My Mermaid Tail by tairourou on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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Published: Aug 28, 2011

Description

Does this count as art? I guess it does. I know I put a lot of work into it. This is a swimmable mermaid tail I made over the summer. I learned to sew in order to make it. Each scale was individually hand-painted; the fluke was made with spray fabric paint with yarn on one side and wire on the other (if you do this use wire, not yarn! Yarn moves too much.) to simulate the little bones fish have in their tails. Thanks to for the tailmaking tutorial, as well as several others like Courtney mermaid of Underwater Tales [link] and mermaid Sasha [link] for their ideas and tutorials on scale painting and sewing a fabric tail, respectively.

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10/10000 second

Date Taken

Feb 25, 2010, 9:53:36 PM