Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Two Grazing   ©Laurie Pace Two Grazing    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 12 x 12  Oil on Canvas Board ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colors are not in the trees, but they are on my canvas!  Fall is here today by the calendar but not by Texas temperatures.   At least our nights are a bit cooler.  I ask Terry constantly, "Why do we live in Texas?"   My heart sighs.  My favorite climate is more along the lines of St Louis or Cincinnati.  You have defined seasons.  The weather affects our lives and most definitely affects my painting! Stop by the website at available paintings or click the painting. Here you can see close up images of this colorful horse

Grazing  18 x 27 Oil on Canvas                                                                  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Grazing     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The knife began to scrape and move. The paint began to form.  More layers of color were added and then the horses began to appear on the painting.  Stunning jewel tones and earth tones painted all in one composition.  Hidden things you may or may not see. This is my favorite way to hit the canvas. Allow the spirit of the paint to move throughout the piece and giving up control. Grazing, a Horse Painting, waiting for a new home. In your life it is impor

Prepaint © Laurie Pace 2014 Prepaint... watch it happen.     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014        Size: 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes I will just sit and draw on the canvas with charcoal.  I may stare at it for months. I know I posted this sketch on canvas probably in June or July... and it sat in the studio. Today I picked it up and began slapping colors on the surface.  That is never enough, but it is a foundation and a start.  Wait till you see the finished painting tomorrow. The spirit that works through the knife in my hands amazes me. I do not know where it comes from.  Please stop by the blog tomorrow and see the final

Making Tracks   © Laurie Pace Making Tracks    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Making Tracks is a special wolf painting for a special friend.  It is a SHHHHH... don't tell... a birthday present in the making. It is ALMOST done. If I change anything major I will share it again with the updates.  Wanted to share that the Bible Verse below  as it was a strong one for me this week.  Read it, drink it in, inhale it... and try it. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. James 3:13 NIV

Sunlight Play  24 x 36 Oil    © Laurie Pace 2014 Sunlight Play    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He is having a birthday...my eldest son celebrates this day. Remembering back is always so special to your first birth and your first baby.  I chose this horse painting because that is one thing he loved to do was play. He played hard, worked hard and sometimes studied hard.  He is a father of two wonderful boys that I cherish dearly and married to a wonderful woman.  Together they enjoy life's journey. Happy Birthday Justin.  He is about six months old here. This was Easter time.  

Enclosed  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Enclosed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 30 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was one of my favorite nudes.  Just a quick share for the week.  Hope to be painting this week to post some new things.  Just finished up a larger wolf painting as well, so you will see that one soon.  This nude painting was created from simple pulls of paint both horizontal and vertical. Which came first, the drawing, or the paint? That is for you to figure out.    I feel almost paralyzed by world events...knowing I need to pray. So between breaths I am praying. It is hard to just 'go about' life knowing what is happe

Twilight Nude  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Twilight Nude    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a commissioned painting for a very modern home.  We really had quite a few sketches as it developed as I wanted to have the full figure across with the feet.  It will be framed in a dark frame and will hang in the master bath area of the home.  I paint nudes on request and have quite a few styles I work in. You can see them at Daily Painters.  They are mixed in with my other figurative work.  I love the thick paint and layering on this one and it is musical in person. Contemporary Nude Painting by Laurie Pace

Lone Wolf  ©Laurie Pace 2014 LONE WOLF    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Busy here at our house and painting comes in spurts. We have a new grand baby on the way and we are already in preparations. This is a new small painting 9 x 12 of my wolves done in the pull style of my horses. These contemporary wolf paintings are popular but I do not paint many of them. I try to keep them collectible!  So this is a small wolf painting just finished and very wet! This is the FIRST small wolf I have ever painted. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Mak

Reflections of Glory  ©Laurie Pace Reflections of Glory    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas. Sold Purchase a print here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is another GOD directed painting. I was up at about 3 a.m. and could not sleep.  Cannot tell you where this came from but it jumped right off my brush.... no palette knife.  Love the colors that contrast and the simplicity of the lines of this horse painting.   It is available in print here. The reflection of the horse reminded me of a childhood memorized Bible verse:  When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a