An orca mermaid with dark skin and curly hair sits on a rock underwater,corals framing her from behind her 'seat'.
There is little human skin, only her face, ear and a bit of her neck. Around her neck, wrists and waist is handmade jewellery, gems and rocks and shells tied into collars, bracelets and belts, loosely floating up around her. On the tip of her ear is a cyan piercing, marching the colour of some of the gems. She has an old, pale lyre precariously held by her tail against the rock she is sitting on.
The mermaid smiles at the viewer, one of her eyes closed to reveal white markings both beneath her eyes and on her eyelids.
For #mermayquest , The Artist.
I wanted this one to be the tinkering type, hence all the off jewellery. The dead fish hat pushed down and held by her claw is a nod to the orca's occasional trend of using dead salmon as hats, which I find hilarious.
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