Art Journal: Mermaid Shape Pages

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On Monday, you saw the start of the mermaid book that I made during the class on Saturday. You saw one page in the book.

Yesterday, I made more pages. Specifically, I worked on shaped pages! They aren’t finished, but I thought you might like to see what I have so far.

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The first one is a nautilus shell. I like the shape because it reminds me of Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (c. 1170 – c. 1250) – aka Leonardo of Pisa or sometimes just Fibonacci. Fibonacci laid the groundwork for our modern-day mathematical understanding of certain shapes in nature, including Nautilus shells. As you can see, this flip-shape has the same picture on both sides of the shape.

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The second flip-shape is a fish head. I’m not sure what fish it is, but I liked the idea of it. I will be coloring this one with my Inktense pencils. I may make it aqua-ish on one side and coral on the other to go with the color palette of the book.

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The third flip shape is an octopus that is acting as an edge design. In this case, I didn’t put the same design on the other side. I want to do something different on this side.

I made a couple of rectangular pages, also, but they’re not particularly interesting at this stage.

These pages will most likely, not end up in the order you see here. I plan to finish all the base pages tomorrow, and then arrange them all in the order I think they should go. Keep in mind, however, an artist might change their mind at any time!