I’ve been painting on river rocks and seashells for the past 5 years and always looking for new creative ideas. One reason that I enjoy this craft medium is that it’s affordable. You use “found” objects in nature as your base and then all you need is painting supplies. Anyone with any skill level can do it.
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Meditative Stone Art – Create Over 40 Mandala and Nature-Inspired Designs book by Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango is the perfect starting point for beginners or experienced artists. There are projects inside the book for all skill levels. Alleviate stress, foster creativity, and commune with nature, all while creating beautiful works of art.
Let the author guide you on a meditative art journey as she shares her unique and elegant designs for decorating stones. The book has 44 illustrated step-by-step projects, 21 calming mandala designs and 23 nature-inspired designs including:
Single-Color Mandalas
Multi-Color Mandalas
Flowers
Leaves
Butterflies
Moths
Beetles
Fish
Chock full of beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow instructions to get your designs just right, along with drawing tutorials and information about gathering the perfect stones, tools and supplies, and art techniques, Meditative Stone Art will have you feeling inspired, focused and relaxed in no time.
The book starts out with a tools & supplies chapter and then moves into how-to make your own dotting tools. You’ll then move on to sourcing & preparing the stones and how-to transfer your design onto the stone. In the back of the book you’ll find several templates that you can use to get started.
Each project in the book is laid out in an easy-to-follow along format and each one comes rated from easy to more difficult designs. You’ll find a materials list with each project and step-by-step instructions with color photographs to make replicating the design easy. I really like how the author has laid out each project in an easy format that beginners can follow. Yes…beginners! You can do these designs even if you have never picked up a paint brush!
Even though the designs are meant for stone painting you can easily do them on other surfaces too! Think seashells, driftwood, wood slabs, pottery, glassware, trinket boxes, art canvases, etc. You can really get creative with them! The possibilities are endless!
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I can easily see you creating a lot of these stones. They are beautiful. Perhaps I would try it in a few years with my grandkids.
I am seeing lots of painted rocks left out on my rocks with beautiful designs and inspirational messages. The designs in this book are just gorgeous and creative.
Oops – I meant to say left out on walking trails.
I have always though painting like this was beautiful. BUT my hands will not be do detailed stuff for long. I bought one of those diamond kits could not do it, my hands were not happy
WOW these are really beautiful and this sounds like a great book! This is right up your alley!