Stay at Home CJ - Mermaid Tales

The CollaborArt "Stay At Home CJ" is a project where all the participants made just one background and come up with a theme for that background. We then sent our background to our host, Sarah. She photocopied them and then we all got a full set of backgrounds (and our originals) back to work on. We all work on the same background each month - to the theme set by the backgrounds creator.

March was the turn of Sami who set the theme as Mermaid Tales. I loved Sami's lovely blue background and thought I could see a tail sweeping up the middle there...

I'm loving illustrative styles at the moment. So I wanted to go for a story book look, like it could have fallen out of an actual 'Mermaid Tale' kind of thing...

Sami's background
Fineliner
Neocolour ii's
Posca Pens
Very simple again this month, but I'm learning that I don't have to tip my whole stash onto a page to love it. This CJ has been really good for me to work through ideas and experiment because I know I'm keeping the pages - they aren't going on to someone else. It takes the pressure off and I'm really loving just experimenting.

If you'd like to see everyone elses take on the mermaid theme, click here. Again, all so different and yet using the same theme and same background. Thanks Sami for the lovely background to start with.

And thank you for stopping by today :)