Mermaid

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A few weeks ago I was thinking about fairytales and drew some character designs and scenes from Little Red Riding Hood. To continue this mini occasional series, I was thinking about the Little Mermaid yesterday and painted this.
I have to say I do much prefer the Disney version to the original. Probably because when I was a child I had a copy of the original text and it was utterly terrifying. The illustrations were horrible ( and scary!) and the text included a bit about how when the newly human mermaid started to walk it felt like knives stabbing her feet...

<< Shudder>>>

Needless to say, the all singing, all dancing, comedy crab including Disney version was altogether more cheerful!

More Little Red Riding Hood

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A few posts back I uploaded some character designs for Little Red Riding Hood- a story I've always wanted to illustrate. I couldn't resist doing another picture (and adding a bowtie and bowler hat to Mr. Wolf!)

Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood

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I've always wanted to illustrate some fairy tales. If I did I would start with Little Red Riding Hood. Here she is with the Big Bad Wolf and below is how I imagine her house*

* another of my dream houses...)