Meditative Stone Art Review & GIVEAWAY

Create your own beautifully painted stones with Meditative Stone Art by Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango. Learn how to get the stunning results you see below! Maria shows exactly how she paints her elegant stones from beginning to end. This includes her preferred tools and supplies, what she looks for when collecting stones, where to find and how to prepare them. There are 44 step-by-step projects - 21 mandalas and 23 nature-inspired designs. These include single and multi-color mandalas, flowers, leaves, fish, beetles, butterflies and moths. All come with a level of difficulty (most are rated easy), a supplies list and comprehensive text and photo instruction. Three ways of putting a design on the stone are looked at in detail - tracing, using a grid and drawing freehand. Templates for all designs are at the back of the book. See the complete table of contents below. Rock Point released this 144 page paperback May 12, 2020.  It is also available in e-book format. Get your copy below!

CONTENTS

Introduction

Tool and Supplies

How to Make Your Own Dotting Tools

Sourcing and Prepping the Stones

How to Transfer Your Design to the Stone

Color Inspiration

Mandala Stones

How to Draw a Mandala Using a Grid

How to Draw a Mandala Freehand

White Circles and Dots

White Mehndi-Inspired Mandala

White Mandala Flower

White Mandala on Blue

Jasperware-Inspired Mandala

Silver Mandala on Black

Red Mandala on White

Black Mandala on White

Color Wheel Mandala

Eight-Point Colored Mandala

Purple and Green Mandala

Mandala in Shades of Blue

Rainbow Mandala

Sunset-Inspired Mandala

Turquoise and Green Mandala Flower

Magenta and Green Mandala Flower

Shades of Red with Gold Mandala

Shades of Purple with Gold Mandala

Peacock Blues with Gold Mandala

Excentric Mandala

Nature-Inspired Stones

How to Draw a Flower

Four-Petal Flower

Five-Petal Flower

Six-Petal Flower

Eight-Petal Flower

Ten-Petal Flower

White Plant with Red Flowers

White Leaf

Garden in Black and White

How to Draw a Butterfly

White Butterfly

Jasperware-Inspired Moon Moth

Polka-Dot Butterfly

Moth with Leaf Patterns

Butterfly in Shades of Red

How to Draw a Beetle

White Beetle

Green Beetle

Golden Beetle

Yellow Beetle with Purple Dots

Beetle with Plants and Dots

How to Draw a Fish

White Fish

Fish with Aqua Dots

Red Fish with Lilac Dots

Green and Orange Fish

Violet Scorpion Fish

Special Techniques Project - Brush Marker Mandala

Templates

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Single and multi-color mandalas, flowers, leaves, fish, beetles, butterflies and moths.

Page 18 Mandala Stones.

Back of my copy.

Meditative Stone Art is available worldwide at Rock Point Gift & Stationery. Check our their unique catalog at Rock Point Gift & Stationery. Rock Point Gift & Stationery is a division of the Quarto Publishing Group USA. Quarto has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until July 30, 2020. Canadian and US addresses only. Good luck!

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Stone Painting for Kids Review & GIVEAWAY

Put collecting and painting stones on your summer bucket list! Expert stone painter and best selling author of The Art of Stone Painting F. Sehnaz Bac is back with an issue for children called Stone Painting for Kids: Designs to Spark Your Creativity. The author shares her uncomplicated technique of stone painting with step-by-step instructions, accompanied by large, full-color photographs. Learn how to pick and prepare your stones for painting and what supplies and techniques work best. This kid friendly volume starts with simple projects like numbers and letters, then progresses to more detailed designs - suitable for both girls and boys. It is packed with appealing designs all done using easily found, inexpensive materials -  pencil, acrylic paint, brushes, paint pens and acrylic varnish. Her painting method is well-tested. She sells her exquisite stones on Etsy. There are very clever ideas of what to do with your finished painted stones - some for play and some for learning. Get your copy below.

CONTENTS

Stone Painting: A Totally Fun Thing to Do!

Geometric Shapes

Numbers

Letters

Hearts

Faces

Multipebble Flowers

Mushrooms

Dominoes

Shellfish

Chess

Multipebble Rabbit

Words

Flowers

Houses

Shell Butterfly

Vehicles

The Sky

Animals

Tic-Tac-Toe

Multipebble People

Memory Game

Blackboard Stones

Washi Tape on Stones

Bonus

Stone Play

Mathematics

Scenes & Themes

Story Telling Stones

Spelling Game

About the Author

Stone Painting for Kids is available worldwide at Dover Publications. Dover, Great Books, Variety & Value Since 1941. Check out their catalog at Dover Publications. Dover has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until March 18, 2018. Canada & USA. Good luck!

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Red-crowned Crane by F. Sehnaz Bac

The Art of Stone Painting Review

The Art of Stone Painting: 30 Designs to Spark Your Creativity – by F. Sehnaz Bac, released January 18, 2017 by Dover Publications. Expert stone painter and archaeologist Sehnaz shows you how to turn ordinary stones into gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, art pieces. Presented with large, full-color photographs and text, her 96 page paperback has instructions for 30 handmade projects– simple to advanced. Use stones decoratively, as keepsakes, paper weights, and door stops. You can even turn pebbles into jewelry! Her detailed designs are very appealing. She favors bold colors and vivid designs. Tools and materials include brushes, acrylic paints, paint pens, acrylic inks and varnish. Sehnaz shares her process from beginning to end. You will learn how to find, choose and prepare stones for painting, stone painting and design techniques, sealing and protecting painted stones. Finished stones are water resistant. To clean, just wipe with a soft cloth. Sehnaz sells her work on Etsy. Inspired to paint your own collection? Get your copy below.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Flourishing Tree

Leaf Collection

Simple Flowers

Blooming Botanicals

Sea Themes

Friendly Fish

Elegant Feathers
Cool Cacti
A Frog's Pad
Cheerful Hearts

Simple Mandalas
Geometric Art
Simple Birds
Simple Butterflies & Dragonflies

Structured Doodles

Sun Stone, Moon Stone 

Detailed Flowers

Multi-Stone Mandala

Succulents

Simple Owls

Detailed Mandalas 

Colorful Peacock

Detailed Butterflies & Dragonflies

Folk Abstract

Festive Themes

Fanciful Birds

Eye-Catching Elephants

Monochrome Mandalas

Pebble Pendants

Detailed Owls

About the Author

Mandalas

Birds, Owls, and Flowers

Pebble Pendants

The Art of Stone Painting is available worldwide at Dover Publications. Dover, Great Books, Variety & Value Since 1941. Check out their catalog at Dover Publications.