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Buffalo Nickels . Buffalo Paintings . Pure Justus . Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 White Buffalo 36 x 36 - Oil on Canvas . Pure Justus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          "I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!" Paul Engle This Buffalo painting I will be finishing up in the next week, along with a new buffalo piece on the easel today.  When I read this quote, I immediately was pulled back into a gentler time to when you collected Buffalo nickels and glass bottles for money, read comic books and swam at the city pool.  Unlike today's world, that was an easier, more gentle time. Nothing like the contemp

Where the buffalo Roam there will be no bananas. The Microwave is Beeping. Coffee is ready. What do you mean we are out of bananas? Wildlife Buffalo Painting by Laurie Pace

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 In progress. Buffalo Painting.  Oil on Canvas. 30 x 40 Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jumping right in to paint was so much fun. I sketched from another painting that was a three on the run group of buffalo using the same mountain edge and then began to toss the colors in attempting to capture the movement of the day.  The colors were BURSTING with intensity. This is a piece for a March Show at Mirada featuring four artists and the west.  This one runs high with energy for sure. I will post the final next journal. I sway back and forth on whether I like the blues, reds and yellows or the tucked in accents of green and orange.