ROCK PAINTING TUTORIAL #15 - Stained Glass Nativity Theme Rock

Hi and thank you for joining me to learn how to create a beautiful stained glass themed nativity rock painting. 

In the directions outlined below on this page, I will show you how to take a stained-glass themed picture of a nativity scene and transfer it onto a rock.  After it's been transferred, you can use acrylic paint pens, acrylic paints, or Sharpies to add color to it to create a one of a kind piece of art.

To make a rock the one pictured above, like this you will need the following... (click on underlined link below to learn more)...

A smooth rock

White Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

Stained Glass Themed Angel

Transfer Paper - Graphite 

Pen

Sharpies

Black Fine Point Sharpie

Arteza Watercolor Paint Pens (optional)

Sealant

See pictures of more of my Stained-Glass Themed Rocks here.

Stained Glass Nativity Themed Rock

DIRECTIONS: 

1.  Before you begin transferring the image, prepare your rock by painting it with a base coat of white acrylic paint two or three times, letting it dry in between coats.

2.  Next, you will need to find a picture to transfer onto a rock by using the following method here...  Use a search engine like PINTEREST or Google and search for terms like 'stained glass nativity scene' or 'stained glass nativity'.  Hit 'Enter'.  Your results should look something like this...

After you get the results, look directly under the search box and hover over 'Images' and left click on your choice using your mouse.  You should see a variety of images of 'stained-glass nativity scenes' that you can make your selection from.  Select 'Copy image' as shown below...

'Copy image' selected from the choices in 
the search engine results
after hovering over image and right clicking

3.  In another window, open up a new WORD PROCESSING document, or have one open before you begin. 

4.  I chose this one for this rock painting tutorial...

5.    Flip back into the blank Word Processing document that you have opened, and 'right click' again.  This time, select 'Paste' from the choices shown.  Your image will appear in the blank WP document and should look like this...

Image 'pasted' into the word processing document

6.  When in the WP document, resize it by 'left clicking' on the image and grabbing the corner of the image.  Move the black outline that appears around the image back and forth with your mouse.

The image will be true to size as it appears on the screen so use that as a guide to make it the correct size for the rock you will be painting.

You can see the small circles on the corners of the image in word processing in the picture below.  Grab one of those corner circles with your mouse to change the size of the image to fit your rock...

7.  Print out your image, so that you can proceed to trace it onto your rock's surface.  It does not have to be printed in color but use the picture's colors as a guide for applying your paint or marker to the rock when you are ready.

8.   Place a piece of your graphite transfer paper on top of your rock which has been painted with several coats of white paint (make sure the white paint is dry before doing this).   Follow the directions on the box to make sure the graphite paper is facing the right way to accept the transfer.

9.  Now you can place your printed image on top of the transfer paper and secure both pieces to your rock using Scotch tape.  It's a good idea not to skip this step because the tape will keep the papers from sliding around and will give you a great result. 

10.  With a pen or pencil go over the lines directly on your image to trace it onto your rock. 

11.  After each line is covered, remove the papers to reveal the image on your rock.  Watch the videos below for more details on this process...

Here is the link to the picture I selected for the rock in the videos below...

PART 1 - "Learn How to Transfer an Image onto a Rock Using Transfer Paper"

PART 2 - "Using White Paint Pen to Coat the Rock Surface before Coloring"

PART 3 - "Adding Color to your Rock Painting"

12.  Add color to your rock with paint pens, acrylic paints, or Sharpies!

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