Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 3 x 4 ft  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis As children many of us learned to sing "This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine... " We learn about light at an early age associating it as a child to being awake, fed and either working or having time to play. If you stop and think about the many sources of light in our world today, there are so many of them you cannot count them. What is light to man?  I came across this passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.  It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.  Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”  ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Here is the final overlay with medium and acrylic.  My original thoughts were a herd of buffalo on the low horizon and more sky...but the more I think about that the more I do not feel it it the right path to take for this painting. I spent time this morning going back through prior vertical pieces as th

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Progress painting  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway I think you will enjoy this evolution and journey on this canvas so I am sharing from the beginning step by step.  The journey is the most important part of my process, which includes not just these pictures but my thoughts as well. This piece is being thought out with a bit of frustration. It is with a gallery in mind that has the mindset of telling the artist what they want or need for selling...which is truly NOT the way an artist works if they

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 24 x 48 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”  ― Rachel Carson This is one of those days... one of those days I do not want to think about painting horses. One of those days I think about what began my journey in art and my journey in life.  I loved Rachel's quote about the grains of sand and the story of the earth. In the same line of thinking, my artwork has a story line of my own life on this earth as does my blog. There have been many influences over the years from history, living, relationships a

   © +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