Greetings fellow Steemians! Here is my entry for this weeks “Mermaid Monday Contest - Week 13 - Theme : Wild Wild West.”

Contest Information

This was a very interesting and fun Theme, check out [ HERE ]if you’d like to participate.

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Lucy The Cowgirl Mermaid

I had to put a hat and cowgirl clothes on my 🧜‍♀️ mermaid, I call her Lucy, to make her look like a cowgirl, which is very odd. I wanted to put some cowgirl boots on her, but I couldn’t get around that. So this is how she came upon receiving these cowgirls clothes, there’s a story behind it, and I shall tell you that story right now.

Dark Foreboding Clouds

Once upon a time, there was a fierce and mighty storm that rose up near the Gulf of Mexico in the early morning hours. The sea was churning and thrashing to and fro with a fierceness that Lucy had never experienced before. Dark thick foreboding clouds filled the skies with the roaring sounds of thunder and lightning. “It must be a typhoon” she thought to herself, as she looked up above her, from way down below the waters. Then she spotted it, a large dark object looming above her, she knew in an instant by the shape of it, that it was a vessel, and it was big enough to hold many, many people, or tons of cargo. “She thought to herself ,” If there were many people on board, they were all in terrible grave danger, as well as herself.

Prayers

She knew she could not save these people, she was holding on to dear life herself. Lucy began to pray to God that they would be able to ride out this storm. And as she was in the midst of her prayer, a blessings was bestowed upon her, the waters seemed to calm instantly, the clouds began to part, the sun began to shine with all it’s brilliance, a magnificent rainbow 🌈 appeared as she rose up out of the water and peered up into the sky.

Thankfulness

“Oh thank You, dear and mighty God” she said, “You have saved us, I am so thankful for Your mercy and blessings.” She could hear the people on board the ship shouting with glee that the crew members were all saved, there were no casualties, except a few trunks of clothes that fell overboard, that were being shipped to Mexico for an enormous rodeo that was soon to take place there. The crew members didn’t really care because they were all alive, as they hugged each other they all confessed that their life’s meant much more to them than any cargo, or material thing.

Shark Herder

Hence, that’s how this mermaid came upon the cowgirl outfits and rodeo ropes. So now she has fun roping and rounding up killer sharks 🦈 keeping them away from the coastlines where humans with feet play on the beach. She takes the sharks, and herds them towards the middle of the ocean, where they have plenty of fish to eat, and everybody’s happy. Sometimes her and her trusty seahorse, Maverick, come upon stubborn older sharks that refuse to leave the premises. But she has practiced her Wild Wild West roping shark skills, which no shark can outswim.The End.

Process

I hope you enjoy my drawing and my “whale of a tale.” This was all drawn with my iPad Procreate App. I sketched this image out first with a B6 pencil tool,

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and filled in colors with an airbrush tool. Thank you @nymia.aryn for hosting and creating this amazing contest, and thank you supporters. I pray that God may bless you all, and may your prayers all be answered as well.❣️

@lildebbiecakes