Mermay Day 30

Heres my 30th image for mermay all finished! I really wanted to illustrated a group of mermaids or sirens luring sailors at some point during the mermay challenge and left that till the penultimate image.
I didn’t add as much detail as I would have initially like due to running out of time, but overall I’m happy with the final result. I’m unsure whether or not I will be able to finish my final image in time to post it for the final day of the challenge, but if not will certainly post it when it is finished!

Mermay Day 27

Another glowing mermaid for mermay. This one was drawn and painted on A5 watercolour paper and once again I used a mix of quink ink, bleach and watercolour to create the lighting.

Mermay Day 26

My second glowing mermaid, made once again using quink ink and bleach. This one didn’t turn out as well as the other one because the paper I used for it wasn’t as good as the paper I used for the first one and so the bleach began to wear at the paper, however I think I managed to fix up most of it using some watercolours.

Mermay Day 25

I really liked the idea of drawing a glowing mermaid and so decided to draw one as part of mermay, using quink ink and bleach to create the bright glowing colour of the mermaid.
I really like how it turned out as I was unsure if it would work or not and I ended up drawing three glowing mermaids for mermay.

Mermay Day 24

A Scary looking Sea Witch for Day 24.

Mermay Day 23

This is another A5 watercolour I painted for day 23, can to contrast my earlier moonlight painting, I decided to paint a mermaid looking at the sun setting.

Like the moonlight painting, this one was also tricky due to the lighting and colours, but it was also great practice for me.

Mermay Day 20

Another A# watercolour for Day 20 of mermay. I really wanted to paint a night time scene and just had the image of a mermaid looking at the moon in my mind and knew that’s what I wanted to paint.

It was quite tricky to paint especially with trying to get the lighting right, I still don’t think I got it quite right but I was good practice and great to paint something a bit different for me.

Mermay Day 19

Another A5 watercolour I painted for day 19 of mermay, this time of a mermaid sitting on a rock. This was fun to paint and good practice for painting things emerging from water, this case being the mermaids tail, which can be quite difficult I think because the colour has to be slightly different or the image itself slightly distorted.
I really like the mix of green and yellow for this mermaid and think I may trying using more brighter and bolder colours for upcoming mermaids.

Mermay Day 10

For Day 10 of mermay I drew The Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen, but as is she were really and wasn’t a statue. This was a fun image to play around with watercolours and using them to bleed into each other to create the effects of scales against skin.
Interestingly, the statue of the mermaid appears to have two tails rather than one, something which I have seen in depictions of mermaids but for but it doesn’t seem to be very common.
Also, I don’t really know what the statue is holding in her hands, I thought it was maybe seaweed but if anyone does know what it is please let me know!