hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world today I'm gonna teach you how to take
this ordinary river rock and turn it into a beautiful Mandala I'm gonna show
you how to do it right now for this project you will need flat Mexican river
rocks or the like paintbrushes a mandala paint kit acrylic paint water and a
paint tray so the first thing that you are going to want to do is you're going
to want to find your rocks and you're going to want to wash and clean them and
then let them dry for a good four to five hours so they're nice and dry you
don't want any wet rocks the flatter you can get them the better it also helps if
you find yourself some Mandala imagery that you want to use and I've got this
wonderful website that I've got linked down below
Kristin Uhrug is her name and she does an amazing job at teaching the basics of
rainbow painting on your mandalas and she gives you a whole bunch of different
styles and techniques so I'm gonna just be painting a circle in the center here
with black these acrylic paints are what you want to use you definitely want to
use acrylic paints so I'm just going to start by putting a little bit of black
in the inside and then I'm just going to turn the rock keeping my brush where it
is I'm turning the rock then you're gonna want to let this dry for a good
period of time again you want this to be nice and dry so I've got one over here
that's already done and I'm going to be using my rainbow colors of paint what's
kind of important is that you figure out the design that you want to do ahead of
time so I'm gonna be making this design right here so as you can see there's a
yellow dot in the center and this is a pretty large dot so I'm going to be
using one of these dot making tools I'm gonna be actually using my pink one here
and I'm just gonna dip it into the paint just so that it gets right on the tip
right there it also helps if you have some paper towels or baby wipes on
hand just for in-between your colors so I'm going to just take my little dot and
you want to do it straight up and down that's the most important thing you just
want to go straight up and down like that so that you get as little schmutz
as possible now I'm going to be using a smaller tool and I'm going to be making
eight circles on the outside I'm gonna go one two three four so north south
east and west and then I'm gonna do the same thing I'm just going to come get a
little bit more paint on there let me know to come back and do some red and
the reds I'm gonna go in between my oranges so we're right in between should
I get that good paint there so I'm gonna clean this off and then just see I got a
little smudge right here I'm just gonna take my baby wipe and clean that little
smudge off nice thing about a baby wipe is it dries really quickly because it's
got alcohol in it okay and I'm gonna be using a bigger dot for this green out
here for my pattern so this time I'm going to be using I think I'll go with
the blue here
so I'm gonna use a stylist to make my blue dots here and I'm gonna start with
the largest go around and then I'm gonna do the next size down and make kind of
an arch around now this kit some of the kits that you can buy I'm gonna make a
little staircase down I'm going to go one two on either side here one two
because I'm going to come back for the last one I'm going to use a even smaller
stylist as you can see though they're really you can't really mess this up I
mean and if you do you just start all over again by wiping you're wiping your
rock down okay now I'm gonna use the tiny end on this one what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to put the green on the outside here what I want to teach you is
how you do these swoops and these swoops are kind of fun again Kristin Uhrig
taught me everything I know so you you place your your ball like
you're making a dot and then you just kind of swoosh it out place your ball
and swish at this fun I like this I think those are neat and the last step
here is to let this dry really really really good and let me show you what I
did on this one here so I came back and I used a lighter color of each color to
sort of highlight them and so I'm gonna actually jump over to this dried one
because again you want to make sure that things are dry dry dry and what I'm
gonna do is take a little bit of white and I'm gonna mix a little bit of white
into each of my colors here so let's start with that yellow put a little bit
of white right there I'm actually gonna use my
paintbrush for this one cuz it's such a big one but I'm just gonna paint a
little highlight in there and then if I want to the other thing that I can do is
I can actually use a totally different color if I want to with one of these
stylus guys so I've got this green out here and let's do a little bit blue
so you can have lots of fun I could even add some white to that if I wanted to so
you can see how you can start to have a lot of fun and just go crazy with the
decoration and then once you're all done if you care to you can give it a quote
of Mod Podge or you can give it a coat of clear acrylic spray and that'll make
it nice and shiny and there you have it your very own mandala rock painting now
I do want to give a shout-out and a link below to Kristin Uhrig because she has
the most amazing how to's on how to paint mandala rocks and all of the
different designs so I think you should definitely check her out because she's
got beautiful designs Kristin Uhrig I'm gonna put a link down below for more
great ideas check us out sophie-world.com