Above is a page from the Terry Pratchett book Small gods. It is explaining about a dock in a certain area of the story. I found it fitting to go with the fish project so scanned it in. Below is a scan and clones of a pack of strepsils. I think the can be quite effective as gills or bubbles to a picture.

Fishy

Here is a current idea I am working on. It is a screen shot of me using Adobe Illustrator by using the transparency tool and layering effect. The image is of a stick and ink drawing i have done and scanned in. I hope to achieve a collage effect by the end of the session.

Textiles.

To help myself with producing quality original pieces I have scanned in some of my work into the computer.This is a scanned in felting that I did to resemble a red cabbage

 Underneath are batiks done on fabric and paper , with embellishments, tie dying, bonder-web and recycled paper.

Fishy Kiss

 Here is a screen shot of my final touches. As you can see my layer 2 was the most detailed layer as this was the layer with all of the facial features (bar gills) in the layer. I used a lot of transparency with this layer to create a dreamy effect.

Here is the final image. I believe with the hair coming out of the box creates a three dimensional effect to the mermaid and that the fact each strand has been done separately looks as if she has just come out of the ocean with the sea salted hair look. The womans eye is slightly open giving the effect that she is enticing him into some with the males eye being closed. I am happy with my final design.