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

Solo Show

Here we are at the end of April and I didn't even post my big news!  

Well for me it is big because this is my first solo showing...yay!

Most of the work is from my Chesapeake Bay inspired paintings 

and a few are from my Vintage Toy series, as well as a few small still life paintings.

  

Thanks to  The Honey Hive!

Also available are cards and prints.

Day 18 "Light House"

"Light House" 8x6 oil

Renee Brennan

SOLD

Day 18 of the 30/30 Challenge is another photo reference by Melissa Kangas Photography.

This girl goes out at all hours of the day to capture amazing scenes around the Chesapeake Bay.  This is the Piney Point Lighthouse in Southern Maryland.  

It was difficult getting the blue sky to look like hers and I edited a big cloud mass.  Also on the brick part, I used a palette knife for texture. 

Check out Melissa's website, there you will see her beautiful not enhanced photo's!

Day 2 "On Board Blue Mist"

"On Board Blue Mist"  6x8 oil NFS

by Renee Brennan

Day #2 of the 30 paintings in 30 day's challenge by Leslie Saeta.  

This painting of the Blue Mist Yacht built 

in 1917, used to be a commuter boat into NYC.  

On my 50th birthday, my husband rented it for a small party!

We are sailors so  normally when we go out onto 

The Chesapeake Bay,  the weather is nice and sunny. Well this

day happened to be rainy, rain, rain rain... which actually

turned out absolutely perfect!  

"The Day Sailor" Revisited

"The Day Sailor" Oil   20 x 16  NFS

I painted "The Day Sailor"  couple of years ago for my husband Casey.

 He loves this painting, not only because it was a painting for him, of him, and his boat,  

but of more what it represents to him.

Serenity, Calm, Stress Free and Freedom are some of the adjectives that come to mind when he or we are out there sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. 

 I call it his girlfriend.  Her name is Patriot.

 See the American Flag on the stern?  He will not leave the dock unless his colors are flying. 

 No kidding.

Where am I going with this post you say?  It is a stretch but,

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

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!

"Bird on a Buoy" & "Reflections of a Colorful Buoy"

"Reflections of a Colorful Buoy" 4 x 12 Oil  

Original Sold but Giclee print is available

Here is yet another crab pot buoy painted from photo while we were sailing last fall in the Chesapeake Bay.  The colors on this one were so vibrant! It was the same day as the little bird below...with no wind it was bad for sailing but excellent for shots and nice reflections on the water.

Original sold, Giclee print available

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On a sort of side note my "Bird on a Buoy" got juried in the Annapolis Arts Alliance show going on now at the Maritime Museum, Annapolis through May 18.

"Bird on a Buoy"

8X10 Oil on Panel    SOLD

Getting ready for the Muddy Creek Artist's Guild 3rd "Gifts from the Arts Show"

Dec 1,2,3,4 & 8,9,10,11 

Edgewater Maryland

Show flyer click here

About the painting:  Husband and I went out for an evening sail.  Bad news was that there was absolutly NO wind when we got out onto the Chesapeake Bay.  Good news was that all the reflections in the water were especially bright.  So being the sweet husband I have, he manuvered the boat close to a bunch of crab pot buoys.  I started snapping pictures ... well this little bird was posing for me and so here he is!  

Harvest of Artist show

Here are just a few more of my pieces entered in the Muddy Creek Artist's Guild Fall show "Harvest of Artist's"  Greatfully hosted by Green Street Gardens in Lothian Maryland.

September 16, 17 & 18th....check out MCAG site for more details.

"Bloomin Chives"

8X8 Oil on canvas  

SOLD

These were painted from the pot of chives in my yard.

 

"Number Five"

8X10 Oil on canvas  

SOLD

I love Osprey nests, but this one is pretty shabby.  I hope they were out gathering more sticks! 

   

"Portrait of an Orange Crab Pot Buoy"

4X12 Oil on canvas

SOLD

One of the many buoy's we dodge while sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.

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!