Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "She is a gift that keeps on giving back to all of us.  She is a God's beautiful miracle to me... she never ceases to amaze me and I give thanks daily having this beautiful daughter. Life changes when you have children and even more when you have a daughter. "  Laurie Pace Today is her birthday and like my other children, I have to celebrate this day on my blog and share it with you. Last year we did a huge surprise party but right now there is too much going on to try and pull anything off like it again! She grew up between two brothers.  She was a constant defender and protector f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever” ― Nicholas Sparks I hope on this Valentine's Day you are not just spending money on cards, candy and funny gifts...but are spending time with those that are special to you.   "THE LEGEND OF ST. VALENTINE The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been cel

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Rhythm of Love 8 x 8 cradled Wood ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves C S Lewis is one of my favorite

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Lake Cypress Springs  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy I am not sure I think of just changing the world because of what I do... my marketing and 'presence' have to constantly be changing to offer up incentives for people to follow my writing and watch my art grow and change. I overthink the 'changing of me'. Change is a constant in our lives. It is the one constant you can predict will be every single moment of every day and you have absolutely no control over it except HOW you respond to change.  Maybe that is the p

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sunday Morning Color  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.” ― C.S. Lewis You really have to read the whole paragraph to understand this quote.  "I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms ar

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Second Thought  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."  [War With Honour, 1940]” ― A.A. Milne How much value do you give to second thoughts? sec·ond thoughts   .   noun  .  a change of opinion or resolve reached after considering something again.   Example: "on second thought, perhaps he was right" When taking a test it is usually better to ignore second thoughts. That is when you start talking

Passion of Seven 2007 Laurie Pace Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I know time is relevant for each of us.  I grew up with the song in the sixties based on this Bible verse.  What you do not see is a time to be angry. Try to let go today of any anger living inside of you.  Free up your life.  There is a time for everything,     and a season for every activity under the heavens:      a time to be born and a time to die,     a time to plant and a time to uproot,      a time to kill and a time to heal,     a time to tear down and a time to build,      a time to weep and a time to laugh