Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Night into Day   ( this is only a small portion of the painting click through to see the full piece) 6 x 12 oil on panel  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  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 Sold a painting today. It is a small one, but packed with beauty. If you hurry, you can click through by clicking on the painting and see the original piece. I love the freedom in it... the discovery and the finish.  Tomorrow I will be covering it in layers of glazing varnish!!  Then Wednesday we will pack it up to ship to Florida! During this slide of our country, the stress of people in the new great divide, the loss of jobs, the risky decisions before you and your family... Terry and I will be praying for you.  God lays it ou

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Summer Winds  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”  Leo Tolstoy  PAINTING 🖌 Transitions and change ... This was part of a painting that began as two horses sketched on a canvas... paint applied and knifed around... and this beautiful contemporary horse emerging. There were parts I loved and parts that seem weak. It stayed like this about 24 hours and I was back to play with it. This painting no longer exists.  Palette Knife Modern Representational Abstract Horse Painting called Summer Winds.     👉 LIFE 😀💏  "Change" September the month that marks the change from the summer heat here in Texas. Our temps will stay in the 90's most of this month and this week the high nineties.  It was noticeably cooler this morning... but only this morning! 😎  How is it wh

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Face With In  by Laurie Pace - Available . 30 x 40 x 1.5 Oil on Canvas  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ” Roy T Bennett- The Light in the Heart. Painting 🖌 This is the entire painting of the one I shared post before last. If you bring your finger down to her chin and go straight to the right,... the piece of the face showing through is right near the edge and it is turned sideways. The Face With In ... because the original face I left in the painting as I finished it. Fabulous Figurative Faces, thick paint application and 6-8 layers of paint minimum.  30 x 40 inches in size and wonderful Holbein Duo Oils with this one!  🥘  Life Today 🍲😋 WOW.... 8 hours of sleep. Never got up once!  Even had good dreams along the way!  Woke up to life starting early about 5:15 am...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Together  by Laurie Pace - Available.   24 x 24 inches framed.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle Painting 🖌 Was a whirl in the studio the past four days as I jumped into a canvas I had drawn off. Over the days it went from two horses to one main horse and then back to two horses and another day to this final arrival. The spirit of the paint and God’s hand in each piece allows the natural fall of colors and shapes to form what is there.  Representational Abstract at its best!  TOGETHER! 24 x 24 and framed to hang. 😍  Life Today  😉 I have to be honest with you. The past two nights have been different. One night I was up and down and only grabbed about four hours of sleep...then last night... I was asleep by 9:30 and woke up at 4 this morning. I REALLY wish I had gone back to sleep but I was awake.  Wha

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 A piece of the whole...  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.” Carrie Jones, Entice PAINTING 🖌 This is a peak into a painting... a small part of the whole. It stand alone even when it has not been completed. The eyes of a woman and the beginnings of her nose and mouth. She was part of a whole painting, which has been repurposed, but I could not do away with her face on the new painting. Will try to remember to post it again tomorrow as I know I might have posted it maybe a few months ago. Portraits, Women, Eyes tell all...  MONDAY PLAY 🖌 The day started at four this morning when I woke up way to early!  I listened to classical music, then watched some news and heard hubby up in the kitchen. 

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Good People - 60 x 90 inches Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace - Available at Mirada Fine Art or through my website.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” C. Joybell C. The Painting 🖌 The Good People is the very last one I will paint in this series. I believe I have maybe 8 or 9 variations out there in different sizes, all inspired once again by Jack Johnson and the song, "Where did all the good people go?"  Using the abstract pull of my palette knife in downward strokes, the contemporary painting celebrates color representing the people. This palette pull of color is something seen in my horse paintings dating back to fall 2006. Contemporary Paintings of action by knife infused with co

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Shooting Star  by Laurie Pace - Available.   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “In your life you will meet shooting stars. You will see them, make your wish and see them disappear.” Nazhiar Ozar The painting above is available. It is one from a few years ago and it is at The La Jolla Gallery in California. Painted to the tunes of Jack Johnson, inspiration always flows with his music. "Shooting Star is 32 x 48 inches of thick knifed paint and startling colors. It tells a story of life on the open range in Texas and the vivid evening sky, filled with massive constellations and shooting stars.  I was listening to Banana Pancakes as I finished up that evening. Terry was actually making me Banana Pancakes and as I left the studio and walked across the upper balcony of our home, I caught a glimpse of a shooting star across the floor to ceiling window