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Mermaid...me?

4/8/2017

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​Okay, so I have a confession.  

I used to be a mermaid.  Well, kinda.  I was a DIY, bootleg mermaid for my girl Jessie's Halloween bash back in the day...but...we don't have time to get into all that  I reckon. (but I sure did feel super fab in my repurposed thrift shop dress!!!)


Which brings me to the new series for April, it's...(dramatic pause)...MERMAIDS!  

​If you have been checking out my IG or FB then you already knew.
  Go ahead, pat yourself on the back, I'll wait :)

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Believe or not...this thrift shop dress was also my 'Miss Elizabeth' costume. Rastlin' fans, ya'll know who that is.
But... did you know that I can't swim and I am scared of deep water and ANY water with 'creatures' in it?  Did ya?  It's true.  Yet...I go to the beach pretty regularly and I love to be BY the water.  But as a general rule, I don't go in the shark's house.  In many ways, drawing a painting mermaids is a way for me daydream about swimming all graceful and dainty-like, unafraid of all the creatures below the surface and not being able to touch the bottom.  Sigh.

Instead, the meme below best describes my struggle.  Thank goodness for memes.
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All silliness aside (well, most of it!) I also have a ulterior motive for makin' mermaids this month.  I have actually spent a month making mermaids already.  Yup, sure did- back in May 2015.  Here is a quick view of the images;
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The main reason I am revisiting this theme (besides the fact that mermaids are freakin' awesome!) is that I am prepping a body of work for a show.  My colleague Brent Bludworth and I have our now annual show coming up next month. Brent's jam is surf art, and I know I can show anything I want, but I really like to make something that will compliment his pieces just so the whole show is more cohesive.  

So...mermaids it is! Yay!
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"Yer my boi, Blud!' (pics from our 2015 and 2016 shows)

​But...I wanted to make them a  little different, you know?  My immediate thought was 'mixed media mermaids' (I am a sucker for alliteration, what can I say?!)  I was thinking more collage, but as I was cleaning out my studio over spring break I came across a box of handmade papers I acquired from an art trade.

About that art trade... I saw a post in one of the art groups I am in on Facebook, a gal named Victoria Smith from Alabama was getting rid of some handmade paper she had created and I just happened to be the first one to catch the post, so I commented and then mentioned I could sweeten the deal with an old fashioned art trade- so she checked out my web site, picked out a piece from my #FelineFabJLG series and boom- we traded!
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(Left) No big deal, just a beauty queen with a cat on her head...I mailed her off to Alabama got this box of AWESOME handmade paper!!!

#winning

So I started working on the first piece.  And actually, the first piece started off as just a pencil sketch of a face that I cut out and glued on the handmade paper. Then I started adding paint.  At first I was using watercolor but I quickly figured out that was a BAD idea because it soaked into the paper and started to weaken the fibers.  So then I started using acrylic, which seemed to work better.  Another finding...ball point pen was better than pencil, less chance of ripping the paper.
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The first gals in the series...
My next issue is I didn't want to cover the paper so much.  My first two images had a bunch of paint on 'em and I wanted to let some of the paper show through more.  So in the third piece I approached the work with a lighter hand, not using so much paint and letting it be a little more rough and unfinished.  (above, far right)

I mean...look at the surface of this paper.  I am smitten. (below)
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Then I started to focus more on just the face, per usual.  #MyJam
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...more mermaids, gals 4-7...
...and that's where I am with this series.  Mermaids...handmade paper...ballpoint pen...acrylic paint...optional sparkle.  I never know when I start a series where it will take me, but who knows, maybe I will venture into the deep end and throw away my floaties after all!
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