Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Beneath the Branches Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even you you pull them out by the trunks, they're still going to be twisted and tangled and nearly impossible to separate at the roots."  Jennifer E Smith Lady L, our oldest granddaughter is visiting this morning. We were telling her about Princess Diana and Princess Kate.  I had read the Queen Elizabeth was passing the throne to William

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to under that this too, was a gift." Mary Oliver Terry and I have been reading together the entire Bible this year.  At the same time I pulled in Streams in the Desert written almost 100 years ago.  Truly times have changed but life's hard times have not. The devotional from July 31st reminded me that darkness is followed by light. Through our trials we become stronger. When you doubt your course or a decision lies ahead, pray for all the doors to be shut but the one you are suppose to go through. He alw

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Valiant Lobo Rey 5 x 6  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussing and fretting; coming in out of the wind." C S Lewis, Mere Christianity This is the completed painting.  Should be leaving early next week. I thought it might le

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress 5 x 6 ft  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all lines drawn through all stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood." Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Just a 'funny face' from the painting... love/hate f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in progress  Oil on Canvas. 5 x 6 ft ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged." Veronica Roth, Insurgent This painting was a work of the heart which covered three weeks of my life in paint and progress and now another three as it is curing to ship out. It is a 'mother' feeling when I invest so much blood, sweat and tears... and then have to say goodbye to a piece of my spirit spilled across the canvas.  My spirit uncaged. When I feel like maybe I should not paint anymore, I became aware that I would be not using the great gift God has given me.  In a wa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 32 x 48 Sold  Boys on the Beach - Commissioned Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." Josh Billings Freedom in running... all of our dogs have been runners. They LOVE to run. Annie always came home after her jaunts. Some of them were in neighbors pastures and she came home covered in horse dung. Paddy, not so much. When he runs... he runs looking for prey. We are scrambling to catch him.  We are thankful he is aging and at least we THOUGHT we could catch him if he tries to dart out the front door. BUT we have found, we have aged too.  Galatians 5:22-23

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever . . . connections are made with the heart, not the tongue." C. JoyBell C. Oh my, this time of the year is hard not to think of cool water and the lake, being lazy on the boat, or sitting out on the swing watching the sunset. Think it is time for a weekend out on Golden Pond.  Psalm 15:1-2  "Lord, who may abide in Your ta

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom." Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha Every word spoken, every action we take... causes ripples in the lives of those around us. Those ripples may continue long after we are gone.  John 4:14   But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."  #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Art

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume."  Stephanie Perkins  Lola and the Boy Next Door. Having Granddaughters is a blessing. They wear your shoes and old dresses you keep for them. They love parading around the house clopping around in my high heels (Well, I don't wear them any more.) and we have the dresses sached up to stay on them and keep them from tripping when they walk.  Wonder if God does that for us too when we pretend to be something we are not?  1 Samuel 16:7  But the Lord said to Samuel, "