painted stones
How to paint a mandala on a misshapen stone
I love painting stones and especially making mandala stones. The thing is, where I live it’s very hard to find stones with even remotely circular shapes, so I have to make do with what I find. However, you don’t need a perfectly circular shaped stone in order to paint a mandala. You just need a stone big and flat enough so that you can draw a decent sized circle on. The stone in the picture above was a great find, but it still wasn’t the perfect shape for a mandala. So here is what I did…
Simple Mandala Stone
A simple mandala drawn with a paint marker on a stone painted with acrylic paint.
Painted stones
A nice decorating idea – stones dot painted with acrylic paints. Instead of a brush I used a bamboo skewer and painted the larger dots with the flat end and the small ones with the pointy end.