Mermaids


     Awhile ago I was given a beautiful blond doll with very long hair with what looks like little plaits through it and half of one foot chewed off.
     It didn't take long for me to figure out what she was meant to be...but...how to do it was another thing.    I thought she would look great as a mermaid, so on to the internet  and with a bit of research I finally found what I needed to complete my project.  
    My thoughts were...well it makes perfect sense...I mean,  there she is with one foot missing and I had to cut both feet off anyway (sound a bit barbaric doesn't it...tee hee).   This is where I discovered clay. 
Her setting is a round fish bowl with gravel, shells, ferns and coral.

 

I have called her 'MORGAN'.  This is what she looks like in her new home.

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     A dear friend gave me a little doll along with a whole lot of other dolls.  She is only 7 inchs tall with long blond hair.  

     I kept her  sitting in front of me , while I was doing all the others trying to make up my mind what I was actually going to do with her.   Then it struck me... why not make her into a mermaid as well... so I did.  

Here's an idea of size with my her in my hand.    The other is one of her balancing on top a vegemite glass.   

                    
          
                 This is a picture of her fin.

  






                                                            This is "OCEANA"

I set her up in a little plastic aquarium and set it up the same way you would a normal  one, very much the same way as I did for 'MORGAN' and this is how they turned out. 

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This is the fin I used for another of my mermaids.

For some reason it looks gold in the photo but shows up a different colour    when you can see the whole tail.

The  little throne she is sitting on is made of clay and I have painted it in shimmering gold and instead of gluing  little stones into it I used Dimensional Fabric gold glitter.