Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014 Horse 78 Blue Mist Rising 10 x 8 Oil on Panel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my signature pulled painted Ponies is just going to the drying rack.  Strong blues created the back ground as the other colors begin to layer on top bringing the power of the paint and the spirit of the knife.  The palette reminds me of the dark clear blue sky outside...deeper with each cold front that pushes through the border from Oklahoma. The colors are the leaves on the trees outside my windows... some still green, others slightly brown and many with shades of red and orange. I wis...

Amazed    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:36 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took awhile to get this where I felt in sync with the process and the lower layers bleeding through. That is how life is. Where we have been is always apart of who we are today. This is available on my website above.  Vivid contrasting colors in this contemporary horse painting bring it to play a strong point in any room.    Some close ups. Click on them to see the layers beneath. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your sal...

Horse 59 Roundup  ©Laurie Pace Horse 59 Round Up    © +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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 r...

Horse 58 Circus Horse   ©Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...

Horse 57 Gazing into the Storm   © Laurie Pace    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bel...

Been There   © Laurie Pace 2014 Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  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 t...

Progress Been There   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  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 g...

Been There    ©Laurie Pace 2014 Progress Painting Been There    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  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 ...

Horse 53 Summer Sun Waterhole by Laurie Pace Horse 53 Summer Sun Waterhole   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2014  Size:8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  We finally hit the 100 degrees last week and there is no escape. Then we had rain and 65 degrees.  This week it is back up in the high 90's again.  This is what prompted this painting...the summer heat. There is only vivid bright shades of blue sky, red eyelids when you close your eyes to the brilliant yellow sun... and a tiny bit of green grass in the shade. Couldn't have captured it any better in this contemporary horse painting.  And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,     in the place of justice—wickedness was there. Ecclesiastes 3:16  #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist ...

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...