Nancy Hartley's Art Adventures

  Another California road trip landscape, painted from a photo, taken from the passenger seat this summer .

  Here is the  faithful, and ever lovely, Claudia, hiding in some stacked art, in my studio. She thinks she is incognito, but I know wher...

Having more fun!

  This was painted from a photo taken on hot summer day. Still having fun!

  Still working with the ideas from Sandy Ostrau's WS.  Some of these ideas include, simplification, using large shapes, combining pa...

This was done using some of  the ideas from Sandy Ostrau's workshop. It's so much fun experimenting, and trying new ways to p...

  Last week I spent two days in a painting workshop with Sandy Ostrau .  I have admired Sandy's beautiful work for a long time.  I w...

  Last week, with Carol Marine, we worked with painting glass, painting white, painting reflections, and more. So great to focus on paint...

  Carol kept us all very busy, and more busy. She is just relentless, a non-stop painter, and an expert teacher, and artist. I learned so...

    Just back home from five days with Carol Marine, and all of the fabulous, and talented artist/friend attendees. Here are some photo...

  This painting was part of my "painting larger"  effort that took place this summer. It is 20" X  24", and based on ...

  This has been such a busy summer, it's hard to believe that fall is now here.  A lot has been happening to keep me away from pai...

  Still moving on, using previous small paintings as a reference to painting larger. This one is only 12 X 12, but still larger that my ...

  Still working larger. I've been using my smaller paintings as reference material to create bigger pieces.  This is actually a 12...

  I have been pushing myself to paint larger,which has kept me very busy these last few weeks. This painting was done on unstretched can...

Karin Jurick's workshop was a great opportunity to try her painting methods, which include painting on a black ground, and using lots a...

Yesterday, I pointed out that taking a workshop is a great way to try new ideas. This little portrait was done from a mug shot, as an exerc...

Last week I spent five days in a workshop, taught by Karin Jurick. She is a very inspiring artist,with lots of great ideas. One of the bes...

Still having fun with the oranges! Working larger, and enjoying the expanse of canvas, a whole new feeling of more spaciouness, and lightne...

I am enjoying these oranges, more than words can say! Having fun working a little larger.

Having fun wtih oranges, and so happy to be painting!

I've been away for such a long time, I don't know where to begin, so I will start with now. Finally, so happy to have some time to p...

This is something that I've done before, that is fun to do again. Orange slices , all very close.

One more photo, that I finally was able to post, from our time in Santa Fe. Here I am with the fabulous artist, Diane White, in front of th...

Last week I received some exciting news from Mill Fine Art, at 530 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe, NM. My work was accepted for the Holiday Small ...