Title: Tail of Two Mermaids [October 2006]
Media: Pencil sketch, digitally finished
Notes: I actually scribbled this one out way back in May 2006, but only got around to colouring it now. The entire concept is thanks to Great Big Sea and their version of the (apparently traditional) song The Mermaid which a girl in class shared with us. It gets the brain thinking it does...
...Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art
I love that girl with all my heart
I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail
But then one day she swam away
So I sang to the clams and the whales
Oh how I miss her seaweed hair
And the silver shine of her scales
But then her sister she swam by
And set my heart awhirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl...
-- The Mermaid // According to Phil Hillier; traditional
[Excerpt from http://www.greatbigsea.com/]
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