Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Oil on Canvas in Progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Just sat on the floor in the entry hall today with Terry sharing about the finding joy again.  We will be spending more time over the next few weeks watching our life and tweaking things each day.  Not sure who we are right now. It is a puzzle. There seems to be constant distractions that keep us from laughing and playing coy with each other and really getting in deep again to where we were about 10 years ago. OUCH... for me the last six years it has been FACEBOOK distraction.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Inches Oil on Canvas Beginnings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man This is the first one in the new studio. Sorry it is not allowing me to adjust it a bit with the bad light. You see continuous lines evolving and revolving. In the midst of the calm is some chaos with the yellow squiggly lines. There is a heartbeat and a pulse already in process. No vision at this point or direction. One thing I think about lately as we have gotten older is the lack of laughter and fun that was there when we married years and years ago. Where did that playfulness disappear to?

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Inside the Studio Mess ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle At last I can report the studio is surfacing slowly.  I even have pictures!  I began a painting in it last week that is shipping to La Jolla Gallery.  More on that as I post progress shots this week. The mainstay of this entry is to be at the beginning of something... and wise enough to know it, recognize it and walk forward with it.  Good or bad.  The hardest thing for me is giving thanks for the things that are so hard and trying.  The days that you feel both mentally and physically drained and down... that it is s

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 24   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 Letting go of paralyzing fear is not the easiest thing to do. Living with anxiety is like living without the ability to live for yourself. I have lived this way most of my life... despite everything that I have done. The survival to push and succeed came from my parents. I started modeling at age 14... and did that through age 35.  Even with marriage, a husband and three children arriving, I studied art and finished my degree with a major in commercial art.  I worked

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Early Morning Hour - Sold  - Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “To be naked is to be oneself.   -   To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”  ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing These quotes I come up with for the paintings I share always send me deep into thoughts. As I seem to be passing into another 'stage' age in life... changes that are noticeable more to me than others.  There is now the possibility of discovering who I am deep inside of me... not the person I try to be to please all the people in my life.  Reading deeply into the Bible, studying more on what is real inside and n

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Blooms  24 x 24 Sold  -  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan Here it is Wednesday and I do not have an update on the studio. SAD... I am sad.   This old floral painting just about reflects the household right now!   Terry has worked diligently putting in a new sturdy back door with inset blinds in between the glass.  We also ordered a new front door, by accident... happened to be in the right place at the right time. Lowes.   They were having 15% off ordered doors... and we narrowed it down and when they were running num

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Lazy Ours Miracle Pantry  Photo for Journal this morning! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we a