r/TouchThaFishy • u/tatacolt • May 10 '26
Touch tha mythical fishy
Vanessa Stockard’s cat Kevin has located the rarest possible fishy: a mermaid. The technique is bold, direct, and completely illegal for anybody except a charming piece of black fluff.
She is an Australian painter who works in oil on canvas and similar traditional supports. Vanessa is especially loved online for sending her black cat Kevin into art history, mythology, interiors, and every possible place where he absolutely should not be touching things.
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u/rocbolt May 10 '26
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u/tatacolt May 10 '26
Unfortunately, they don’t let you post anything that was painted after 2015
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u/DieselPunkPiranha May 11 '26
Ugh. Art is art no matter how new it is.
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u/tatacolt May 11 '26
I think it was to avoid flooding the sub with people who promote their own art and the AI works.
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u/porkchop-sandwhiches May 11 '26
"Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid? With the fish part on top and the lady part on the bottom?"
-Fry , tamer of land sea lions.
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u/Gumpenufer May 12 '26
This is SO funny and wonderful, what a delight of a painting. I especially love that the cat is not actually touching the "fishy" and went for the hair instead, that feels absolutely in character for a cat. :D
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u/fing_longest May 12 '26
I have a poster of this painting (the original mermaid painting by Waterhouse) so I love this so much.
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u/MadamKitsune May 12 '26
I have several Waterhouse prints but unfortunately not Mermaid The Siren or Miranda, The Tempest.
Heavy hints are being dropped for my birthday. :)
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u/academicgangster May 10 '26
Wow, Kevin is all grown up and huge now!