Moving Away and Letting Go

I used to think of myself as adventurous, now I'm not as sure. 

With my husband coming up on his 2nd retirement we find ourselves in a great location that we have grown to love here on the Chesapeake Bay.  

So we have sold the house, sold the sailboat, daughter graduated and son is taking on new career.
We are moving to Michigan where pretty much most of my family lives.  

It WILL be an new adventure just a bit scarier...(maybe because I keep thinking of longer Winters)!

While recently at a family reunion,  ALL the cousins were very excited and welcoming that we are coming "HOME".  I was happy when they warmly included my husband in on all the exciting stuff we will get to do.... and just being around family. Yay!!

Now for the letting go part.

I would like to sell some of my favorite Chesapeake Bay inspired art!  Some of the pieces are large and am willing to LET GO at a VERY, VERY good deal.  If you are interested please send me a message at nadonay@aol.com

Here are a few more details, sizes & info.

1.  "Osprey Nest at Marker #6-  24"x36"Acrylic on gallery wrap canvas.

2.  "Osprey Family"  16"x20" Acrylic on panel

not framed.  SOLD

3.  "Three Osprey" - 20"x16" Archival print on canvas, 

framed and ready to hang 

4.  "Blue Heron" - 16"x20" acrylic on panel,

 framed & ready to hang 

5.  "Bird on a Buoy" -16"x15" archival print, mat, framed, 

archival glass, ready to hang 

6.  "Colorful Buoy" - 10"x18" archival print, mat, framed, 

archival glass, ready to hang 

7.  "Osprey at #1" 24x24, mixed medium on 

Gallery wrap canvas, ready to hang 

8.  "Osprey Nest" - 16x20", acrylic on panel 

not framed.  SOLD

Osprey at #1

"Osprey at #1"

24x24 Acrylic & Collage 

$400

My little story behind it goes like this:

Last Fall I got a new puppy named Daisy.  Well Miss Daisy likes to chew on things.  

While I was busy painting, she kept bringing sticks inside the house, via

her doggy door.  I had to keep taking them away, and before I knew it there was a 

pile of sticks next to the easel.  As I started painting the nest I thought hmmm these sticks

might be interesting to create the nest ...after wrecking my fingers wiring them into the canvas and adding clouds made from husbands (old) Chesapeake Bay charts all was done.  

 Now you have the tale of my inspiration.   Thanks Miss Daisy!

Osprey Nest at #6

24 X 48 Acrylic on canvas
 $1000 Available

This piece was so much fun to paint.  I took a reference photo from our sailboat out on the West River on the Chesapeake Bay.  If you are not familiar with channel markers, there are these migrating birds called Osprey.  They come back to the Bay in the Springtime and build these huge nests....really they are about 3 - 4 feet wide!  Most of the markers have nests and sometimes you can see the newborns peeking their heads out.  Of course the parent's are very protective of the nests and when a boat passes by, the Osprey will circle out to distract onlookers from their nest.  Often while sitting on my back deck, you may hear a loud snap...and then see an Osprey with a large branch flying overhead....HEY I wonder if one of those branches I painted is from my tree!