I wouldn't judge you if you wondered whether the admin of this community abandoned this corner for painting on rocks or not. See the date of her last post in the community feed of Kindness Rocks... Did you check? Tell me then because I can't look out of shame.
Maybe there is no answer to the question of why so long time since the last one. Maybe there is, but if I am going to say it in everyday language, and even better just in one word, it would be life. You can picture all that this word brings with it so I don't have to write it down. Everything you want to imagine. You all have your own one and more or less we all know what it means.
Long story short, I didn't have time to sit down and dedicate myself to making many kindness rocks for 13 days (dang, I went to check the date!).
However, there were several activities in the meantime and one failed idea that I promised to mention. Here it comes, with two additional stories (to compensate for this long downtime)
The failure
Some time ago one of the smaller stones decided to wear a yellow outfit. It also had a special request: I would be the one to dress him. I mean my fingers would apply the paint.
After that wish was fulfilled I let it dry and then the real fun time could start. It would be my print on the stone, my fingers and my hair... yes, I wanted to have my hair "printed" on the rock.
Wouldn't that be interesting? Well, that was the concept.
But the reality... that's where the part from the title comes in - the failure. A complete failure.
First I applied white acrylic paint on my hair but it got too sticky and the print was a mess. Then I mixed with blue and tried to take off the excess of the colour. Then it just dried up too quickly and again there was no success. I say - a complete failure.
But it's fine, one day I will find a way to do it. ;)
{any idea from the professional artists?}
A gift for Chris
Chris is one of my lovely students from the UK.
We have lessons while she is here in Spain, for a few months. Today we had our last lesson for this semester as she has to go back... A little gift was made for her.
A few weeks ago I asked her what was her favourite colour. I got three colours as her answer and started applying the layers of yellow on one rock (actually two). Finally, after a gazillion layers, the coloured surface became smooth so the rest of her favourite colours could start appearing as little dots.
Issue?
As I didn't have a lot of time I started with the little dots this morning. No breakfast or else - just a cup of coffee and the rock! I had less than two hours to complete it. 😱
I needed a gun to make the colours and the varnish dry on time!! 😂
That was a work against the clock but this time it was a success.
Issue number two - the circle was affected by that force again... the gravity. 😕
Or I simply can't draw a perfect circle doing it in this freestyle, with no previously marked line...
But, I gave her this surprise and the imperfect circle was not a problem at all. She was touched!
Oops - "accidentally" my thumb covered my signature 😁
This is what she said and repeated in a message... that she will look after it forever! And practice all the piano pieces! 🎶😇
A gift for my sister
I had that second pebble painted in yellow. While cooking - as really, no other time for the rock activity, I drew the outlines of a simple flower with a pencil.
Later, I went over the pencil lines with a black acrylic marker, and then came my favourite style now - dots! And running back to the kitchen every few minutes - we don't want burnt lunch.
My husband came to help with taking a photo of mipiano in action and took over the cooking.
This is one side of the optimistic yellow rock that my sister will get. I wanted her to feel that way... and I asked her what she would like to see as a message on the other side. Joy, she said... among other things.
I wrote it but time ran out so just the varnish is needed here, to protect this little flower.
