Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”  Oscar Wilde What do you like to stockpile?  For awhile I kept a deep pantry filled with black beans, navy beans, refried black beans, pinto beans... I think you get the picture. The second thing I stockpile are towels for the kitchen. I actually buy bathroom hand towels in the colors I need. I buy a mid price towel and I have found they last close to 15 years or more. They migrate from kitchen duty to cleaning duty as they get older and then to rags.  Stockpiling tea towels is another thought. Have you ever counted how many paper towels you use in a single da

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Storm Chasers Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”  Wendell Berry -The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge Destination... Ft Thomas, Kentucky.   I lived there for just less than a year and I knew the day I arrived, my soul felt like it came home.  We had moved from Houston to Ft Thomas during the hot summer. Arriving there the evening temps were low six

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meatloaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.” Mitch Albom I think most of you know that Terry and I try to eat Whole Foods Plant Based no oils at home and even though I strive to eat that way away from home, he chooses to eat whatever he wants.  meanwhile over this journey of seven years... and 45 pounds lighter, I have learned so much.  Right now I joined the Forks Meal Planner.  It has been an eye opener. I had taken the Forks over Knives Cooking Schoo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” Charles Bukowski Monday is the beginning of the week. So, if I blog on Mondays, you are likely to start seeing my thoughts on cleaning.  I know my adult kids will not even read these journal entries. Monday seems to be the primary clean day and Friday is the secondary ready for the weekend clean day.  We get through the weekend and usually the house gets pretty gnarly. Especially after all the rain we have had. Mud, dead grass, and more se

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Intent 24 x 30 Mixed Media  Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”  Hunter S Thompson THE PROUD HIGHWAY Oh my... took my breath away seeing this in the archives.  This was a pure painting of joy and discovery. Often Discovery is not joyful in the process but very joyful upon arrival.  This was how it began.  There was glazing and collaging and lots of acrylic paint.  Following that th

© Laurie Pace 2013  Descent      Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.” Neil Gaiman  THE WAKE So the very end of January, my new studio pup arrived. Terry flew to Florida and picked her up. Also bought a second one from Seattle... yes, you heard right. TWO.  The Seattle baby is older than the Florida baby.  Her name is Starla.   The Florida pup is named "Annie" as a call name, but officially she is Pace's Queen Aslaug of the Low Country.  Starla is with our grandson Mark, who just turned five...right now and we are working on training Annie since she is y

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 24 x 36  Wolf Dawn Rising  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland This was the 'second' paint of this wolf in this position but definitely with a change in colors and feeling.  When I saw this one, I was thinking, WOW...and yes I love the freedom in the paint.   Somewhere in my journey the last two years, the joy has slowly left in painting for galleries. Every gallery wants something different.  Just like no winter lasts forever, creativity cannot just stop. What has been churning in my mind is:  Acrylic vs Oil Large vs Small Canvas vs Try

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”  Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear I have mentioned before that God puts us through some magnificent storms during our lifetime. He is working on us to be stronger and more God like.  Each storm we encounter contains new challenges we have never met.  Survival is always foremost and we gain in knowledge how to steer through the next one. "Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I wi