Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

Last Sunday, we stopped by the little town of Pacifica and visited the Sanchez Art Center. The art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle ...

This painting was done very quickly, and photographed very quickly, while it was still wet. It looks a little reflective. I usually take ph...

Lately, I've been having fun with painting things on the edge. I recently saw some wonderful paintings by Jian Wang in a gallery in Car...

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,...

On Aug. 12th, The Lafayette Gallery, together with Knoxx Restaurant, will be hosting "Art Talks at Knoxx". Maggie Lucas-Hill coor...

As always, wonderful to be painting again, after being out of town. This was done very late last night, in not very good lighting. I tried ...

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 ...

I'm back to familiar subjects, lemons again. I'm trying to vary my compositions. For this painting, I perched some lemons on the ed...

One more watermelon painting. Today, I wanted to do a better job with the composition. I arranged and rearranged the watermelon slices, hop...

It's so wonderful to get back to painting. After two weeks of not painting, it's like starting all over again, very challenging. Th...

These are the last of nine, in my series of paintings of Hercules. They look the best, with black frames and arranged as a group. I framed...

I thought that it would be fun to show you the real Hercules. Here he is alone, and with the No 1 man in my life, Brian, my wonderful hus...

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

During the two weeks spent traveling in Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and Palm Springs, I was lucky to see lots of wonderful art and get very inspi...

It's great to be home after 2 weeks of being in Las Vegas, NV, Santa Fe, NM, and Palm Springs. I am quickly trying to complete some sm...

Another busy week, in a very busy month. It's great to paint again! I've struggled for days with various animal ideas for our upcom...

Glad to be back to painting. I wanted to finish at least one more painting of the gladiolus. Finally, after a very hectic week, I was able ...

Yesterday, at Trader Joe's, I bought gladiolus buds. I was not sure of the exact colors, possibly purple and red. This morning they wer...

We just returned from the east coast, to spring. Everything here is in bloom, sunny skies, and very green everywhere. Spring has arrived! B...

Day two of the daffodils. Overnight, most of the daffodils opened. Flowers always amaze me... they are gorgeous! Tried to capture the beaut...

Yesterday at Trader Joe's they were selling ten daffodils for $1.29. How could I not bring some home! I bought two bunches. The buds we...

Yesterday I took the day off and visited the de Young museum in San Francisco to the see the annual "Bouquets to Art" exhibit. ...