Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

The Omega    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: XL  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was approached one year ...maybe it was in 2010 or 2011 by a client that wanted to do a paint it forward painting for his home.  We went in circled discussions trying to pin down colors, style and direction but then were really stuck on size and cost. Made it happen for him. I had to send it rolled because it was so large. I am trying to remember but thinking it as 6 ft tall and maybe 5 ft wide, or four and a half feet wide. I did the painting in acrylic because of his time schedule for wanting it hanging.  This painting began a process for me that then carried on

Curb Sitters    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 6 x 6  Oil on Canvas. Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we lived in Lake Highlands area of Dallas, our old stomping grounds, we lived on a small single block street where neighbors knew neighbors and we all were part of our block.  Block parties were something to look forward to and the adults enjoyed it as much as the children did. It was a perfect spot for me to wander with my camera and snap pictures of families together, children playing and lots of games and competition as well as tables overflowing with food. Curb SItters was painted from one of my shots of the girls... each eating and sharing somethi

Herd of Color    © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was one of my more 'fun' contemporary horse paintings using all of my favorite colors.    There are times when I paint that I totally lose track of time and space enjoying the intensity of the canvas and composition before me.  My 'work' is an expression of the  joy  in my life. When I work I pray the  joy of God  is expressed through my work.  Whatever I am painting, I want to share that happiness with those viewing my work.   Often while working I stop and take pictures and look at the images in Photoshop in reverse to know

Sunset Villa    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I paint these small landscapes I have this urge to escape to where the water is as vivid as the sky at sunset.  This is one of my favorite tiny  landscape paintings .  They always tell you when you are stressed to try and envision some place in your head and mind where it is all good...all peace and beauty.  It is like a focus point to escape whatever is stressing you.   I find that  prayer  helps me be calm.  Sometimes it really takes its toll before I realize I do not need to feed into the chaos around me or the entanglements.  I have that choice.

Horse 82 Grey Stallion    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 6 x 9  Oil on Canvas panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More leftover paint from my Neither Black or White  Painting ... but I had more orange left than blues... I love pulling these colors into this unique contemporary horse painting. It is abstract and it is one of my signature Painted Pony Pulls. Discovery.    Discovery  is always a joy when I paint one of these. You never know where you are going. The colors create the textured surface where the horses appear. I feel like a child at play when I am working on one of these. Every stroke of the palette knife slicing through color or layering c

Neither Black or White    © +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  painting  was a joy to work on last weekend.  It had no beginning and truly could have no end, but I decided to leave it where it was because I felt the amazement of composition that just wove into this contemporary horse painting. It was late at night when I ventured back into the studio to paint. You can tell by this image that I was working by light only.  I began to pull some of my neutral grays throughout and began to 'feel' a pattern come to front as I went next to paynes gray.  Then I came in and knifed in the whites allo

Horse 81 The Eleventh Hour      © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hoping you enjoy the huge amount of texture in this  painting.   First this small contemporary  Horse Painting  is a spill off of my Black and White Series.  I used leftover paint from my palette to create this piece. I came back the next day and finished off the brighter colors layered on top.  Palette knife painting is an expression of spirit for me. The richness of my Holbein oils are creamy and knifing them is a pure joyful act for me.  It is the gift I know He gives me and I am joyful doing it. I am  happy  when I am creating and painting.  

Sunlight Run    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that fall is officially here and ebbing into some cold nights and days, I decided to share this bright Sunrise Run Contemporary  Horse   Painting .   Can't you just feel the warmth of the sunlight here?  The rays traveling across space into the earth's atmosphere and are warming your face and your arms. If you think about it, it is  God's  light and  God's  warmth reaching you... even if through my painting. God always gives to each of us freely our gifts.  We either use them or lose them.  Same with the sunlight... you either enjoy it