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Posted On: May 27th 2026, 03:36 pm
MerMay day 27
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ORIGINAL: AVAILABLE 6”x16” watercolor and mica
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I love jellyfish, and I take this approach to painting jellymers quite often. The jelly’s bell is just the perfect shape for a floofy, full-skirted ballgown.
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While this is my 10th year working on MerMay dailies, I rarely follow the @mermay_official prompt list, but I knew this was the perfect mer for today’s prompt: iridescent.
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For the technically curious, that is not salt texture around the mermaid, salt generally causes much sharper shapes. The texture here was created by flicking clean water into my paint at multiple points in the drying process. Dropping clean water in when the paint is Still Very Wet doesn’t generally cause much texture (this is pigment dependent,) nor does it do much when your paint is Very Nearly Dry. There’s a sweet spot between those two points, as your paint is drying, that you can make soft, lovely, randomized blooms in your washes with just a few drips and drops of clean water.
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#mermay #iridescent #mermay2026 #watercolorartist #traditionalartist
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ORIGINAL: AVAILABLE 6”x16” watercolor and mica
.
I love jellyfish, and I take this approach to painting jellymers quite often. The jelly’s bell is just the perfect shape for a floofy, full-skirted ballgown.
.
While this is my 10th year working on MerMay dailies, I rarely follow the @mermay_official prompt list, but I knew this was the perfect mer for today’s prompt: iridescent.
.
For the technically curious, that is not salt texture around the mermaid, salt generally causes much sharper shapes. The texture here was created by flicking clean water into my paint at multiple points in the drying process. Dropping clean water in when the paint is Still Very Wet doesn’t generally cause much texture (this is pigment dependent,) nor does it do much when your paint is Very Nearly Dry. There’s a sweet spot between those two points, as your paint is drying, that you can make soft, lovely, randomized blooms in your washes with just a few drips and drops of clean water.
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#mermay #iridescent #mermay2026 #watercolorartist #traditionalartist
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