Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you need in your survival kit?  Why do you need one?  Try self preservation, maybe? Even living in the city it is wise to have an urban emergency kit.  I know when we lived at the lake we loved it. We had no one around all the time... we were 'full timers' there at the lake with a few other couples, and someone really had to be looking for us to find us.  We felt pretty safe there.  We grew food, we had the lake for water if needed and lots of game in the woods around us.  BUT, when we moved back to the city in a neighborhood... wow, there is no living off the

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Sold  Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Her name is Niki. I once had a friend named Niki. Pop Art heading to a new home. Ten days ago I had a phone call on my cell phone with the caller ID 'Niki Hardin Home'.  I dropped the phone and immediately and Terry looked at me with questioning eyes.  You see my friend Niki died two years ago.  She had Lou Gehrig's.  I truly hesitated to pick up the phone. As far as I knew her only son had closed out her estate over a year ago.  Sold the house (with the "home phone")..hence my hesitation to get a call from this number. It turned out to be her son.  He wa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Come gather ’round people  wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’  Bob Dylan So when was the last time you stopped to smell the roses at the grocery store or the florist? It seems that a sustained effort to breed sturdy roses/flowers ends up inadvertently creating flowers without scent.  Do you want your children and grandchildren to not know the smell of roses or lilacs

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 32 x 48  Oil on Canvas. Mirada Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Grass is NOT Greener on the Other Side . It could be softer....Patches of Flowers in the field.  I can definitely say without a doubt the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence.  What is planted in your life?  Each seed you have dropped has grown to be a part of your life throughout the years. So what is growing up around you? What type of surface are you walking on? Is it soft and grassy with comfort to your feet or brambles and thorns sticking into them? You might look up at others walking and under their feet is lush green grass with co

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 36x36 Oil on Canvas Available at Mirada Fine Art Denver Spring Ponies The Gathering at Sunrise ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunrise .... Baptism today . Dedicating our youngest Grand Daughter to the Father . Sunrise Painted Ponies This morning our family will gather at the church to baptise Lady M.  To the right is a picture of Lady L when she was baptised six years ago on the exact same date. The gown is our family Christening gown made by my mother, who is holding Lady L in the picture. All three of my children wore this dress, my niece and nephew, and four of our five grandchildren. On the slip of the dress,

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Streaks of Blue  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you find yourself thinking about what is ahead more than what is happening right now?  If only I can get through this day and finish this and that, oh and don't forget that... then I can rest and be happy.  The best is yet to be! WRONG.  The best is right now. You do not have to look ahead for it, it is here surrounding you.  Look at how much thought, time and effort you give to your relationships, your work, your finances...and if you have it leftover, time spent spiritually with God. If time with Him is limited, so is your light and life. The more you allow divin

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Noon Run to the Old Oak Tree Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is running next to you? Race to the Oak Tree .  The last journal entry was about the 'TOP FIVE' in your life. Did you make your list? We choose who we spend time with each day.  That is in our control and part of our responsibility to surround ourselves with wisdom and love.  It begins with us to have a positive life and be there for others as a good moving force in the world around us.   In every spoken word; in every typed email or letter; in every thought and deed, we are transmitting powerful ideas and thoughts that can either dis