Ihave only been reminded of #MerMay in the past few days, so only sliding in to the last day! Oh well, now I'm subscribed I can at least have reminders. So, in the last hours of the month, here's a quick drawing of a #merman doing his morning callisthenics.
Good old Rotring Art Pen. Pen straight to paper, no pencil, no erasing.
It's not too late for another #mermaid for #Mermay! This one with psychedelic rainbow fins and scales. It was very funny to create this and I think I should draw more creatures with similar looking body parts - mermaids, dragons, some abstract fantasy animals...
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #MerMay: There was much celebration to be had when the Lady Knockdolian was delivered of a baby- at last, an heir, the family name and future was assured. The baby slept soundly until a mermaid’s cry disrupted their nights. Lady Knockdolian decided to drive the #mermaid away by destroying her favourite perch below the castle’s windows. In response to this, the mermaid sang quietly a curse:
“Ye may think on your cradle- I’ll think on my stane,
An’ there’ll never be an heir to Knockdolion again”.
Source: The Vengeful Mermaid - Folklore Scotland
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #MerMay: There was much celebration to be had when the Lady Knockdolian was delivered of a baby- at last, an heir, the family name and future was assured. The baby slept soundly until a mermaid’s cry disrupted their nights. Lady Knockdolian decided to drive the #mermaid away by destroying her favourite perch below the castle’s windows. In response to this, the mermaid sang quietly a curse:
“Ye may think on your cradle- I’ll think on my stane,
An’ there’ll never be an heir to Knockdolion again”.
Source: The Vengeful Mermaid - Folklore Scotland
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: After her favourite spot beneath the castle windows had been destroyed at the behest of Lady Knockdolian, a mermaid had cursed the family. Tragedy followed: the death of the heir, more stillborn children, the Lord’s sudden death, and the Lady’s own demise. Over the years that followed, the castle at Knockdolian lay abandoned and fell to ruins. The family had, just as the mermaid’s curse foretold, become extinct.
Source: The Vengeful Mermaid - Folklore Scotland #MerMay
#Celtic#MythologyMonday for #MerMay: Most often, the groagez are described as being solitary in their retreats under the sea, in a rock or in the sands, but some stories tell of an entirely female family life. They do not abandon their children or leave changelings. Sometimes they are accompanied by a green water horse and a pikeman.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groac%27h
The Amazon River is the domain of Iara. Once an indigenous warrior, Iara was drowned as punishment for killing her jealous brothers in self defense, but instead of dying, she became a mermaid. Now, Iara gets her revenge by luring men into the river to drown them. #MythologyMonday
For the first time in weeks I woke up with a scene in my head (after a day away from the keyboard, talking to my bestie about my stress, and checking in with my crit partners) so I got up to write... and realized I don't have a playlist for a mermaid book.
The human child decided not to tease their fish-tailed pal, and instead talked about marbles and their mutual love of turtles and pizza.
Decades later, the human had to admit that the siren looked so happy atop the firetruck she was assigned to, screaming her lungs out as they raced towards a blaze.
A selkie for #MerMay (the mermaid 🧜♀️ celebration month)!
This is a hard-carved and printed lino block print of a selkie shedding her skin, seated on rocks, surrounded by harbour seals. In Celtic, Norse, Faroese and Icelandic mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or selkie folk meaning 'seal folk' can change from seal to human form by shedding their skin. 🧵1/n
One of the advantages of joining the Fediverse is that I hear about art prompts that I (as a rather asocial type) would otherwise be entirely unaware of, often for things I haven't tried to draw before.
So anyway, apparently May is 'Mermay', where you draw mermaids? Sounds good to me! Let's draw a thing. Hopefully it's a good thing.
Because it's #MerMay and because I desperately need to add more to this (and/or get an illustration for it) - the #ArgentumInAqua mer!AU that lives in the back of my skull