I brought my needlework minerals with me to the Franklin County Gem and Mineral show this weekend. Here's the azurite and malachite chilling out with their closest friends...

I decided on a Twofer Tuesday. Rhodochrosite and Quartz, from a micromineral photo, Red Cloud Mine, Colorado

Hollie's Green Man was my first major painting.

I realized that I had not actually posted the finished Kilauea drawing!

I thought I was taking a break from painting after churning out, oh, I don't know, 13 large paintings and a bunch of small ones. I put everything away...and then I took it out again. So meet Iridescent Goethite.

The weather said "snow" and they were right. They also said "turning to rain." You can see how that turned out...

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What can I say? It was a hot weekend, drawing volcanoes! This one is in pastels on sanded paper. The image came from a screen shot, so a foreground had to be added in.

Fuego volcano in Guatemala is by far the prettiest volcano I have ever seen. For livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZx...

Rainbow Garnet. Painted about 65X bigger than an actual crystal.

Quartz phantom

Hematite with rutile and smoky quartz. I thought I'd never get this one right!

Prehnite with quartz and babingtonite. The prehnite was painted in watercolor. Then, after that dried, I applied clear tacky glue to it and put a zillion "caviar" glass beads over top of the painting. The small black babingtonite crystals are matte black bugle beads. #mineral #gem #crystal

Carina Nebula, pastel and colored pencil

Yesterday I came upstairs from the basement and looked out the window at my bird feeder. Apparently this hawk had decided to give "bird feeder" a whole new meaning. Well, they have to eat too!

Zoisite var. Tanzanite, watercolor on watercolor board. I feel this is possibly one of the best paintings I've ever done.

@straczynski.bsky.social JMS my daughter found a weird book called the Codex Seraphianus, and in it are clothes. I am making one of the outfits and suddenly it looks like a Vorlon encounter suit...I mean REALLY looks like it. Did this book inspire you?