Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Happy Birthday to my Awesome Daughter Stacey Elizabeth. Yes I was working in the studio last night, Lisa was over and I started a commission... but there is a slight break as I enjoy the day with my daughter. I have always said a woman needs a daughter in her life and I was thrilled when Stacey arrived in my life... and then Stacey was blessed with the arrival of Lady L about five years ago. From the moment I held my daughter in my arms I was totally in love. As a family, we are blessed richly each day with her sense of humor, her beautiful smile, her love and her strength.  More from the studio to come tomorrow... for my darling daughter: "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."  Proverbs 31:29-30 #blessingsofadaughter   #loveatfirstsight  Lau

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Storm at Sunset  9 x 12 inches Acrylic on Canvas. Available. $100 With the changing of my life to a simpler time... yes I am TRYING to get there.  I am reverting back to painting more small pieces to loosen up a bit. I know I mentioned figurative but I have not found my courage to step out of my comfort zone.  So I am going to paint these smaller pieces about 8 x 10 and 9 x 12 and whatever I have on hand and allow you to fall in love with the spirit horse that beckons to your heart. So the first goal is 100 of them this year but not 100 in a row for 100 days!  The price will remain $100 and then $7.50 for shipping to you. I have a new website launching hopefully this week and the horses will be on the site if they are available. I can do paypal or CC through the new site and STRIPE. #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #100horses100daysin2014 Who shall separate us from the love of

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Horse 2/14/14 9 x 12 inches Acrylic  on Canvas.  Available $100 I was working after our Valentine Dinner last night.  Too full to think about bed, so I wandered off into the studio to pick up where I left off yesterday morning.  Life got in the way of painting yesterday. Terry had sprayed all the varnish, I was trying to catch up on email and work on the AOT website and finish up my new site and time flew by. By noon yesterday I was starving for some reason and made my favorite veggie shepherd's pie.  It is so simple to make and so satisfying to eat.  First I scrub three large organic russets, then cut them into bite size pieces and boil them for mashed potatoes. While the potatoes are cooking, I sautee some onion in just water, then add frozen organic veggies of choice. Our  choice was a veggie mix with pea, carrots etc and then some broccoli and squash. As that cooks I mix up

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 In Progress 9 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas. This is what is happening this morning. Terry is busy spraying pre-varnish on about 10 paintings and I am prepping canvas for work today. I have decided to see where this will go. From left over acrylics on the palette you can see in the bottom image... I did a soft background on the surface but no idea what I will paint today. I wanted to post this early and then maybe tomorrow I will have something finished for you.  Maybe it should be a heart? Happy Valentine's Day We exchanged our cards over breakfast and are enjoying the new mantle clock we decided on as a Valentine's Day gift for both of us. Never know what time it is sitting in the den, but now we do. It chimes too, but Terry decided to turn the chimes off until I was ready to test it at night. Smart man.  He believes in 'Happy wife, happy life.'  #happywif

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 West by Northwest 24 x 36 inches Mixed Media on Canvas.  Available - Email me As I mentioned I am taking a more relaxed laid back approach to my blog again like I did the first five years of blogging. You get what I am doing exactly at that time and no pre-posting. SO my posts are fresh when I do them, and I am not promising daily, but if I work they will be here. This morning I tidied up the studio and painted edges on a number of paintings that have been finished over the past six weeks and are ready to ship to galleries and new owners. I am also preparing my special studio sale PDF so if you are interested in seeing what I have at special pricing, please email me . Each edge attempts to match up to the front of the painting.   I am lining them up for Terry to spray with a pre-varnish before they are shipped to the galleries.   #horsepaintings   #wolfpainting

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Quiet Evening with You 24 x 36  inches Acrylic  on Canvas. SOLD  This is an older painting from about 2006.  I wanted to blog so I pulled an archive this morning. With thoughts of Valentine's Day on Friday, but the responsibility of chasing a four year old for the past three days... I would LOVE a quiet evening with my husband where I am not so tired that I fall asleep during the six o'clock news. #chasingchildren Having Lady L here has really changed the 'pace' of the household.  This morning I was up at 5:45 to be ready when Larry dropped Lady L off to us for the new day.  Normally we are not up and moving before seven thirty, so it was a struggle getting those contacts in before my eyes were open. What I Have Learned:  They stay energetic all day.... and till the late hours of the night and again in the early hours of the next day EXCEPT Except whe

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Beta  20 x 30 inches Acrylic on Canvas. SOLD  Acrylic painting and Oil painting both have strong individual qualities. Well, so does watercolor... every media has its strengths and weaknesses and every artist has their strengths and weaknesses working with the different mediums. I was watching a short video on Facebook from another painting doing a floral piece. It was about two minutes long, and watching them work the paint I would have thought it was oil and it was not, it was acrylic.  So no matter which medium you choose to work in, continue to practice working in it daily if you can. You cannot get stronger in your art unless you make time for it. The second challenge comes with finding your voice and personality in your work where you are not imitating another artist's style or work.  We all own our own 'voice' in life and we need to own our own art. Beta was pa

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 The Usual Suspects 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas.  Mirada Fine Art  The salt and pepper were added and I believe it is finished. Drying will be at least three to four weeks.  Then it is off for Mirada Fine Art in Denver. This contemporary wolf painting is waiting for a new home. Okay, this cold has just about driven me crazy. Finally yesterday our temps were higher than 50 degrees.  I am tired of the same sweat shirts and long-johns each day trying to stay warm.  Terry has been a trouper keeping hot tea on the stove and hot meals coming from the kitchen while I am working. Friday he had prepared a 'snack' of black beans, guacamole  and chips... and then less than an hour later a baked potato with mushrooms and veggies on it. My tummy is getting overstuffed.  BUT this is NOT a complaint... it is thankfulness. The beans were served with chips and gauc... the mushrooms and carro

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 The Usual Suspects 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas.  Available at Mirada Fine Art.  I really need to get a better image so I may have to post this one  again later this week with the finished touches of color. This is 90% done.  This is where it hangs around and I study and observe changes I want to make or colors I want to add. Heavy Holbein Oils and my favorite palette knife created this contemporary Wolf Painting, The Usual Suspects.  I know I am getting somewhere when Terry walks in and ponders the painting.  Even more important when Paddy walks in and his ears go back and he growls.  I think he has been watching too much TV. I keep telling him Walking is healthier than TV.   There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.  Psalm 19:3 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   My Blog          My Website          Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Card

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 The Usual Suspects 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas.  Available through Mirada Fine Art. It seems so dark with all the cold cloudy skies. I have wonderful lighting in the studio to paint by but it never results in good images with the camera. Most of my photography of work is done in natural day light to keep glare off the final image.  The wolves are progressing and I am delighted to paint one this large. It is the largest I have done to date. I am also excited it will be the first horizon wolf painting going to Mirada, where they have sold many of my single wolves over the past three years.  I will keep working on this today and have a pretty good shot of it tomorrow. I have been trying not to trip over Paddy Dog. He is my husband's Kerry Blue Terrier.  He is nine this month.  He is so lost without Annie Dog and he is not good under my feet while I am painting. I usually end up s