Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

I've had this prehistoric telephone on my mind for days, just had no time to get back to it. I painted it a while ago, and meant to do...

This is the homework assignment for Tim Horn's plein air class. We were told to paint a cantaloupe slice showing the lights and darks...

I just had to post a picture of Matilda, the Algonquin Hotel 's celebrity cat. The Algonquin Hotel has had a resident Matilda, since ...

We just arrived home from a week in Baltimore and New York City. While in Baltimore, I visited the American Visionary Art Museum . This ...

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...

These two paintings were done in Tim's workshop. The bottom painting shows an exercise that was done from a photo showing dark and li...

Here is one of the "almost finished", paintings from Tim Horn's work shop. I worked with it a little more, today, and plan t...

This past weekend, I was lucky to be part of a painting workshop, taught by Tim Horn . The two day workshop focused on creating light a...

Here's to something new, and different, in the year to come! Hope that your 2011, is filled with lots of exciting surprises! Early, ...

Just had to paint one more tangerine, with the leaves, and stems. These seem so festive, just perfect for the holiday spirit!

It seems like these little tangerines, with stems, and leaves are everywhere. They are so pretty. I love the colors, and shapes, and just h...

A final effort with the persimmons from last week, and some leftover limes. I just love the orange and green colors together, one of my fa...

I hope that Thanksgiving was wonderful for everyone. I am very thankful for a special Thanksgiving, and birthday weekend, all at once! Af...

I finally had some time to get back to painting, during this past very rainy weekend. After not painting for awhile, I felt a little out o...

So glad to have some time to paint, finally. Here is a quick one of some pomegranate slices. I can see some things that I would like to ch...

Here is a current photo of the Lovely Claudia. She is very camera shy, but as beautiful and sweet as ever. She has been growing, playing ...

Yesterday, we did the final hanging, and touch ups of our exhibit, "Southwest Inspiration". Painting accent walls in the gallery...

Yesterday we spent the day at the gallery getting ready for our exhibit. Brian, my ever supportive husband, painted the accent walls a dar...

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...

Here is the announcement for our upcoming exhibit at the Lafayette Gallery, starting Oct. 12th. Please come by for the reception on Oct 22...

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...