Painting in Progress (continued)

I've laid in the sand and broken shell mix. After it dries I will paint it black and allow some details to show through.

Getting up into the contours of the body, as if she has washed up onto the shore...

Here are different types of aggregate that I am using. Haven't used the larger broken shell yet. I will glue that down later, or may forego it completely. I also have some broken paua shell I can scatter through the black paint.

I am adding some of the details in gel medium such as the mold of this tiny seahorse which my son found on an actual beach some years ago.