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Published: 2002-07-03 17:37:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 16937; Favourites: 386; Downloads: 1784
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A fish warrior, a coral reef, light shining through water...what more can one ask? This painting is about two years old now, but still one of my favorites. It's also a CD cover for "Evolution Theory" by the band Rare Earth.As for what I was thinking while painting--well, I hate traditional shell-brassiered mermaids with a passion bordering on the religious, and so I set out to make something a little more adapted to his environment, with the brilliant markings of a reef fish. And, since I despise the work of Lassen with an equal passion, I limited myself to things actually found on reefs, which generally don't include multiple species of whale, white tiger cubs, pastel planets, or equally sacchrine derivations.
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Ursula,
This was one of the very first paintings I faved when I joined dA back in January 2005.
Steve
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Wow! Just realized this is in a book I have!
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Beautiful! I love that merperson. Very well done!
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Oh...oh my god. I have your artwork in..HOLD on...
shoot I don't have the book..But it was a tutorial on how to do Digital coloring. O_O
Small world!
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Hear hear!
(about everything including the shell-brassiered mermaids to the comments on white tigers and planets. urgh)
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The entire piece is stunning, but I especially love the surface of the water at the top!
Also, I've just spent the last hour flipping through your amazing gallery! It took me a minute before I realized where I had seen your style from before.. ^_^;; Three of my close friends have framed copies (don't know if they're the originals.. I believe they bought them at Anthrocon) of your water and wind mouse hanging in their dining room. I love seeing those two pieces everytime I visit them!
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you are an amazing artist. your painting skills are mucho nifty. i love this peice becuase it's not the usual mermaid that people would automatically assume. it is mucho beautiful.
The artist must not only train his eyes, but also his soul.
-Wassily Kandinsky
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this is the best marine anthro ive ever seen in my life. It puts all other attempts to shame. NICE WORK!
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I'm so glad I took the time to pore through your entire gallery today. This is wonderful. I do like mermaids, but I've never been under the illusion that they're particularly well adapted to their environment. They'd go extinct rather quickly, I'd think. As a co-worker of mine likes to say, "Mermaids are a waste - not enough woman to love and not enough fish to eat..."
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A long-time favorite. I suppose it was the vibrant colors and the regal whatever-it-is that first caught my eye.
Steve
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i share your sentiments on the classical mermaid idea, i guess mine are a lot closer to those than yours are...but i still hate those with a passion, how they bend at the 'knees' and only have scales on half their bodies, and the perfectly human upper half...i agree! i haven't seen a lot of lassen's work, and i don't really hate it, but i wouldn't ever do anything similar so still more kudos to you! i don't know if you'd want to listen to me ranting so i'll just shut up about my style of sentient sea-creatures, but yours is definitely cool. i loved the sewer mermaid too.
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OMFnG! I have just realized somthing *runs to bookshelf and starts pulling off books* FOUND IT! *runs back to computer* I tought I reconized your work, it's in a book called "Digital Fantasy Painting" I love your frogs the most
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Hey, I remember this from a certain book too- always loved this one 
BTW, consider yourself Stalked.
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Well, when it comes to painting mythical creatures, a dose of realism doesn't hurt. This guy looks like something that you just might encounter on a reef somewhere, whereas a standard mermaid -- with or without shell brassiere -- has never been anything more than a lonely mariner's wet dream (pardon the pun!)
Textures are great, the water (with its surface turbulence and the light filtering down from above) looks just about right -- and, once I saw it, I just loved the big-lipped fish down the bottom in the shadows. Nice touch...
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Holy Crap!! I have had you on my watch list for quite sometime and I was going to show one of my friends your dust bunnies because I love that comic its awesome and I was browsing through your pictures and I found this one...and well I just bought the Digital Fantasy Painting by Michael Burns and I saw this picture in it. Wow thats soo awesome. *is completely amazed*
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i agree about the mermaids. I like the movie "little mermaid" (hey childhood memoirs) but hate shell-covered breasts with an unrealistic fish tail. I also have made my own mermaids and i love this reef one! I love it! reminds me of a lion fish, but anyway great work on the merman design and the coral reef, kudos like the rest of your work
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great character and scene. Lots of detail all around. And great colours as always.
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Very nice, especially the fish being's markings ^_^ You did very well with the background and scenery, too~ I could never do so well XP
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beautiful. I love the way you painted the water. I paint a lot of underwater paintings myself.
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This is great but don't dis the shell brassiers.
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As greumach rightly pointed out, the humorous side to all of your paintings is unique. More to that this picture is excellent, especially that green rock on the right is more than I can handle.
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wow..and wow..ok one ,more....WOW....good job....keep up the good work
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amazing details and the textures
and the character are perfectly done
great job !
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i donΒ΄t know wy your works makes me remember Brom paintings! its beatifull!!!!
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Looks great, looks great, lighting is perfect in it.
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Humour and Draughtsmanship combined with talent and composition . Great . All the Best
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cool i like anything to do with water and mystical water creatures
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this is beautiful, i myself love images that are mystical, as well as love the water and ocean life and so forth. this captures all of that and more, great job
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I must say that I absolutley LOVE this piece! I've seen it a t elf wood and I think I even have them on cards somewhere, that I had ordered. I love your work!
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Wow, Nice job. I really like the fish warrior dude. He's very cool. Also nice job on the light coming down through the waves. +fav
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Ahh! Being an ocean lover, this one immediately caught my eye from the front page.. this is wonderfully painted. Nice accuracy of fishes in the painting too... it has a mystical, magical feel to it. Great job.
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