SciFi and Fantasy Art: The statue

I love this pick and I came up with a great story. Okay so she met a handsome prince and they both fell in love. But he told he that he had to sail to a foreign city to make peace between his kingdom and another but he would be back soon. Well there was a huge storm the night he sailed away. This storm was created by her father Neptune when he heard of their secret love and so he tried to destroy him. But as lovers have this second sense she could still feel that he was alive somewhere and could feel his soul calling to her. So she left her home and search for many years swimming through the see calling to her love. As the years went by she could feel the yearning diminish and finally die. But she had been searching so long that she refused to believe that he was gone. But the poor mermaid had become so old and weary she decided to buy eternal life from an old sea hag that lived in a cave. To do this she had to give up her soul which she did but the sea hag had tricked her. For she did not tell the mermaid that in receiving eternal life that she had to give up her freedom and so turned to stone. The sea hag knowing she would be found out, found a hollow rock, put the soul in it and through it up into the sky(moon). But every full moon the mermaid is transformed to look for her love and then returns to the cave only to wait another month to search for her long lost love till the end of time.

Maybe to add to phoenix's story the faries are bringing in the moon to restore her.

She is a statue of the goddess Sedna, and her builder toiled over it for days, never stopping, not even to eat. He became obsessed. Making her face in the likeness of his late wife, and when the waters flodded, he was pulled under the current and drowned, the statue stays unfinished, but oxidation stains have made streaks down her cheeks which look like tears.

Yeah somethign like; in life she sat in this cave awiating the day her true love would return to her and she turned to stone to wait for him for eternity. And as a follow up pic she is turning back into a mermaid(flesh) with her love standing next to her.... "happily ever after."

I know this is a lot like the other stories but here it goes: The mermaid and the fairies were friends and the mermaid often visited the surface to meet the fairies one night the mermaid saw a handsome prince although knowing that he would never love her the way she loved him she turned to stone. The fairies were sad and as a gift they brought her the moon because the mermaid loved to watch the night sky when she visited the surface.

The mermaid was beautiful when she was alive, and her evil sister was jealous of her beauty and always had been. When the mermaid fell in love with a merman, her sister was even more jealous because she knew no one could ever love her with her cold, merciless heart. One night, as they slept, the mermaid's sister took her and held her captive in a cave guarded by sharks. Her sister made a deal with an evil sea-witch that if she could keep her sister from ever seeing the merman again, she would give the witch what little beauty she had. The witch turned the mermaid to stone and took the life as well as the beauty of her sister. Ever since then, the fairies have been trying to set the mermaid free of her terrible curse, but have not yet succeeded.

"I wil sit here and wait for my love. I will wait till he comes, I will wait for eternity, and for eternity i shall wait. When my love kisses my cold lips I will rise to be with him, but till then I will be passeint and wait." The mermaid said whenever she would sit in the cave imagineing her self as a stone statue then being kissed by a handsome merman and riseing to kiss him. Many had warned her not to do so, but still she did untill one day she turned to stone to wait for her love for eternity and for eternity she will wait.
i've no idea where that came from but here it is.

nice pic!
I think she thought she was better and more beautiful than the faeries and so they got angry and turned her into stone as a memorial for all that are arogance.
it reminds to modesty and not to mess with the immmortal.

GREAT work on the reflections in the water... I love the statue, even though her arms seem a little long.. but maybe that's how mermaids' arms are. She reminds me of the statue of "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen - same colour, too

Light slipped over the serene pools waters, and caressed a statue that has been there for years. Legend says she was and is still waiting for a love lost many years ago. And truth be known that is all that the time has been for, waiting for a love lost long ago.
Sorrow had made her live waiting for a man that wouldn't return. He, lost in a war that bekoned him, always wanted to return to her and live out their "immortality". But never again will they meet until the gates open for their lives to begin again.
Some even say that you can hear the frozen maidens sweet voice sing their song. Waiting for the day the Gates will open for her and her prince to be waiting for her with open arms.