Mermaid memories

Using a macro lens on my iPhone 6s, I took pictures of light shining through melting ice on coloured paper to get the ocean-like background. Then I took a hundred or so pictures of my model in different poses. So grateful for digital photography!

 

Using the app ProCreate, I melded several different silhouette poses together to make it look like my model was swimming.

 

Again with ProCreate, I used several different shots of Fuchsia Swingtime for the underwater flowers and her swimsuit and skirt. Then I imported colour from my models skin tone and hair so I could paint the silhouette with her actual skin tone and hair colour. Love that app so much!

 

Some of the bubbles are from the macro shots of melting ice, some are from one of the ProCreate brushes, and some I made using YouDoodle+ app. If you look at the foreground bubbles you can see that they are reflecting the swimmer - those are the ones I made with YouDoodle+.

 

There are probably at least forty (or more) blended layers in this picture, I used a lot for each part of it, the swimmer, the water, and the flowers. Just having so much fun painting with that ProCreate app! It even lets you use Alpha lock, which makes airbrush painting silhouettes so much easier than trying not to run the paint over onto the background.

 

I also used the Jixipix app Simply HDR to brighten the colour and bring out the details.

 

So, umm yeah . . . Took me more than a week to finish the picture, lol.

Done