Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 In a Day's Work  Cowboy Roping . SOLD  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.   But sometimes it doesn't.   Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.  That is the sort of bravery I must have now.” Veronica Roth   Bravery.  A strong word when it means laying down your life for something bigger than yourself.  As the Son of God, this is everything that Jesus did. The

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Tea Party Watercolor 2004  SOLD  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!” Lewis Carroll    I was giggling last night remembering some of the past things in life I did that make me shake my head and wonder what crawled into my brain at that time. Did I ever mention the time I dated five boys named Bill?  Or, that I was hired as a model at Neiman Marcus just three days after I was turned down at age 16 to be a waitress at a high class tea room?  I know when they turned me down I hit a wall feeling so dejected, and God turned it right around and I modeled runway, commercial work and photography until I was 34. I am waiting for a new adventure and I know the

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Spring Flyer 12 x 12  Oil on Birch  Purchase HERE.    It's on sale! Contemporary Abstract Horse Paintings . Pure Justus Collection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.” Nicholas Sparks The latest discussion from last night on some of the message from Sunday was similar to you are what you eat.  You are what you think. You are what you watch. Basically what you chose to focus on in your mind and heart is basically who you really are.   Where do you spend your time when you are not at work?  Television? Books?

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 From Winter to Spring 12 x 12 oil on Birch  Contemporary Horse Paintings by Texas Artist, Laurie Pace - Pure Justus This painting was just given as a surprise gift to one of my FB Followers! Watch for more things in the future.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “All that is gold does not glitter,  Not all those who wander are lost;  The old that is strong does not wither,  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.   From the ashes a fire shall be woken,  A light from the shadows shall spring;  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,  The crownless again shall be king.”  JRR Tolkien January is certainly flying by faster this year than last. I truly believe the older you get, the faster the clock flies by. Despite all good int

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Blue Mist 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas  SOLD  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” EY Harburg    I looked it up and found the word 'blue' is mentioned in the Bible 49 times. But, did they really have a word in Hebrew for blue?  I found so many articles about this and read through the pros and cons.  This is probably the easiest read here.  Even Wikipedia had something about it as well.  My favorite colors are based around blue... or periwinkle. I know there was zero chance of that appearing in any Biblical discussions.   (I always though my Mother created the word for me when I first heard it as a child.)  I love all shades o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Appaloosa in the Wind . 24 x 30 . Oil Contemporary Abstract Horse Paintings  Available Here.    at a special reduced 20% off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” William Shakespeare Are you a talker or a listener? Not sure about what you answer to yourself here, but 95 percent of the time... I tend to be quiet and withdrawn.  Then there is that 5 percent where I cannot seem to stop talking. Usually that is where I am offering advice or a story that pertains to someone's question to me. I have learned as I aged, there is a time and a place to offer up information or advice. I know now that my kids do not listen to any of it....but they have suddenly aged and made me

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Eurus in Flight Contemporary Horse Paintings - Pure Justus 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas  Gift Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”  Thomas Merton The thoughts scrambled today, but are about twisting things to fit our needs. Back in the day that Jesus walked this earth and in his years of teaching, he was really up against it.   By this time and through all the years before, the Pharisees were reported to be "a quiet group thought to be respectful to their elders and harmonious and affectionate in their dealings with others."  At the same time they were thought to be defenders of the