Mermaid Sitting On Ocean Rocks At Sunset Coloring Page

A mermaid sits sideways on a smooth boulder in shallow water, her tail curled around in front of her and her face turned toward the horizon. This is a seascape more than a portrait, and the drawing keeps the figure small so the setting can do the work. Behind her a large sun sits half below a perfectly flat sea line, drawn as one plain open circle, and four small flat bottomed clouds float at different heights around it. The water is described with only a handful of long horizontal strokes, leaving most of it white. Her tail is the detailed part: a band of overlapping scales across the hip fading into a long smooth fluke that drapes down the side of the rock. Smaller stones and one clump of seaweed sit to the right. The sunset here is entirely in your hands, because nothing in the drawing is shaded. Lay warm colors in horizontal bands from the sun outward, keep the rock and the mermaid cool, and the low light appears without any blending at all.