Carey, an artist, makes mermaid paintings, mermaid dolls and even sheer fabric creations that she calls mermaid capes. Her house is full of mermaid decorations, both those she's made herself and items ...

Renee Nault‘s lovely watercolor mermaid paintings often depict full underwater scenes, showing off not just her mythological creatures, but also the real life creatures swimming and growing beneath ...

Mermaids and their lore have held us spellbound for centuries since the first mermaid appeared in Syrian tales over 3,000 years ago. Then, the goddess Atargatis tried to turn herself into a fish after ...

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A MERMAID painting created waves between two neighbours who ended up in a bitter legal battle over copyright. Keen sailor Henry Barnwell wanted a mermaid painted on the wind vane of his yacht, and ...

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Matthew: So, I have been making mermaid tails for over 10 years. One of the major questions I get is, "Who's buying these tails?" It's mainly models, hobbyists, performers. I do a lot of music videos, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Chris and Sharon Forte like mermaids. They really, really like mermaids. So much that they travel 1,000 miles to Annapolis -- each way -- from their Florida Gulf Coast home ...