Rock Painting Flowers, Cottages, Houses, and Towns : Step-by-Step Instructions, Techniques, and Ideas—20 Projects for Everyone

Perfect for kids and crafters, this fun guide will teach you how to paint flowers, cottages, houses, and towns on stones! New painters wanted! No experience necessary! With Lin Wellford’s instruction, thousands have discovered the thrill of turning rocks into works of art. Her bestselling books have helped to awaken interest in modern rock painting. It's the perfect hobby—fast, fun, and inexpensive. Rock Painting Flowers, Cottages, Houses, and Towns offers a variety of easy projects designed to introduce basic painting techniques yet still appeal to seasoned painters. Learn to paint your favorite scenery elements, including: Daisies Tulips Petunias Daffodils Pansies Mums Wreaths of Roses Flower Baskets Cottages A-Frames Chalets Gnome Homes Barns Country Church Small Town Shops Farmhouses Produce Markets Colonial Style Buildings Tudor-Style Homes Victorian Mansions Rock Villages With tips on how to translate an animal's features into simple geometric shapes that maintain proper proportion and perspective, these projects will brighten any home or garden. Grab a brush, find a stone, and get ready to rock! Experience the magic of this fun and exciting art activity. Transform ordinary rocks into amazing little houses and cottages. You don't have to be an artist to experience the fun of this simple yet exciting craft. Lin Wellford revitalized the art of painting on rocks, and her imaginative and innovative use of rocks and stones as art material continues to attract new fans. This book offers a range of projects, from basic cottages that any beginner can master, to A-frame chalets, farm houses, barns, churches, shops and storefronts, Tudor houses and even elaborate Victorian style mansions. Among the most popular projects are Wellford's 'gnome homes', which feature thatched roofs and can be further enhanced by the addition of wood filler to create dimensional eaves. A handful of acrylic paints, a few assorted brushes, and a pencil are all that is needed to get started with this intriguing craft. It's a perfect low-cost art activity for families, children's art classes, senior citizen groups, Scout troops and more. Paint one, or create an entire village to display. Add snow to the roofs and wreaths to the doors to transform your houses into a Christmas village. Because rocks are hard to break, these charming creations are likely to become treasured heirlooms, to be passed down through generations. "New painters wanted! No experience necessary! With Lin Wellford's instruction, thousands have discovered the thrill of turning rocks into works of art. 'Rock Painting Flowers, Cottages, Houses, and Towns' offers a variety of easy projects designed to introduce basic painting techniques yet still appeal to seasoned painters. With tips on proper proportion and perspective, these projects will brighten any home or garden. Grab a brush, find a stone, and get ready to rock! Experience the magic of this fun and exciting art activity"-- Provided by publisher Anyone can be a rock artist! Just paint along with the easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs. You don't need a green thumb to grow these bloomin' beauties - just some ordinary rocks and acrylic paint. Step-by-step instructions (with lots of pictures) make it fun and easy to paint your own rock tulips, daisies, petunias, daffodils and other flowers. They'll brighten any corner of your home, they make great gifts - and they're guaranteed not to wilt! Rock artists embraced Lin Wellford's The Art of Paiting Animals on Rocks with enthusiasm. Now, Wellford is back with 11 fun and inexpensive projects suitable for all ages. This book includes easy-to-follow directions, trace-on patterns, lists of materials, step-by-step photos, and photos of the finished pieces. Color illustrations throughout. With acrylic paint and imagination, anyone can turn ordinary rocks into charming cottages, country churches, Victorian mansions, entire rock villages. Each of the eleven projects, suitable for all ages, comes with easy to follow step-by-step photographs and diagrams. Contains a collection of illustrated instructions and photographs for creating a number of painted houses, cottages, and towns on rocks from country churches, barns, and farmhouses to Victorian mansions Provides instructions for painting such flowers as primroses, tulips, daisies, hostas, petunias, daffodils, caladiums, pansies, mums, and roses.