Dragonfly Moon Rock Rock Painting Tutorial

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Dragonfly Moon inspired by DH97
Do you use rocks with dings, pivots, cracks, dints? I DO !
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We have two choices when painting rocks – remember they are rocks and work with them not against them, they are such an interesting natural canvas to create on. We can create with flow and embrace the rock … for being a rock!
OR
You can look way to close at it and start filling in the natural dings with products that have a high chance of cracking as they cure and the there is a high chance that the product will pull away from the rock. And that is a common thing to do – look to closely at it and our mind narrows in and we focus on a ding – not the bigger picture of a fabulous rock straight from nature.
I am team NATURAL!
But a handy hint to look at is if you do use an array of different products on your rock beyond paint and a sealer. Read the labels, what does it say the cure time is/ Not the touch dry time – the CURE TIME.
Once the cured time is met then your rock is ready to paint. During cure time the water is evaporating from the product, so there is a chance of shrink or cracks.
Most important tip – HAVE FUN creating!
Have a fabulous day SHINING as bright as you can Gorgeous One?

Draw the design on your rock.  CLICK HERE to learn how to transfer your image on to your rock. 

Colour on your rock – I have painted a nice even layer. You do not want to paint it to thick. The more layers on the rock the more chance it has of peeling off later as the water in the paint evaporates. CLICK HERE to find out how best to paint on rocks!.. 

Shading makes all the difference to the end result. Adds depth to the Image.
I use clean water and a size 2 or 4 filbert taklon paintbrush CLICK HERE to learn the technique 

Use a black colour pen and outline  the image, Great pens for outlines are Posca 1m, 1mr or the 0.7m size in Tooli-Art or Artistro.

And if you want to add a touch of highlight –  pop on a few dots and dashes of white paint .
You can find awesome fine Pens to help you with this here

FINE PENS AVAILABLE HERE

I would love to extend to you an invitation to an exciting new Rock Project I have put together.

This project is an ‘Online course’ about Rock Painting and it is like no other – This is the first and most amazing Rock Painting Course ! Not only will I guide you through the process of creating Kindness Rocks but find out how Kindness Rocks help support at risk Woman and children in Nepal.

What is this course all about? An online Rock Painting Course with 55 Videos, 13 E-Books – and a dedicated forum for questions and answers with myself to help you. JUMP on this link to JOIN US

Do you want to watch videos on the drawing step by step process on the rock. These are tutorials to help you
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