Looking for a new craft or hobby for 2017? Already love making arts and crafts? If so, you’ll want to check out one of the hottest crafting crazes going…Stone Painting aka Rock Painting!
Title: The Art of Stone Painting
Author: F. Sehnaz Bac
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-80893-2
The Art of Stone Painting by F. Sehnaz Bac includes 30 designs to spark your creativity. Now you can transform ordinary stones into colorful works of art with this easy-to-follow guide. Popular stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac, a seasoned archaeologist who markets her painted Sassi dell’ Adriatico (Stones of the Adriatic) on Etsy, presents step-by-step instructions for creating 30 fantastic designs. Full-color photographs accompany directions for painting themes that range from trees,flowers, and animals to mandalas, geometric patterns, holiday motifs and more.
Starting with the basics, including finding & choosing stones as well as tools & materials, the guide offers a variety of techniques, including painting stones with colors or inks, painting on natural stone, and sealing the finished work. Projects range from simple to advanced and include suggestions for indoor & outdoor display, as well as instructions on how to style wearable objects such as pendants. A complete section of templates provides motifs for every project as well as ample inspiration for developing your own designs.
My Thoughts: I love to craft and enjoy a slew of different crafting mediums. I’ve dabbled in decorative painting before, but never jumped into it full steam ahead. Rock painting (stone painting) has always interested me. Last summer the Princess and I painted lady bug garden rocks and shared that project here on the blog. As soon as I saw this new “The Art of Stone Painting” book, I knew it would be a great craft book to add to our collection.
I was hoping to get started on a few of the projects right away, but our weather has been terrible, so I haven’t gotten out to find some smooth stones just yet. I guess I’ll have to wait until there is no snow or ice on the ground to find them. I did find some that I could purchase at a local store, but they were too small in size for these projects. Sigh. Come on Springtime!
Anyway, I read this book cover-to-cover and I know this is definitely something I can do. The author has everything broken down in easy-to-read chapters, step-by-step instructions and most of the designs are easy enough for a beginner to do. Plus, the author gives you ideas on how to express your own creativity with your own designs and I’m already inspired to try out a few of my ideas too!
I think The Art of Stone Painting is a fantastic book! A great book for beginners and for those who are more advanced. There are designs in this book for every skill level and for every taste. Once our winter weather clears up, I’ll be heading to the river for a few river walks to collect some smooth stones.
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never tried it looks like fun
No but it looks fun.
I haven’t painted a rock since my kids were little. These designs are awesome!!
I have not tried stone painting, I do collect rocks, so I think I just might like trying to paint some.
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I have always wanted to try this rock painting before. I think it would be fun to do and be a relaxing thing for me to try.
I have a fun butterfly garden and would love to put pained stones in it I have not tried doing it yet but looks like so much fun.
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I have painted ladybugs.
I’ve never tried before. I’d love to try painting stones.
I did it a little as a kid & would love to do it again with my nieces.
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Every year I say Im going to give it a try but so far I haven’t. I love painting and I love my garden and I love nature so its bound to be a swin win when I get going.
I’ve never tried it before but I think it could be soothing.
I have never tried this but I think my wife and sister in law would love to give this a try
No, but a group just started in my town. They paint them and leave them around town to brighten people’s day
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I’ve never tried it. I’d like to because it looks fun and relaxing.
I have not done any stone painting since I was a little kid. I went to an art exhibit last year that was all stone paintings and it was amazing. I sure would love to try this as an adult and it would be wonderful to have this book to help me along.
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I have did rock painting as a kid and do it with my kids every summer. I would love this.
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I’ve never done any stone or rock painting as of now. I saw these beautiful hand-painted shells and thought that looked amazing. This might just teach me how to do it – on rocks and on the shells that I loved!
We have done stone painting for my granddaughters birthday party and the kids all had a fun time.
This would be fun. The only stones I have painted are with my kids.
No i have not tried stone painting before; my daughter is extremely creative and would absolutely love this.