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Green in Nature, The Ramblings of Texas Artist Laurie Pace and Contemporary Horse Paintings

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Green Fields 28 x 42 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces." Virginia Woolf, Orlando Green is a color rarely found in my work.  Funny thing as I write this and post this horse, I am working years later as this was 2013...  working today on a group of women in a painting called Birdsong and this green is in it.   So I guess a green painting every four years is not bad.  This painting is available at Mirada Fine Art. Contact Steve Sonnen and if you ment

Everything is Downhill ... Contemporary Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Down Hill  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes."  Jeffrey Fry Terry always says, "The key rule in Italian racing is never look back."  Never know what kind of trouble you will get into.  Revelations 3:21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website          Gic

It's still dark, but day is near . . . Contemporary Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Blue Mist  Size: 24 x 30 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying." Markus Zusak, Underdog I can almost feel the blue coming out of darkness here, but I would never say stars are dying. ... so not me.  Stars are thriving day and night and so is my passion for painting.  Blue Mist is another favorite of mine.  Let me know if you are interested in it. Email me.  Romans 1:17  For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed - a righteousness that is by faith from first to

The First Stab of Love, Contemporary Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Color Fast by Laurie Pace © 1998-2017 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - -  oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples..." Anna Godbersen, The Luxe  This is hanging at a home in Dallas... a collector that has a home in Oklahoma and one in Dallas.  It has been a FAVORITE every since I painted it, but it did not sell right away. I think it was waiting... waiting for him to find her... the first stab of love! 1 Corinthians 13:12  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully

Cats are Orange . . . Contemporary Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Summer Herd 2013 No 7   Size: 8 x 10  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange." Jim Davis, In Doug Years I'd be Dead; Garfield at 25 Passionate Summer colors in this small horse painting. I miss painting these small energetic ones.  Should I paint them again?  Enjoy your Sunday... spend some time where it counts in your life. Psalm 147:3 "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."    #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website         

Never to be Trusted . . . Shiny Red Shoes... Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Shiny Red Shoes by Laurie Pace    © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And women with red shoes and green handbags were never to be trusted." Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things. Red has always been my dislike color along with yellow, yet everyone needs a splash of red in their lives occasionally.  Last summer Terry bought me a pair of Coach loafers in red...sort of a coral red.  They are my traditional SPLASH color when I need them, which is not often.   2 Thessalonians 2:16-17  May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, enc

Do Something Different . . . Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Summer Herd 2013 No 4  Size: 8 x 8  Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to be reborn with creative abilities." Mehmet Murat ildan Just found this image of an older painting from four years ago. I love the young sassy pony painted here! Be different... have fun today. Isaiah 33:2 "Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every monring, our salvation in time of distress." #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website  

Beauties of the Unknown

Summer Herd 2013 Laurie Pace ©1998-2017    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 8 x 10 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! Everywhere is full of herds! To breath comfortably, to feel free, to think better and to find the beauties of the unknown paths leave your herd! In whichever herd you are in, leave it!" Mehmet Murat ildan I was not a person in high school that sought to be elite or popular. I grew up in an elementary school with friends that remained friends as we grew into Junior High and High School.  I never felt the need to be in

Entangled Together

   © +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