Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Determination 8 x 10  Oil on Birch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” Oscar Wilde  Dictionary result for determination  de·ter·mi·na·tion /dəˌtərməˈnāSH(ə)n/Submit noun 1.  firmness of purpose; resoluteness. "he advanced with an unflinching determination" synonyms: resolution, resolve, resoluteness; When you think about the cleaned up diet I have been eating since Thanksgiving, you have to know my resolve and determination.  I wanted to capture that feeling in the new painting above.  It came off of the photo that I used for the large yellow and gold composition I did earlier in Janua

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Human Kind - Be Both Portion of a painting... Detail  Oil on Canvas Pure Justus . Figurative Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Bronte   Last Sunday I began a triptych painting, three panels of 30 x 60 inches in oil. It is one of my Good People Series with this one titled Human Kind - Be Both   The entire piece is 90 x 60 and will be heading to California to a new gallery opening.   I promised I would not show the full painting until closer to time but wanted to share a sneak peak at the luscious colors.  I prayed as I started this painting that God would create in me a spirit of determination, strength, and stamina.  I want to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Beneath the Branches 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas  SOLD   Contemporary Horse Paintings . Pure Justus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” A.A. Milne   Beneath the branches... beneath the bridge... beneath the stars... God's beauty surrounds us. We should instantly be reminded of Him... He surrounds us with His gifts and creation. Sometimes I wonder how I can forget how He is part of me constantly with all the reminders. He is aware of everything that takes place in our lives. He knows our thoughts before they form in our mind. He knows the words before we speak them.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 A New Direction  6 x 6  Oil on Canvas  SOLD   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau  Thursday, it is here. It is time.  Since Thanksgiving, I adjusted my Whole Foods Plant Based diet a little tighter eliminating nuts, olives and avocados.  I am hoping to see a change in my cholesterol, but it has only been 75-80 days, but close to three months.  I have lost 12 more pounds, which was not in the plan necessarily, but I am now at the same weight I was 30 years ago.  Heading to Dr. Lee's office for a b

Painted in 2004     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Time Out Another gift painted for a good friend.  One of my favorite pieces. Pure Justus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story." Patrick Rothfuss I was really looking for a quote on TIME OUT... for the painting... but I came across this one and in so many ways good and bad, I reacted to it.   I think he is right that we all have a story in our head on who we are.  Especially as a teenager and maybe as a young adult. I am thinking most of us would own up to it.  It starts at such a young age when you are playing with friends and as a guy, you chose

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Green Fields 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas  Pure Justus   Available Mirada Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.” LM Montgomery . Ann of Green Gables It is late Sunday that I am blogging. I should have done it this morning but Terry and I were setting up a big paint in the studio.... three 30 x 60 x 1.5 inch canvas with the intent to carry the design across.  My easel will not hold 90 inches, but I may start looking

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Traveler 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas  SOLD   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Anita Desai   Yesterday I left you a list of things that jumped off the page for me. The one that holds my attention the most was "Take your hands off your life".  Whatever you are facing, juggling, or trying to resolve, stop and take your hands off and disengage your problem solving skills.  How can something so simple be so hard? " True faith is living without scheming. "      In the verse below that has those precious words we have heard thousands of times, BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD...    The Hebrew word translated "be still" actually means "take your hands off."