Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 Horse 77  Throwing Caution to the Wind 8 x 8 Oil painting on Panel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was working on this painting I had  Fox News  on in the studio and was listening to the Congressional hearing  while they drilled the  CDC  for the screw up here in Dallas. I guess that is where the name of the painting came from.  There are times in life we simply just do things with no regards to consequences for ourselves or others nearby.  Freedom with paint always leads to fun and exploration and this tiny painting is exploding with power and strength.  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acc

Partial view of Bullish on TDA  Gift © Laurie Pace 2014 Bullish on TDA            24 x 24 Oil  Gift SOLD    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is another look at the bull painting I just finished up for Morgan.  Bosses Day was October 16th... and I did not want to show the entire piece because it is a gift and not something I paint every day. I used the pulled effects in the background but I went wilder with the palette knife cutting up the paint layers on the bull itself.  If you know anything about stock you know there is a bull market and a bear market. The bull is what you want. Most of us want a balance in life for peace a

Horse 75 Leaves of Gold Sky of Blue 8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas Panel    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a toss up right now whether to be in the studio painting or enjoying the beautiful fall seasoning opening up around us right now.  Temps still are climbing into the low 80's but the nights are in the fifties making the mornings just perfect.  No time like the present to appreciate the beauty of God and the changing seasons. I did two contemporary horses paintings in the studio yesterday afternoon both went on panels primed with soft sherbet orange.   My color addiction always erupts.  I really had fun painting in acrylic for

Horse 76 Golden Morning  8 x 10 acrylic on panel    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the second of the two horse paintings done with the orange sherbet laid in background. I love the rusty red that flowed through this painting. All the colors of what I see outside appearing in brilliance on the surface.  Every now and then I have to do an acrylic painting. It will be back to Oils tomorrow. Long walks in the morning have been delicious.  Cool enough to wear a jacket but then by mid morning... getting warm again. This has to be my favorite time of the year.  “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one sm

Horse 74 Pair of Appaloosa  ©Laurie Pace 2014 Horse 74 Pair of Appaloosa     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finding peace was the mission in this 'repaint'.  I took a quiet horse painting and began the added layers of paint.  This particular piece had mixed media beneath with acrylics and now I have introduced oils over the top of the painting. Using the pulled paint method, the colors pulled together two visible horses in the painting. I decided to keep it simple and not pull so many bright colors into it. Not everyone loves a rainbow painting.  The mission in the studio is to enjoy my journey wo

Horse 73 Bad Moon Arising    8 x 8 Oil on Board    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of my small horse paintings have sold right away. A few of them get shuffled back to the easel and are restructured and repainted.  Usually those are the absolute best as they have building blocks of creativity over the surface making it all come together.   This is one of those. I was resurfacing the top with blues, mauves and saw a bit of brown pink coming through making a greenish tint with the blues... and from that was immediately born the Moon.  Then placing the painted ponies on the surface...behind them.  We have the Bad Moon Arising.  Lo

Shades Advancing ©Laurie Pace 2014 Shades Advancing    24 x 48 inches Oil   Palette Knife on Canvas    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each day you spend time building this day in your life.  You make choices throughout the day; decisions that affect you and affect others. If your life is built on God's unconditional love , you have a wonderful foundation to work with.  We all make good and bad decisions. We cannot grow without the bad ones and the good ones leave us feeling reinforced knowing it flows from God through us.    As I worked on this painting I was stepping out of my comfort zone of explosive color. Color is the sou

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 24x48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still Watching over this painting trying to decide about the touch of color.  I have infused a bit of my favorite blue in this one but not sure it is it enough... what do you think? I started on another painting that is a gift for my son, and it is in the process of coming together. I may only post one or two images because it is a gift and not something normal that I paint.  Is there a normal ? There are times we say no and times we say yes. Each of us reacts differently when asked to participate or do things with others or for others.  More often we say yes too much and