Triptych

If only he hadn't fallen asleep ...


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Dance with me..

.. To the music!! My final mermaid (maybe) I was listening to music today while I worked and this is the outcome.. Mermaids dancing underwater with fish!! 

This was done while sitting in union square. I used a blue pencil and inked with a fine black sharpie. I need to start painting these mermaids but I don't know if I can stop drawing them long enough to pick up a paint brush :) 

The clams are smitten..

.. And falling in love!! More mermaids!! Another pre-photoshop sketch! More of me enjoying the sun in union square. In SF our summers happen in August and Sept and when that happens my brain goes to the ocean and the magical creatures of the deep.. These little clams just can't stop falling hard for this mermaid as she pets them. Cupid's arrows hit the waters a little early. 

Done with red pencil in my sketchbook. Inked over with a fine sharpie. Soon to be transferred to photoshop for color to be added. 

He tells such wild tales..

And she wonders how true they are!! More mermaids! I've been hanging out in union square in SF drawing mermaids and figured I should post my sketches before adding color to them

I will be adding color to these soon w photoshop via batmankoff :)

Laughing Under the Sea

Mermaid 1

I'd like you to meet the first mermaid of my series of five. She was actually the last design of the five I drew. I like her so much because she laughs at life and enjoys her time with her fishy friends. I tested different colors but because I love purple so much I settled on it for her hair. This little mermaid was my first painting of this year. Drawn on scratch paper while at work and painted on Batmankoff 

I like her because regardless of the fact that I was sick with strep throat she gave me something to do to push through my recovery. I'm not a home body at all so painting her eased the difficulty of being stuck at home fighting sickness. I was happy to go back to work but also happy I had time to paint her.  Over the next week or so I will be posting the other four mermaids with other art.