Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

This is a similar 22 X 30 monoprint, that was done in 2007. It is titled "Natasha at the Lafayette Art and Wine Festival". I deci...

This year the Lafayette Gallery is celebrating it's ten year anniversary! The Gallery is currently showing a special exhibit titled, ...

More tomatoes, one of the best things about summer! Still working on the edge, and still enjoying it. There will be more "on the edge ...

Still working for a less finished, looser look. I remember being told in some long ago art class, that the mind likes to see something slig...

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

Last night was the second in a series of Art Salons at Knoxx Restaurant and Bar in Lafayette. Patrick Hayashi, Debby Koonce, both wonderful...

Last week, this article was published in the local newspaper. It is great publicity for "The Lafayette Gallery", and for the upco...

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...

Here we are with more apricots. This one was done during a short weekend escape to Santa Fe. I didn't have very much time, but I had ap...

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...