Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”  ― Ellen DeGeneres I really do not have a huge funny bone, but this one struck me and made me giggle.   We all start things trying to get somewhere and never get there and on the flip side we never start things and we always end up in odd places.  That is how painting on canvas always goes... if I have a destination I can PROMISE you I will not get there. Much easier to just let the day happen and see where it takes me.  Maybe

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”  ― Søren Kierkegaard Countless prayers have been prayed through my lips and heart of my early years asking so many times for things to happen or turn out a certain way.  As I grew and matured I began to recognize the importance of praying and listening.  Listening is the biggest part of any relationship.  When you are considering it one with God, are you listening or just asking?   Good friends and family tire of the constant cry of need coming their way.  Some of u

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 6 Sold Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Promise Yourself" To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a che

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Summer Horse 5 Sold.  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde Sometime in our lives we have taken delight in teasing someone. Sometime in our lives we have annoyed other people. Sometime in our life we have hurt someone's feelings.  Today many of us hold grudges, resentments or thought of revenge against someone or somethings and it will often lead straight into health problems. I love Oscar Wilde's phrase about annoying them more by forgiving them.  It truly will help you move on to more peace and a healthier life.  Through this process y

   © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Red screams it in this one!  Being creative and innovative is the awesome job of an artist.  Sometimes beginning a new canvas can be daunting.  Images of paintings past that were either washed or scraped away, or painted over loom before me, sometimes bringing in that nasty visitor called 'doubt'.    As an artist sometimes you feel like you not only reinvent your world on canvas daily, you also have to market and reinvent yourself.  How in the world can you

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 3 2012 Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Peace begins with a smile..” ― Mother Teresa I believe if I took a poll of my readers about 'peace' in their lives, I might discover that peace is rare.  As I write often, we tend to chose the other path away from peace each day.  Perhaps this day you could think about it and find peace today. Peace begins inside of you. You can be peaceful and calm in the midst of the storm. Take yourself to a silent place and reconnect with peace.  Meditation or having a mantra helps but you have to remember to do it. Repeating a phrase will seem silly at first,

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 SUMMER HORSE 2 2012 © LAURIE PACE . Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne Is there something you are waiting for?  Do you have that feeling that if I can just make it till Saturday, everything will be okay?   It is okay right now... it is only Thursday, so don't wish the day away. When you stay so focused on things ahead, you miss the journey today. Come out of your corner and play today. Sit back and find the joy in the moments and happenings. There are some.  We have all walked through 'the va

   © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,  the slow result of life's decay,  To be once more a little child  for one bright summer day.”  ― Lewis Carroll Since I took a slight break from painting, I will fill in with some small collectibles that sold the first summer I did them. I painted and sold 100 horses in 100 days and I sold every single one of them.  Right now with the adjustment to double families in one home, Painting is not as easy.   I love this quote from Lewis Carroll.  Watching my six year old granddaughter brings back a kaleidoscope of memo