Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Cover up ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”  ―  John Lennon So over the past three or four weeks we have been in a constant motion for a move. Our home sold the first day. The plan was to buy the house across the street to stay close to our kids and grandkids.  Things really never looked good on that front... not at all.  We were hit by one situation after another as the inspection revealed some major problems and the owner would not or could not fix them. We had to pray about it and decide if we could take it on realizing we were buying it as is.  Every day so

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 10 x 30 Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.” ― Rumi What is true beauty?   I remembered a quote from Kahlil Gibran “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” How right this rings in my heart.  I am blessed with many friends of such great beauty. One of my older friends is my heart sis "Jan".  She is my go to mentor for everything and anything. I respect and love her and look to her as she leads her life a

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 The Large Gathering   Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 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, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to spe

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 30 SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair If it's gotta be love, it's gotta be God.  God is love and love is God. God's love involves sacrifice, gifts, and unconditional acceptance and love. There is no way one human can love another like God loves us.  God's love is deeper than intense affection or physical attraction. It is something as humans we cannot fully grasp. God's love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend. It is not bas

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Watering Hole, Meeting Friends, Crested Butte Size: 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee This is one of those... it was NOT li

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size:24 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 When an artist paints, that question comes when things are done, is this painting done?  As in the quote above, why does an artist come back to a painting?  They can see things differently and with a new eye after spending time away from it.  I truly liked the painting I posted last week but something did

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” ― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way As I was sewing a patch to Terry's jeans... he is working in the attic at the new house across the street and he ripped the knee in his work jeans... I found he tried to do an iron patch to the knee area.   I pulled out my thread and heavy needle and began to try and whip stitch the mess so the patch would not pull off as it was loose and not adhering to the jean surface.  I did NOT realize he handed me his jeans inside out as I carefully stitched the edges.  I then realized he had not only handed them to