Painting Rocks!: 2022

Sunday, November 13, 2022

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #15 - Stained Glass Nativity Theme Rock

Hi and thank you for joining me to learn how to create a beautiful stained glass themed nativity rock painting.

In the directions outlined below on this page, I will show you how to take a stained-glass themed picture of a nativity scene and transfer it onto a rock. After it's been transferred, you can use acrylic paint pens, acrylic paints, or Sharpies to add color to it to create a one of a kind piece of art.

To make a rock the one pictured above, like this you will need the following... (click on underlined link below to learn more)...

A smooth rock

White Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

Stained Glass Themed Angel

Transfer Paper - Graphite

Pen

Sharpies

Black Fine Point Sharpie

Arteza Watercolor Paint Pens (optional)

Sealant

See pictures of more of my Stained-Glass Themed Rocks here.

Stained Glass Nativity Themed Rock

DIRECTIONS:

1. Before you begin transferring the image, prepare your rock by painting it with a base coat of white acrylic paint two or three times, letting it dry in between coats.

2. Next, you will need to find a picture to transfer onto a rock by using the following method here... Use a search engine like PINTEREST or Google and search for terms like 'stained glass nativity scene' or 'stained glass nativity'. Hit 'Enter'. Your results should look something like this...

After you get the results, look directly under the search box and hover over 'Images' and left click on your choice using your mouse. You should see a variety of images of 'stained-glass nativity scenes' that you can make your selection from. Select 'Copy image' as shown below...

'Copy image' selected from the choices in
the search engine results
after hovering over image and right clicking

3. In another window, open up a new WORD PROCESSING document, or have one open before you begin.

4. I chose this one for this rock painting tutorial...

5. Flip back into the blank Word Processing document that you have opened, and 'right click' again. This time, select 'Paste' from the choices shown. Your image will appear in the blank WP document and should look like this...

Image 'pasted' into the word processing document

6. When in the WP document, resize it by 'left clicking' on the image and grabbing the corner of the image. Move the black outline that appears around the image back and forth with your mouse.

The image will be true to size as it appears on the screen so use that as a guide to make it the correct size for the rock you will be painting.

You can see the small circles on the corners of the image in word processing in the picture below. Grab one of those corner circles with your mouse to change the size of the image to fit your rock...

7. Print out your image, so that you can proceed to trace it onto your rock's surface. It does not have to be printed in color but use the picture's colors as a guide for applying your paint or marker to the rock when you are ready.

8. Place a piece of your graphite transfer paper on top of your rock which has been painted with several coats of white paint (make sure the white paint is dry before doing this). Follow the directions on the box to make sure the graphite paper is facing the right way to accept the transfer.

9. Now you can place your printed image on top of the transfer paper and secure both pieces to your rock using Scotch tape. It's a good idea not to skip this step because the tape will keep the papers from sliding around and will give you a great result.

10. With a pen or pencil go over the lines directly on your image to trace it onto your rock.

11. After each line is covered, remove the papers to reveal the image on your rock. Watch the videos below for more details on this process...

Here is the link to the picture I selected for the rock in the videos below...

PART 1 - "Learn How to Transfer an Image onto a Rock Using Transfer Paper"

PART 2 - "Using White Paint Pen to Coat the Rock Surface before Coloring"

PART 3 - "Adding Color to your Rock Painting"

12. Add color to your rock with paint pens, acrylic paints, or Sharpies!

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Friday, November 11, 2022

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #14 - Stained Glass Angel Theme

Hi and thank you for joining me to learn how to create a beautiful stained glass themed angel rock painting. I hope you will find this fun and informative.

In the videos below on this page, I will show you how to take a stained-glass themed picture of an angel and transfer it onto a rock. After it's been transferred, you can use acrylic paint pens to color it.

To make a rock like this you will need the following...

A smooth rock

White Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

Stained Glass Themed Angel

Transfer Paper - Graphite

Pen

Sharpies

Black Fine Point Sharpie

Arteza Watercolor Paint Pens (optional)

Sealant

See pictures of more of my Stained-Glass Themed Rocks here

Stained Glass Themed Angel Rock

DIRECTIONS:

1. Before you begin transferring the image, prepare your rock by painting it with a base coat of white acrylic paint two or three times, letting it dry in between coats.

2. Find a picture you would like to transfer onto a rock by using the following method here... Use a search engine like PINTEREST or Google and search for terms like 'stained glass angel' or 'stained glass nativity'. Hit 'Enter'. Your results should look something like this...

Search results for 'stained glass nativity'
using the PINTEREST search engine

After you get the results, look directly under the search box and hover over 'Images' and left click with your mouse. You should see a variety of images of stained-glass angels that you can make your selection from. Select 'Copy image' as shown below...

3. In another window, open up a new WORD PROCESSING document, or have one open before you begin.

4. Go back to your stained-glass angel image search. Did you choose an angel picture you would like to transfer to your rock? I thought this one would be nice for a future rock that I will paint...

5. After you choose your image, hover over the 'Image' you have selected with your mouse. 'Right click' on the image and select 'Copy Image' by clicking on it.

6. Flip back into the blank Word Processing document, and 'right click' again. This time, select 'Paste'. Your image will appear in the blank WP document.

7. Resize it by clicking on the image and moving the black outline that appears around the image back and forth with your mouse. The image will be true to size as it appears on the screen so use that as a guide to make it the correct size for the rock you will be painting.

8. Print out your image, so that you can proceed to trace it onto your rock's surface. It does not have to be printed in color but use the picture's colors as a guide for applying your paint or marker to the rock when you are ready.

9. Place a piece of your graphite transfer paper on top of your rock which has been painted with several coats of white paint (make sure the white paint is dry before doing this). Follow the directions on the box to make sure the graphite paper is facing the right way to accept the transfer.

10. Now you can place your printed image on top of the transfer paper and secure both pieces to your rock using Scotch tape. It's a good idea not to skip this step because the tape will keep the papers from sliding around and will give you a great result.

11. With a pen or pencil go over the lines directly on your image to trace it onto your rock.

12. After each line is covered, remove the papers to reveal the image on your rock. Watch the videos below for more details on this process...

Here is the link to the picture I selected for the rock in the videos below...

PART 1 - "Learn How to Transfer an Image onto a Rock Using Transfer Paper"

PART 2 - "Using White Paint Pen to Coat the Rock Surface before Coloring"

PART 3 - "Adding Color to your Rock Painting"

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

BUTTERFLY FAIRY ROCK - "How to Transfer a Fairy Image to a Rock"

Hi and welcome to my rock painting blog! Thank you for joining me for this rock painting tutorial, it is my hope that you will find it fun and informative.

If you follow the directions outlined below, you will be able to create a rock just like the one pictured here...

Before you begin

with the detailed STEP #’s below, you should do the following…

1. Find a rock you want to paint, making sure it's the right size and shape for your image. Wash and dry your rock.

2. Paint the rock with two coats of white acrylic paint with a foam paint brush.

3. Select a picture you would like on your rock and print it out onto computer paper.

You may want to watch the videos and read the articles in the section below for more information about these pre-steps 1, 2, and 3 above.

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REFERENCE ARTICLES & VIDEOS for more detailed information

To learn how to find and download any image into a word processing document, resize it and print it out refer to the following article (click on underlined link):

“Learn How to Find and Print Pictures after Downloading into Word Processing Documents”

“How to Transfer an Image to a Rock Using White Acrylic Paint and Mod Podge”

"How to Transfer an Image with White Paint and Mod Podge"

"Revealing the Image" "Using Paint Markers to Apply Color"

"Adding Stenciled Flowers to Outer Edges of your Rock Painting”

"Adding Color to Your Rock Using Paint Pens & Sharpies"

*Please note the following:

- The video links above may also be linked below in the STEPS outlined below however, I just wanted to group them together in the beginning of this post so that you can get a general idea of what the procedure is.

- Also noteworthy, the video or article links above in this section could possibly be from different rock painting tutorials so the image may be different, but the procedure will be the same.

- Check below for SUPPLY list and links to my other rock painting tutorials.

- If you have any questions, please leave them in the 'Comments' section below this post.

- Thank you so much for being here! I hope you find this fun and informative.

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So, now that you have a general idea of what is involved and you have watched some of the above videos above or read the articles, you are ready to begin!

Are you ready to paint a beautiful fairy rock??? Let’s go…

STEP #1:

Deciding on a fairy image

There are so many fairy pictures available on the Internet that this may very well be the hardest part of your rock painting!

Whatever you want to paint on your rock, using the method outlined in this blog post will require finding an image to transfer. In order to do that, I have linked an article below in this section for you to read more details on this process.

- To make a fairy rock design like the one in this tutorial, use your favorite search engine (I like PINTEREST) and in the search bar type words or phrases such as 'fairy illustrations', 'butterfly fairy', 'stained glass fairy' or 'flower and fairy coloring book pages.'

Here, once again, is a link to the article that will provide more detail about this...

“Learn How to Find and Print Pictures after Downloading into Word Processing Documents” https://www.craftygirlrocks.art/2021/08/learn-how-to-find-pictures-on-your.html (you may have already read this because it is included in the pre-steps section)

After you have found the image, you are going to transfer, you will print it out from your word processing document and then move on to STEP 2.

STEP #2:

Print your image and transfer picture to your rock

Remember to print the image in reverse because it will be dried into the white paint face down. You could reverse the image in the print commands on your computer before printing if you would like to do it that way too, either way works.

Here is a picture of the image I printed out for this rock painting before I transferred it. Notice how it is facing the opposite way from the actual painting (pictured at the top of this page).

'Butterfly Fairy' Image
used for this tutorial
found on PINTEREST

Another way to get a fairy image is to purchase a book of images. When you receive the physical book, you can take a picture of any of the pages with your phone or camera.

If you then upload the picture to your computer, you can download the image to a word processing document by saving it using copy and paste commands.

Then resize it in word processing (watch the video linked in STEP 1 above) and print it out. This way you can print the image more than once to transfer them and make many rocks!

Fairy Coloring Books
like this one
are available online
(Click link to learn more)

STEP #3:

Place the image onto rock’s surface to dry

Paint another coat of white acrylic paint onto your rock surface. Do NOT let this coat dry before moving on.

Now it may sound a little crazy, but... put a coat of the white acrylic paint on the inked side (yes, the inked side) of the image.

While both the rock’s surface and the picture are wet with their respective coats of white paint, turn the image upside down onto the rock’s surface.

Try not to move the paper at all because this will smudge the ink. Once it is in place, secure the paper to the rock using Scotch tape to hold it steady so that it won’t slip.

Rub the back side of the paper gently with your fingertips and smooth out the paper. Make sure every part of the inked surface of the picture is touching the rock’s surface.

Let it dry overnight.

After the image is thoroughly dried onto the rock’s surface you are ready to reveal your image (see STEP #4 below...)

STEP #4:

Reveal the image by peeling off the paper

As I stated above in the last paragraph of STEP #3, you should now be at the point where the ink from your image has dried into the paint on the rock's surface.

Now we have to get the paper off which can be a bit time consuming. However, if this step is done correctly, you will have a great image to work on so take your time and be patient with this step.

Interestingly, one sheet of computer paper has seven layers! So, we will have to take it off layer by layer.

To start this process, you will need a paint brush and some clean water. Dip the paint brush in the clean water and then apply the water to the back side of the image (which is facing up).

You will see the image start to appear once it is wet. Isn't that fun?? I think it is anyway, lol! This wetting/drying process is loosening the top layers of paper at the same time leaving the ink on the rock's surface for you to use as a base image for your painting.

Repeat the process above at least five more times. Make sure you let the water dry in between applying it. Around the sixth time you coat the back with water you should start to see little pills of the paper come off.

Let it dry once this 'pilling' starts. Continue to rub the paper off gently with your index finger until most of it comes off and you have a good base image.

Once the image is easy to see and most of the paper is off, you are ready to color it in with your art markers or acrylic paints!

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Supplies Sidenote: Not all of the above products will be needed for this particular tutorial. I have linked to some supplies that I use in my rock paintings so that you can have access to some of my favorite products, but you can find most of these in your local craft store.

Here are the links to other rock painting tutorials on this blog:

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #1 - A Basket of Pansies

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #2 - Gardening Animals

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #3 - Red & Orange Poppy Flowers

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #4 - Little Boy in a Bunny Costume

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #5 - Mama Bird & Chicks

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #6 - Fairies & Bunny Spring Rock

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #7 - Beach Bunnies Family Rock

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #8 - The Candy Corn Family

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #9 - Daffodils Rock

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #10 - Fairies & Daisies

ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #11 - Strawberry Fairy Rock