This week’s dragon started because I was wearing the necklace with Wyatt, dragon number 16 from way back in April, and I remembered that I had made more of those lentil beads, and not yet put them to use.

Check out this post on Errol, dragon #1, for the details on why I am making a dragon for every week in 2015.

Making these little tiny dragons is a lot of fun, although it would not be possible for me without my magnifying lamp!

Click on any of the photos for a closer look.

Choosing all the beads and putting the necklace together took nearly as much time as it took to make the dragon. 🙂

After deepening the details with some dark blue paint I then painted over him with some Iridescent Pearl paint and highlighted his dots, spines and tail tip with Iridescent Silver.

I think Basil is rather royal and kingly looking, which is what his name means.

If you’d like to see my other dragon creations so far, I’ve made a Thursday’s Dragon Pinterest board just for them.

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