She charms the teeth right off the sharks
and pops giant squid with her golden tail.
In this miniature painting, an original sketch was done,
traced, inked and then watercolor was added.
It is painted on Arches watercolor paper with golden
accents done in Prismacolor pencil. The watercolors used
are Grumbacher, Winsor & Newton and Yarka.
She is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches unmounted.
Artist Statement - "Yes, I know she has no nipples.
I wanted a deco style updated with a contemporary
look. Areas are left white for artistic reasons and
give a clean, bright look to her. This piece has taken
about six months to create because I kept coming back
to her adding elements after working them out on other
tracings of the same image on other paintings.
Finally, this is the image I like best and decided to stop
where she is now. She has the essence of what I was
striving to convey. I feel like she is about to move or say
something or reach out her hand to me or flip her tail
the way she is painted now.
