Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas Framed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”  ― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts This beauty was painted the week before Christmas a few years ago and is by far in the top ten of my favorite pieces. 24 x 30 and framed... and it is available HERE.   Everyday social media, television and movies portray love as a feeling. It is something that ranks at the top of our list.  So is love a feeling that can be controlled?  I am thinking it is a feeling that is responded to. If you love someone that love is unconditional and not con

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent It has really really been cold here. Last Saturday we went from 74 degrees at noon to 19 that night... the temp from 12 to 2 went from the 74 to 41 and kept falling from there.  This has been the first cold snap and I pulled out my FAVORITE winter hat Terry bought me last year and I wore it and wore and wore it and had warm head and ears. It looked pretty good as well. He found it at Whole Foods last year.  They do not carry them this year... I lost my winter hat yesterday m

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.” ― Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day It is the fourth Sunday in Advent. In one week it will be Christmas.  Today we will light three purple candles and our Pink Candle. This new candle represents PEACE.  Our current life here in the USA is anything but safe and sane after the last year. Never in my life have I witnessed family members turning against each other as well as life long friends.  People just seem to hurt other people. The world and the United

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He's making a list, And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice."  Excerpt from Santa Claus is Coming to Town. In years past there has always been the traditional family Christmas Portrait.  We did a serious one and then a funny one.  This is not the serious one.  As the years flew by and we all grew older, things changed and people changed and some journey on to heaven.  My father is not with us any longer nor is one of the mom's and Terry's Dad. Some have married and have babies and families of their own. The family grew and basically outgrew having Chri

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.”  ― Larry Wilde    I have moved so many times in my life... and memories abound from all the homes, the friends, and always the Christmas Tree.  This was our tree in Ft Thomas KY and we lived in an old home with a basement and three floors above it.  All the bedrooms on the second floor and only one bathroom.  With five of us it was a challenge. The place changes, the size of the tree changes but the ornaments are always the same.... They have seen the years. Even here at this house I am hangin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Oil on Canvas. Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning.  Time can't be given. But it can be shared” ― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift This painting was a commissioned piece done in November of 2012 for a Christmas gift ordered by a collector in the UK.  The horse was in the tones of her sweet boy and she lives out away from people where she likes to ride on Christmas morning.  She had a memory of a  past snowy Christmas morning and that is what she wanted painted to remind her of those feelings.   Our memories are but 'times' in our life.  Time cannot be

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 My youngest brother and the 'hot' toy of the year...Rudy the Robot. Est maybe Christmas 1970. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane Memory is a type of mental time travel. It is unique to humans, but I cannot help but wonder if it does not also extend to dogs and cats somehow...or even horses.  For humans the earliest memories are sparse and most people have no memory prior to age 3, but some o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included." Bernard Manning This was the title and theme of my December newsletter. I had an immediately email from  Dawn Waters Baker , a fellow Texas painter that said, "I know it's crazy at Christmas but this was a nice reminder how God has us. May you have a lovely Christmas Laurie. Thank you for serving others in any way God leads you. Bless you and may your days be filled with songs!"   It made me look.  It made me look at what I had written because I truly did not remember how &#