I finished a painting of one of my Rhyne Maidens. The initial sketches, and explanations of what a Rhyne is were in this post: https://nancyfarmer.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/the-rhyne-maidens/ but in the end I kept the concept and created a completely new image. Rhynes, I discovered, have appallingly unforgiving perspective, and I was quite pleased with how this turned out, but the composition was very much driven by how to handle the perspective. So at some point I shall go back and re-visit one of my original concepts as well. Those who are familiar with the far more common Rhinemaidens, will of course appreciate that I also feel a trio of Rhyne Maidens would fitting in a painting at some point, too.
So, onto the painting: I am still blue! I like the blue, and again I will not be adding any more colour to it.




A couple of bits of working drawings. The tail was quite fun. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this, but I gridded it out in an attempt to get a convincingly stretched and compressed surface. In the end I simply covered the tail with circles, but they were placed over the grid, so that they fit around the tail rather nicely.


I really like this.
Great combination of content, color, angles, textures, soft vs sharpness, etc.
Wonderful. 😀
Thank you Mgon! And thanks also for re-blogging! -)
Reblogged this on Mgon ♥.
Wow amazing 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Wonderful,i love it! I think it looks a little bit like she has got a fishnet stocking over her tail 😉
Thanks, Wendy!…. as to the fishnet sticking – that IS a picture I have painted before! http://nancyfarmer.net/im_fishnets.html
Wonderful, Nancy, I do love your mermaids 🙂
Quite an accomplishment!
Thank you! 🙂
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