Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Two years ago…  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I was working on this painting about two years ago. It is the granddaughter of a good friend of mine. Watching her grow up from a tiny newborn to the energetic, vibrant young girl she has become, has been a treasure.  Pulling things from the archive, I hope to be painting again in the next two months. I did paint a small piece yesterday.  5 x 7 in size, but I’m not ready to share yet .  I can just about hear God saying that, ‘ I’m not ready to share yet. ”  With all that has happened in 2023  right to this early morning moment on my blog, I can feel the Lord working on me. It was in December right before Christmas, I surrendered entirely. The studio remained literally upside down….Hubby moved my computer (I cannot use it yet …probably for another 6 weeks.) I cleared out a HUGE box of paints, inks,

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Visiting and Delivering Paintings  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Bless us in whatever experiences this day may bring to each of us. May we plant seeds of blessings to grow in the lives of others. May we have the energy to meet this day and its needs. May we not be distracted by worries. May we each enjoy every single simple quiet moment. Give us honesty and kindness living this day forward.  This beautiful horse Painting hangs in the home of one of my collectors. I was delivering two paintings to her home a week ago, and was thrilled to get to see the other pieces she had hung over the years. The one I’m sharing this morning is one of my favorites. The vivid contrasting colors combined with the horizontal movement of the horses across the water accented by the change of light at sunset, creates that feeling of the close of day, with the closing majest

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Wolf  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. " 2 Corinthians 4:16 Stop Trying to figure it all out. Depending on your childhood and your genetic make up, each of us absorbs mannerisms and coping skills from those near and dear to us. My personal experience created me into a person who likes to solve and fix things. I also learned from my mother, to be a caretaker. What about you?  In our home lives growing up, we have hundreds of experiences every day, repeat it through every week, as well as this first years of our lives. this is the foundation of who you are as a person, how you think things out, and how you respond to the people and situations around you.  As you mature, and go out into the world, you have become an established force of natur

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Contentment  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Look around you. Everyone has work or duties each day, and no one has the same work. To you or me, we may think someone else has ‘greater work’ than we do. Created by our Father, we each have our own set of gifts woven straight in our DNA. We each have a part to do, and no one else can do our part…we must do it.  Some have made the commitment to God without holding back, and those have soon found they live contented without any reserve,  for they live abiding with Him and seeking only what He wills, and they desire to do for Him whatever He desires them to do. They live a simple life without worry or being over worked, because they have chosen to be lead by what God has provided. In this state they find fullness with what is given. In our wack-a-day world this is unheard of.  We all want a sense of peace eac

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Never Disappointed  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. In confidence and trust you have never failed me when I have come to you in need. Things often appear against us, but we must remember your work is not complete.  I cannot bring good out of evil for you or me in the end, but you Lord can and you do. This must be left up to you Lord. Not my will but yours. You Lord, find the specific blessings for each of us. I ask that you surround and place your hand on those facing sadness or troubles. Please help them find a blessing in the darkness surrounding them. Do not let them bear this alone. Provide faith and comfort as they endure the days ahead. Guide each of us Lord to make the best of our home to be a sanctuary worthy of your love and abide in us each day and through the night.  May we provide refuge and strength to those in need.  Allow us

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 First Day of 2024 Fades to Night Skies  by Laurie Pace   It is the end of that day again…the very first day of the new year. It has slipped into darkness with a cold wind out of the north.  Good food and great company made the day seem fuller.  Terry cooked up the black eyed peas and I made black bean meatballs and mashed potatoes.  It was delicious with cold slaw and cornbread! As evening darkens we pray we all learn to trust what we cannot see.  Give us light in this evening where shadows have crept in during the day.  May God’s love stream light around them and chase them away. 2023 has ended and for some, this year, challenged with illness, fears, pain and death, tears were shed with losses and trials. In the trials faced it is impossible to see your love Father. Give us faith not to doubt. Give us hope that you will see us through.  Give us your assurance that all is working in our best interest.  Explode this year with