A whole afternoon spent in the kitchen usually promises a delicious dinner that needs several hours of preparation. Maybe some cake could be baked as well. 🍰 After all, I have a magazine with recipes that I got for myself last year before Christmas, with some dreams of becoming a top chef at least for a day. 👩🍳 Or for an evening, if we talk about dinner. However, the magazine with recipes is not enough. We need the materials as well if we want to create something, right?
So let's see the ingredients I got for this culinary adventure:
- A cup of coffee, made of freshly ground coffee beans, as I fancied a stronger coffee this afternoon.
- A box of acrylic colours - still unpacked
- A handful of pebbles
- A bit of water, brushes and some cardboard, not to destroy the kitchen table
Ok, here we have the colours, in the first stage of unboxing!
Checking out the tubes - some nice vibrant colours we can find in the box. Will it be good for the cake, as decoration on the top?
The pebbles! They look smooth and ready for consumption... 😯
But what am I talking about? No, we can't eat pebbles, then we would go to the dentist to get our broken teeth fixed...
What do you say, that you have a better idea? To paint them? 🎨
I agree, let's try out these colours I bought a few months ago.
One of the green colours was the first volunteer:
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| First meeting of the colour with the pebble.. | Those stripes look good, but we don't want to leave it this way! | The green became quite dark after 4 layers of colour 😆 |
Even though the two pebbles I converted into green look almost black, believe me, they are dark green! However, when something is dark, it reminds us of the night... a dark sky... I know, we need some stars to bring some life here. 😃
The white is approaching the pebble... almost there and...
...here are some clumsy brush strokes that want to represent a star! 🌟
I saw too many snowy posts these days on Hive that my brush decided to add some more life here. That is how a star can feel during a heavy snowfall. ❄️
I let the Star on a Dark, Snowy Night (oh, it got a name 😆) dry, and chose a different, brighter colour. Magenta.
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| My thoughts: This will be a nice colour! 😃 | Again stripes? We need more layers! | Oh noooo... It turned out too dark again! 😆 |
To avoid making a mess again (as let's be honest- the star pebble is a bit of a mess, right?) I just drew a shiny treble clef on this one.
Anyway, I started making a little collection of treble clef 🎼 pebbles some time ago, but I didn't post about them. Now you will see some of them as well as the other dark green one that received a musical note and snow around it! ❄️ Also, one flower on the blue background that was made back in October.
The kindness rock with its name Star on a Dark, Snowy Night 😆 is posing on a white paper here. I know, the result of my whole afternoon kitchen time is not a dinner... and I am hungry now haha, but I hope there are some Hivers out there who are really great at painting rocks, so maybe, maybe they also get inspired to paint something these days?
Of course, everyone is invited who would like to make a kindness rock and give it to someone as a gift, or leave it somewhere on the street (that is what I will do with the treble clef 🎼 pebbles) and bring a smile to the faces of those who find it. Or you want to make your own kindness rocks to decorate your home, that is also perfect! It is not about making artwork (hats off to those who do art on pebbles) but about kindness, fun and practising creativity. 😉
