Everest BloodstoneWatercolor print of Mount Everest, in the Mahalangur Himal sub range of the Himalaya. Mount Everest, it's sky piercing peak glowing against the cool glaciers below. I used a pigment called "Bloodstone" in this painting. Bloodstone is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz. In ancient times, it signified vitality and strength as well as passion and courage and its virtues are protective and nurturing. I like to think those qualities are imbued in the