May for mermaids of course. I’m please with the corals and that I remembered that if her hair was swooshing in the water, the kelp should be too.<\/p>\n
A couple places where the shading needs some changes and something about that tail fin… well, next time! I wonder how well that old tray reflects, too. Have to ask her. Oh wait, I can’t talk underwater. Hmm.<\/p>\n
I wonder how mermaids talk underwater. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May for mermaids of course. I’m please with the corals and that I remembered that if her hair was swooshing in the water, the kelp should be too. A couple places where the shading needs some changes and something about that tail fin… well, next time! I wonder how well… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-hg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2114,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/overdue-coloring-pages-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":1070,"position":0},"title":"Overdue coloring pages: done!","author":"Kir","date":"2 August 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Celebrating getting coloring pages posted and completing what was left for 2025.","rel":"","context":"In "Colorables"","block_context":{"text":"Colorables","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/colorables\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screenshot of metasilk's patreon webpage of her coloring collection: 10 preview images showing partially-colored cropped versions of full page sheets, and the coloring page titles. 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