This gorgeous landscape "painting" is composed of the tiny chips which are the by-product of cutting and faceting these gemstones. Following traditional methods generations old, artisans in the region of Siberia hand make these landscape paintings by applying crushed and chipped gemstones to a "canvas" of wood. Even the blues of the sky is ground lapis lazuli. The entirety of the painting is from crushed and chipped emeralds, rubies, sapphires, garnet, citrine, peridot, lapis lazuli, topaz, carnelian, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, jade, pink tourmaline, malachite, aventurine, jasper, tigerseye, amazonite, as well as another twenty-five or so varieties of semi-precious gemstones.