Page 45 — Spurred on second thoughts about sending Sami off on the Mermaid, Root needs — a horse? We’ll find out more later, after we find out what Sami’s up to!
CHAPTER TWO — OVER THE WAVES: INTERLUDE
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CHAPTER TWO — OVER THE WAVES: INTERLUDE
Page 44 — Hazard Pay! Even better than overtime! Do they know something that Root doesn’t?
CHAPTER TWO — OVER THE WAVES: INTERLUDE
Page 43 — Turns out Root’s business meeting is very relevant!
Chapter Two — Over the Waves: Interlude
Page 42 — Interlude — back in Half Moon Bay, Root goes to see about that mysterious commission she mentioned.
New Year, Fresh Start!
Hi folks! Happy 2016! Mermaid Music is about to be back in the swing of things, and it’s appropriate to be starting a new subplot at the beginning of the year! I’ve got a nice buffer of pages drawn, and am right now finishing up the painting of the page of which I posted the inked version, oh, too many moons ago. *blush* I didn’t mean to take so long, but my art life has been very busy — just to prove it to myself, I wrote a post on my main blog about all the art stuff I have done in the last year.
I’ll be posting once a week, on Mondays. At one point I was posting more often, but that was part of what led to my burnout, and I felt that I wasn’t able to do the justice to the art that I wanted to do. I really care a lot about this story, and I’ve decided it’s more important to give each page all I can rather than giving myself too-tight deadlines. I have enough of those in other parts of my art life! It’s nice, and I think important, to have one project where I can give myself permission to relax into the process.
So stay tuned, and for those of you who have subscribed, you will start getting those weekly story updates in your inboxes again on Monday! I’ll be scheduling posts for 6 AM PST. In the meantime, here’s a fishy doodle, on the back of one of my band’s Christmas set lists, done during the open stage prior to our feature set. You can have some fun trying to decipher what we played!
I’ve had cats on the brain lately; we are currently catless, and I’ve been drawing a LOT of them. Here’s some for the mermaids.
Chapter Two — Over the Waves
Page 41 — A Lesson in Ship Linguistics
The Artist is Human
Hello readers, just a quick post here to let you know what’s going on. I’m forced, with much blushing, to admit being human (not that I’ve been posing as a mermaid or anything). My superpowers seem to be on the fritz right now, and I have been too ill all week to do much art. With much regret, I’m going to switch back to a once-a-week schedule for a while to give myself time to heal and address some long-term health issues. The story will continue, though — I have so much good stuff planned! I will post weekly on Monday mornings, beginning this Monday, and hopefully resume the twice weekly postings within a month or so. Thanks for sticking with me, and Sami and the crew!
Here’s a bit of my past seashore art to keep you in the mood!
“Dancing Starfish” — acrylic on canvas
Chapter Two — Over the Waves
Page 39 — Sami is starting to get the idea that something fishy is going on here.
Note: I first published this page while travelling and didn’t have a scanner, so I snapped a not-too-bad picture with my iPhone! This is the official scanned page. Since I had the camera going, I posted some process stuff, too, on my blog. Have a look!
Chapter Two — Over the Waves
Page 38 — Sami and Mr. Jones conversing at cross-porpoises (sorry, couldn’t resist).
It’s Monday! And yes, this is a wee bit later in the day than usual, but I am catching up.
I tried something new with this one, in omitting a background in order to focus on the two characters. Then I couldn’t decide what colour to paint around them (kind of boring to leave it just white), so I did something I very rarely do: scanned the partially done page into the computer and played with colour backgrounds. I had thought about a nice sunny yellow, but it seemed too warm to capture the sea air, and eventually settled on this sky blue. It looked nice but kind of flat, even with a gradient, so I went back to my watercolours, which was my intention anyhow. The Manganese Blue Hue captured the look I wanted quite nicely, with enough variation and texture to make it look natural. I’m happy with the clean, uncluttered look here. But don’t worry, I’m not going to dispense with backgrounds! I just think it’s nice to rest the eyes once in a while.
Hope you enjoy this page — next post on Friday!
Chapter Two — Over the Waves
Page 37 — Caught between two worlds, Sami cannot believe her eyes.
And we’re off to sea! I took some in-progress photos of this page to make a post on my main blog, Karen Gillmore Art — if you’re interested in things like what colours I use and how I apply them, pop on over there.
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