Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2012 Journey   Size: 28 x 42  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Not all those who wander are lost.”   J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring A trip back to my studio at the lake.  I am filling some of this in for me to have images of the current things I am painting right now.  This is the beginning stages of a commission painting that was for a collector in Australia. The canvas is painted with Blue Acrylic and then White chalk to sketch off the horse. When you are planning something how do you begin your planning? In the studio my work always begins with prayer for the Holy Spirit to guide me in my work.  If I forge

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Aunt Mary at Cousin Anne's Wedding. Sold to a collector in NY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I heard of a tradition," said Thorne, "where the guests are supposed to make a bunch of raucous noise outside of the bridal chambers on the wedding night, until you give us candy and send us away."   Scarlet glared at him. "Yeah, please don't do that.” ― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above Yep, it is a strange one.... but sometimes an artist has to do what an artist has to do! This was way way back in 2005... 11 years ago.  Part of a pop art series.  I am heading into exploring another area with figurative and I am not sure

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Red Red Rose. Sold Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Red, Red Rose BY ROBERT BURNS O my Luve is like a red, red rose     That’s newly sprung in June;  O my Luve is like the melody     That’s sweetly played in tune.  So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,     So deep in luve am I;  And I will luve thee still, my dear,     Till a’ the seas gang dry.  Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,     And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;  I will love thee still, my dear,     While the sands o’ life shall run.  And fare thee weel, my only luve!     And fare thee weel awhile!  And I will come again, my luve,     T

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Power of Three   Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower A hit from the past and a favorite at that. The Power of Three was a triptych I did years ago.  Think it is on the east Coast with a collector up there who has three of my pieces... on top of these three in a row. I love this quote... we always

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 The Curtsey   Oil on Canvas. Sold... actually snagged by the 7 year old in it for her room.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu It is not bad but it is not exactly where I want to be... but I am going to press on with this.  her face is way way too tight. Yes, she is at Disney, her second most favorite place on earth next to home.   I may experiment with my horses with this approach, but I am determined to get somewhere with the figurative

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 In Progress Painting   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ― Anaïs Nin Well I posted this close up to give you an ideas of the looseness I want but sadly the face did not arrive there. I will post the entire painting tomorrow. It is hanging drying and things could change but my granddaughter loves it like it is.  So I do not know... if I will work on it more or not at this point.  I am using oils and loving the freedom I am achieving it on most of the canvas... just not the face.  (Insert sad smiley face)    But I hav

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Progress Painting the Curtsey  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein This is how this painting has evolved. The face is still too defined but I want to concentrate on the whole of the body of the painting. The skirt of the dress may not get much more and lots of the canvas will remain unpainted... untold... the story needs to be filled in by the viewer.  Not sure how far to play with it and not ruin the attempt. Face looks too much like a mask.  "who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw Time to share a journey.. but just the basics over a few days.  It began with a drawing of my eldest granddaughter from two years ago... but I am not a figurative painter anymore... what was can no longer be and I am pushing to go a different direction and I know this painting will not reach it but it will be a stepping stone to where I need to go. Suddenly my tightness has jumped in overcharge. This may take months of painting several pieces to get where my heart is pull