Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This past week has gone by way too fast. I had hoped to complete a few small paintings. Alas, there was no t...

We just returned from a short trip to Santa Fe, NM, where we attended the annual fundraising gala for the Folk Art Museum. This year, the ...

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 ...

We just returned from a short trip to to the Sierras, and Reno, NV. We visited parents, and Brian attended a meeting in Reno. While Brian w...

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. ...

Now that I see this photo, I wish that it was better. It's a little blurry. I will try to redo this. In the meantime, please bear wi...

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...

On Sunday, I took four of my framed pears over to the gallery, for our new exhibit, opening on Tuesday. If you are in the area, please come...

Last night we arrived home from a short trip to La Jolla. It was beautiful, great weather, gorgeous ocean, and wonderful restaurants! Her...

My friend Kathy asked me if I ever did Red Bartlett Pears. The answer is, yes, I do, and here they are. Another quick pear painting, done y...

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...

One more pear painting for the upcoming exhibit. I still want to do a few more. This one was a quickie. Experimenting with blue, a color I ...

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, ...

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

One more on the edge painting. I can't seem to get enough of this composition. It is still fun, and I still have more ideas. I'll k...

These color wheels were done for the first assignment for Carol Tarzier's class. It seems like I have done many, many color wheels in...

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...

I just finished reading Pam Holnback's newest post on her blog. She has done a great job sharing ideas from "The Weekend with the ...

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...

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...