Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Fast Start  Horse 2 Small Collectible 2015   Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentlemen, Start your Engines please . Fast Start . Small Collectible Horse Paintings  Ready ... Set ... Go.  Begin this day with a joyful heart!  Know it will be filled with positive expectancy. Joy can be found in many ways...just look around you.  This small collectible began with Caramel Brown...now called Brown Pink.  I like the other name better. Seriously, Caramel Brown sounds delicious. Not sure about Brown Pink. Remember one of my last posts talked about names and how the name of something often affects how you view it?  So

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 1 Bathed in Hot Sunlight 2015 Small Collectibles   Size: 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bathing in Hot Sunlight . Still Snow on the ground? Is this really March?  The cold freezing temperatures raised the bar in the studio this morning. I brought out the powerful RED.  I am in amazement at the first week of March and the continued cold, sleet and snow.  Flowing from the top left upper corner is the flooding of warm hot sunlight turning red as it surfaces down to the horses and the ground. This beauty sold already. I had it on the Collectibles for sale and the first day it was up... it was bought.  If you

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 "Evening Shadows and The Stars Appear"  Size: 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evening Shadows and Stars . Touch me in the Moonlight. Garth was playing in the background... like four different albums during the first day of this paint. I finished it up to Alan Jackson and some gospel music. This painting was FUN FUN FUN to do. Every stroke of my knife was play and discovery. I am leaning in more to enjoy the process and let things happen with the paint.  This piece will be in the Western Show at Mirada the end of March along with the Buffaloes, other Horses and Rocky the Longhorn. Maybe I should rename

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Rocky Horning In   Size: 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Facelift? Is it going to hurt? Return to the easel and close your eyes.  Well, the eyes that keep me working suggested changes on Rocky.  So he had to have a facelift back on the easel.  No more rings around his eyes. No more longhorn spots... and a bit more expressive colors throughout his face.  He is on his way to Denver for the Show at Mirada the end of March.  I am not sure if Terry and I will be there or not but we are seriously making plans to attempt to. It means Lady L get a break from homeschool. It means finding a house sitter for Paddy, our

   © +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.