Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.” ― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here The Spring rains have been so nice lately.  Rain is predicted again today.  As I sit in my studio and look out the second story window, the cardinals are building nests in the trees outside as they are budded full of new green leaves.  Spring brings thoughts of new growth and new challenges.  Change is blooming in the air.  The painting is full of the spring colors and that is why I chose it.  I would love to know what colors are part of your life. Every

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ― Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor My husband bought six wrapped bundles of tulips at Whole Foods this week.  He brought home pink, red, yellow, orange and white.  My eyes were going crazy taking in the color and the beauty... so delicious! We decided to share the beauty with our granddaughters.   We made them up a beautiful bouquet of pink, yellow and white,  then our daughter in law had a combo like mine, red, y

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Sold. Lady L Third Birthday by Oma ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu This will be the new change... I will probably only blog once a week, maybe twice if things are happening. I want to share more in less time.  I am helping a friend as she begins something she has dreamed about for years. Too soon to share the details, but her commitment to God and waiting till it was His timing and not hers, is amazing testimony in itself.   I believe always in giving and sharing of the gifts God has created in you. A

   © +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