Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Family  16 x 16  Oil on Cradled Birch in progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  Leo Tolstoy Today finds me working on this painting above for a show in Iowa at The Bereskin Art Gallery.  I am honored to show my work there and thankful to Brad Bisbey for his friendship and help with this show.  I wanted to be there for the opening but we have a grandson due about the same time. I promise to post a photo of the final painting once it is done.  This morning I was reading in Psalm 16. I have read this psalm many times in my life, but it was this morning it truly wrapped my heart.   We all seek to be happy.  My grandmother always told me happiness came fro

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Lonely Boy    Prints Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “I restore myself when I'm alone.”   Marilyn Monroe .   At times in my life being alone was terrifying and other times I craved it. When I was younger, there were times I was really uncomfortable being alone. What I have learned in the past years is that silence and alone time builds a strength in understanding who I am, and that I can be comfortable in my life as this person created by God. Perhaps when we master the solitude of aloneness and quiet, we begin to find our self worth.   Too often in life today, we are pushed by our own thoughts and needs to finish or accomplish things. We all set goals that are unattainable and our self reflection is then that of failu

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Strength in Him  16 x 20  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”   Eleanor Roosevelt  I began this blog on Sunday but here it is late on Monday. Terry and I are heading to Fedex with two large packages heading to Mirada Fine Art for a new Southwest Show coming up. Things have been crazy here. I was finishing up three rather large paintings for that, along with the 60 x 90 inch triptych for San Diego...which he packs up late

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Both Sides of the Story 29 x 42  Mixed Media on Canvas . Pure Justus Collection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one says I spend the rest of my life with you. Choose." Melina Marchetta I did not even want to ‘share my thoughts today’ after I read this…but I want to share the rest of the quote. “This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one says I spend the rest of my life with you. Choose." She bit her lip, tears welling in her eyes. She took both of his hands in hers and he shuddered. "I will die protecting you," he says. There

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Determined 8 x 10 inches Oil on Cradled Birch Pure Justus Collection  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “He that can have patience can have what he will.”  Benjamin Franklin Does that horse resemble Terry? Today, Terry took me shopping to find something ‘dressy’ to wear to an event this weekend.  After loosing more weight since Thanksgiving, my closet only has jeans and tops in it… and some sweaters. Most every thing is swimming on me.  The word dress or any form of it emerging into dressy does not exist.   He was in full determined game, but we should have gone to the mall and not to the Southlake Town Center.    He was more determined than me.  We  started at Anthropologie  ( I think that was the name of it.) Wonderful  bri

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Human Kind . Be Both 60 x 90 inches  Oil on Canvas  and heading to San Diego.   Pure Justus Collection The Good People Series ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          May we all be generous in all things this week and use the gifts God has provided for us to actually bless others and glorify God.   Every day and night God blesses us constantly. He wants us to use His blessings to bless others.  He wants us to bless anyone in need, whether they are friend or foe.  He knows your every need before you even know about it. He knows your every want as well.  He will always continue to provide if you are generous with what you have been provided.   We do not 'own' what we have. We are all but stewards in our lifetime of everything we have

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Seasons of Life 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus - Contemporary Horse Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.  Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.   Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.  Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.” Yoko Ono I remember this painting from back in 2014. Not my regular approach to the canvas. I began with sheet music on the foundation.  I do not recall the song, but I can see the music in the painting. It is BEEN THERE.  Been there for sure... through the seasons of every year.  The constant for me is God, and the movement of the sun and the moon with the seasons.  I was looking th