Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Inset of painting Golden Sail  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”  Louisa May Alcott, Little Women We have had a few days of spring type temps and the thought of sailing is creeping into our minds, but we know the lake water would be too cold to be skimming across in a catamaran. Terry is a good sailor when it comes to storms creeping up on the lake... and that comes from experience.  Life is that way as well. Keep your eyes on the Lord... follow where he leads you. Do not be distracted by things around you. If you can trust and follow, you will not

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 I'd Go Walkin Down the Avenue  Size: 16 x 20  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not the norm for me to just paste a huge poem, but I have to: “I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place. But, it isn't my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Walking the Line  9 x 12 Oil   Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors."  Hunter S Thompson To walk the line is to maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.  OR, to behave in an authorized or socially accepted manner, especially as prescribed  by law or morality...to exercise self-control OR to make a boundary by walking it.  What is your position in life right now?  I probably am NOT walking a line.  I am way over on the God side.    I am con

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 A Sunrise Walk in the Garden  Size: 3 x 4 ft  Oil on Canvas. sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, Friend. He is crazy about you!"  Max Lucado  So much to say on this subject... recognizing all the wonderful things... the amazing things we have in our lives to be thankful for and often we are worried about the things we do not have. God literally provides us all with so much beauty, good, people in our lives, and always His love and His peace and light a

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  A Pair of Horses  Size: 22 x 28 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Such a pretty pair you make, like matched horses in my stables."  Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad and the Undead. I remember when I painted this...layering on paint over three weeks and from it was this simple painting. I worried it would not appeal to anyone and it did... it sold quickly.   I am learning not to doubt what is as things are created... resting in the Lord, through quietness and trust is my strength.  "When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before m

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Night Runners  Size: 12 x 18  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that."  Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner.  Most of us think of night as the time to rest and recover from the day.  There are some people that come alive at night... they are the late risers in the morning because their joy comes in the evenin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Making Headway  Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." E.M. Bounds Ouch. Most mornings the moment I wake, I am offering up prayers for the night of rest and the day to come. BUT, there is always the days that I am rushed and jump up without

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.    And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe there are lessons

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Blue Moon Wolf Size: 16 x 16  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in a storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."  Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear Are there things you fear in life?  I believe we all have 'fears' lurking in the back of our minds all the time.  It is totally against having faith in the Lord, the human 'fear' factor often takes over our brains and lives. Trusting in the Father through ALL times is a challenge and if you can do it, it is the pureness of grace, because He is with you at all times.  Don'