New pendant of my Blue Moon Tea painting:

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Winter Peace (cardinals in the snow) pendant, available at on my website:

This seems to be my time to finish up some of these projects. Here's one I've been working on for months, Peace Tree with Blue Dragonflies:

Here's the new painting, The Glance:

Across the luminous full moon, Sake (a snowshoe Siamese cat) meets the gaze of a crow. Teal autumn leaves dance in the night sky, which is in shades of plum and purple. This visionary landscape is an original acrylic painting on a gallery-wrapped stretched canvas (the 3/4" sides are finished off in black acrylic)

Finished a new painting with a big cat, White Tiger Meditation:

A white tiger watches protectively over a miko (Shinto shrine maiden), sitting in contemplation beneath a twisted pine tree. A torii sits on a distant hill. A full moon illuminates this tranquil scene. This Japanese landscape, from the Zen Mandala series (visionary landscapes in a contemporary surreal style), is an original acrylic painting on a gallery-wrapped stretched canvas (the 3/4" sides are finished off in purple acrylic)--no need to frame. It has been lightly varnished to protect the paint and preserve the lustrous colors. The watermarks on the image do not appear on the actual painting. Prints and pendants are also available.

Here's Loki playing with this handmade catnip toy:

We tried a new park today, Almaden Quicksilver County Park. When we set out, the morning was overcast and cool but had burned off by the time we got there. Still, the trail we took uphill, New Almaden Trail, was mostly shaded.

The trail had passed through a grove of these lovely red-barked manzanita trees:

Upwards...

Finally made it to the top. I made the mistake of sitting down on the trail for a few minutes and needed help standing back up! My legs were like jelly--couldn't make them go.

On the way down, more oak trees, such as this interesting one:

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Got several new pendants made. Just waiting for it to get sunny enough to put on the resin. My new resin "UV cures" but I found that the sun has to be nice & bright. Tried it in the late afternoon once and it didn't set. You can buy a gadget with a UV light to cure it but my house is so filled with gadgets and I figure I live in California. It's not sunny here every day but it doesn't typically go more than a few and, this time of year, it's no problem at all. And I can always go back to my original varnish if need be.

Finished a new painting, African Sunset Meditation:

A leopard watches protectively over a woman in turquoise meditating on a glorious sunset in shades of yellow, orange, red and purple. This African landscape, from the Zen Mandala series (visionary landscapes in a contemporary surreal style), is an original acrylic painting on a gallery-wrapped stretched canvas (the 3/4" sides are finished off in purple acrylic)--no need to frame. It has been lightly varnished to protect the paint and preserve the lustrous colors. The watermarks on the image do not appear on the actual painting. Prints and pendants are also available.

This is my first painting with a big cat. I hope to do more (tiger next, maybe a white one).