Mistress Mermaid

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Living in Florida I manage to collect a ton of seashells so it only seemed natural that my next mermaid would be sporting some!  She was a blast to make.  Much more fun than the mosaic mermaid.  On this one the hardest part was the bra top AND the FACE.  I am REALLY bad at drawing faces – so you see I took the easy route!  My mermaids are all about silliness and fun, but if you’d like to check out some really beautiful ones go to my friends site www.LucyDesignsOnline.com and see the fantastic work she does.  Thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy.

Mosaic Mermaid Project

Loved working on my Madame Mermaid project.  I cut her from plywood after making a template from the back of some Christmas paper – they have those wonderful one inch square markings!  I knew I wanted her to be ‘curvy, so I drew ‘half’ of the mermaid and then cut her out and traced her shape onto the plywood.  After that it was just about placing all the glass mosaic tiles where I wanted them.  I did her skin in a light weight spackle and added the starfish.  This sounds very simple, but it did take me about 4 days of hard work to get her done.  Snipping glass tiles is a slow process.  What a perfect addition to Joe’s Bar. 

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She sparkles so pretty when the sun hits her from the sky lights.