Showing posts with label Laurie Pace Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laurie Pace Artist. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Horse 59 Round Up, Contemporary Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace


Horse 59 Roundup  ©Laurie Pace


Horse 59 Round Up

  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas.
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This one is already gone...but I had to post it along the way. I have been a bit under the weather for the past week and trying to catch up puts me at the computer for a long stretch!  I want to share every contemporary horse painting that comes through this studio.  The colors were strong in this piece. They rang clear and bright for the eye to enjoy.

 Trace Adkins played most of this week. As mentioned early I am leaning more into my CW roots here of Texas with the summer heat.  

 We are still battling to keep our new Burr Oak in the front yard. Although  all the other leaves are turning crispy brown there is a hint of new leaves trying to come out. Doubtful they will survive the Texas August heat.  Too hot to walk. Too hot to walk Paddy.  Just plain too Texas Hot.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:18-19

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Been There... Completed Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace

Been There   © Laurie Pace 2014
Been There 
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas.


It is finished... I can say I have been there officially.  The composition of this painting literally grew from the story that I felt in my body of the daily movement of the world and the sun and moon.  Inside that is the movement of each of us... routinely doing the same thing over and over again.  You have been there I am sure!

This contemporary horse painting uniquely captures that moment that you realize it is time to do new things and bring new moments into your lives.
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
    I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
    and this was the reward for all my toil.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
    nothing was gained under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:10-11


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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Progress on Been There, Contemporary Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace



Progress Been There
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas.


The patterns have begun to establish themselves on the surface. The strength in the horses neck is evident by the color choice. I am an artist that goes after 'contemporary horse paintings' with brilliant colors. 

I had hoped to finish to post but taking this composition slowly as it develops and not rushing the energy. I want the painting to evolve naturally.  You can see the rough music through the layers of oil paints as I progress into the next layers of paint. Still caught up in the 'been there' as I think more of the sun and moon and the daily journey and how our lives are totally situated around this natural happening of day into night repeated to what seems infinite or until the sun bursts and flares out leaving the earth cold and dead. 


 What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?
Generations come and generations go,
    but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises and the sun sets,
    and hurries back to where it rises.
The wind blows to the south
    and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,

    ever returning on its course.
Ecclesiastes 1:3-6

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Friday, August 15, 2014

Been There, Contemporary Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace

Been There    ©Laurie Pace 2014


Progress Painting Been There 
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas.


I am constantly looking for neat things to mount as the foundation of my contemporary horse paintings. I came across a CW book of older music and chose the Clint Black song "Been There".   I shredded it and glazed it onto the canvas.

 "did you ever wake up in the middle of the night"
"did you ever wake up in the middle of the day"
"did you ever wake up in the middle of a dream"

 Those were the lines that struck me as I worked... and as you can see there are spheres in the painting... When you think of how "rote" our days have become... Work, Drink, Eat and Sleep... and do it again the next day. Both Parents working, children in day care.... everyone forgetting how to live... how to be alive.  We have all BEEN THERE.

 So the painting has a strong horse prancing with the sun and moon revolving... like they have 'been there' forever each day.  
Watch for the finished painting tomorrow.

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
Psalm 119:130 NIV

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm by Texas Artist Laurie Pace


Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm   © Laurie Pace
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas.
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Still working on my 100 horse paintings for this year... small affordable ones for collectors.  This one is named for the scene outside my window...storms to the west, all dissipating before they arrive at our house. I can only gaze into the storm, not actually feel the rain! Contemporary Palette Knife Horse Paintings alway lead to lots of layering of paint. Here is a close up. Click it to see it large.

August really caught me off guard. I believe that July was such a huge month filled with too many parties and too much food that I am paying for it now. Layered on too much cake and too many times eating out!

Throw in Texas heat in the 100's and you gotta know where I am. 
Change is surrounding us daily in our lives. Trying to spool down to less stress reactions to the change is hard for me.  Trying to pick up my guitar more, play my piano more and I am cross stitching a baby blanket for the new coming grand-baby due early next year. 

I have decided I HAVE to start doing a studio letter once a month.  I firmly believe that people do not have time to read blogs every day. I do it for google to keep my work out there and it is a must to sell artwork. If you are anything like me, you probably delete this if it comes in email every morning.... if you did not delete it, you might sign up for my Studio letter and I will promise to try and get back in the habit! 

 Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.

 "I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches."
Psalm 119:14 NIV

 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart

Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm   © Laurie Pace
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas.
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Still working on my 100 horse paintings for this year... small affordable ones for collectors.  This one is named for the scene outside my window...storms to the west, all dissipating before they arrive at our house. I can only gaze into the storm, not actually feel the rain! Contemporary Palette Knife Horse Paintings alway lead to lots of layering of paint. Here is a close up. Click it to see it large.

August really caught me off guard. I believe that July was such a huge month filled with too many parties and too much food that I am paying for it now. Layered on too much cake and too many times eating out!

Throw in Texas heat in the 100's and you gotta know where I am. 
Change is surrounding us daily in our lives. Trying to spool down to less stress reactions to the change is hard for me.  Trying to pick up my guitar more, play my piano more and I am cross stitching a baby blanket for the new coming grand-baby due early next year. 

I have decided I HAVE to start doing a studio letter once a month.  I firmly believe that people do not have time to read blogs every day. I do it for google to keep my work out there and it is a must to sell artwork. If you are anything like me, you probably delete this if it comes in email every morning.... if you did not delete it, you might sign up for my Studio letter and I will promise to try and get back in the habit! 

 Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.

 "I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches."
Psalm 119:14 NIV

 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart

Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Horse 58 Circus Horse by Texas Artist Laurie Pace, Contemporary Horse Paintings

Horse 58 Circus Horse   ©Laurie Pace
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas.
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This is a prior horse painting now with new colors and new layers and a new look. Imagine yourself under the big top... I remember going to the circus a few times, Ringling Brothers in Dallas when they came.  When you are little everything is magnified to you, the lights, the colors, the action... it is all so impressive and at times even scary.  When the horse is brushed to shine, you can almost see the reflection of lights on its coat. In the patterns of the horse you can see the tight rope walkers, the clowns and the acrobats.
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Horse 50 After the Afternoon Rain, Contemporary Horse Paintings by Texas Artist Laurie Pace


Horse 50 After the Afternoon Rains by Laurie Pace © 2014

Horse 50
After the Afternoon Rains

 Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas.
Available Paintings by Laurie Pace 

The storm blew in so quickly it caught us off guard.  We have had such a drought situation that rain was a word only whispered and remembered from another time in another decade or another universe. North Texas is in extreme drought. As the storm broke mid afternoon the thunder roared and the rain blew out of the southeast almost diagonally like millions of sharp arrows hitting the two story windows in our family room. 

 The storm lasted about 90 minutes before it lessened and began to dissipate.  I knew I felt like painting and hurried into the studio just as the four o'clock afternoon sun broke through the clouds and the entire yard was filled with vivid colors from the garden, the roses and the green lawn.

 The inspiration ended up here. The canvas began with a layer of pink, white and purple.  The secondary, third and fourth layers began to pile with colors that enriched the surface. From there the emergence of the ponies in the colors. Enjoy... I know we enjoyed the rain.

 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Crowning the Hill, contemporary horse painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace


Crowning the Hill  48 x 48   © Laurie Pace 2014

Crowning the Hill
Contemporary Horse Paintings

 Size: 48 x 48  Oil on Canvas. Sold

Available Paintings by Laurie Pace 

This painting hangs in a restaurant in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.  I am hoping to make it up there this summer to see it hanging and to enjoy a wonderful meal.  Keeping up with my paintings is hard because there have been so many...but in the past three or four years I have painted less and enjoyed it more. Doing a larger paintings and connecting with the new owners and making the experience special is what makes it so very special.

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.  Ephesians 6:18

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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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Friday, July 4, 2014

By the Dawn's Early Light, Contemporary Horse Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace


The Dawn's Early Light  © Laurie Pace

By The Dawn's Early Light 
  ©+Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2014

 Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas.


The painting was in my mind a few weeks ago and looking through my painting archives I came across a single horse with a sun rising entitled Dawn's Early Light.  I thought it would be appropriate to do a contemporary horse painting for the 4th of July and name it By Dawn's Early Light.

 Today is Independence Day in the United States. This is a holiday we all look forward from the time we are little bitty until we are old and in our rocking chairs.  In the old days when I was young....we had sparklers, small firecrackers and simple things to light off with our families.  I loved the holiday at my grandmother's farm. It was always darker in the country and the fireworks seem brighter.   

 When I had children, two of the three were boys that played baseball so we were always at the baseball field for Little League fireworks in Nacogdoches. Most of the community was there and all of our friends. 

 When I moved to Kentucky, we went to the fireworks in Cincinnati on the river. We sat high on the banks and literally laid on a blanket looking up watching the beautiful lights over the river with a power reflection from the water. 

 Freedom is a powerful thing. But more powerful is God.

 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 
Ephesians 6:10-17


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Laurie Pace
A Texas Artist 

My Blog        
My Website      

GALLERY LINKS
Mirada Fine Art Denver CO,  
Vino Dipinte Gallery   San Angelo, TX



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