Session 5- Mermaid

Sunday afternoon's art challenge was to draw a mermaid in an hour using whatever medium you wanted. We had some very welcome newbies this time and we had a lot of fun with our wide variety of interpretations of the finny folk! Here are the results!

Renowned artist and my ex-studio mate Dan Lish joined the merry gang with his two daughters Elsa (8) and Abigail (10).
Here's Dan's beautiful and mysterious creature! I think she's either shy or waiting for some passing dumb sailors!

Elsa Lish was very ambitious and made 2 drawings! This one is  probably my favourite out of all of them
as it shows a happy, giant mermaid! Shades of Beryl Cook here methinks! Brilliant.

Here's Elsa's second mermaid. Is she leaping out of the sea or lying on top of it? And is she a giant or a normal size mermaid? Only the artist  knows!

Abigail's mermaid has to win the prize for the cutest! And I love her  gorgeous crimson hair! Superb!

Another of our newbies is my oil painting classmate Alan Bartlett with an amazing oil painting with added gold leaf!
Are there three mermaids or two? I can see three! Fab!

Angelica Pownall produced a delicate pencil study which is the first of two influenced by Victorian painter (and one of my favourites) John William Waterhouse. Beautiful shading, Angelica!

Th first of Paul Cemmick(that's me)'s  two watercolour mermaids. This one was a last ten minute rushed attempt but I prefer it to the other one.
Sometimes the quick ones can be the best. This is watercolour on an old snap of canvas.

Julia Xanru (from Rumania but living in Palma) has produced two startlingly colourful and strange images! This one seems to be a Mexican death's head mermaid with octopus hair and a large bottle of something deadly, no doubt, with another mermaid playing music with a large beard! But what does it all mean? Ask the artist! Fabulous! 

Anne Alderson who's been contributing since the start but this was the first time she joined us on Zoom which makes a big difference. Anne's lovely pencil and crayon drawing is the other drawing based on a famous Waterhouse painting of a mermaid. Nice one, Anne!

Julia Xandru also produced two images. This one seems to be very Japanese again with stunningly vibrant colours. Wow!

My second one is a watercolour underwater scene with a blonde mermaid amongst some  ancient statuary for some unknown reason. Ask the artist. Oh, that's me

And last but not least from Anna Lindenburger over there in Uzbekistan is possibly the scariest mermaid of them all!
That tail looks deadly! I wouldn't want to meet her down the deepens of the swimming pool!
Anna chose this sessions top of Mermaids which turned out to be be very inspiring. Thanks Blondie!
The next subject on Wednesday as chosen by Anne Alderson will be The Moulin Rouge! See ya there, gang!
Paul
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We have a late addition from regular sketcher Pearl Bates who couldn't make the session itself but has sent me this lovely drawing on a mermaid theme that she did some time ago. it's too good not to include!