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A Little Bit About “Coralei”

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Aug 162011

My latest artwork is yet another mermaid. I always look at my other mermaids and just want to redo them all. Instead I thought I would just start a fresh one. I love seeing progress shots so here are a few of Coralei. I’ll explain a bit about her name in a sec. So when I started her I knew I would give her coral coloured hair so in my mind her name was Coral. As I painted her though I knew Coral wasn’t right. I even asked on my facebook page for suggestions as I wasn’t sure what to [tell me more, tell me more]

A Little Bit About “Delta” and “Magenta Rose”

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Jun 082011

A Little Bit About "Delta" and "Magenta Rose"

As a follow up to my post on A Little Bit About “Violet” I thought I would share a little bit about the other two Mermaids in the Mermaids for Milla series. I’m a bit of a “buy 3 in different colours” type of person when shopping and often I am a bit the same with my art. I like sets of 3 so another 2 Mermaids were born. Of course I also had some input from my little muse Milla. After seeing the results of her last request for a Mermaid painting she was keen to see another. She [tell me more, tell me more]

A Little Bit about “Violet” from the “Mermaids for Milla”

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Jun 062011

A Little Bit about "Violet" from the "Mermaids for Milla"

My “Mermaids for Milla” series started out with just one little dreamy mermaid who is now known as “Violet”. I innocently asked my 3 year old daughter Milla what I should paint today. Her enthusiastic response was “Merliah”. Those of you who have little girls may know her from the Barbie movie “A Mermaid Tale”. Milla is a little obsessed with her Barbie movies at the moment and is especially enchanted by Mermaids of all shapes and sizes (who isn’t??) So anyway a Mermaid it was. I like seeing artists works in progress so here are a few little pics [tell me more, tell me more]