Art of Stone Painting: 30 Designs to Spark Your Creativity (Dover Crafts: Painting) Paperback – Illustrated, 24 Feb. 2017

We didnt pick this book by accident.We hoped it would help with a community project in Wales and it really has. To cut a long story short basicially there has been an iniative called Torfaen Rocks where children and adults have began painting and leaving stones to be found, then photographed and uploaded to the Facebook page "Torfaen Rocks" which has been hugely successful in getting kids outdoors. As someone who used to do a lot of art, my daughter Eden, has been nagging me to come up with some semi decent designs to help encourage it to really take hold in North Torfaen - Blaenavon where we live.We've seen that some of the more unique rocks have been taken further afield and photographed in places like Hong Kong for the children who really get a buzz out of it. Hence looking for a book like this for inspiration. This book definitely fits the bill for simple yet effective designs. It's a low cost hobby and in all fairness to the guys at Torfaen Rocks it's been lovely to see children away from the I pads and out sharing designs and getting excited about finding others art work.I suspect after over 6 weeks during winter, that this trend Will keep up and design books like this will grow more popular. The owls and animal designs are really cute and the simplicity of the ideas, make them ideal for giving of gifts - who wouldn't appreciate the effort into finding just the right rock and then the hour of drying and designing? A lovely book. A lovely kind of activity.

I purchased this book to go with the KIND ROCKS I ordered.It is full of colourful art and ideas on painting stones and rocks. Some demonstration pages also to get you started.A treat to delve into if you are interested in making art from found things like rocks.A happy book!

Lovely book for inspiration. Me and my children got addicted to rock painting and this book is very nicely written - it has loads of section like - birds, bugs or novelty characters. It looks intricate but it’s quite easy to follow . Will definitely recommend this book. Also good value for money

What a fun and fabulous purchase - full of vibrant images and clear instructions. A little flimsy, but I recommend it.

Some of these designs are pretty complex, but they gave us lots of nice ideas. Kids (our are aged 5 and 8) can achieve the simpler designs (i.e. cacti, flower), but others are more tricky to do well. We used acrylic pens- these tend to spread a bit after you have finished drawing, which means fine lines are lost. Overall we would recommend the book, the pictures are really pretty and we had a lot of fun painting and drawing.

Really pleased - I've since bought for 3 different people. The ideas are easy to follow and make the finished pebble look fairly professionally painted!

Lovely book which I'm eager to try some of the projects inside

This book is full of projects to copy if you don't have a lot of confidence, and points of inspiration to set you off on your own flights of creativity if you do. Its gorgeous illustrations make you want to dive straight in and do it yourself. It's given me so many ideas already. I'd recommend it for anyone who wants to start in this hobby.