This is a little late posting here, but this was the last piece that I did for this year's Mermay. I am particularly pleased how this fully digital piece created on my iPad turned out, and eventually will be producing it as a poster. Here, in this video, you can watch the time-lapse of the art process. You can also listen to the short story, expounding a bit more of the lore in my Selkies' Skins related books' universe.
Teresa Garcia (or Teresa Amehana Garcia / Amehana Arashi) is a rural Northern California mountain woman. Art supplies are at premium in a house of artists. She has health, intermittent mobility, and nerve pain issues which she pushes through as well as possible, in order to complete her tasks. With a busy autistic son she does not always have enough time for her own projects, and her work projects often eclipse her own personal projects.
Please use one or more of these tags when sharing your work!
#selktember #selktember2021
30 days of selkie
related prompts.
Always in September.
Draw, paint, write,
make music, any sort of art.
Some of us need a little time to prepare for something like Selktember, especially if someone ever decides that they want to do cosplay photography or something similar for their Selktember pieces. I started this thinking first about art and writing, remembered songs and music were a thing, so I have the hashtags open for any sort of creative Selktember offering.
Below is the official prompt list I have created for this year.
Seastacks
Island
Seal Skin
Beaching
Whale
Secret
Crystal
Cave
Carving
Stone
Seaweed
Food
Fishing
Culture
Dock
Sailor
Kraken
Liminal
Magic
Seawitch
Exploration
Arctic
Penguin
Temperate
Inland
Descendant
Return
Stolen
Tears
Reunion
1. Please use one or more of these tags when posting and sharing your work!
#selktember #selktember2021
2. Any art of any kind you wish is welcome as long as it touches on selkies.
3. Do them all or focus on a few, there is no pressure. I myself might not be able to do one for each day within the month of September, depending on what my workload will be that month. No pressure.
4. If you are on DeviantArt submit your selkie work to @SelktemberGroup gallery in the Selktember 2021 folder.
5. Prompt suggestions to future years are welcome. Send them to THGStarDragonPublishing@gmail.com
Deviantart Group Official Deviant Art group: https://www.deviantart.com/selktembergroup
Twitter @amehanaarashi
Instagram@ amehanaarashi
Deviantart @amehanarainstardrago
Seal photos used for the background overlay layers are sourced from Pixabay. For those unaware of what a selkie is, a selkie is a shapeshifter of Celtic origin. When wearing their sealskin or seal coat they are seals. They become human when they remove it. Other cultures also have their own sealfolk, and they are just as welcome to be represented in Selktember.
Teresa Garcia (or Teresa Amehana Garcia / Amehana Arashi) is a rural Northern California mountain woman. Art supplies are at premium in a house of artists. She has health, intermittent mobility, and nerve pain issues which she pushes through as well as possible, in order to complete her tasks. With a busy autistic son she does not always have enough time for her own projects, and her work projects often eclipse her own personal projects.
Teresa Garcia (or Teresa Amehana Garcia / Amehana Arashi) is a rural Northern California mountain woman. Art supplies are at premium in a house of artists. She has health, intermittent mobility, and nerve pain issues which she pushes through as well as possible, in order to complete her tasks. With a busy autistic son she does not always have enough time for her own projects, and her work projects often eclipse her own personal projects.
