Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Herd  by Laurie Pace - Commission Painting Contemporary Abstract Horse Painting from Golden Pond Studio  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Summer is almost at an end.  A hurricane is hitting the Texas Louisiana border in the next 24 hours.  It is too far east for us to gain any moisture in the Dallas Ft Worth area where it is desperately needed.  Our temps through next Monday range in the 100 plus up to 110 degrees.  No moisture and it will damage our trees, grass and our lakes, ... our water resource.  Terry and I have family on the coast that is affected and our prayers and love encompass them as well as all the folks in these areas.  Family resides near New Orleans,  Lake Charles, Beaumont and Houston.  The Painting I shared today was a commission and one I chuckle at when I see it. I LOVED painting this piece with the horses milling around eating grass. The sunlight is bro

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 San Jacinto River Gathering 5 ft by 8 ft  by Laurie Pace - Sold Commission.  Contemporary Abstract Horse Painting Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   In the early fall of 2012, I was approached by a law firm in Houston, Texas to paint three large pieces, two were five ft by 8 ft in size. I did one in three canvas pieces making one nine feet in width.  The paintings were to be centered around a Texas theme, horses and the land. No people.  I did the series with well known rivers in Texas, this was the first piece completed, San Jacinto Gathering.  You can watch the video of the making and my painting in action  Here .  If you are interested in a commission, I would love to work with you. On my website I explain the process and it includes you being a part of the entire process as it happens. Read more here.  “ And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almight

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Wishing You Were Here  8 x 8 Oil on Panel  Daily Paintings   by Laurie Pace   Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   I painted yesterday!  I did not start the dogs. I did a small 8 x 8 horse painting... the one above, as a Daily Painting.  It is available at $199.  The dog painting will begin today.  Slow progress on stamina.  I stood cleaning up mess before I could even do this painting.  By one in the afternoon I was pretty well ready to eat some lunch and break for the day. It was Saturday after all. I truly won't do much on the dog painting today.  I may finish the etching or begin with a light under coat to knock out the white canvas.  Pretty sure I will use oil.   What do you like to do on Sundays?   We still cannot attend church, or really safely go out to eat. I do not grocery shop on Sundays unless it is an emergency.  To be perfectly honest, I am writing this blog on Saturday

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 The Wise Ones  30 x 40 inches  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Contemporary Horse Paintings for Sale Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Finally back again!~  Sorry I have been out due to a slight injury from painting... don't even ask.  Moving slowly but God has this and I trust him with it!  Today I will be starting a commission I had hoped to do last week... it is of two puppies.    The painting above, The Wise Ones, was a commission back in 2012.   It is in quieter earthy colors and I rather like the palette. I may use something similar on the dogs I am starting. The collector lives in CA and has several of my paintings and she reached out hoping for something contemporary with her babies.  I am still debating on the approach but know in my heart, when I start I will let go and let the paint flow.  I watched a shared video on FB this last week. It was entitled: Just Go Quietly On.   I enc

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 The Howling  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Just me checking in on Wednesday!   I wrote a great blog on this painting on my main website.  The Howling was painted for a commission piece about 8 years ago.  I stumbled across it in my archives this morning and decided to share it.  It is like Christmas morning when I find these old files.... and this one especially.   I will be having a sale of paintings at the end of August. Make sure you stop by my main website and sign up for my newsletter . It goes out like every three or four months... not often.   “ For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           S

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Reflections of Glory  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   It was a rainy summer in 2007.  The humidity was high when we went to bed the night before so when the train ran through town at 3:30 am, it seemed louder than normal as the engineer blew the whistle at crossings. The nearest crossing to us was only two blocks away.  I knew I would not go back to sleep, so I gently pulled back the sheet and quietly tiptoed to the door. The dogs were asleep as I quietly walked by... thankfully the studio was on the other side of the house. I left Terry sleeping soundly. Little did I know that I was about to paint one of my lifelong favorites. Reflections of Glory.    Read more... “May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed a

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Horse 100 from 2012  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   We were settled in for the night of Sunday movies, showered and ready for bed.  The wind was up outside but it was not until I saw out the window our 10 x 10 ft tent FLY across the backyard, that I realized something was not right. We both reacted quickly and hit the back door with slippers forgoing our boots.  The tent had been staked firmly into the ground and been up for the past week sheltering our young peach tree from the summer burn of a week of 105 plus temps (heat index well over 110).   The tent was upside down and push into the branches of a large red oak mid yard.  The tent would have been in Waco by now if it had not been for the tree.  It took both of us wrestling the metal stand to hold it still while Terry unhooked the velcro holding the tent to the frame.  We maneuvered it the best w

     © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Neither Black or White  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   It is Friday... not sure at all where the week has gone as the days are just passing by so quickly. I hesitate as we get close to the election in Nov to even be on Social Media. I have been busy working in the studio with my oldest granddaughter coming to paint again.  This thrills me! Will share photos later. Sharing my heart thoughts right now leads me to say keep the Lord in your heart and do not allow so much of this world to creep into it. If the world creeps in... the Lord gets pushed out.  Think about Jesus in the temple when he clear all the merchants out... they had pushed God's presence aside. Guard your heart and keep focused on Him.  “ When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temp

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Winds  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Prints Available They say Summer Winds are normally hot. I know they are in Texas, but this morning we spent the morning with our almost five year old grandson on the square at Southlake Texas.  We danced by the fountains, tossed in coins, and ate huge cinnamon buns at a near by bakery.  As we sat beneath the trees in the shade around 10:30, it was about 75 degrees outside and the wind was from the north and cool.  This is unheard of in Texas in August.   Definitely a summer I will remember and attach it to a previously completed and sold painting, Summer Winds! Summer Winds is a contemporary palette knife oil painting of four horses with beautiful summer colors.  “ So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.