Mermay Magnets
Description: I wonder which one is more confused…the catfish or kittehfish… Drawn as part of MerMay 2018! Copyright 2018 Kristen O’Keefe. All rights reserved. All images property of Kristen O’Keefe and are protected by copyright law. Resale, downloading, reproducing, printing, and comping of these images is illegal without permission of the artist.
Description: With a shimmer of sea green scales and soft light purple fur, she glides through kelp forests, her long tail curling behind like a ribbon in the tide. Her fins ripple with grace, her eyes deep as twilight reefs. This is Mirela Shellbound, keeper of shipwreck secrets and tidebound songs.
Description: Celebrate Mother's Day and Mermay all at once with this charming, retro-inspired illustration! Featuring a sweet, vintage-style moment between a mermaid mom and her little one under the sea, surrounded by cute fish and coral. A perfect gift for ocean-loving moms who appreciate classic aesthetics and whimsical nautical vibes.
Description: Did you know that mermaids in most folk tales are not happy singing half-girl-half-fish, but actually monsters? Cool, huh? Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. Mermaids appear in British folklore as unlucky omens, both foretelling disaster and provoking it. That is why I tried to show my mermaid as beautiful, but dark and dangerous looking, she has tentacles for hair and horns. I imagined her being very connected to the Moon...
