"Mai Tide" painting by THOR DONE!!! Mermaid's and rum!!...Mmmmm - Other Crafts

T THOR's Member Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 610	T THOR's Posted posted on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 5:02 PM Aloha!! UPDATE as of 7/31/10...DONE! See Page 2 for finished piece!! Hold your breath..make a wish...TAKE A SIP and count to three..... Read below for story on this painting is desired, posted when it was in process.... See You at OASIS! I have been working on a bunch of new art...but not posted much, so thought I would set down my brushes and share. Here is an in progress peek at a new adition to the Mermaid series...featuring Marina called "Mai Tide". It's about 75% done...the top is just blocked in and the floats roughed in without any detailing or lighting and rendering. There will also be a fish net sagging into the water at upper left....the old dock will be rendered and it will be a subtle night sky with Diamondhead in the background. My idea here was to show a mermaid enjoying a Mai Tai that she concocted, with help from the rum toting Octopus, inside a corked fish float ball...she sips from a straw that is wedged just right into a hole in the cork...there will be tiny bubbles (excuse the pun) emerging from the top of the ball she sips from. She has somehow found her faorite little spot, where a "Tiki" has been chunked out of the base of one of the docks old pylons. It is happy to be company to this "finned femme fatale".(hey I like that!...I am a poet and didn't know it!). Anyway, The warm light source comes from a living puffer fish that SOMEHOW..can glow without being dead and hanging in a dusty Tiki bar (..this is fantasy, remember!). I still have a lot more flesh tone variations to add to the base forms on the mermaid and warmer glazes to add to balance color and such. This piece is in oils..and on a smooth surface(was experimenting with media). More shimmer and detailing will happen on the scales and her shell top and hair...which will have a few little shells and things woven into her lockes. It should turn out to be a very enchanting image...and I bet yah many would gladly drown in the depths under this old dock sharing a sip or two till all troubles faded into the blue... I will have the original at Tiki Oasis...prints should be available then too. I will post the final result in a week or so. ENJOY! `![](http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0d932b3127ccefacf00348a6f00000030O08AcNWjdo0atge3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D720/ry%3D480/) ![](http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0d932b3127ccefacf729a0bc800000030O08AcNWjdo0atge3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D720/ry%3D480/) ![](http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a0d932b3127ccefacfb61e0b2e00000050O08AcNWjdo0atge3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D720/ry%3D480/) [ Edited by: THOR's 2010-07-31 09:13 ]`

Aloha!! UPDATE as of 7/31/10...DONE! See Page 2 for finished piece!! Hold your breath..make a wish...TAKE A SIP and count to three..... Read below for story on this painting is desired, posted when it was in process.... See You at OASIS!

I have been working on a bunch of new art...but not posted much, so thought I would set down my brushes and share. Here is an in progress peek at a new adition to the Mermaid series...featuring Marina called "Mai Tide".

It's about 75% done...the top is just blocked in and the floats roughed in without any detailing or lighting and rendering. There will also be a fish net sagging into the water at upper left....the old dock will be rendered and it will be a subtle night sky with Diamondhead in the background.

My idea here was to show a mermaid enjoying a Mai Tai that she concocted, with help from the rum toting Octopus, inside a corked fish float ball...she sips from a straw that is wedged just right into a hole in the cork...there will be tiny bubbles (excuse the pun) emerging from the top of the ball she sips from. She has somehow found her faorite little spot, where a "Tiki" has been chunked out of the base of one of the docks old pylons. It is happy to be company to this "finned femme fatale".(hey I like that!...I am a poet and didn't know it!).
Anyway, The warm light source comes from a living puffer fish that SOMEHOW..can glow without being dead and hanging in a dusty Tiki bar (..this is fantasy, remember!). I still have a lot more flesh tone variations to add to the base forms on the mermaid and warmer glazes to add to balance color and such. This piece is in oils..and on a smooth surface(was experimenting with media). More shimmer and detailing will happen on the scales and her shell top and hair...which will have a few little shells and things woven into her lockes. It should turn out to be a very enchanting image...and I bet yah many would gladly drown in the depths under this old dock sharing a sip or two till all troubles faded into the blue...
I will have the original at Tiki Oasis...prints should be available then too. I will post the final result in a week or so. ENJOY!


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[ Edited by: THOR's  2010-07-31 09:13 ]

Post #542279 by THOR's on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 5:02 PM