Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Change is inevitable with seasons; when a painting hangs around the studio it is leaving itself WIDE open to me picking on it.  Yes it happened to these 'Fair Flowers'.  They became "Knifed".  I am not sure what bugged me but I began reworking the painting and piling on literally layers and layers of oil. The original painting was with brush.  I just could not stand it. I love the simplicity and weave of textures, but piled paint is my expertise.   You can see as I worked the flowers took a dramatic change as did the vase. I added two loose flowers on the tabl

Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There were changes in this painting. It hung around in the studio for me to study it and decide if it was working or not working. Not working was the red mane.   Here was the before: I came back to the canvas and began lightening the background in the upper left corner and reworking the manes on the horses.  I did some additional touch ups here and there as well.  The mood of the painting soared forward with those simple changes. It amazes me to see what coming back to the canvas really can do to finish off a painting. Every painting has a story and a journey.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 Horse 78 Blue Mist Rising 10 x 8 Oil on Panel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my signature pulled painted Ponies is just going to the drying rack.  Strong blues created the back ground as the other colors begin to layer on top bringing the power of the paint and the spirit of the knife.  The palette reminds me of the dark clear blue sky outside...deeper with each cold front that pushes through the border from Oklahoma. The colors are the leaves on the trees outside my windows... some still green, others slightly brown and many with shades of red and orange. I wish the  first freeze  was soon but that is usually in late N

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 Horse 77  Throwing Caution to the Wind 8 x 8 Oil painting on Panel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was working on this painting I had  Fox News  on in the studio and was listening to the Congressional hearing  while they drilled the  CDC  for the screw up here in Dallas. I guess that is where the name of the painting came from.  There are times in life we simply just do things with no regards to consequences for ourselves or others nearby.  Freedom with paint always leads to fun and exploration and this tiny painting is exploding with power and strength.  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acc

Partial view of Bullish on TDA  Gift © Laurie Pace 2014 Bullish on TDA            24 x 24 Oil  Gift SOLD    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is another look at the bull painting I just finished up for Morgan.  Bosses Day was October 16th... and I did not want to show the entire piece because it is a gift and not something I paint every day. I used the pulled effects in the background but I went wilder with the palette knife cutting up the paint layers on the bull itself.  If you know anything about stock you know there is a bull market and a bear market. The bull is what you want. Most of us want a balance in life for peace a

Horse 75 Leaves of Gold Sky of Blue 8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas Panel    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a toss up right now whether to be in the studio painting or enjoying the beautiful fall seasoning opening up around us right now.  Temps still are climbing into the low 80's but the nights are in the fifties making the mornings just perfect.  No time like the present to appreciate the beauty of God and the changing seasons. I did two contemporary horses paintings in the studio yesterday afternoon both went on panels primed with soft sherbet orange.   My color addiction always erupts.  I really had fun painting in acrylic for

Horse 76 Golden Morning  8 x 10 acrylic on panel    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the second of the two horse paintings done with the orange sherbet laid in background. I love the rusty red that flowed through this painting. All the colors of what I see outside appearing in brilliance on the surface.  Every now and then I have to do an acrylic painting. It will be back to Oils tomorrow. Long walks in the morning have been delicious.  Cool enough to wear a jacket but then by mid morning... getting warm again. This has to be my favorite time of the year.  “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one sm

Horse 74 Pair of Appaloosa  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Horse 74 Pair of Appaloosa     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finding peace was the mission in this 'repaint'.  I took a quiet horse painting and began the added layers of paint.  This particular piece had mixed media beneath with acrylics and now I have introduced oils over the top of the painting. Using the pulled paint method, the colors pulled together two visible horses in the painting. I decided to keep it simple and not pull so many bright colors into it. Not everyone loves a rainbow painting.  The mission in the studio is to enjoy my journey wo