Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Garden of Love 3  Mixed Media on Panel $75 for all three! Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ― Oscar Wilde Short quick hello for the weekend. I decided to put these three panels up for $75. I have had them in my personal collection this past year and they are in the studio where I could enjoy them!  You can pop them in small frame and have three different gifts for three different friends! Spread your kind words today... share the love and the smiles. You never know what a big smile does for someone you pass in life today.  Texas Love and Texas Smiles from me to you! Follow the Spirit of the Paint... with La

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 This incredible cake was a chef made specialty Carrot Cake for Mom! SoCo Bistro    Lake Highlands area Northeast Dallas A Lifetime of Love Continues...  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. " 3 John 1:2 BLESSINGS and Let Them Eat Cake! Every person or family has those months they find stacked with birthdays of family members and friends. The party goes on almost all month. Different house, different restaurant... and LOTS of Birthday Cake. July is one of three busy months for our Crazy Life Family!  It started with our Daughter in Love's sister celebrating, next came My hubby's birthday and then my mother's birthday so far just this week, only 14 days into the Month. Hubby's celebration gets spread out... with

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 The Baptism Watercolor Artist Collection  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire " Matthew 3:11    This original painting is one of two that I personally have kept in my collection. My husband posed for me for the hands in it.  This was back in 1998, 25 years ago.  The Power Tears and joy never fail me when I read this verse and the others mirrored in all the Gospels. Being worthy before God is certainly in my mind, as I know every day I sin through my thoughts and occasionally words but not necessarily physical deeds.  How do you do this all the time? Paul gives us an answer: Colossians 3:17 " And whatever you do in word or deed,

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 In Awe 20 x 30  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I have not been good at hitting the blog the past few weeks.   There are still health problems with a dear family member and between traveling, keeping up all our home stuff with gardens, mowing, dogs and food, not enough hours in the day! ALSO BEEN CREATING for OUR CRAZY LIFE and I am in AWE! In awe of God's touch in our lives! If you think about it... Read Acts 2:43:  “A deep sense of awe came over them all, and all the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.”  Tomorrow, if I remember... I will share a special piece of art I did back around 1998.  It keeps me in 'awe' thinking of the Lord God and how He is every faithful to us.  More on that tomorrow! With everything going on in our family, we missed updating Our Crazy Life Plus One website.  Have not done instagr

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Rites of Spring 20 x 30  Oils on Canvas © 2010 SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” ― Richard Dawkins I write of color tonight as the world around us is filled with color...both silent color and high bright noisy color. Reading the quote I found that I am in agreement on finding the beauty all throughout the day and night.  The painting above has the high intensity colors contrasting beautifully

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 The Call of the Wild © 2010 24 x 30 inches   Mixed Mediums Acrylic with Oil overlays on Canvas Horse Painting SOLD    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.” ― Jack London This was a unique horse painting and I believe I only did two or three different sizes. One larger painting went to Australia, that was similar.  It begins with prayer always for me not to be in the way of the spirit moving my touch as I paint on that canvas.   I had the canvas flat on the table and a brush in hand... not a knife. I began applying paints and was not worried if they ran or overlapped.  No preconception of what would be where. (You saw this on yesterday's painting I shared, the bottom layers of acrylic paint.)  Usually you will find me turning the canvas on