This painting on the rocks activity is addictive.
Seriously.
The Saturday lazy waking up was followed by preparing a beverage you see here and sitting outside on the balcony contemplating the white rock that I started painting yesterday afternoon. A black rock was also there with its silky dark cover. It is nail polish. So easy to use, it dries quite quickly but I don't like its smell. That is why this new hobby, sorry, this addiction of mine has got its official place outside. I set up a smaller table for it.
You can notice that the fancy tablecloth is newspapers. :D
The acrylic paint doesn't have any smell though. Neither the acrylic paint markers that were introduced here, but I will anyway stay outside in those moments when the urge to paint rocks hits.
It was so nice to spend the morning there, outside. The breeze and the morning sun helped the paint dry quickly as I continued to add white layers to it.
Actually, I am not sure how many layers I should do for a good base. I am not an expert but I thought that a white background would be nice before drawing the details with the markers (which are also acrylic paint).
Warning: If you decide to follow my path and paint and draw on rocks, don't be surprised if your fingertips also get painted.
! [not rocks but got painted]
The rock with the white base will wait here for its design which I want to draw first on a piece of paper (something was already drawn but it will get modifications and improvements) before the real decoration on the rock starts. It is going to be a little gift.
In the meantime, the black rock got a little sister, another even smaller rock with a black nail polish covering. There was not much space to draw a lot of things, so I thought about a smiling face. Yellow and black make a nice contrast, which explains my choice of this optimistic colour on the black background. The eyes are flowers that have white and purple dots.
Smile (as I named this rock) went through three phases.
The first, when it was just painted in black, the second when it got the yellow mouth and the eyes, and the final version, filled with the white and purple dots inside the petals. This will be also gifted to someone.
The red rock with a white flower and a leaf was made a few days ago, on Thursday evening. I saw so many flowers and leaves painted on one windowshop that afternoon... that scene surely inspired the birth of this kindness rock.
Stay Inspired will be a gift as well. It will travel in backpack of my husband to Germany, to meet some Hivers and reach its new owner. This seemed to be easy to write there but you see, the second word went in the wrong direction. It was affected by gravity, as its new owner said after seeing the photo of it! 😂
Oh, I wanted it to be nice but that's how my hand guided the letters... the proof we humans are not perfect and need a lot of practising to do things well. We just have to stay inspired - as my message says. As if it was speaking to me too!
I was tempted to peel off the letters and correct but no... it will stay this way. It is the process of improving (or not 😁) that we will witness through these kindness rocks.
What I realized after seeing my Stay Inspired rock is that I am anyway happy with the result and this whole morning (I spent with the rocks and colours a few hours...). This is how the rock Be Happy with this silly geometry without order or symmetry was made.
Maybe it is a gift to myself! 😌
