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“Party of Seven” Painted Pony Pulls Horse Painting by Laurie Pace

July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Laurie Justus Pace

“Party of Seven”
18 x 27 inches
Acrylic on Canvas

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© Laurie Justus Pace Graphics One Design 2009

“I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with Joy.” 2 Corinthians 7:4

The Painting: Golden Acrylics and Liquitex Acrylics were on the palette as I began this pull. 97 percent of my pulls are in Oil, so an acrylic one is rare. The paint does not respond in the same manner, but I am able to double up on my layers and the dimensional aspect of the subject.

The Thought: I’ve got the Joy Joy Joy Joy down in my heart….that is a line from a song I sang with my children as they were growing up.

What is joy to you? For my youngest son, joy should be every day having fun and living life. To my oldest son, joy is his buddies and time with that World Warfare game. To my daughter, joy seems to be getting everything done. Finding a completion in a job well done.

We all seem to have our own thoughts on Joy. Joy is a blink when considering the list above. Joy is a simple passing moment or feeling and it only surfaces for short times. It has to be “fed” to exist in their lives. Our daughter is most aware that there is joy in the fleeting sense with each completion of something, but in her heart she knows the lasting joy from knowing the Lord. She knows the suffering that comes with true joy. She and her husband lost their young son several years ago…but from that horrible loss came the sweetest joy as the two of them found their walk with the Lord. Enduring something like this, or thinking of Jesus dying on the cross moment by moment bleeding to death…it is amazing how it produces Joy. Losing a child is not fun. Enduring the cross was not fun. The joy is in living to the glory and praise of God.

Your experiences may bring a tough reality to your life. Stay centered with God and live as He would want you to live in accordance to His Will and His Plan. Joy is not more money, or more things…Joy is in the “being” and the “giving” to others. Experience the everlasting overflowing JOY of the Lord. It is this joy that will comfort you and give you strength.

Joyfully live for God today.

Laurie

“Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10

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Jun 9 – The Acrylic Still Life Continues

June 10th, 2009 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

Now I’m so much more pleased with this one. It is coming along well, with glazing done with traditional gloss medium and colors from the Open Acrylics, blending and unifying the upper left corner, and defining the green plate. The red grapes went in very fast, and yet are not painted as individual grapes. I’ll still add much more, and have put off adding the lavender leftmost plate. I need to pull the entire composition together before making this bold statement.

I’ve thought about time of day for this painting, and it is definitely morning. I added bits of warm yellow to the whites, and of course there are all sorts of grayed purples in the shadows. Yes, even interiors can reflect the time of day–it just makes a better painting overall, in my opinion.

Every once in a while I like to share with you other artists’ work, someone who has been in a Color Boot Camp. Since my epiphany of being a teacher vs. being an artist first, I want to share this site with you–this is my friend Louise Mellon, of Aiken, South Carolina. She paints what she loves and what is around her–mostly horses and their companions. I’m always pleasured by her courage in her work and her stunning designs. Check her work in progress through her blog: http://louisemellon.blogspot.com/

OK, OK…. if you want to be on the list for the October workshop, I’m going to take names. (Now stop pestering me! Just kidding!) I don’t want to have to go to a lottery system, yet I understand everyone’s frustration about not getting into a Color Boot Camp.

You can see my entire blog HERE.
My workshop schedule for 2009 is HERE.
Color System information can be found HERE.
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May 9 – Thank you and Goodbyes

May 9th, 2009 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

Here’s the demonstration painting for morning light done as part of the lecture for the Georgia workshop this week. It’s a 12 x 16 and done with acrylics (traditional) on a board-backed canvas and is one of the views across the woods and hayfields of Georgia. I really like the light patterns that fall on the jump on the right of the scene. I’ve walked this path on Fay’s farm many times and never tire of it.

The students (“Recruits”) in the Color Boot Camps are producing outstanding work–all because of the Color System applied to their curret style and subject matter. I’m honored to be teaching such a great group, and will be heading optimistically to Florida tomorrow to meet up with yet another great group of folks with a desire to know the Color System.

Here I am doing the demonstration for noon light–on a 16 x 20 canvas in Golden Open acrylics, pill boxes at the ready! Fun demo, and I’ll post the finished painting later this week.

I want to thank all of you–especially those to whom I’ve not had time to personally reply–who wrote about Shadow. It is tough to lose a pet, and those who wrote such kind emails cement for me the connection I feel to all of you, and for that I thank you sincerely. I have a busy life, yet there are those bittersweet moments of memory that still bring an ache to my heart.

Now I’m off to Florida tomorrow morning, and will be seeing new faces, new Color Boot Camp Recruits, with Sparky is by my side! I hope I’ll have a good Internet connection while I’m there!

You can see my entire blog HERE.
My workshop schedule for 2009 is HERE.
Color System information can be found HERE.
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Apr 8 – Another Demonstration using Golden Open Acrylics

April 9th, 2009 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

I am becoming enamored with the Golden Open Acrylics. I used them today (in their cool and warm pill boxes) for a demonstration for the Hemet Valley Art Association. The end result is this 16 x 20 acrylic you see here, called “Vernal Pools, Santa Rosa”. Completely without reference except memories in my head.

What I enjoy about the Open Acrylics is the process of putting paint down that dries less quickly than traditional acrylics, yet still is tacky enough to have drag and blending opportunities, not quite like, but similar to, oils. The drag over the tacky parts is easily visible in the grasses. The blending is there in the distant mountains and water reflections. I talked the entire time during the demonstration, which lasted about an hour and a half. The HVAA were kind to let me come back, since I missed last month!

From the workshop, I wanted to share the moonlight painting that Harmony did on the last day. She really “got” it in this depiction of the waterfall–using a noontime color snapshot she took herself, and mentally changing the light to make this evocative view using the Color System. Just so you know, the paintings I’m showing from the workshop have had less than 5% of my hand, if that. Most, like this one, are 100% from the brushes of the attendee.

If you’d like a look into my life here at Two Trees, my friend Theresa who came through on a visit took these photographs while here. Lots of Chiron, and the workshop, as well as around the yard. I love seeing my life through another’s eyes–it is full of surprises! Go HERE.

You can see my entire blog HERE.

My remaining workshop schedule for 2009 is HERE, updated. The June workshop is filled and I’ve opened another California one that goes over July 4th weekend. It already has two signups. Still one or two spots in Florida and several in September in Maine, though.
Color System information can be found HERE.
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Feb 17 – Workshop Finished, Evening Light Demo

February 17th, 2009 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

This 9 x 12 acrylic was done as the workshop demonstration piece for evening light, using the Color System. Nine participants finished up three intense days of painting from 9 to 4:30, learning the Color System for time of day here in my studio last weekend, and this was from the second day, in the afternoon.

I used the cool box colors to lay in all of the distances and shadows before judiciously putting the warms into the nearby lights and on the meadow. Evening light is showing as the influence of cadmium orange on the lights, and an interesting thalo blue/cadmium orange light on that blue spruce.

The source for this painting came from one of the students in the workshop. I seriously edited the placement of objects to create a more pleasing perspective and eye-path. It was done with mostly traditional acrylics, but there were some Golden Open acrylics in the boxes now, so it was a compromise on which “ruled the day”.

The next Color Boot Camp here in California is full (April), but if there’s enough interest, I will open a third one in June with the same three-day format. There are still spaces on the east coast in three of my workshops–first in Georgia in May, second in Florida in May, and the third one during the Fall Foliage in Maine, in September. Now’s the time to learn!

You can see my entire blog HERE.
My workshop schedule for 2009 is HERE.
Color System information can be found HERE.
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Dec 2 – On Location with the Golden Acrylics

December 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

On location with the Plein Air Artists of Riverside last Sunday I quickly painted evening light overlooking a vast view. And, the Golden Open acrylics work! Even in Santana wind conditions, I only had to spritz them a couple times with my water bottle. I was working with all Open except for Ultramarine Blue, that workhorse color, as I am awaiting an order to fill out the Color System.

This is called “Low Water” (Lake Matthews, California) and is a 9 x 12. I put my gear together and strapped it on the motor scooter and drove 20 minutes over to the PAAR member’s house for this vista from their front yard. This scene is only a small piece of the entire view, and yet it spoke to me–loving the diagonal of the finger of the lake and the evening light on the hills and distance. Only in the sunlit areas below the halfway point of the canvas are there any hues from the warm box, and not many of them.

The Golden canvas went into my slip case as it wasn’t dry enough to just toss under the seat as normal acrylics–more like oils in that regard. I tootled on back home, and had a most interesting experience…. on the scooter, I could smell the scent of turkey casseroles and turkey soup on the air–never would have had that with a car! And when I fed the critters, I noticed the wonderful juxtaposition of Jupiter and Venus right off the points of the crescent moon before I came back in the house. This is one of the photographs that Alberto took of the view of city lights and that sky, from our driveway. Life is magic!

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Nov 29 – The Ground Squirrel Complete

November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

I need a title for this one….

Here’s the 18 x 18 inch acrylic photographed in the good light I need for entering shows. The glare is gone, and the colors are uniform across the canvas. Signed, it’s finished mostly with Golden Open Acrylics, which I am coming to love.

I loved painting with the Open Acrylics, and of course the Color System makes this scene read right from the top to the squirrel’s shadow. Our ground squirrels’ Latin name is Spermophilus beecheyi but I just call ‘em the common California Ground Squirrel–or varmits.

Tomorrow I go paint on location with the Plein Air Artists of Riverside–always a fun day! I’ll be taking those Open Acrylics with me for more practice.

Below is a more detailed image of the squirrel:

This image shows the details where I felt details needed to be, yet the brushwork and loose edges of the other areas guarantee a hierarchy of edges.

These rocky ridges and “exfoliating granite” are very common around our place here in Riverside, California. The ground squirrels are no strangers to us either!

This original acrylic is destined for the Saks Gallery in Denver, Colorado for a show in February with the Women Artists of the West. I don’t know whether I’ll be able to go to the show, but I do have friends there to visit–and life is short, so who needs a better reason?

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Nov 28 – Rocks and Open Acrylics, almost done!

November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

Although the image has glare on the right edge, you can get a general idea of where this painting is going now. I haven’t signed it yet, nor photographed it outside as it is late tonight and I wanted to get something out to you before the weekend is over.

This austere terrain is not uncommon here in Southern California–we have rocks and brush exactly like this out behind our place. The wildlife is there, and only the ground squirrels pose as they keep watch for predators from a relatively safe perch.

This painting is about atmosphere, heat, and light. I’ll finish it tomorrow, as I get out the holiday decorations and work on another commission for the holidays. I need to get a much better image for submission to the Women Artists of the West show in Denver next year.

I do really like the Golden Open acrylics–the best of all worlds with working time and yet the brillance and handling of regular acrylics. I do think I may be a convert!

We had a quiet Thanksgiving here after the rain. Nice to have a fire in the fireplace and be with someone you love and not have traveling in the plans for a change! I hope your holiday continues to be full of whatever you wish it to have.

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