Art: Three and Three and One

[browngirl]

First, a recommendation: ellenmillion is an excellent professional artist who sells prints, coloring books, etc.

Also, three dedications for the next two pictures: kshandra, peteralway, and acelightning inspired me to draw :





2D drawings of the 3D ornaments I would like. I'd have to make wee sculptures and get someone to embed them in acrylic or lucite for me, so not a project for right now. Maybe some other year.

Also, just because:



It's funny. I drew a bra on her and immediately discarded that version. In general I disapprove of bras on mermaids -- water would provide support, and why would they have our particular cultural ideas about what to cover or not? -- but I'll usually add them for propriety. But not this mermaid. She sits in her waterfall, serene and beautiful with an edge of wildness and absolutely no bra.

Comments

[cellio]

Lovely!

I agree with no bras on mermaids; every culture gets to develop its own norms. Now that you bring it up, though, I wonder whether mermaids would tend to be smaller-chested (less to get in the way of swimming) or larger-chested (because buoyancy makes them less of a disadvantage). I suppose it depends in part on mermaid reproduction -- how much suckling is needed?

Man, the things I don't expect to find myself thinking about when looking at art... :-)