Challenge 25: Seal's Lullaby

[minoanmiss]

Title: Seal's Lullaby
Artist: minoanmiss
Rating: PG, maybe, for nudity?
Fandom: Original/Poetry
Characters/Pairings: Seal mermaids, mother and child
Content Notes: My usual sketch-and-digital; also, poetry.





For this poem:

Seal Lullaby

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, O'er the combers, looks downward to find us
At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
Where billow meets billow, there soft by the pillow.
Oh, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, no shark shall overtake thee
Asleep in the storm of slow-swinging seas.

— Rudyard Kipling


I know, I know, but my friend posted this poem and I could not resist.

Comments

[mekare]

What a lovely complementary artwork and poem you have here. I love her freckles.

[minoanmiss]

Thank you so much! I admit I really enjoyed drawing the freckles, and I wanted a unifying element across her body (I didn't want a big distinction like mermaids have).

[petra]

In my head, she's singing Eric Whitacre's setting of the poem. I love her curves, top to tail.

[mific]

Oh, lovely music to go with the poem and art!

[minoanmiss]

That was so beautiful I nearly melted. omg.

[petra]

Yay, I love introducing you to lovely things!

[cmcmck]

Oh that's lovely! :o)

We're off to selkie country at the end of the month- Orkney.

[minoanmiss]

Thank you again for inspiring me, and maybe you'll meet her cousin!

[yhlee]

this is the cutest. i love how affectionate they look.

[minoanmiss]

*beams* Thank you :)

[dreamkist]

They look so sweet!

[minoanmiss]

Yay! Then I did what I meant to do!

[mific]

Gorgeous colours, and so tender!

[minoanmiss]

*beams* Thank you :)

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Seals, not Selkies, I gather. Nice, and you're in good company (Leslie Fish) when drawing (ahem) on Kipling for inspiration.

Ann O.

[minoanmiss]

Yeah, I did listen to some of my Fish Kipling collection while coloring this.

[acelightning]

It is a lovely poem. And your illustration is so beautiful - mother seal and "flipperling", floating peacefully in the ocean's embrace!

[minoanmiss]

Thank you :)

[acelightning]

I will always tell you that your art is beautiful, because it is. And the poem is so sweetly evocative, that it requires such a lovely picture to illustrate it.

[sugarandlime]

I love their seal tails and their markings and the delightfully ocean-y ocean colors!

[minoanmiss]

*beams* Thank you :D