Sink or swim

Collaged Altered Book double page spread

I flipped the picture in Photoshop so that I could print out a mirror reflection. Mermaid tail is made out of hundreds (ok, an exaggeration - a lot) of individually cut out Japanese washi paper scales.

Water texture ripples made with kitchen wax paper; and squiggles of white wood glue, which dries translucent and - if you're lucky - with tiny bubbles in the lines.

This is one of the spreads in an entire altered book using only William Adolphe Bouguereau's 1875 painting After the Bath ~ see original at [link]
Other pages from the Bouguereau altered book at [link] and [link] and [link]