Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light I want to hurry through my blog this morning so I can go walk. The temperatures are in the sixties and I want to be out there! We still have a strong wind but it feels good. Terry has  several projects he has attacked and I am hoping they get finished. This morning I started humming my fav song by the Beatles "there are places I remember.... all my life..." and my brain sings the song through

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Blue Herd Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.” ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole Yesterday I wrote about Liddle, the Scottish runner from the Paris Olympics years ago...After the Olympics were over he followed his Christian background and retraced his parents journey becoming a missionary in China. At that time WW II was in full force and he ended up in a concentration camp in China with a large number of children from the school and teachers. Thankfully he had sent his wife and children home to Canada just before he was imprison

Blue Horse © 2008 Laurie Pace    © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” ― Henry David Thoreau Lord, give me the strength and the wisdom to walk through this day; to go where you will lead me; to embrace it and give it my all. I fully believe we are missing some of the journey the Lord has for us because things get in the way. We have such will and power that we basically run off in several directions at one time. That too is part of our society right now...being busy. We watched a special on the Olympics about

Morning Run ©2013 Laurie Pace    © +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 let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Well I have been up for an hour and a half and not really accomplished much. I we

© 2009 Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Majesty Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "God alone is capable of making Himself known as He really is. We search in reasoning and in sciences, as in a poor copy. What we neglect to see is God's painting Himself in the depth of our soul. Always be with God. Do nothing, say nothing and think nothing which may displease Him. Do this without any other view than purely for the love of Him and because He deserves infinitely more." Brother Lawrence This 2008 painting is entitled MAJESTY because as I painted it I felt the passion and fullness of the spirit within. Beauty, power and life al

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....” ― Henry Ford Last journal entry I shared Big Eddie. While in Wine Country that trip,  we stopped for wine tasting at Rooster Hill Vineyards where my art show had been two weeks earlier. I am not a drinker, but I did like their Cabernet Sauvignon and I am not a red wine drinker at all. I am more into their Dry Riesling. We have been members of their wine club for seven years, and all my galleries get good wine for the Holidays.  With the popping up of hurr

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky Yes, I painted in New York back in 2008. We had moved to Dallas the winter before and my Mom had a serious of bad health issues and my Dad's health was not in a good place.  We grabbed Mom and flew up to Washington DC and drove up to the Finger Lake Region to Visit my friend Billie Bauman.  I painted Billie's Dog, Fast

Red Shoes Pony    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size 24 x 24 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.” ― Kiera Cass, The Selection I love this quote... I could never be princess material either and I worry about the 'princess' mentality in our younger girls.  They are surrounded by Disney princesses. With all the over marketing the girls wear shirts, dresses, pjs, shoes, crowns, phones, computers, chairs, bedspreads... it goes on and on and on. They are literally brainwashed by it all. Thank you media! Thank you