Greetings!



I found your art through ProjectComment and this piece of your immediately grabbed me because of the subject matter—I’m a sucker for fantasy-themed art—and because it stood out as a relatively high-quality piece.

The color-scheme is wonderful. I love all the dreamy hues of pinks, purples, and blues. It’s interesting that your description includes this character’s fascination with jellyfish, because she kinda has her own jellyfish-inspired appearance, which I presume was intentional on your part. Also, some details you really nailed perfectly are the gesture of her hand reaching up and the streaks of shimmery texture running down the length of her tail that really give the appearance of that wet, scaly surface.

I hope you don’t mind if I suggest a few things to watch out for on your future pieces:





First, the edge of the outline of the bottle looks like it was cut out a bit roughly in places, as the outline looks a little jagged (for example, especially along the bottom edge and along the lower right side of the bottle) and having that as the frame of your piece feels a bit distracting. The reason I’m picking on this one issue is because the rest of your piece is so pretty and so moody that it deserves to have a frame that does it justice and doesn’t detract from the beauty of the piece itself.

The second issue is that, toward the top (at the top of the mermaid’s head and toward the neck of the bottle), everything looks a little too overexposed—it’s such a bright, washed-out white that it’s hard to tell what’s going on visually in that section of the painting. Again, this only bugs me because I like the rest of the painting so much and would love to see more clearly what that section looks like. However, it’s also possible that you were going for this look intentionally, wanting a sort of sun-glare effect, and if so, then my hat’s off to you, as you made me want to see more of and look closer at this piece!

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely art with the online world! God bless you as you continue making beautiful things!

Soli Deo Gloria