This is my newest painting, a young Asian water monitor, climbing on tree roots in an eastern rain forest, which I finished a couple weeks ago. It was the first painting I've ever done that I couldn't show to my mom when I was finished, which was upsetting. It's a larger, more detailed version of one of the pictures I did for The Sketchbook Project last winter, so I'm taking comfort that she saw that. This one is 14 in. x 11 inches, acrylic on canvas panel. I added leaves and more roots and a lot more details to everything. A friend helped me name it, "Mangrove Rest". I'm thinking of a black frame for it, when I exhibit it at the craft show on Dec. 1st, where I have all of my new work from the year.