It took me nearly a year to finish this large piece of art, but it is indeed, at long last, finished! This is a commissioned piece for a friend. He set only general parameters for the project: It must involve paisleys, even the scales, and I must use orange as the base color. So here we go!

My visual inspiration comes from dragons and other fantasy creatures of Thailand and Bali. I love the stylization of the dragons' faces, scale, and wings.

The flowers on the upper wing are stylized hellebore, which in some flower symbology stands for sarcasm. The flowers on the shoulder design and on the tail are mandrake, for horror. (Both are quite appropriate for the commissioner!)

As is usual for my mixed-media work, there are all kinds of things that I've used and included:

The dragon was done with watercolor and Prismacolor pencil over an ink drawing. There are three or four layers of varnish over the top of that, as I was trying to even out the cut-out dragon after I'd glued it down to the foamcore that keeps it about a quarter of an inch off the baseboard. The dragon also has a lot of gel pen detailing, and a gob of shiny bits.

The stones in the ovals:
Blue is lapis lazuli
Pinkish-red is agate
Green is malachite
Yellowish is "bumblebee" jasper (a trade name)
Violet is amethyst
The one to the right of amethyst is hematite, but it picked up a lot of green in the scan.
The red-orange by the dragon's nose is fossilized dinosaur bone.
The small one by the dragon's hand is a rainbow moonstone.
The dragon is holding a small fossilized ammonite.
Along the outer edges are acrylic tiles, tiger eye (tawny squares), aventurine (green squares), and assorted metal beads.

...I think that's everything!

This art is 16x20 inches, and will be matted to about 22x28. I will eventually have prints available.