Princess Pearla, Peacock of the Sea. 18” x 29 ½”
You are going to think I’m obsessed with mermaids, first there was Tidal Bridal a couple of days ago and after this one there are several more coming. Sue Cunningham is the mermaid queen and she presents ideas to me all the time and I start designing them, get distracted so they are in various degrees of completion and then they end up stacked in the corner of my office. With this Challenge of a Pattern a Day, it’s the perfect time to haul them out and complete them along with others I’m working on that pop up day to day.
This idea was presented to me in a picture Sue found of a 1920’s flapper beauty wearing a peacock dress and she asked if I could come up with a mermaid adorned with a peacock tail. The sea siren was easy, but then I needed a border to enhance her so I added a simple but lovely geometric motif inspiring an art deco feel. I purposely didn't put her in an ocean setting, leaving nothing to compete for the blues, greens and turquoises that will represent her peacocks plumage in that exquisite tail.
Sue had asked for pearls but no matter how much I tried to integrate them into the design, I wasn’t satisfied so my eraser rubbed them away. The pearls had to be too large to be able to hook them with a highlight, a pearl has to show a glimmer line or they look like flat orbs and then when I drew them larger, they overpowered the focal point, the peacock of the sea. She is the show stealer, with the royal plumage of peacock tailfins and her turned up nose lets you know she thinks she's all that; demanding all the attention and won’t settle for less.
This idea was presented to me in a picture Sue found of a 1920’s flapper beauty wearing a peacock dress and she asked if I could come up with a mermaid adorned with a peacock tail. The sea siren was easy, but then I needed a border to enhance her so I added a simple but lovely geometric motif inspiring an art deco feel. I purposely didn't put her in an ocean setting, leaving nothing to compete for the blues, greens and turquoises that will represent her peacocks plumage in that exquisite tail.
Sue had asked for pearls but no matter how much I tried to integrate them into the design, I wasn’t satisfied so my eraser rubbed them away. The pearls had to be too large to be able to hook them with a highlight, a pearl has to show a glimmer line or they look like flat orbs and then when I drew them larger, they overpowered the focal point, the peacock of the sea. She is the show stealer, with the royal plumage of peacock tailfins and her turned up nose lets you know she thinks she's all that; demanding all the attention and won’t settle for less.
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