Horsing around with the clowns

This page was inspired by the Three Muses Challenge today - under the sea.  I started the piece a few days ago and decided to make a video, but I was not too happy about how it was going so stopped making the video and left it on my desk for a day or so.  Then suddenly my muse woke up and I quickly knew what I wanted to do, and now I love it.

Don't those anemone tickle?

The page is sprayed with Dylusions turquoise spray ink at the bottom and London Blue at the top.  I then stamped swirls in Archival French Ultramarine at the top and sap green at the bottom (you can barely see that now.  Next came some glass beads texture gel along the bottom to represent the sea bed.

I then applied high solids medium through a stencil because I thought they look like bubbles once they dry clear.  Over the top of all of that I sprayed some Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Mist in French Navy.  For the next layer I painted over the glass beads with iridescent water colours in several shades of blue and green.

Having painted the background I started on the foreground and drew a seahorse, a couple of clown fish and some anemones. The fish, seahorse and anemones were painted with iridescent paints in various colours before I glued them to the background and attached some tiny shells.

I found the perfect mermaid on the internet somewhere and painted her tail also with iridescent green / gold paint.

All in all I love the way it turned out despite the slight bump on the journey.