Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Traveler  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   ““A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu  Teaching Art has always been a treasured gift.  Teaching children that the outcome of their artwork is not the important thing, but rather what is, is the journey and enjoyment they have creating the artwork.                                         Read More Here.   “  But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.’ " Jonah 1:8 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website          GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The LaJolla Gallery, LaJolla, CA Dutch Art

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Horse Play  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON Your life. My life. How has it turned out for you? Introvert, Extrovert, how did that work for you? Time alone or time with family? Which do you prefer? Times have changed in the past 67 years and what I grew up with does not exist anymore. We did a lot of Horse Play especially all Summer long! Do you believe in Horse Play? Read more here. Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website          GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The LaJolla Gallery, LaJolla, CA Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas © Gra

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Omega Close up Detail 1  Abstract Painting by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West Change is that inevitable thing that happens to us daily... minute by minute.  What get you through?  I have found the absolute best way of coping with things. Even sleeping better with it.  His word and promise to us provides it all.  Read More Here. “ The Lord God will fight for you, you need only to be still.  " Exodus 14:14  Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website          GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The LaJolla Gallery, LaJolla, CA Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas © Graphics One Design 2019-2020

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Hesitation  12 x 12  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Contact me to commission a small painting for you or as a gift. $75-$200 depending on size and content.  I truly would love to paint a small piece for you!    Birthday week arrives next week. Usually we head out to East Texas to visit our good friends. We use to live there at Lake Cypress Springs. This week has been a challenge with an injury to my foot... to the point my 2-3 miles on the treadmill is dearly missed.  So plans are up in the air as of now.   Stop by my website to read more. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God”   — 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-4 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Arti

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2009 A Hug Between Friends  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   We are bombarded daily with worldly complications and stress.  Not a day goes by that most of us would not welcome a good strong hug.  I love it when hubby takes me in a huge hug in the kitchen. He wraps his arms around me tightly...  I close my eyes and just float in his love radiating through me... blocking out every stress or conflict in my body.   Does a hug affect you that way? Read more about hugs in my journal on my website. “ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God . " 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Fol

Are you rooted in life? Is it time to make a radical change in your lifestyle? Are you ready to boldly do things that you’ve never thought of before? Trees are solidly rooted into the ground. Are you rooted? Just how deep? Click through and read about being rooted in life. Taking chances is sometimes an amazing thing.  2020 is almost here. Join my thoughts of 12 things to challenge yourself with next year,  or think of it as 12 adventures to look forward to.  Join Me Here. 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Mare and Foal   Oil on Cradled Birch 9 x 12  by Laurie Pace  Purchase here.   $375 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he’d witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean foal taking its first steps on wobbly legs. Or a new butterfly pushing scrunched, damp wings from a chrysalis.” Tesse Dare - A Week to be Wicked The discovery in this painting was exhilarating. It started much differently with a single horse and very subtle colors and suddenly I saw these two in the paint. They appeared in shape and form. We often never see the best things God places in front of us.  This horse and foal painting is waiting for you.  “ Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth. " Exodus 34:6

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Sunrise  by Laurie Pace -  Horse Painting 12 x 12 inches Mix Media on Panel $249.00 . Purchase Here. Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert . DUNE In nature and in life, there are startling moments where we turn our heads and look.  Not sure what this horse turned to take in, but I love the play of rich colors painted through that turn of his head.  Was it the braying of his mate, or the call of danger lurking nearby? What would be your story or thoughts? “ And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt,

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Summer Heat 8 x 8 Mixed Media on Panel - Horse Painting - by Laurie Pace   Available $149     Purchase Here. Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.” Wallace Stegner The colors of a hot summer day when the sky is blazing blue and the sun is raging hot. Texas summer weather.  Three horses at the waterhole in this beautiful contemporary horse painting by Laurie Pace - Pure Justus Collection.  Is this little beauty perfect for you? Enjoyed the rain and storm and the cold front is arriving. Not the snow seen to the northwest, but in the forties last night and the high in the fifties today.  I am hoping our long Indian Summer has fallen to the autumn temperatures.  " For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was dr

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Pot of Orange Poppies   Sold I remember the joy of this painting and how the composition of the orange poppies wrapped around the painting crowning the vase. You notice the simplicity of color and the limited palette yet your eye stays active through out the painting. White, blue with a compliment of Orange to the blue... and from the darker areas of Red orange, the compliment of green.   Pretty simple. Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   ““With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” Oscar Wilde Oscar seems to think life is simple and full with every little. What fills your life? I love the simple painting above! Not very complicated.  Pretty Simple. Our lives should be so simple.  It seems to grow more complicated by the day and as we sink lower into our busy lives.  I found an article about being a minimalist from BecomingMinima