Old McDonalds Farm – animals by Anne

by | Animals, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes, Farm Animals, Story Stones, Tutorials

It’s really 3 rocks today.  Now everyone knows why we needed a Red Barn yesterday … for Old McDonald’s Farm ! We are creating Story Stones – what is a story Stone? It is a group of rock/stones that go along with a book or a story.

? Sit with your child and let’s start the song Old McDonald had a farm eeioohh eeiohh oohhhh – (place down the red barn stone)
And on that farm he had a ……
(Let your child pick the next character rock from your collection) and finish the song . Such a fun game to play with the kids or let them play with friends or alone . The child gets to make choices, recognise animals ….Mine are going to be gifted to the daycare my daughter is the director of.
tip- feel free to make more animals for your story stone farm set – but know , we would love to see them ???
???A rock tutorial a day for 7 days and when we are on the other side of this pandemic we will rock our communities with love and kindness ???
I see you , appreciate you and so excited that today we will start filling our collection boxes ! Have an awesome day my friends ?

Use a black colour pen and outline  the image, Great pens for outlines are Posca 1m, !mr 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

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Draw the design on your rock.  Click on the image below to learn how to draw on Rocks

 

Colour on your rock – I have just 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 base evaporates. Click on the image below 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 on the below image to learn the technique – or head to YouTube to watch how I do the shading.

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

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Click on our “Let’s Learn Links” below to learn  some great techniques.

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