ABOUT MERMAID PAINTS

My name is Cristina Webb and I was born in April of 1997. I am a freelance graphic artist with a dream to inspire and create. Creativity in general has been a passion of mine since before I could walk. I have been designing and creating all kinds of arts and crafts since I was very small, but only got into my art more seriously in 2010.

Born and raised in the beautiful desert of the Coachella Valley, I was easily fascinated with the beauty of the colorful butterflies and flowers that would bloom in our very bland, sand filled location. With our vibrant, blue skies touching the mountains that I see in every direction during the day. The beams of golden sunlight peeking over them in the mornings. And the pink clouds across the skies in the evenings. Everywhere I look is an inspiring piece of art and motivation for me to create.

In 2013, my friend introduced me to instagram where I could share my artwork with the world by posting pictures of my drawings every day as @dreamscape_color. She then discovered and showed me another artist with almost the exact same name as me named Kristina Webb, also known as @colour_me_creative. Through her I found this inspiring art community on instagram of artists from all over the world. I saw how many people she reached through her meaningful art and was then inspired and dedicated to do the same thing myself.

By 2014, I realized that I wanted to make art my career in life. I changed my name from Dreamscape Color to something that I thought people would have an easier time remembering. I became Mermaid Paints. I drew and colored every day and my art improved so much within such a short amount of time.

I started doing art commissions for various people in early 2017. And by early 2018, commission business was booming. Everyone wanted to pay me to draw them. I was so happy and excited with how things were going. But with my uprise, came a downfall. Although I made some money through my artwork, it wasn’t enough to live off of. I had to put my art career on hold and get a real job.

Interviews and handing out resumes were not my easiest task. Considering I had no real work experience and grew up extremely shy with social anxiety. But with my luck, a brand new craft store had just opened and I was hired on the spot. I got to work around all of my favorite and colorful art supplies and got an employee discount. It was like a dream come true!

However, during my work there, I started developing these awful dizzy spells. I often found myself with occasional blacked out vision and nearly fainting most days. After only about one month of working there, I had to quit. I felt like I was letting down everyone around me, including myself.

Since then, I have been taking many doctor visits and working on my art business in the meantime. In May of 2020, the day had come that I moved into my own place. Here I had my own creative space to really go wild with my art! Spending all that time building my inventory and progressing in my artistic skills. With 2021 just around the corner, I found myself spending a lot of time watching streamers draw and play games online. And with family and friends around me encouraging me to get more into it, I began streaming myself!

Welcoming myself into the world of live streaming whether it is art, gaming, or just chatting, I have grown in so many ways! I have met so many amazing people through the streaming community and gained so many more supporters and friends. And most of all, I have overcome a lot of my social anxiety thanks to all of you and streaming!

Still to this day, I have been taking doctor visits and trying to understand this physical issue that I am continuously dealing with. All while finding and unlocking my true potential to reach my dream goals by doing what I currently do for a living; creating!

Thanks to each and every one of you, showing your support, whether it would be: simply viewing my streams, liking or sharing my content, favoriting my shops and items, leaving reviews, commissioning me, ordering something from my shop, or even just reading all of this. It is all deeply appreciated and never goes unnoticed. ♡♡♡