Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”  ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring This painting was a playful experience. Beginning with a black canvas and adding the lines of color opened up creativity in a new way.  I only did this one but enjoyed painting it. Sometimes it is good to work outside your norm or

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Getting close to the end of the summer. The heat cannot fade away fast enough. This painting reminds me of the haze of water on the roads when it is so hot and the roads look like there are shimmering puddles from the heat. That seems to be how life is. So much looks like shining good things to us through the mist of the media...all  the treasures we seek in life. But

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson Treasures from the past, my mother in law's colorful pots.  Do not remember if this was shared earlier this summer or not.  Terry and I were out replanting after the three weeks of 100 plus temps and putting new blooms into these family pots.  Each day we put seeds out to grow.  They can be seeds of love, gifts of joy... or they could be hateful seeds of distrust and envy or anger.  What can you plant today? This past month has been so busy getting Lady L ready for scho

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 First Year Poppies  Size: 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.   Luther Burbank This is the painting her Mom wanted for her. I had done a small one several years ago with thick thick paint, a wide brush and lots of pink.  Her Mom said it was her daughter's energy and spirit so that is what I painted.  I was really hesitant when I sent the final piece and said, "Email me back fast if you do not like it, I will have to make pink horses!" She loved it. The painting left for northwest Texas l

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 In progress, 36 x 36 inches  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla.    'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.'  'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea I had the sweetest gift I could receive with the opportunity to paint this piece for a first year teacher and her new apartment.   I remember my first teaching position and it was first

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Native Herd Sunrise   Size: 3 x 4 ft  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”  ― William Blake We have been doing reading each morning at the breakfast table with Lady L.  She has her children's thought for the day book, and we have Daily Word and Jesus is Calling.  The teacher in me always jumps ahead to try and apply things to her young life where she can understand it. This past week I ask her if she knew what a sponge was. She answered yes.  I asked her what happened if the sponge was really dry and hard and you set it in a puddle of water.

   © +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