Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 HOPE  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There seems to be a building change here in the United States. There is a growing population that has chosen to be unaffiliated with religion and God.  It is focused on "ME"  more than anything else. They replace God with Tolerance.  No one dare question them - "me" - for their behavior or their beliefs.  It is hard at my age to see children being raised so far away from the God. It is easy to talk of faith, but not easy to WALK the faith. It is not easy to LIVE the faith. It is not easy to DIE for the faith.  I cannot change anyone else but me. I can pray and have HOPE they wil

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Kindred Spirit Size 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable." Jess C. Scott  Kindred Spirit   Noun    A person whose interests or attitudes are similar to one's own.  Do you long for that 'kindred spirit"?  The ability to be yourself in the raw without judgement?   It would be difficult to travel this earth in our journey with them.   We are Kindred Spirits for the work of Christ.   Anne of Green Gables "What I need is a really good friend, a bosom buddy.  You know... a KINDRED SPIRIT with whom

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Canyon Call the Wind  Size: 11 x 14  Oil on Canvas. * This painting is a new one,  part of the rediscovery of painting again.  Filled with thick paint and knife work, I hope you can feel the wind in this one! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow. Don't walk behind me ... I may not lead. Walk beside me .. just be my friend." Albert Camus  With the season of Advent present some verses from the Bible catch in my heart and mind and over the days I repeat them again and again and I write them over and over.  While the above quote may be true for our earthly journey, I want to kno

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The Arrival 38 x 58 inches   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. " Oscar Wilde I also like the quote by Judy Garland,  "Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."   This was the arrival in the first stages of painting. It came a long way. Joyce Myers has an excellent article on being yourself and being your best. Read it here.   Basically we all tend to look in the mirror at ourselves and naturally see the negative or flaws.  WHY?  Joyce basically makes good points about the Bible that sp

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Quiet Horizon 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not miss my Black Friday through Monday Sale.   This was a haunting painting for me. I did work on it quite awhile and I think I even posted it.  It may or may not make it as it is... I am itching to work it over even more.  If for some reason you like it as it is, email me.    Tell me why you want it, and it is yours for $400.   It is a 36 x 36. Something just will not let me paint over it... so the $400 covers the canvas and paints and depending on where you live... shipping

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Happy Thanksgiving.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This past weekend I finally met up with Louis Baca.  My daughter Stacey and I had been out to Old Navy. They had ALL winter coats 50% off.  Louis Baca is the Geneva Financial Rep for the DFW area.  Genevafi.com/dfw   Louis supports veterans and helps with finding homes, collecting supplies and coats, backpacks, food etc.  Stacey and I hit Old Navy and we were the first to be buying coats and found some incredible ones to purchase.  We outfitted with new coats 9 veterans, with hats, gloves, scarves, coats and more. Both of us had gently used coats and we collected those from neighbor

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Snowflakes Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know."  Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall What are those simple things you enjoy in life, and when was the last time you did them?  I LOVE catching snowflakes on my tongue.  What is your list of things you enjoy?  Here are some of mine. Watching the sunrise. Holding my husband's hand as I fall asleep. Soaking in a warm bath. Watching the clouds race across the

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Morning Has Broken Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."  C.S. Lewis I cannot even remember the last time I wrote to you in my Art Journal.  The past two months have been filled with reflection on direction.  I am already contemplating my word for next year... one thought is, "Let it be"   Yes it is three words, but easy to remember.  I am still debating what shall serve me the best for growth next year as we take the journey into 2018. Some of you may have noticed,