Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

This is the view from our front door, looking up the street, towards the opposite end of the court, in the late afternoon. I'm having f...

This was done for Carol Marine's Germany Challenge . Still working with light and dark value patterns. I've been having fun looking...

I've been working on finishing a larger painting, that is taking a lot longer than I expected. I decided to take a short break to paint...

Hope that everyone's long weekend was wonderful. With the beginning of summer, I'm looking forward to things slowing down, and hav...

More Texas Rio Star grapefruit. I had so much fun painting this. All the time, wondering how grapefruit got it's name. Grapes are so...

Here is the redo of the photo from the last post. This time the photo was taken in the early morning. I think that it is a little better. ...

Back to the pears. I need to bring some paintings in for our gallery exhibit change coming up. I am hoping to have a series of pears done, ...

More cherries, and more words of wisdom from Pam's blog. Pam mentioned that Quang Ho advised artists to make a decision, that no decisi...

We just returned from Santa Fe, where I always get so inspired with all of the art everywhere. I ended up finishing several small paintings...

One more of the same composition. This is still a fun challenge for me. I'll forge ahead with more of the same, and we'll see how i...

I'm still working on the same composition, with more tomatoes. I am also still trying to create a looser, less structured look. This is...

I was trying for a looser, more casual feel with this painting. I'm staying with the "on the edge" composition, and trying fo...

Just had to squeeze in one more painting of these, by now, overly ripe apricots. I can see some things that I wished I had done differently...

This painting was done along with my other lemon paintings a few weeks ago. I did not have a chance to post it, so here it is. On this one,...

I'm still working with the lemons on the edge of the upside down shoebox. I was trying to use looser brushstrokes, this time. It's ...

Here are some of the paintings that were done for the " Fur, Fins, and Feathers" exhibit at The Lafayette Gallery. These are read...