Monkey_Chinese Zodiac I

This is the first work for the "12 Signs of the Zodiac Contest" held by , on which iformation can be found here: [link]

This is Monkey (Chinese zodiac, from Wikipedia [link])):
Gemstone: Emerald
Colors: White, Violet
Food: cloves
Positive Traits: Inventive, versatile, humorous, generous, intelligent, witty, lively, independent
Negative Traits: Manipulative, opinionated, conceited, egotistical, capricious, superficial, meddling, careless

(as you suspect, I am a Monkey)

Reference&stock photos:
sitting woman [link] by
monkey [link] by
flowers: [link] and [link] by
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dragon [link] by
chair [link] by
statue of chinese dragon [link] by
2 dragons [link] by
flowers&birds on the dress [link] by

My hand hurts. Just when I saved it to a .jpg I most inteligently accidently ereased the .psd