Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shiny Red Shoes  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Like many Americans, we are not watching news anymore. I did manage to catch the weather for the next week and it is going to feel like 105-108 every day.  Is it hot where you are? The week ahead is going to start early on Monday at 7 am with an appt with a client on a website build.  I spent yesterday afternoon (after cleaning the house) cleaning the studio and rearranging canvas and finishing up the Bull and Bear painting I have been working on for the past three weeks.  Also finished up Lila which you saw yesterday after I finished it and blogged.  Next week, the brushes and the knives come out and paint will be involved.  I believe there will be horses, flowers,  maybe a bird or a wolf.   I have been thinking lightly about something. I am mulling it over on how it would look or work.  I h

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lila - Ready to Party  by Laurie Pace - Commission Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This is the granddaughter of one of my dearest friends.  This little girl is the spitting image of her beautiful grandmother.  This was a crazy day photo with her wearing all her favorite colors and the net layered colorful skirt that grandmother brought to her!   Do you remember in your lifetime, being surprised by a gift from a family member that made you feel special?  I do... with several memories and my favorite was a soft yellow sweater at age 3 with tiny rosebuds near the neckline.  We used to be able to smile and greet people with a warm hello. Cannot do that these days. Covid Masks. How about if we used sign language... with our sparkling eyes and the sweet uplifted hand like a salute with a wave?    https://www.babysignlanguage.com Southern men might pull their hat slightl

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 THE MARSH  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”   F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Great Gatsby It took a few extra weeks, like six of them, for summer to arrive here in the Dallas Ft Worth area of Texas. The temps the last few weeks were in the 100-105 area with heat index about 10 degrees higher. We had a cool front come through which gave us a few cooler days but we are back over 100 again now.  AUGUST is here.  The painting above was painted last summer when we saw 100 plus for months in a row,  I kept things simple with a simple palette. August is the month I turn my thoughts to September.  At the top of the thought list is Cooler Nigh

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 The Dress Fit!  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”  Victor Hugo Leaning on God and dreaming about my Wedding Dress. Lately… at least for the past 15 months, we have been leaning into God , reminding each other if we begin to slip or slide.  Abiding with him and waiting as he works. We have given up trying to control things in our lives. We simply cannot. As our 30th wedding anniversary passed by in late May, we were not able to do what we wanted with a small recommitment ceremony at the church where I grew up and where we were married. Other things were happening so the day passed. Again we were leaning into God. Sunday Morning, the UNEXPECTED happened.  As I tumbled out of bed, I showered and washed my hair. Coming out of the shower I discovered

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 MUSIC! Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Tom Bodett I spent the afternoon getting reacquainted with my guitar.  Not sure if I have played at all since this photo was taken in early December.  Up until 5 years ago, I played my guitar continually, singing and playing and learning still.  I started playing in 9th grade at age 13. My parents purchased an Alvarez Classical Guitar from a shop up in Sherman, Texas where my older brother was attending Austin College. I still have that guitar close by. It shared many a bus trip and plane trip over the years, as well as the rule with my children (teasingly) that if we had a fire, the oldest was to grab my guitar, the middle was to grab the family Bible and I would grab the youngest, the baby

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Spring Cleaning with many paintings on my website. Up to 50% off. Shop Available Artwork including Sale Items.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales if you want to receive notices ahead of public.  “ 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. " Judges 5:31 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   Shop for Large Paintings    |   Shop for Prints and Gifts   | Commissioned Paintings        INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog    Facebook Laurie Pace is an international artist with her paintings collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia,  and Ecuador. GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Flower Power Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “I've never experienced true love until I loved my own child.”  ― Mitta Xinindlu It was Sunday last week when she called and asked if I wanted to ride with her to run two errands... Central Market and Costco.  Seems like with Covid and the shutdown of the past 400 plus days, I see my daughter less and yet more.   I see my daughter more as she has grown spiritually and wiser. She is less abrasive and not so quick to make decisions without thought or research. I am watching her change before my eyes over this time and I could not be filled with more love deeper than what I am now.  She is in her early forties and has two growing kiddos and a husband at home.  400 plus days ago,  i n the past life, she was one of those ...  click through to read more. 1 Peter 3:3-4 "Do not let your adorning be exter

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lotus Painting in Process - Commission Painting Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 400 Plus “ When you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light. ” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah   Def: Dark  -8: closed to the public “Life is dark in shutdown” Over 400 days Terry and I have been living in this new land of shutdown. Even with vaccines, things remain fuzzy on what is allowed and not allowed. For sure this time is the first darkness we have had hit us that has lasted over a year in length. When our nation was shut down in early March 2020, people were sentenced to stay home with their children and a virus spread across our country. Both Liberals and Conservative have their slant on the last year. For Terry and me, it has brought us closer… closer to God and to each other. Never did we believe we would be tested with times like those from the