Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Grandmother's Planter  Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Grandmother came across from Germany around 1916. Her life story is pretty amazing.  I still remember her face, her short dark brown and gray hair, and her eyes...one blue and one green. As a child I literally followed her around the kitchen and stood over her when she sewed. My Grandmother could cook anything.  The first thing she taught me was how to make homemade pancakes. "Wait and count 1000 bubbles before you flip them." I was always flipping them too quickly.  Her sewing was amazing. We could walk into any store and find

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Blue Morning Glories Abstract  Size: 18 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have dogs? We only have one, and gee whiz, going in search in the backyard to snipe is about as twisted as the painting above. The dead grass is dry, brittle and breaking off into pieces. Somewhere buried and woven through the grass are the 'gifts' of love Paddy has left us. I have the best eyes, so I am the hunter. Terry handles the equipment that scoops it all up. Takes us about thirty minutes each week and we have tried to make it more fun. During the summer months it is not as bad as these cold winter months.  Often in life w

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Rocky Mountain Buffaloes Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fun. Fun. Fun.  Happy smiles is what reflects to me off this painting. I wish I could paint like this all the time... wait a minute, I CAN! I can paint like this anytime I want to. I am not limited.  From the Illusions books :   “if you argue for your limitations they are yours” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah  And WHY do we limit ourselves so much?  Why do we buy into things from our subconscious that simply are not true. Why do we feel so inadequate?   From   the Illusions book :  “You are never given a

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 In progress. Buffalo Painting.  Oil on Canvas. 30 x 40 Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jumping right in to paint was so much fun. I sketched from another painting that was a three on the run group of buffalo using the same mountain edge and then began to toss the colors in attempting to capture the movement of the day.  The colors were BURSTING with intensity. This is a piece for a March Show at Mirada featuring four artists and the west.  This one runs high with energy for sure. I will post the final next journal. I sway back and forth on whether I like the blues, reds and yellows or the tucked in accents of green and orange.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Rocky Mountain Longhorn 32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas. Mirada Fine Art . Denver, Colorado ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will bet you did not know I was/am a Texas History Teacher.  With totally modestly I must say I am one of the best. My students loved Texas History and not one of them failed the course when I taught it. Texas history is deep and exciting. Texas has evolved over and over again and so have the residents of Texas.  Now I am not a born Texan, but I am married to one and all our kids are Texas born.  Oh yes, it makes a difference. Don't tell, I am from Missouri.  We are still trying to figure out how our son in la

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015        Sketch for Longhorn Painting. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a losing battle for me. 99% of my longhorn painting are commissions for UT fans here in Texas. I do not budge on those. One went to Dutch Art and was sold to someone I knew wanting one.  I have never EVER EVER sent them out of the state or had them in any other gallery. Only that one, in a Dallas Gallery. Steve Sonnen at Mirada Fine Art has a plan. He has a show. It is the best of the west in Colorado. He has my horses. He has my wolves. He does not have a longhorn. I have avoided the subject.  Well with the show involving four artists, and I am honored to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Pansy Photo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is that single plant growing in the cold in our garden? Pansy on Parade . Preparing your Garden .  Laurie Pace During all the cold weather, the freezes, the ice, the plummeting night time temps in the teens... something was growing in the garden. We had cleaned all the plants out when the first freeze hit in late October. I even cut all the marigolds and brought them in to enjoy. But something grew taller and taller with large leaves on it.  Finally I went out to inspect the garden to see what was there. I thought maybe some lettuce was coming up. But to my surprise it was broccoli. I

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hints of spring are peaking out between the days of cold. Meanwhile the roses have done well on the southeast side of the house and I cannot wait to start cutting blooms for my vases. I have small buds beginning already.  With this being Lent, there is a double time spent on time in prayer. For me it is not just the giving up of things special to me, but the giving to others of things special to me.   Lady L was reading in her school story book about a parrot that had two coats to wear to a party. He could not decide between his green coat and his yellow one. He wore t