Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.” ― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days Whew... sigh... working on a painting that is in process of coming to be is comparable to being pregnant and giving birth.  Where it gets roug

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night This is the beginning of a painting entitled Deep of Night.  When I was searching for quotes that struck me to be a part of this process I foun

   © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “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, Winnie-the-Pooh This is another one of my 100 horse paintings from 2012.  I did 100 horses in 100 days... yep and I charged $100 each.  It was a glorious summer and money used for good things to come. All of these horses were so much fun...but the time restraints were taxing.  Painting every single day and posting the pieces daily.  I have not done a push like this since then. Now I try to do 100 in one year!  What would you do?  Sometimes when

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”  ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars This quote is amazing.  Then think about seeing a person for the first time and you truly realize what you see on the outside is not necessarily what is on the inside.  When you look in  a mirror can you see what is in your heart?  We spend countless hours and money on how we look. Well, most of us do.  We have become a self absorbed society.  We are teaching our children

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Red Hills Sunrise  32 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas  Mirada Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the ha

   © +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

   © +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

   © +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

   © +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