Humboldt Museums 8th Annual Holiday Fine Art Show and Sale

Our Local Rock Painting group was asked to be a part of the Humboldt Museums 8th Annual Fine Art Show and Sale...it took place on Saturday, December 16th, 2017...This was my contribution...

Painted rocks...including mine...were available for suggested donations to raise money for our group so we can continue community events...have the supplies needed and do fun stuff for drawings.

I was busy before Christmas painting presents for my chilren and grandchildren...I also painted snowflake ornaments for people I work with...no painted rocks for presents this year...the ornaments were on wooden circles...Welcome wooden signs for my kids and watercolor paintings for my grandkids...

Maybe next year they will all get rocks...

Special Requests

My first special request...Kokopelli...

I also painted her a Dale Earnhardt...Nascar rock...but I didn't remeber to take a picture of it...

This rock I gave to a special person that used to work at the school I work at...she has retired...but still volunteers and we see her often...

The Red bird was a special request from a Nurse Assistant at another elementary school in town...

the rest of these were placed in a Kindness box...for those that need a little uplifting...

Happy Halloween

I really had fun painting these rocks for Halloween...they were hid at the school I work at...I enjoyed watching the kids that found some of them...the ghost one I put down for a child that had been chatting with me about finding painted rocks around town..he loved it...

The frog one I almsot kept...as out school mascot is a frog...

The mummy and ghost were placed inside the school for the adults...I hope they enjoyed their finds...

Happy Halloween 2017...

Painted and given to a special local who goes all out for Halloween...her decorations get bigger and more elaborate every year...

Nevada and Knitting

I was asked by my school secretary to paint her some rocks to give out to friends...she requested ones dealing wiht our state..Nevada...and knitting..as she is a member of an avid knitting group...

She loved these and wanted to pay me for them...we finally agreed that instead of payment...she would surprise me....someday...with something...I'll udate when it happens...I love that it could happen anytime...

Drop A Rainbow

Painted for Drop A Rainbow Day...October 3, 2017...

Since I had to work I hid all my rocks around the school I work at...

This one I left where I thought a friend would find it...as she loves dragonflies...

She told me she was flying to get out of her car and grab it befoer someone else did...

For some reason I had a difficult time coming up with ideas for rainbows...next year I hopefully I'll be better prepared...Pinterest?

Kindness Box

We have two Kindness Boxes in town for when you are needing a little inspiration or encouragement... or know someone else who is...

You can find a rock with a message in one of our Kindness boxes...they tend to be empty a lot...so it keeps us busy trying to keep them supplied...

I'm glad others find these rocks and want the messages the have and the good feelings they give them...

The rocks I have done are mostly what I call smalls...an inch or two across...

Stained Glass Experiment

These painted rocks started out as an experiment...I was trying to replicate the look of stained glass but I don't think I captured that? I started by outlining my sketch with black two-dimensional paint...then filling in each portion with a couple of colors of acrylics and swirling them around with a toothpick...After the paint was dry I added the wording and sealed them...they were later hidden in town...

On this rock, I experimented with swirling different colors together all over the rock...when dry I added the black details...

For Pet's Sake

I was asked if I could paint a few rocks to donate to a For Pets Sake Inc. event. The rocks will sell for a donation.

 For Pets Sake Inc. is the oldest independent Rescue in Washoe County, founded by Sara Petersen in 1984. They specialize in small dogs but do take larger dogs. 

These rocks are the ones I painted for this event...

The bottom one of the Yorkie was hard to do...I painted and repainted several times until it was...okay, that's enough...I'm not going to get it as perfect as I'd like so I had to know when to quit...

International Drop a Rock Day

Happy International Drop a Rock Day...July 3, 2017... The word they chose this year was "Peace." 

A simple peace rock...

The blue peace rock was found by the admin of our local rock group and the green one was hiding for days before it was finally discovered...

This one stayed hid a couple of days before it was found...

Hidden at a small convenience store...

Hidden at a local Maverick...

Hidden in fornt of a local business...

Hidden out front of a local store...Big R...

Painting Mandalas on Rocks

I've wanted to try painting on rocks for awhile. I love the Mandala ones I've seen on Pinterest and elsewhere. Youtube is full of Tutorials on painting rocks, including painting Mandalas on Rocks. I wanted to find a Tutorial that I could easily follow. Youtube tutorials are great but go a little too fast for me unless I pause...rewind...pause...not what I wanted. I looked all over the internet and finally found two Mandala Tutorials on the website http://colorful-crafts.com

Here is the link for the blue and green one:

Mandala Stone Tutorial

Here is my first Mandala Rock using this Tutorial:

I started by picking out some rocks in my yard and washing them.

Then I painted black circles on them for the Mandala backgrounds.

I found this punch set in my craft collection:

They make perfect dots for painting the mandalas. You can use paintbrushes, dowels, special tools for making dots or just use what you can find around the house.

After my first try, I painted several other rocks playing with patterns and color:

For more ideas for painting your rocks Colorful crafts has a nice Gallery:

Gallery

Youtube is full of tutorials, I liked this short video for beginners:

You Tube Beginners Guide

Have some fun and try painting your own rocks, with Mandalas or any other design of your choosing. I would love to see what you come up with!

Hiding Painted Rocks

Before I tried painting Mandalas on Rocks I joined a group on Facebook where people paint rocks and hide them around town for others to find. A simple way to brighten another's day. I loved this idea and it was one of the reasons I did the painted rocks tutorial. Today I hid my rocks around town.

This one is in a place where healing takes place...

This one I had at a local park...

A tree hides this one close to a place of learning...

In a tree outside government offices...

and the last two were both placed where people gather for different reasons....

I had fun hiding them during my lunch break today...I hope others find them and they bring a smile or two...

If you're local and would like to join in the fun...here is the link to 

Winnemucca Rocks

on Facebook...

If you're not local and would still like to join in the fun...search for a local group or start one of your own!