Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +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

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 He Lives Size: 18 x 24  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou I was sorting through images for something to post from the past. Usually Mondays are from the past.  I discovered several of my music pieces and it truly moved my heart that I may want to do another one this summer.  I love Maya Angelou's thoughts about crawling into the space between the notes.  I crave my piano and guitar for that same reason.  This morning I spent over 90 minutes playing the piano and the guitar. It was AWESOME!!!  

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Evening Shadows When Stars Appear  Size: 30x40  Oil on Canvas. Available at Mirada Fine Art, Denver. Email Steve.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love. Bob Dylan Yes I was listening to Garth Brooks when I painted this piece and named it. The words are by Bob Dylan. Should have figured that one out.  This painting is available at Mirada Fine Art in Denver. You can email Steve here.   This black and white series really brought out depth in my work as I explored it. I do believe I

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Appy  Size: 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “In riding a horse, we borrow freedom” ― Helen Thompson This appaloosa was painted back in fall of 2006. It was a favorite of mine.  One day I would love to attempt a repaint but I know it will never catch the same spirit.  It has been the cover of the National Appaloosa magazine and made into posters at their national convention.  Painting horses is a freeing experience. Riding them gives so much more freedom.. feeling the wind against you, leaning into the horse and feeling as one as you gallop forward. I hope people can feel the energy and freedom in my work.