Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way Progress painting 48 x 48 oil on Canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green and the music would run down my legs." Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"  I buy the gel pen packs that come in many colors.  I love to write with different colors of ink when I am journaling or writing notes or cards to people. Color creates an amazing energy for me in my life, on my palette, in my paintings, my writings and my home. God is a creator of many colors. He is my cons

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way in Progress  48 x 48 inches Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness When I start painting I am totally into color, movement and raw emotion. The music is playing loud.  I am literally carried by the spirit of the music and the feel of

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His Blessings, He will hear our prayers."  Gordon B Hinckley The beginnings of a new painting for a friend and her husband... they are basically newly weds by definition.  When I am beginning a painting, I start with

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles." I love the entire section of this quote, but did not want to have such a huge quote for the beginning.  Here is the rest of it: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness; for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard." J. Robert Moskin Before we drown our sorrows and prayerful words in what is wrong with us, what we need and what is upside down in the world, it would be best to think of all we do have and be thankful for it first.  Going to the Lord in prayer only when you are in need, will rarely bring change in your life or situation. We should count our Blessings 1 Thessalonians 5:18  "Give thanks in al

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come clean with a child heart, Laugh as peaches in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song, Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June." Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt I know at my ripe old age of 64, I think more of wanting to just shake off all the worry and the work and remember my  'child heart'.  Should we think more of stopping to listen to the wind or rain, and to run outside and play in it? If we were eight years old, what would we be doing this summer?  Where are our child hearts? Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." John Muir At this home of one year, there is not a crepe myrtle. I am hoping this fall to plant one or two. They are my summer tree, and one of my Dad's favorites as well.  S

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography Miss Lily ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To site with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing wasn't boring, it was peace." Milan Kundera MIss Lily... she is my daughter in law's pup. She has had her since she was a wee one adopted from the pound. Lilly scares me... she is an aggressive little thing that is accustomed to being her mamas number one. I heard last week at lunch that her health is failing.  I cannot even imagine visiting my son and DIL home and Lily not being there.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.  I was just corresponding with a fellow artist close in age and enjoying the comparisons of where we are in life.   We are both in that process of cleaning out our 'stuff' from our past years that is not needed any more, and finding more space and freedom in our lives.    Sometimes in these digging out of closets and cabinets we find things we often wish we had not found.  Have you dug up anything recently from the past? Acts 18:9-10  "One night t