Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

This is the same painting from the last post, with a little more work on  the trees. Still having fun with color, and lots of paint!

One more painting from the plein air class. Still focusing on the light and dark value patterns. This was done in Tiburon, near the Lyford ...

This is the last painting of this series. I ended up with twelve of these HWY 25, drive by paintings. They really look much better as a g...

Still doing some last minute work for the Southwest exhibit. I would like to replace a few of the paintings, that didn't turn out as we...

Still, one more view from HWY 25. Also, taken from the passenger window on the way from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. After a very busy few we...

Once again, somewhere between Albuquerque, and Santa Fe. I love this this drive. It takes a little more than an hour to go from the the ai...

Another drive by painting, taken from a photo somewhere between Albuquerque, and Santa Fe. I'm still working with these same photos, wh...

I decided to go back to my last landscape and make some changes. Here is the revised version, which looks a lot like the first version. I...

Here is one more of the same area as yesterday's post, actually somewhere between Lake Tahoe and Quincy. This was painted from a photo...

This was done from a photo taken from the passenger side of the car, while driving somewhere between here, and Lake Tahoe. I enjoyed paint...

In the midst of the holiday fray, I've had no time to paint. My familiar escape has been sorely missed. Finally, yesterday, I squeezed ...

This was done from a photo, of a mesa, taken from the car window, somewhere between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The desert is unusually green...

Friday was the final day of the landscape portion of Carol Tarzier's class. The lesson was about the use of perspective. This painting...

Here we are, it's Halloween, and we're in between trick or treaters. That means it's time to post my efforts from Friday's ...

Friday was one more class with Carol Tarzier. She is such a wonderful instructor. Each class begins with a demo of Carol painting a landsca...

Just finished day two in my painting class with Carol Tarzier . Here is the new landscape that was just started in this recent class. So ma...

This is the beginning of a landscape painting that I did in last week's painting class. Actually. my first attempt at landscape painti...