My favorite painting to date. This was a labor of love and took about 10 hours to finish. This purple geode has several great techniques. The base was painted and then a thick cover layer was added to each section before an alcohol drop technique was used to give the blotch affect. To resemble crystals, I used clear and light violet colored glass beads that were glued on. this painting has 4 cotes of a clear varnish spray.