Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sailboat painting Sold.  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”  ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Clouds begin to roll in around and lightening is seen in the distance.... a storm is on the horizon. Fear may build in your heart and the barometric pressure may begin to affect your calm replacing it with a building anxiety.  NOW is the time to decide how to funnel this energy into productive time.   We face storms daily in our lives physically or mentally.  What is important is how we react to those storms.  Many times collectors ask me for a painting for their hom

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message)”  ―  Anonymous ,  Life is constant change and growing, even at my age.  As we embrace each day, we adjust things around us to complete who we believe we are. People seem to define us by the way we dress, talk or even by what we do.  I find myself evolving in some places, yet holding on to small things from yesterday that I like about myself.  I do not have to become someone "New and Improved" but I have to embrace the change that is needed.  Staying open to what

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8 Wood Panel  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”  ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You I am at a stretching point in my art career.  The same ole same ole has grown old.  The joy is not quite there. I yearn to step in different directions. So sometimes I have to stop what I am doing and take a right turn to try something else.  Usually that awakens the creative juice

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 8 x 8  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Since the fall I have been hitting days of not being able to fall asleep. This is really unusual for me. I am one of those sleepers that falls asleep, does not roll around, or wake in the night for the bathroom run.  It seems so strange to be laying there awake from 9 pm through about 2:30 or 3:00.   On facebook I note others suffering from this as well. Either they fall asleep for two hours and are awake the rest o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We're all golden sunflowers inside.” ― Allen Ginsberg Are you true to yourself?  Are you true to your faith?  Are you true to your life?  Do you seek the truth? It is a daily struggle but if you can do it, strive to develop a norm that is centered on peace, truth and unity.  I grew up seeking peace and calm and RUNNING from chaos, dishonesty, harsh words, etc.  I still do not like conflict today.  We each have God's gold inside of us... the rays of light seeking a path out to shine through you. What really matters to you?  We are faced with confrontations and situations e

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”  ― Mark Twain I love this quote by Mark Twain.  Lying seems to be interwoven into our lives in American society and I truly wish we lived cleaner and had better principles in place. What are we teaching the next generation?  Life here is busy still. I am literally blogging on the fly this morning. It is Monday morning at 9:40 and I always blog by 10.  SO typing away quickly.  The painting above was painted back in early spring of 2009 or 2010.  Right now my paints are semi packed away and the studio is clean. REALLY cl

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Laurie Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” ― Jack Kornfield What do you wake with this Sunday morning that is heavy on your heart or your shoulders? What are you dreading, fighting or avoiding right now? "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 Time to set yourself free and let go of the things that are weighing you down. I had a great pastor at Mt Vernon United Methodist Churc

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 5 x 7  Mixed Media on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein SIGH... DEEPER SIGH.  Do not know where the week went . This is already SATURDAY.  I haven't really blogged all week, except for Stacey's birthday.  We made the decision to downsize and literally have been hitting the house each day, packing up extra stuff, fixing small things and mourning.    Yep, Mourning.  I hate to even admit how many times Terry and I have moved. For a while we were redoing homes and selling them and buying the next. The goal was to pay for o