Color Study

This piece is centered around a mermaid tail and displays rainbow scales, as well as gray ones where color wasn't used. I used acrylic paint and canvas for this piece. I chose to do a mermaid tail because I really like mermaids and they remind me of someone I love.

Pattern was a big part of this work with the scales and the design being so repetitive. It started as a more folded/overlapping design, but slowly evolved to this.

The story behind this piece is my girlfriend really loves mermaids and asked me to do a piece involving them, so I chose this one because I felt the scales would look unique and pop. If I could start over, I would make the scales slightly larger to take up more space and have each one be a bit bigger.