And this is the FIRST time you've ever laid hands on acrylics? And you get that much lighting and texture out of it. Jeez louise, woman. *green spikes o' envy*

I like that it's a dark mer-thing rather than a pretty mer-thing. Mermaids originally were creatures who'd lure sailors to drown for the sake of their beauty, and that IS kinda creepy...

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You are what you love, not what loves you. --Adaptation

woohoo! awesome merperson! I love that desighn, so much coller than the disneyish stuff most people use.

dang, Robyn, where've you been bottling up the paint talents? you've got to go to art school now, for the sake of the world, lol. definitely i think next year you're gonna open up and start flooding us with amazinger stuff, lol. congrats on everything, and a cool painting.

And this is why you can go to art school, you crazy girl you.

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A vision then appeared. It was Dumbledore, entombed in his cursed mummy armor, calling Harry from his Moon base.

"Harry, you must rock the fuck out."

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First time, you're kidding right?

Heck Robyn

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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." ~Ciccone

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON!!! well, *pretty* creature from the black lagoon. and you've SERIOUSLY never used acrylics before?! wow. good job. Just... WOW.

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St. Francis said,
"A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. He who uses his hands, and his mind, and his heart is an artist."
#PendeoClub

maybe acrylics are just your thing. You've got texture, a great background/environment and mass/form all right there. I like the hands and the use of gold jewelry, especially with the nice dark skin color. I love the underwater look you used, but from the title I would expect it to be darker, like some dark navy or prussion-type blue colors. it's almost sky blue.

Run, go apply to art school, unless you want to chance it with a portfolio review here. I mean, I'm bored out of my mind most of the time in into to design, and I'm sure you would be too. Unless you want to take a painting class here. I saw Stephen Hankin at a gallery talk and he seemed like he would make a good professor, but I've never had him and I don't know any other painting profs. or art profs for that matter, except drawing and design.

So cool ^^

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"From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron."

- Dumbledore Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Acrylics are super-fun, but too expensive for me to buy and take some space to use right (aka dorm rooms suck). They overlay fine, but sometime adhere to different textures and such badly (for some specific paints maybe?). I do so love using them, but I've been limited to high school art class for their use, really, as well as clay model painting with them. Dick Blick seems to best to my knowledge for value and quality, tho I'm not a big paint guy.

Fun stuff, and neat-o merdemon thing. !!