Painting rocks

Lovely painted rocks all of you, the good thing is it doesn't take much room up.

I just had a thought, you could paint a Christmas theme rock and give it to a friend or who ever, I think that would be nice

I love all the painted pebbles, so much talent. I loved them when I was Peardrop50 and still do.

I have no problems in taking half a dozen pebbles from the beach I have no car and no garden centre near by My town prides itself on a sandy beach so I m helping in a very very tiny way ?

Maybe we can all have a go at painting rocks and show them on here, doesn't matter if we are artists.it's the memory making as my mum would have said, also I would imagine it is quite absorbing.

They could be humerous,!

Off to buy some paints this week
(Oh and of course, we have not to steal the pebbles from the beach) Garden centers sell bags of pebbles.

What an unexpectedly great thread!
Very inspiring

BlueBelle your painted rocks are stunning. Our town does the 'hide-a-rock' thing and when you find one you take a photo and post it on the appropriate facebook page which is written on the back of the rock. Then hide the rock again for someone else to find. What we notice is that the especially-beautiful rocks like yours don't make it to the facebook page because people who find them just keep them. But.... that's not a bad thing either as you know they are loved.

Gosh all these fabulous pictures are making me look at rocks in the garden and wondering what my efforts might look like.

Bluebelle, yours are just lovely!

Volunteers for our national cancer society paint "hope stones" which are freely available for cancer sufferers and their supporters in the cancer society's houses while the former are undergoing treatment. They are accompanied by a little note that says," No one fights alone." Hold this stone, and know that there is hope and someone is thinking of you."

I found that very touching and have a hope stone with lovely painted daffodils.

Oh you are all so clever, I love this idea. What a nice gift to receive. I had been looking at dot mandala painting, this tutorial is quite interesting.

We always take acrylic paints and varnish when we go on holiday to Scotland, always useful for a wet afternoon in a remote cottage.

Posca pens are fab for craft like this.

They are all lovely. Mine are not so good so I won't post them! I use acrylics and then spray varnish.

I think i`m going to hide under one.
Such talented Grandsnetters.
Top notch ladies.

I am hoping to get to this using some acrylic paints. My Grandchildren have used indelible felt tip...which worked ok.

I love these! Not done by me, I hasten to add, I’m utterly un-artistic. They were bought in Greece some years ago.
Excellent paperweights!

Acrylic paints are the best.

Wow BlueBelle only just come across this thread. You have been hiding your light under a bushel, what a wonderful talent you have as well as saving baby seagulls and giving sound advice to gransnetters in distress.
Quesera and Oopsadaisy too, there's some real talent out there.

These are all brilliant! You are all very talented.
I wish I could say I’d painted these - I’m the least artistic person in the world - but we bought them some years ago in Greece. They make very good paperweights.

Thank you Bluebell but so are yours and your cat Oopsadaisy!

Quesera Those are lovely, what a lovely idea.
Oopsadaisy Oh, how cute is that !

I’ve only got one left, I gave the others away. There should be a pic here

They re brilliant quesera really clever I love the two bike ones

Like Oppsadaisy I used acrylic paint then varnished. Have only involved myself in this project once before after my dgd inspired me. We made our painted stones into the nativity, ...Baby J, M, J, Angel, three shepherds, three kings and stable animals plus the star. Put them in straw in a decorated shoe box and gave them to people we loved for Christmas.
15 stones in all ...all from the beautiful sands surrounding Lindisfarne. Xx

Bluebelle. You rock !

They are lovely.

I painted some to be left on the trail of a memorial ride for my husband, a keen mountain biker. If you do Facebook, there’s a good group on there, Love on the Rocks, which has mini tutorials too.