, she lays in her values before layering the colors on top.   Texas Artist Nancy Medina , sort of does this but with transparent colors creating the forms and backgrounds of what she is painting.  When I took one of her floral workshops we worked with browns and moved forward.   With this lesson being on values... I want to take Rebecca's challenge of the black and white acrylic painted first and then layering of color...so this week I have examples of two pumpkin paintings because I l

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Life Givers  10 x 10 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD  Who are the life givers you know? These are the people in your journey that are always there for you, always giving and providing when you need it. They never ask questions because they know you so well, and they know you only ask when you really need something.   Life Givers ... I believe God has a special gift He gives to some of us.  Just being in the presence of a life giver provides comfort to you.  While some may believe 'things' can be life givers, I personally am drawn to the touch of a hand, the warmth of a smile, the kindness of help and companionship when I am weary.  A life giver empowers you to continue and make your way. They support you.   In art I felt this in the symbol of a heart and from there I did a series of heart paintings. This was the first one. "Take delight in the Lord,     and he will giv