Leah’s Mermaid

LEAH’S MERMAID is a girl-meets-mermaid tale with a twist to celebrate empathy, courage, and friendship. In magical-realism genre, Leah, an independent girl who gets about by wheelchair, rescues an entangled mermaid. When she realizes she must return her new friend to the ocean she herself fears, she accepts the mermaid’s invitation to experience her home, the sea.

I illustrate the story using my tactile process of hand painting and texturing paper, which I then cut and glue into images and characters.