{"id":916,"date":"2019-01-07T14:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-reward-for-december-2018-mermaid-discovery\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:53:48","slug":"coloring-goodness-reward-for-december-2018-mermaid-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-reward-for-december-2018-mermaid-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloring Goodness Reward for December 2018 \/\/ Mermaid Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[** Update: downloads are archived after two months\u2014or more\u2014so patrons have plenty of time to access them. Sometimes it&#8217;s much longer! I removed these over a year after posting&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;m make the post public when I archive the downloads, so more of you can see the idea and the process. Feedback welcome! \u2014Kir, November 2020 **]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so sorry I&#8217;m late! I hope you were so busy that you didn&#8217;t really much notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musings on the image:<br \/>I think this art here is not particularly original, needs reworking in some of the lines, and is fun to color (well, I thought so).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you dive? I had SCUBA certification ages ago and <em>loved<\/em>it but it&#8217;s kind of expensive gear and I&#8217;m not there right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My Mom did once take me to Copenhagen but we didn&#8217;t see the Little Mermaid statue. We <em>did <\/em>\u00a0get to go into a gallery of Hans Christian Andersen stories told with lights and music and some animatronic puppets. It was wonderful. Regarding other versions, however&#8230; it may surprise no one to learn I&#8217;m more of an Ursula fan than Ariel though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[** Update: downloads are archived after two months\u2014or more\u2014so patrons have plenty of time to access them. Sometimes it&#8217;s much longer! I removed these over a year after posting&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;m make the post public when I archive the downloads, so more of you can see the idea and the process.&hellip; <\/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":false,"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-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-eM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2107,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-mermaid-cornucopia\/","url_meta":{"origin":916,"position":0},"title":"Coloring \/\/ Mermaid Cornucopia","author":"Kir","date":"20 August 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Coloring page of a mermaid with ...something (available for patreons)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/f74be9dc324c6ed966b776e7b3274ae7.jpeg?fit=820%2C591&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/f74be9dc324c6ed966b776e7b3274ae7.jpeg?fit=820%2C591&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/f74be9dc324c6ed966b776e7b3274ae7.jpeg?fit=820%2C591&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/f74be9dc324c6ed966b776e7b3274ae7.jpeg?fit=820%2C591&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":944,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-the-second-semester\/","url_meta":{"origin":916,"position":1},"title":"Coloring Goodness \/\/ The Second Semester","author":"Kir","date":"20 April 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"How much happiness and coloring do you get as a \u00a0a $3\/month patron? 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