Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015    Oil on Canvas Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”  Jim Rohn I heard this quote recently in a class with Alyson Stanfield.   It really stood out in my mind as I contemplated who were the five people I spend the most time with.  DO you know who yours are?  God ... I start my day with Him; I walk with Him; I talk to Him constantly throughout the day; I rest in Him; I believe in Him.  From Him I have LIFE, LOVE, LIGHT and BEING. Terry... My husband.  I met him when I was eleven so I would definitely believe he qualifies as a top ranking person. From Terry I ha

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Midnight Horse  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tripping Up and Falling Down . Walking by Faith and not by Sight . Horse of Midnight . Contemporary Western Horse Paintings When we bought this two story house two years ago, Diane Whitehead laughed when I posed the thought... "Gee, I am getting older, not so sure about doing stairs." She assured me it was wonderful exercise and I would stay younger.  Walking by faith, we bought the house, not because of the stairs, but the location across the street from our daughter and her family.  Today, two years later, we stand in faith that we made the right d

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Rocky Mt Sunrise available at Mirada Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever been between a rock and a hard place? Do you know what that means?  Morton's Fork is the same thing. It is a situation offering at least two possibilities, neither of which are acceptable.  A Morton's Fork is a specious piece of reasoning in which contradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion. It is said to originate with the collecting of taxes by John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury in the late 15th century, who held that a man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes, whereas

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Longhorn Silver Haze © 2015 Laurie Pace  SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gray Matters . Cubby Holes of Love . Longhorn Silver Haze  A friend called wanting something special in his cubby for art... a special built in part of his wall for art, already with a light but needing a painting. He sent me pictures of his rugs, walls, pillows and I set to work. He did not want specific colors included and at first I felt limited but as I worked I began to see a true personality come alive in this painting.   God calls each of us for a certain 'cubby' spot in this world. His light is shining on it waiting for e

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Going Back In the Hood . New Art Show opening at Dutch Art in Dallas . Wolf Painting  Later this month I am excited about returning to the Lake Highlands area of Dallas for an art show with three other women.  It is the Colors of Lake Highlands.  While I wish there had been more lead in time to create new paintings, I do have six or seven debuting in the show. The Wolves will be there along with flowers and horses and even a bowl of fruit.  I will be there too. More details will be later in the month on time of the reception and opening. Every morning we are g

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Hill Landscape Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hills are both literal and psychological.  Some hills are higher to climb than others. So me hills offer something pretty neat on the other side. What hill are you climbing right now? I really sat and thought about this blog before I began it. In the past week: I lost a favorite Aunt, my dad's sister.   I heard from some dear friends the dad has colon cancer. One of my older art friends has a wife on the verge of sliding further up the other side of her hill into God's arms, also with cancer.  Lady M, our newest granddaughter will be Baptised in a few weeks to celeb

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO art today!  This is Lady L from Easter last year.  I am sure today will be filled with much of the same. I am hoping for sunshine and good health so everyone will come for Easter Lunch.  May your day be filled with love.  Leave all those hurtful feelings and pains at the foot of the cross. Look up to God as you walk away and begin life again right now filled with his love and joy.   Laurie A Prayer of Thanks  - an Easter Prayer by Max Lucado Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your Son to earth as a baby so many years ago.  Thank you that He paid the punishment for my sins by dying on the cr