April 23

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Adorable Artist Spotlight: Renee Nault

By: Meg Humphrey

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At every convention I go to, I scour the exhibition halls for mermaids. It’s my thing. My bathroom is covered in prints of ….. Along the very back wall I stopped dead in my tracks as I walked by Renee Nault’s table. There wasn’t just one mermaid print – there was at least a dozen! Lion fish mermaids, shark mermaids, skinny mermaids, chubby mermaids, mermaids with all types of hair and skin tone!

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Not only is she an amazing talented artist, Renee is also a very kind person! She had no problem with me taking up a bunch of time at her booth trying to figure out which prints I wanted. If you follow her blog on Tumblr, you’ll see that she’s extremely polite and encouraging to her fans. When asked which one of her mermaids was her favorite she replied with:

“When I started painting more unconventional mermaids – different colors and sizes – I started getting a lot of wonderful thank you notes from girls who were happy to see a mermaid that looked more like them. I realized that probably every girl has daydreamed about being a mermaid at some point (everyone who tried to swim like a mermaid in the pool, raise your hands!), but not all of us get to see mermaids who look like us, and that kind of sucks. I was really touched that it made some people happy and they took the time to let me know, so I think those ones are my favorites!”

 

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Her work is done in watercolors which adds delicacy and dreaminess. Even her webcomic series, Witchling, is done in that fashion! You can check out Renee’s , follow her on , read her comic , and check out her Etsy  and Society 6 stores!