Why Yes I Do Live Around Here by Chas Sinklier

Elton Houck 10 Sep 2009

I think I know that girl??? lol...

Artist Reply: Yeah Elton, I understand she's a great swimmer as well - she is a pretty one isn't she - bewdy of a mermaid ~:0)

Gavin North 24 Mar 2008

I love mermaids, this is a really striking image Chas well done

Artist Reply: Yeah GN - I love mermaids meself - one in particular - just can't reckon with those scales though - still, we are the resourceful ones eh? You've earned free parking on your next visit - avagoodweegend ~:0)

kaleon modero 10 Feb 2008

very original concept on compositng all your works have the signature(of you) nice

Artist Reply: Thanks Kaleon - it's taken me some time to find my visual "voice" - that's probably the most important part of becoming a selling artist - stop by often~:0)

walt larsen 01 Nov 2007

amazing comp art

Artist Reply: Thanks for dropping by to see my mermaid pic and thanks for the nice comment - means a lot coming from one's peers - come back as often as you like - no charge! ~:0)

Eddy collins 09 Oct 2007

nice work

Artist Reply: It is if you can get it eddy - and you can get it if you drop the previous illustrator into a vat of pudding - don't tell anyone I told you the secret of success - thanks for the nice comment E.C. ~:0)

Renata Cavanaugh 11 Aug 2007

Beautiful work Chas

Artist Reply: Hey Renata - thanks - yeah this is my favorite paint-by-numbers - I like number 27 best :0)

Mary Ashton 09 Aug 2007

...and you believed them hmm :0). Beautiful painting Chas, love the colours. I like the last title :0). Mary

Artist Reply: Yeah Mary had to believe 'em - they'd never lied before - except of course in the line of duty - or during happy hour... mmm, you could be right about them - everybody misses ol' Ian, that's for sure - thanks for the tip-o-the-hat :0)

cynthia berridge 07 Aug 2007

magical story and magical art

Artist Reply: Yeah Cyn, old Uncle James and his buddy Ian sure had the stories - some of them were actually true!! They were the craftiest pair I've ever known - they've inspired a number of paintings ~8-)

Bailey Hopper 06 Aug 2007

lol excellent story to accompany an excellent painting!

Artist Reply: Well thanks Bailey, we're all story-tellers round these parts - glad you stopped by. I've left a free ticket for you the next time you come back :0)

Mayme Crouse 03 Aug 2007

I bet your Uncle James and his friend Ian would have never come home from the sea if the had ran into this mermaid..............she is lovely.......love the 40's twist you gave her..............

Artist Reply: Well Mayme, maybe that's why the two of them never grew up - they were always hanging out down at the lagoon looking longingly out to sea... who can say - yeah, I miss those old more cleaver and somewhat innocent cheesecake illies - they were a hoot - I'm on a personal campaign to repopularize them - wish me luck :0)

merle cruser 02 Aug 2007

What a wonderful story and storyteller and story painter!! Fantastic!!!!

Artist Reply: That's the very same thing my mom said to me before returning to her home under the sea - it's not what you think Merle - she was an alien not a mermaid - go figure - anyway, thanks for about the best compliment I've had on one of my pics :0)

Clare Rowley 01 Aug 2007

Very nice ... love it~

Artist Reply: Clare thanks - nothing like splashing around in the water - :0)

thea walstra 01 Aug 2007

A very funny story Chas and your mermaid is a good and very cute tribute to that tale! Well done!

Artist Reply: Thanks Thea - I love those cute pin-ups from simpler times - they're fun = thanks for the comment :0)

Ted Hammond 01 Aug 2007

She may be prunny but she's still hot!

Artist Reply: What the average bugger on the street does know about mermaids is that one fully grown weighs in somewhere around 400 pounds or more. Yeah, they're soft and girly up top, but in their nethers they're all muscle - 'bout eight or nine feet long with the tail... And ya got to wax 'em down every so often to keep their skin supple - 'course the works not too hard for the right man, eh Ted? 8-P

Jerry 01 Aug 2007

Very colorful expression!

Artist Reply: Yeah Jerry, those mermaids are truly the chickens of the sea - if we ever learn their secret for keeping their skin from getting prunny in the sea water all the time, we make a fortune, eh? :0)

K L Marsala 01 Aug 2007

you know this contains so much charm, it actually is saturated in times past of the 40's advertising and pin up girls. an incredible work chas, really this one just excel above all. its gonna be my pic of the day without a doubt... and tell Ian- mermaids still can give you a rash- my grandpa told me... and I think grandma flashed him that eye of a woman who knows where her husbands been.... cough cough

Artist Reply: Swabbies know all about rashes of the sea fer sure - sadly Ian shuffled off the mortal coil some time back, but Uncle Jim is still going strong - he was recently married for the seventh or eighth time and he's down in El Caribe at a little place we keep down that way - Yeah, I love that old forties and fifties stuff - It was all we had for company out at the station I grew up on - used to go on dates with the Roos and you haven't lived until you've learned to kiss with a wombat - they often take it too seriously, though. Once we guys were old enough to go to town on our own we'd ride our old Indian in on Saturday night - Indian Motorcycle in case you're confused - anyway G'day and thanks for the chat-up as always KL ~8-)

Artist Reply: P.S. Kerry I'd have that cough looked after - never know where those things can lead, eh? :0)

Why Yes I Do Live Around Here

by Chas Sinklier

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