Painting on stone – Strawberry

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Welcome to my little introduction to the marvellous hobby of painting on rocks.

Once you get started, you’ll only stop once the ink has run out and you have no more stones. You’ve been warned!

 

In this step-by-step guide, you will get instructions on how to transform ordinary stones into beautiful decorations using Posca markers. A good trick before strawberry season starts is to lay the strawberry stones on the soil. When the birds think the stones are real strawberries, they’ll be so disappointed that they won’t touch your strawberries when the season begins. But they’re are also just adorable to have in a small glass dish along with small bouquets of flowers.

Material: 

Posca markers in 5 colours. In this tutorial we’re using red, light green, green, white og black.

  

1. Draw the outline of a strawberry with a pencil

2. Draw the outline of the leaf with the green marker.

 

3. Colour the areas with the light green marker. If you want to experiment a bit with what the markers can do, have the green marker ready immediately after you have coloured the areas with the light green marker.

4. Immediately draw the green border again while the light green colour is still wet. If the light green has dried in the meantime, you can colour it a little more and then stroke the green edge again just after. This will result in the two wet colours “blending” together and creating a nice gradient.

5. Allow the green colours to dry before proceeding. Then you avoid mixing the red and green colours together.

 

6. Outline the strawberry with the read marker.

7. Colour the rest of the strawberry and let the red colour dry.

  

8. Draw small black streaks on the strawberry.

9. Allow the black colour to dry.

10. Optional: To make the berry a little more detailed, you can make small, white highlights on both the strawberry and the leaf.

11. Optional: You can outline your strawberry with black after all the colours dry.

Design: Mie Møller Bie / @miehobbyforfatter / @miemn
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