Mermaid: Blue Eyes #MerMay

Mermaid: Blue Eyes

Step by Step

To celebrate MerMay I'm putting up my step by step of my oil painting "Mermaid: Blue Eyes."

I'd done several small thumbnails of my idea of doing a portrait of a mermaid, using just her face, hands and hair in a square canvas, before doing the pencil directly onto the canvas board.

I first went over the pencil with a green line in oils

Did the face and skin tones, with greenish shadows

Starting the background

Putting the greens in the kelp

Giving more detail to the kelp fronds and her hair

Finishing the shell and sea life decorating her hair and a pet fish

Framed and sold! at IlluXcon 2014

Jody

Look at Me! Look at Me!

I feel like Arthur's little sister running around saying "Look at ME! Look at ME!" with this first post. In other words, an embarrassment to others. Just dipping my toes in the bloggy waters, but heres some pix of my product - whoops, what an unromantic way of putting that - my work.