Creating Backgrounds for your rocks

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Gorgeous Backgrounds for your rocks without creating big thick layers. That is the trick to successful Rock Painting – making sure you do not have too many layers.

The way we create our backgrounds is to always use Acrylic Paint or Acrylic Paint Pens and keep the layers thin. 

And it is no secret look below to see how we create our backgrounds they are so easy to achieve.

Let’s chat backgrounds  on rocks ….
Any easy TIP to creating coloured backgrounds
1. Keep your rock wet and use your Acrylic Paint pen straight on to the wet area – the paint will start to spread out .As you have two wet surfaces, the water and the paint, this causes the bleed.
2. Keep creating a few scribbles every where and they will wash into each other , creating a beautiful backdrop on your rock .
3. Doing one layer gives you a lovely washed out look, on this rock I built up a few thin washed layers for personal Choice of the colours.
Create backgrounds for silhouettes or to write text on … the list is endless !
Hope you enjoy this tip 🧡❤️

This back ground was created with Posca 3m tip – acrylic paint pens. Other acrylic paint pens will work and so will acrylic paint. Dip your pen in to clean water – have a small cup of water by your side. When the pen is drippy, scribble on your rock , it will be quite water heavy . You need to leave it undisturbed to dry .the water evaporates and translucent versions of the paint remains .
Keep swapping out your colours. If you are using acrylic paint, pop a touch of paint on your palette and water it down, use your brush to scoop up the watered down colour and place on your rock.
I used Posca Colours – (AVAILABLE HERE) For the Toucan Tutorial – CLICK HERE
Kharki
Green
Light green
Yellow

As I added the Narwhal on top of a rainbow background it was important to keep he background as thin as possible yet remain bright to keep the fun look. Click on the video to the side here to learn how I achieved the rainbow look. PAINT PENS AVAILABLE HERE 
The full Narwhal tutorial CLICK HERE

it gives a great foundation to layer up your rock. Starting with the background first can make adding the finer details much easier. Click on the photos to see the full tutorial.

You can put all your colourful effort into creating the background and add a simple black pen silhouette on top. Click on the pictures to take you to these tutorials.

~ Blending
~ Shading
~ Gradient Effects
~ Layering
~ Colour Mixing

Learn all these techniques with Posca pens CLICK HERE

Our Supplies page is  HERE to read up on everything you need to paint Rocks.

Learn heaps of different techniques on how to paint rocks – Right HERE

We are adding new tutorials all the time CLICK HERE  for heaps of new ideas