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SUNDAY MORNING COLOR with Laurie Pace, a Texas Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Sunday Morning Color 12 x 24  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath  and from doing as you please on my holy day,  if you call the Sabbath a delight  and the Lord’s holy day honorable,  and if you honor it by not going your own way  and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,  then you will find your joy in the Lord,  and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”  For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. "   Isaiah 58:13-14 Sunday Paint before Church The year was 2005 It was really a thought in my head when I woke up at three a.m. and headed to the studio, not a full painting!   Once I started it, it kept going on it's own.  I listed it up for sale and by the time we returned fr

The Thief in the Night... a Horse Painting with Laurie Justus Pace, A Texas Artist

The Get Away 15 x 30  Oils on Canvas Stolen and Missing from Santa Fe Gallery  by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. " John 10:10 The Stolen Artwork The year was 2010 It was really called "The Get Away"   and to have it really be 'stolen away' was astonishing. My work was delivered to a gallery in Santa Fe, where several other artists I knew were represented. It was a little bit quirky but seem fine as one of the artists was an Artist of Texas and I had known her quite a few years.  The gallery had on and off problems but I did get paid for sales... then the owner had to travel and left someone there at the gallery... then due to health reasons it was closing and they sent my unsold work back, but no "The Get Away" .  I truly loved this painting. It is

The Path at the Arboretum, Follow me.... Laurie Pace, A Texas Artist

© Laurie Pace 2023 Steps at the Arboretum   Oils on Canvas SOLD   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “... a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’ ” Mark 1:3 Arboretum The year was 2005 It was quite a drive from the wilds of Justin Texas all the way into the Dallas Arboretum.  We packed up our 5 yr old grandson and his best friend from next door and headed into Dallas one fine Sunday afternoon. There were not many people there. Today if you go on Sunday afternoon,  you could not stir them with a stick.  I had my canon camera with me and got some delightful shots of people being people.    My favorite photo I took that day was of an older woman carrying a basket with flowers in it. Looked like she bought them somewhere on the grounds or brought them in for photos to be taken. She had a large straw hat.  The next group I

Pot of Poppies and God's Direction in our Lives by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Pot of Orange Poppies 30 x 30  Oils on Canvas SOLD   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" - and I am the worst of them. " 1 Timothy 1:15 Poppies The year was 2006 My colors went opposites and bloomed into these poppies.  I went through a painting period of painting a frame around things in 2007. I painted two of these but this was the first one and my favorite! Nine blooms in the pot and one on the counter. Not really planned, but i know you see the canvas was BLUE and I did the white inset frame that shows up almost all the way around.  Notice how the white/with blue... triangles into the flowers on the left. That brings your eye straight into the painting. The white below also pulls you up and into the blue bowl. Cont

Sounds of Music in Studio with Laurie Pace, Texas Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Violin, The Sound of Music 18 x 24  Oils on Canvas Commission   by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " This is love: That we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love ." 2 John 6 The Violin The year was 2008 and I believe in the summer or early fall that I completed this painting. The love of music in my life made it like a craving to take this commission of a young girl and her violin.  This painting is in my "Do it with Heart Book" and a break in life showing you more of my roots in the tech age.  I do not have much from before 1998 in photos on the computer.  My style was always more impressionism than it was realism and back then I had tasted the freedom of a palette knife and thick oil paints which in itself was an addiction.  No

It is all through Love and doing it with Heart. A look back to the past twenty years of Blogging with "Elle" Laurie Pace, Texas Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Do it with heART First Published Book in 2008 (no longer available)  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another." Galatians 5:13-15   I remember putting this first book together and weaving into it the daily blogs I was writing. No I did not use ALL of the blogs or ALL of the paintings in 2008, just a variety of ones I did that year. At this time I was painting a little bit of everything, and some were photos from prior years. I am not sure where all the photos are today of those paintings, but I am thrilled my husband found