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Human Kind - Be Both . Figurative Good People Paintings . Laurie Pace . Pure Justus

   © +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

What's beneath? . Contemporary Horse Painting . Laurie Pace - Texas Artist

   © +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.

Live your Life to the Fullest . Horse Paintings . Politics . Laurie Pace

   © +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

Time Out . A Story In Your Head . Good Guy/ Bad Guy . Horse Paintings with Laurie Pace

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

Green Fields . Contemporary Horse Painting . Laurie Pace Texas Artist

   © +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

Traveler . Abstract Horse Paintings . Take Your Hands Off . Texas Artist Laurie Pace

   © +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."

When you wish upon a Star . . Wild Horses .. Contemporary Horse Paintings .. Laurie Pace, Texas Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 When You Wish Upon a Star  Wild Horse Painting 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas  SOLD -  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!” Pablo Picasso My horses have always brought me strength... Between the pull of their power and beauty is a tenderness and a huge heart. When I think of wild horses running in the wind, I want to paint!  So it really touched my heart when one of my fellow artists commented to me on FB the following:  “ God bless you, Laurie, in this storm of life. Be as strong as your wild and wonderful horses. Thinking of you." Sylvia  God gifted these horses with stamina, strength, grace, speed, courage and most of all with heart. Pain