Rock Concert! Leftover Paint Creates Gorgeous Garden Stones! MUST SEE!
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Published 2020-02-02
Hello Friends!
I just finished my Aphrodite Series, and I have some paint left from each of the 6 pours, and I want to use it on something special to remember this series.
We recently moved to this house, and one of the things that I immediately fell in love with was a small water feature with a little waterfall, surrounded by rocks and plants. I have slowly been changing the plants (lots of bushy grasses) for some of my favorite succulents, adding a lot of color year round. I've been thinking about pouring on some rocks and placing them around the water, for a little pop of sparkle and interest.. so that's what we are going to do today.
The colors I'm using are all left from the various Aphrodite pours, except for the Teal.
My Colors are:
Golden's
- Permanent Deep Violet
- Iridescent Copper
- Prussian Blue
- Quinacridone Crimson
- Teal
Chroma Molten Metals
- Purgare Silver
DecoArt Americana
Decor Satin Enamels
- Warm White with some
AL Flow Acrylic Whitl
Artist's Loft
- Flow Acrylic Gold
- Flow Acrylic Black
Pouring Medium
Liquitex Gloss
Medium & Varnish
Paint + a bit of Water
Floetrol
Let's get to pouring these rocks! The rocks I used were pretty clean and dry, but I did wipe them down with a paper towel. Its good to start with a clean surface before you start pouring. I also have an 11x14 canvas ready, I'm going to put one of the smaller rocks on it and use the drips to create a painting too.
For the first big rock, I wanted to use all the colors I had.. I layered my cup carefully down the side, and then poured it over the rock. This was so much fun! The shape of the rock created some beautiful effects as the paint poured down, and seeing all those colors together sparkling in the sunlight was so beautiful!
For the second rock, I wanted more of a controlled color palette, so I chose my favorite, blues and purples. I layered them carefully down the side of the cup and poured. I love this one!! The blues and purples work so well together, complimenting and contrasting at the same time.
For the third rock I wanted to use my canvas. After I placed the rock on the canvas, I poured some copper on the rock first as a background color, and then layered a cup carefully with Copper, Teal, Prussian Blue, Gold and some Violet. With this one I wanted to pour less so that the copper background would still show thru. It came out so cool!! The copper dried so bright and metallic and shimmery.. it's awesome!
There was some paint on the canvas, but not enough, so I added more paint to my cup, not carefully (dirty cup, poured into the center), and flipped the cup upside down in the center of the canvas. After a minute, I flipped the cup. I torched the pour, then tilted to cover the canvas. I really like how it came out, there are some softer parts, but there is some really cool copper lacing with Prussian Blue cells popping thru, I really like it!
My table was getting a bit messy at that point so I scraped the Table Mixins into a cup and used that as a background color on the rock. Then I looked at the paint I had left and saw a lot of black and switched gears lol.. I then poured black on the rock and covered it. Then I layered a cup with Crimson, Copper, Gold and Black and poured it on the rock. The Black provided so much amazing contrast against the Crimson and Copper, it came out so deep and dramatic! I love this one!
I really had a lot of fun with these rocks, and I definitely want to do more. Perhaps on special occasions? My Mom is coming over tomorrow for her birthday, maybe she will pour a rock to place in the waterfall.
Thank you all for watching! I hope you enjoyed this video, and got an idea of something fun to do with leftover paint.
Have you painted rocks before? There are several groups online that apparently paint rocks and then place them for people to find.. that sounds like such a fun idea! How awesome to brighten up someone's day unexpectedly by finding a small treasure!
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Thank you all so much for watching and coming along on this journey with us. I really feel all your support and encouragement and love, and we love you all right back. β€
Much love and light to you all..
~Mina, HoA & ZenKitty
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All Comments (21)
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Mina dont worry about how long your videos are...I for one could sit here (at night) and watch and listen to you for hours (and I dont believe there were any ads either). You are beautiful lady and so happy. An inspiration for us all...love the zen garden, your Buddha is awesome and is that an elephant I saw??? How lucky are you.. stay safe keep well.... π·π·π€π€ππΉπΉπΉπ¦π
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I love rock painting we put an uplifting message and then leave them around different places. Whoever finds it can keep it or pass them along
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I love love your fountain. You would be the odd neighbor that paints and decorates her fountain with painted rocks. And I'd want to hang out and watch you paint, learn how, etc. And I would LOVE it!! Someone fun, interesting, loves life, and expresses herself through painting. β€
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Better than I expected, probably because of the texture of the rocks. A fun experiment and great conversation starter.
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Iβve always loved a great rock concert, thank U soooooo much β€οΈππππΎποΈ
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You make this old women giggle. They look really good in the sun great idea. Do the big rock they are sitting on. π€ͺ
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The canvas is pretty and peaceful!
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you are so fun to watch. love your laughter and sweetness.
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I love how you think outside the box
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can't have a Mina Rock Garden without #copperobsession πππ what an amazingly beautiful space/yard/garden!!! love yr rocks
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YES! I was yelling 'use all that paint in your cardboard!!' Haha.
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Very nice! No wonder you paint outside all the time... why would you ever want to leave paradise? π₯°
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What a great and unique way of using up your spare paints? I love the colours, I'm sure your garden is going to look very colourful.
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Mina, you are the Rock Star!
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Your rocking it girl.
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Absolutely beautiful. I just started pouring on rocks and now this is my new hobby. I love how you added them to your garden which that gives me ideas for mine. β€
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Youth dear are a rockstar! Just love you!
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I love that I am not the only nut that loves painting rocks. We have made each grandchild a rock (riverrock) for there 2md birthdays. And We have a pool lined with tons of bigger river rock that I have been painting one here and one there. It will probably take me years to get them all done - but they look amazing and since we are in the high desert area I love the added color they bring to our open dirt land.
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Wow! That is so peaceful. I know where I'd be... Book... Coffee... shut out the world π Just might have to add some rocks to my turtle. Press and Seal is a fluid artists friend. Thank you for sharing.
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The ring pour rock looks super cool!π
