Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Under Texas Skies Size: 24 x 24  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "She walks in beauty, like the night of Cloudless climes and starry skies/ and all that's best of dark and bright, meet in her aspect and her eyes..."  George Gordon Byron  If you have not noticed... these are my favorite colors... the colors of the late evening and the night. This was painted three years ago and was similar to a painting done ten years ago. Movement and affection were the emotions painted by knife on the canvas. It speaks of peace and rest and abiding love.  "I will surely bless you and make your descendant

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Color Rising Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Not until I felt your sunshine, did I realize that I had been in the shade. Not until I saw all your colors did I realize that mine had faded. not until I heard your dreams, did I realize that I was still sleeping. And not until I experienced my life with you, did I realize that I was barely breathing.  Suzy Kassem, Rise up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem. This painting always make me smile... a big smile with contentment. I love the colors bursting across and the herd of horses moving forward. This is a beginning, a middle and an end in

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  The River  Oil on Canvas Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday." A. a. Milne Winnie the Pooh Feeling the blue... and the cool of the river and the warmth of the day all in the same sweep of the eyes. This double panel was painted in about 2005 and still remains one of my favorite. Always working in odd numbers, the horses number 9. All total 18 with the reflections. Filled with peace and my favorite colors, I could see something similar to this piece painted on a very large scale... maybe 12 feet wide.  I want to float on the water with them... to even swim wi

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The Edge   Sold  Oil on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones. This is a flashback of a painting that I am thinking possibly 2005 maybe? She sold quickly to a couple from New York.  There are a few paintings that leave a memory of the actual painting and this is one of them.   "You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock - with the edge of the sword. " Deuteronomy 13:15 #horsepaint

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year." Paul Sweeney Twenty-six years... but we have known each other 54 years. That is a long relationship. We sort of 'grew up' together twice in one lifetime. We began as boyfriend and girlfriend in jr high... and it was the typical first love passionate relationship.  God gave us a second go around as we neared forty and rediscovered each other.  The past 26 years have been FULL of growing up. The folks in the picture above were all part of the both times...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?"   " I've lived a long time, kid, and I never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you."  Karen Marie Moning, ICED "YOU SHOULD NOT SAY SUCH BAD WORDS."   Terry and I were reading right along together...he was reading out loud from the book of 2Samuel, when suddenly our Alexa (aka Echo) spoke out loudly, "You should not say such bad words."   Terry was reading from the new King James version of the Bible.   We have had some issues with our Alexa (aka Echo) guest in the house. At random t

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance." Jalaluddin Rumi Sunday morning... every morning, it is a joy to wake to God's world He has ready for us. May your day be filled with the treasures and gifts of the Lord. He has them waiting for you. Psalm 68:4 "Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him - his name is the Lord." #horsepainting  #lauriepacear

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be." Toni Morrison, Beloved I never had a sister.  I have some truly good friends that seem to fill that void in life. I grew up with two brothers, one four years older and one 11 years younger. I felt he was more like my child than my brother. Sisters are forever. They love you unconditionally and often know what may come out of your mouth before you say it. That is how JJ was to me when I met her in seventh grade.  We are still friends

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Sold  Oil on canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can't see the forest for the trees."  has been around a long time! It is an expression of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole.  Just think about your life.  I know I focus on everything in my day and always weighing my decisions on different outcomes I might chose. I have to stop myself and remind myself that GOD made these forests.... all the details...  but each little tree tends to side track me and I miss the overall situation stuck on small details. Do you do this in your life? Psalm 33:10  "May he