Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Midnight Gathering ©Laurie Pace 2014 Midnight Gathering    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is powerful.. more so in person than on this screen I am sure. Just looking back over the days and seeing the changes and the unique force that settles in this painting, makes me thankful for the guidance of my inner soul.  With the completion of the  painting  comes a peace and the realization of being finished.   Isn't that the best part of your day when you get done with something and can put it behind you?  Painting  ultimately has a similar completion feeling. Artists tend to hang things up though and

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 36 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it changed.  Just one night and you wake up and it is different. Different flavor and message from yesterday's canvas.  There are more changes in store but this allows you to observe the process. One  Horse   Painting  coming together in monochromatic form. At times in this process I begin to feel that panic in the pit of my stomach. I want to literally scrape all the paint off and walk away, but something ties me to the canvas to finish what I began. The  spirit  with in pushes me forward to be brave and to put the energy and anxiety into the paint and this proce

IN PROGRESS    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, there is no name and this is not where it ends up. I will share the process of this  painting  over three days but painfully this is where it began.  When I start things and immediate they become 'odd' I know it requires a brave front and depending on the creative spirit with in to move forward. This  horse   painting  will take on a different view over the next two days, so come back to see more! Teaching... learning... experimenting... climbing out of the box... all important in making art or in living life. Life offers many opportunities to lear

Sunflowers Laurie Pace ©2011 No 106  Sunflowers    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standing under the trees right now with the cooler north wind... I close my eyes and feel the leaves as they fall from the trees brushing my face and hands.  Even as these leaves die and fall from the tree they remind me of the rich living bounty of God.  Some might wish it was money falling from the trees, but not me. These leaves symbolize all God gives us daily with this bounty open to us to have at any time. He continues to bless us with shared smiles, conversations, hugs, winks and many treasured moments. Each encounter me

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  no painting today... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, so when was the last time you blew bubbles and chased them around the yard?  Did you study the beauty in each bubble as it reflected the light and colors surrounding it?  Lady L and I always love spending time in the back yard despite living in the middle of the suburbs. So today is my birthday. I cannot figure out why they seem to come around faster and faster each year. It is quite the change from life living at the lake to where we are living now.  Now is above and then is below.  Terry is still busy bringing in more flowers, trees and plants. I do not think we will eve

Canadian Three © Laurie Pace Canadian Three Wolf Painting    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 30 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Living in the here and now and not being tied to society and all the expectations others put on us is often difficult. This  painting  of Wolves traversing the snow in Canada reminds me of our own journey. There is a  hunger  that drives us. It used to be hunger to find something to eat, but now the hunger is power, toys, possessions, homes, cars.  What is your reality? What drives you each day? Is it the search for  happiness  and contentment? Is  happiness  conditional?  Can you be satisfied and find  happin

Waterhole   ©Laurie Pace 2011 The Watering Hole    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Watering Hole is a collage of earth tones and color and from the bounty of this richness the etchings of  horses  appearing through out the movement of paint.  This contemporary  horse  painting  brings to mind the busyness of the city and where we live now in comparison to the lake where we did live.  There are so many people crammed into every subdivision...restaurant and just on the street driving, that you tend to blend into the city and lose your identity.  Sometimes I think being lost in a crowd is good and