Our 300 picture book read the other night was The Tiniest Mermaid ( amazon link), which is a gentle tale of friendship, made particularly attractive by the inclusion of glowing scales.
I don’t have the scales. But I studied the pictures for a while and then came up with this.
It’s also influenced by the picture of Smallest, as I hope you can tell. And is easily the most comfortable I’ve felt using watercolours. I did struggle a little – the small Cotman Sketcher’s pocket box ( amazon link
) I’m using is quite limited in its range of colours, doesn’t even have a black.
But I improvised, and I was quite pleased with the end result.
Amazing what you can learn from picture books isn’t it?
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