Paris Painted Rocks

People in my neighbourhood have been painting rocks, and putting them out for other people to find, photograph, and move to a new location.  The pictures are posted on the Facebook page Paris Painted Rocks.  I didn't think I was going to do any, but I found a stash of rocks beside the house, so I decided to paint a few and see how it went. 


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This is one of the skull painted rocks.


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Close-up of a few of the painted rocks.


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A plateful of painted rocks.  I'm now making an Egyptian mummy skeleton fairy, with a backdrop and a sarcophagus...if I can find the cheesecloth.  The Egyptian eye rocks can go with that.

The face rocks are modeled from air-dry clay on top of the rock. 


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Skull painted rock.  I put all the ones I'd painted in the narrow flower bed beside the house, and they'd all gone the next day.  I'm working on the second batch now.


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Another skull painted rock.


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The moon.


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A few skull rocks.


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Kind of Australian colours.

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More rocks.  They're so much fun to do.


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An Egyptian painted eye rock in front of the pyramid.


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King Tut Fairy Skeleton Egyptian Pyramid, and painted stone.


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A few more painted rocks. I like the earth and moon in space rock the best. Acrylic base coat, acrylic design. Golden Acrylic paint. I’m spray varnishing them now.


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Three gold faces.


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Face, painted rock.


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Union Jack painted stone, Julian’s grave, England. 2018.


Halloween skeleton rocks   c   jo forrest 2020

I painted some skeleton rocks for Halloween, and one pumpkin, and one Egyptian eye.


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I painted two rocks with watercolour paints over gesso to see if it would look good. I drew around the holly with a gold marker, and painted the background with black acrylic paint. I sprayed them with a gloss outdoor varnish to finish them.


‘moon moth’ painted rock. Acrylic paint, silver paint.


The back of the ‘moon moth’ painted rock. Moon and star image.