Saturday, June 25, 2011

Abstract Horse Painting, Scattered to the Wind, Equine Art by Texas Contemporary Artist Laurie Pace

Scattered to the Wind

28 x 42 inches  Oil on Canvas  
      ©Laurie Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011
Contact me to purchase. Laurie

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Painted with Holbein Duo Oils on a custom stretched canvas, this beautiful horse painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace is layered with color and infused with energy.
"Get Thee up into the high mountain." Isaiah 40:9
 
 
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Abstract Equine Art by Texas Contemporary Artist Laurie Pace

The Escape
18 x 27 inches of thick Holbein Duo Oils.

The gorgeous chunky contemporary horse painting brings together all 
the elements in nature blurred about the horses as they run.
I finished this painting too late to make the trip to Santa Fe so it is available from me right now.  Email me if you are interested.


      © Laurie Justus Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011

ESCAPE


Do you ever think about 'escaping' from a situation when you begin to feel uncomfortable or you are ready to NOT be there?  That could include relationships as well as situations.  Have you ever tried to escape yourself?


We all have our inadequacies.  We feel we are not good enough, or pretty or handsome enough, or our feet are too big or we are not good enough to snag that better job with more pay.  We limit ourselves all the time.   We measure social success and financial success and when we fall in the bottom it just reaffirms what we have felt.. that we are simply not good enough.  We seem to have this inborn sense of discontent of who we are and what our lack of gifts seems to be.  We may have the drive and the incentive to complete things but we never seem to see results that prove us to be worthy. This is the human condition of insecurity. NOBODY escapes this. Our self-centeredness keeps us focused inward on ourselves. Always it is our attempt to meet the needs of our ego. We become slaves to those needs and all of our energy is devote to what we feel we are missing in our lives.


ESCAPE... now is the time to re-frame this and begin your escape. It is time to say goodbye to the squirrel cage you are running.  The goodbye has to precede a hello. Are you ready to try it? You must say goodbye to your old habits and your old ways of thinking, your aversions and attractions, your egoism and your pride.  Don't forget your preconceived thoughts of failure as well as the years of conditioning based on fears and hopes. Time to say goodbye.  These are patterns of thinking and behavior that God does not want for us. Our human nature keeps us on that treadmill behavior. 


To escape you must be ready to say goodbye and recognize and admit to yourself you must stop thinking in this way.  Step back from situations and thoughts and look from the outside in. Stay detached and impartial if you can. As you begin to view your behavior patterns you will learn to accept them and heal with positive change. Insecurities will no longer hold you. You said your goodbyes.  Allow yourself to just be you...nothing else. JUST YOU. 



Now say hello to a new awareness and the beginning of a new relationship with yourself through God.  Keep everything based on peace and calm.  Praying to God and spending time speaking to Him is a positive way to relearn good thinking patterns. You are never alone if you are a believer. God is with you at every breath in everything you do.

Stop running.  God is the way.


Laurie        

“If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”” Luke 11:13 NIV
 
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Three Painted Ponies by Texas Equine Artist Laurie Pace

Three Painted Ponies
Watercolor on Board
Framed and ready to ship.

6 x 6 inches  $145 includes painting, frame and shipping in the USA.
Small watercolors along the Journey.


Contact me to purchase: Laurie 

 © Laurie Justus Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011

Here is the frame on the painting. A custom black wide frame. Absolutely gorgeous.



Who Are You?

We just returned from a break neck trip to Santa Fe to deliver 24 paintings for my Show in Denver in mid July. That is why I missed blogging yesterday as we drove home 11 hours straight. 

Riding for long journeys and experiences from life give cause to reflection. I visited several galleries in Santa Fe since I had REAL work with me to share.  I was offered representation at one gallery for sure and am truly excited about the possibilities.  When you are 'on' for interviewing or selling yourself or your work it is draining.  That is what caused the reflection and the writing of this blog this morning.

Who are you as an artist? Who are you as a person? The most challenging thing to accept for an artist is the reality of having to sell not just your artwork but yourself. You are a product entity in a whole.. you and your art.  In this world of massive competition and struggle how do you stand out?  What makes you unique? What makes your artwork unique that when viewed someone says, "Artist SO and So painted this" or "this is Artist So and So".  You and your work are indivisible. Your work is your fingerprint in the art world.

Somewhere along the line if you are doing this right, the marketing part, you hit the wall and want to crawl slowly away from the heavy hitting and just create again.  Retreat, renew and review where you are. Learn new things and play again. Rediscover a new voice inside of you.

Do you ever 'replay' incidents in your head and moan, 'Why did I say that?'  Or think about ways you could have responded better to a conversation?  

Several months ago I wrote about shields we all put up to guard ourselves from hurt.  Those shields not only guard us (or we think they do) but they keep us from seeing in the mirror who we really are.  Who are you?

When thinking about artists that I have meet over the past few years, most of us love each other as well as admire and respect each other.  Jamie and Gretchen from New York that I meet last fall are probably two of the most genuine, giving, caring artists I have met. There was absolutely no shield in place; no protection or hiding or misrepresentation of who they were. Open, loving, welcoming, creative women. No agenda list. No expectations. Only genuine warmth and welcome to the Hudson River Valley.  I believe they are both so passionate about their work that nothing else interferes with their creativity.

I literally stay running in circles between painting, marketing, wife-ing, grandmothering, mothering and back to promoting and helping close to 750 artist with their marketing, advertising etc. Who am I?  

I know what am I, and that is tired! While I accept the responsibility to be professional and the need to be 'on', it gives me pause this time. Can I live the other way? Is that possible? 

Is that not what is offered to us from God?  Drop the shield and stop playing the games and over-working. What is it all for? What does it gain you in this lifetime or with Him? Why is it all necessary?  Who are you?

On the way home in the car yesterday I begin to reflect on this. Who am I when I am not 'on'?  My shield is so thick I cannot see around it to step back and view it from outside looking in. 

Time to renew and reflect this week. Praising God for a good night's sleep. It was needed.


Laurie          

"For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.” Psalm 19:1-2 NIV

 
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Abstract Horse Painting Three of Color by Texas Equine Artist Laurie Pace

Three of Color
8 x 10 inches  Oil on Canvas  
Available through Mirada Fine Art. Contact Steve.
 

  © Laurie Justus Pace   Graphics One Design 1998-2011  
        

“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19 NIV
 
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