Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Pink Tulips  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Color Color Color!!!  Spring tulips are just about done, but I did this for a cousin and I cannot wait to see them framed and hanging.  Remember to stop by my website for those $199 paintings. I am still new new ones but they sell pretty fast. I have a larger commission I will start in a few weeks and spent today ordering the beautiful birch for the pieces, as well as more 24 x 24 canvas for my figurative faces.  I got to visit today with a friend from high school... Lake Highlands High School... go WILDCATS!   We remain close despite the 51 year graduation date.  When did we get so old?  They wanted our class to parade out on the football field the fall of the 50th reunion 18 months ago... Terry and I did not do it.  We kept thinking about our graduation year of 1970 and how it wou

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Face Within  30 x 40 Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Face within.  What does that mean?  Faces are funny in so many ways. We often wear them as a mask so others do not know our thoughts, our insecurities, or even our reactions. When do we lower the mask? In this journey on this figurative painting,  I was repurposing a canvas with a prior painting on it.  There are two faces in this piece.  Hence the name, Face Within.  I do believe we all hide a huge portion of who we are in our heart as well as our feelings of insecurity and worry.  Always look at the eyes. They tell the story within you.  Can you find the second face on this painting?    “ So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter. " 2 Thessalonians 2:15

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Topaz Eyes  by Laurie Pace -  24 x 24 Framed.  Available at Mirada Fine Art . Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Every painting has a journey. This one was a struggle in many ways.  It began totally different than it turned out. The original sketch did not work at all... resulting in me wiping the canvas as clean as I could. Then came sketching a new face that might work. Below are a few progress shots.  I have been a brown eyed girl my entire life. As I aged past sixty, I found a lighter amber and some green in my brown eyes!  Hence I sought such beauty in the eyes of this face.   But the close ups are amazing once the piece began to come together!  Each of us as a human being walking this earth go through the valleys and climb the mountains and experience life in so many ways that is molds us and creates in us a deeper being and soul.  This is true p

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Untethered  by Laurie Pace - 30 x 40 Oil on Birch  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Days and Daze... I seem to exist between the two.  I did complete the paintings for the new show opening at Mirada Fine Art this next month in Colorado! I promise to share photos as soon as I can.  I am preparing to paint another large piece and probably a face again.    Meanwhile, I just completed a horse on birch above.  My studio does not call me as often as it did. I have spent 23 years painting daily and marketing and at age 68, my other gifts are calling to me.  Piano, guitar, singing, writing etc.   Also, Hubby has been down a bit and I have been busy cooking healthy things for him to feel better.  I did notice this week that this blog still has very high ranking and that is something I am honored by your presence visiting with me here if only to see my art. 

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Falling for You  24 x 24 oil on canvas by Laurie Pace.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.   Do good anyway. ” Kent M Keith    We are in the Season of Lent. This is a time of forty days before the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, and we are in day 7 right now. It is a time spent in reflection and preparing to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection. Many spend Lent seeking the Lord in prayer, practicing self control by fasting or literally giving up habits or things of personal importance.  My mind wrapped around Lent this year believing it truly allows us all a time to reset and renew our relationship with God and with Christ. Often praying is a go-to in time of need of bad health or negative things are happening through the year. We then call upon God or Jesus to save us, bolster us up, walk with u

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Sunrise Friend  9 x 12 oil on panel - by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Just jumping straight into this painting and the process.  I began with a different surface as I sketched out three horses and began pulling the paint.  It looked painful, so I put it out of its misery and began pulling colors together and flipping the canvas around.   Then I saw the two horses as clear as can be. Forward with more pulled paint and you have Sunrise Friend.  The beauty of these painted ponies is the style. I have been collected for these since about 2005, so over 15 years. I paint other styles of horses and lately really pretty ones on birch. But these paintings are freedom and love knitted together on the surface with intuitive painting and discovery.  Remember on my site right now this year is 199 paintings for $199 each.  I think I am up to abou

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” ― Carl Gustav Jung  What exactly is discernment?   Do you think we need it in today's world? One definition I found was: "Discernment: The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure."   I laughed out loud when I read "Discernment is basically a power or ability to see what is not evident to the average mind."     Discernment is the ability to decide between right and wrong or truth and error. How do you make the distinction between them?  In today's world I am struggling to abide with my Jesus in the midst of the storm.   Read more here on my main blog. I am praying for your spirit and your direction.   “The person without the Spirit does not accep

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Yellow Tulips 5 x 7 inches and Available $199  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted”  Marianne Williamson These were inspired by tulips at the store a few weeks ago. Came home and knifed them out into this beautiful 5 x 7 p