Enjoy painting kindness rocks? Looking to add a pop of color into your gardening beds? Got a rock garden in your yard? If you answered YES to any of those questions we have a cute fish design to share with you! This design is easy-to-make and great for beginners. You can change up the colors and the pattern on the fish to make them look totally unique. You do make an entire school!
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You’ll want to look for smooth sided river rocks or landscaping stones. Wash them with warm, soapy water using Dawn Liquid Dishwashing Soap. Dawn does the best job at removing dirt, debris, grease, etc. Rinse with clean water. Lay them out flat to air dry overnight.
Base coat the rocks with 1-2 coats of white acrylic paint. You need to paint the top, sides and bottom. You can use an acrylic craft paint with a brush or a matte finish spray paint. This base coat will allow the colors that you’re placing on top to be more vivid. Let the base coat completely dry until the paint is no longer tacky. You can speed up the drying time by having a desk fan blow cool air over them as they’re drying.
Next….pick a shade of blue acrylic craft paint that resembles ocean, lake, river or pond water. Paint the entire rock with that color and let dry.
While they’re drying sketch a fish shape onto a piece of paper. Cut it out. You can use that as your template. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just a basic fish shape. Use a pencil and light trace around your pattern onto the rock. To keep all of the design work easy…I used a pack of BETEM Acrylic Paint Markers. The paint markers come with dual-ended tips, one medium and one fine. Use the medium to color-in the larger areas and the fine to color-in smaller areas, to do outlining and to write wordage. Let all of the paint dry for 3-6 hours or until it’s no longer tacky.
You can seal the paint by one of two different ways. You can take the painted kindness rocks outside and spray them with 2 light coats of a Spray-On Clean Acrylic Sealer or you can brush-on Clear Mod Podge Sealer. I like to use a sealer that gives them a glossy, shiny finish. Let them air dry overnight.
If you want to sign and date your artwork…you can do that on the back side of the painted rocks.
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