16 inches tall by 7 inches wide
Lost in UPS shipping

Please click on the small images below to view larger photos. It was my design to make a young romantic, fantasy mermaid so I used pastel colors this time rather than the usual blues and greens. I even gave her pink Tibetan lamb hair. She has beautiful golden brown, hand-painted porcelain eyes. To add to the fantasy feeling I gave her long antennae with blue cabochons on the end for added color and effect. Our little Watersprite has one hand raised to her brow as she shades her face a bit from the sun. She intently looks at you from her seated position on top of her white column perch … or perhaps she is watching seagulls fly by in the sky? I added glass and seashell mosaics to the top and bottom of the column for added interest and color. Her tail and large sculpted fins have lots of detail and the pose has lots of movement. She wears a tiny top and a necklace of real dried seaweed. I painted the seaweed in cotton candy pastel colors and added touches of silver and gold. Included in the necklace and in her hair are tiny real starfish, real seahorses, Swarovski crystals, and beads. I added a tiny metallic gold trim that is studded with small crystals round her waist and at the top of her fins to balance her look and to add extra interest.