Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 "Thoughts Escaping, Music Playing" Prints only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the sketches continue and yes I just had to try a horse. and it was on the Pages 53 app.  It was fun.  I smiled when I did it and I am still smiling looking at it.  Even my SIL was moved by it when I shared it this week.   If you keep up with my blog you know I am not in search of joy, but trying to live joyfully each day, and most of the moments in the day.  Even Terry is in on board with this now. It must be rubbing off.  He came in late last night before bed and sat on the couch in the bedroom and said, "You know I really love you. I do

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  "Mary?"  Honking on in JOY! Living in God's Moment Not Mine! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop with Carla is FUN.  These were actually done on the app Pages 53 with their 'implement' that is like a pen/pencil/paintbrush/marker/ etc.   The lesson was just carried over from manual sketching to using the tools on my ipad.  Fun. Really fun. There is an amazing amount of self confidence building with these small sketches of line and color.  I know the power of God within is working for me because I am not in the way of the energy or the process.  I am allowing the joy to flow from my heart through my hands.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Honking On . Scribble Sketches from the Studio.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well... yes this is different. I began a year long course with Carla Sonheim called  THE YEAR OF THE SPARK. Reminding myself of the need to be open to more joy and to let go of all the things I cling to is not easy.  I happened on this course when fellow artist Kimberly Santini posted it on Facebook.  It only took me about three hours and I was signed up. I read up on Carla and watched some videos and decided to see if her course would open some new doors for me.  So last night I began my first lesson and although I covered at least twenty pages or more

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2007 Steps at the Dallas Arboretum . Oil on Canvas . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Path to God is before you. It is not difficult to follow it. You will find Him surrounding you with your very first step. Pause as you do and take in the beauty of His spirit around you.  I am working on feeling Him with me throughout the day with both prayer and conversations. He really is here right now as I am typing this journal entry. Beautiful Flowers at the Arboretum When Terry and I visit the Arboretum we are amazed at God's hand in everything we see. I must be close to what the Garden of Eden was like but of course th

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2007  Hayden and Aspen . Commissioned Painting . Oil Canvas . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Making the Journey with a Friend. All the medicine in the world cannot heal someone if their heart does not want to heal. Loneliness takes the life of many people every day.. day by day, little by little, part of the mind and body pull further away from the world in their personal journey.  Sharing time with those you love is primary. Letting people know you care about them and you are invested in their life can make a difference. Make a call today to someone you love that you have not spoken to.  My oldest friend is in Austin. We have not s

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2007  Meditation** . Laurie Pace . Sunset Palette Knife Painting . Oil . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God's Symphony You have to get up early in the morning to watch the sun wake up the world. It touches the earth with gentle colors of lavender and pinks before it erupts into full colors.  The Sunsets are the same but in reverse. As the sun sets we are presented with a kaleidoscope of colors blazing across the horizon. After the blaze, the sun sets kissing the earth good-bye in lavenders and blues. Each color is in harmony to His palette and choice of colors. The beauty resonates within me each morning when I take Paddy outside after

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Chasing Butterflies . Laurie Pace . Oil on Canvas . Commissioned . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catching Butterflies There is a happy world out there. God has created  inside  each of us a full range of emotions to develop and use in our journey. Every experience we encounter fine tunes our emotions and we learn to respond to sad things, awesome things, loving things, joyful things, scary things etc. We have been given the gift of emotions and we can choose to live in joy and give 'joy' and 'love' to others each day. YOU and I can make a difference when we meet someone with a smile, a warm compliment, a pat on the ba

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 In Tune** . Guitar Painting . Laurie Pace . Oil on Canvas . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you in Tune? There are days I begin to wonder when I feel like I am not in step with the world. Try as hard as I might that day, I cannot gain ground and often I lose it.  Laurie Pace on Guitar  When I pick up my guitar to play it, the first thing I do is check the tuning. It really throws everything off if one string is not in tune.  Same with life, if I am 'out of tune' with God and life itself, I cannot 'play'. You may be a student studying, an employee learning new things at the job, a new m