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Walk Beside Me... Contemporary Abstract Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 32 x 48 Oil on Canvas Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”  ― Albert Camus This is the truth about the final step of the painting.... working with the spirit side by side. I would lie if I told you all was perfect as it came together. It was not. There was a point that I almost scrapped the canvas...but that is when I felt the calm to push forward and work side by side with the painting. I could not be in control of it. Almost done! "So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my

The Next Step...Feeling Lonely Contemporary Abstract Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 32 x 48  Oil Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?” ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance The next step after squiggling paint on the canvas surface was to begin knifing it around and finding composition in what you are knifing based on the movement not on a proposed idea.  So the laying out of the paint at this time has a rhythm to it.  This is the scarey step...the lonely one that only you can make on your own. You know you are brave, but it does feel mighty lonely. Trusting right now as I move ahead. Giving

You are Braver than you Believe.... Contemporary Abstract Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 32 x 48 Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne Steve Sonnen at MIrada challenged me to some new pieces for the gallery in August.  He was wanting some of the freedom in other pieces he had sold. Sometimes that 'freedom' in a painting can seem daunting.  I have very little control over it past this point above.  I have surfaced the canvas with acrylics and once that was dry, began squirting the oils in the chosen colors all over the surface.  At this point I have control. After this I loo

Celebrate Life...Growing Yellow Flowers Texas Artist / Photographer Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Yellow flowers are like physical manifestations of sunlight. I’m growing a garden of sunglasses just to help save eyesight and make the world a little bit cooler.”  ― Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax This has been a year of awareness through the world of cyberspace.  Facebook connects the world and we gather 'friends' that we never will know face to face.  There is a pattern to posting as these new online friends post images of their homes, families...happy moments and times they move through death of a loved one or even their own passing.  Fellow artists have gone through painful times losing their spou

A Realm of Opportunity...Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Rollover SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I like storms. Thunder torrential rain, puddles, wet shoes. When the clouds roll in, I get filled with this giddy expectation. Everything is more beautiful in the rain. Don't ask me why. But it’s like this whole other realm of opportunity."― Penelope Douglas, Bully Stretching in bed, rolling and breathing in the morning as it breaks around you. The sun is just creeping up bringing pink to the sky. The day has limitless opportunity. It is all your gift. How will you use it? For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for t

There was NOT enough time... and we were better together. Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas. sold Commission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But there is not enough time,  And there is no, no song I could sing. And there is no combination of words I could say  But I will still tell you one thing - We're better together." Jack Johnson "Better Together" I had the pleasure of doing a painting for the daughter of one of my oldest and dearest friends. The first painting did not really work as I painted two horses traveling together because when I looked back at photos...there were always those seven kids between us... hers and mine.  Sunday afternoon journeys piled in her su

Bare Feet Upon the Earth Nude Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Nude  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”  ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do... then I remember I am a bit old for streaking across the backyard or down the street.  But I will never be too old for walking barefoot, or sitting with feet dangling into cool water.  As the years fly by and age creeps in, your body changes and your outlook on life changes. Time is ticking away on the clock and the years are passing by.  What do you want to do with the years left? Have you ma

My Garden of Friends, Poppy Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 White Poppies Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson A good friend purchased this painting from me eight years ago. It was one of my favorites that I was going to keep. It was hanging in the master bathroom when she spotted it.  I truly hope she is still enjoying it. She moved from the area about six years ago, but the fun we had painting together stays with me forever.  She is part of my garden of friends and the sweet memories I have of our mornings at the easel. "And why are you anxious about clot

Leaving your Doors Open Flower Painting with Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 sold Three Roses  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.” ― Rose Wilder Lane My Grandmother taught me that happiness was elusive if I was on the constant search or wait for it.  She and my Mom both taught me happiness was something that crept in while you least expected like when you are giving and doing for others.   We have become a society here in the states, that seems to glorify self and focusing just on our own needs and desires.  We seem to always notice what we do not have instead of being thankful for wh