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Lion King Inspired Painted Rocks

Jane and Sonja
Inspired by the movie Lion King, we designed these fun and colorful painted rocks.
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Ingredients
  

  • Rocks medium sized
  • Acrylic paint brushes assorted sizes and tips
  • Decoart Americana Multi-Surface Satin paint in Canary, Black tie, Lipstick , Coastal Waters, Orange Sherbet

Instructions
 

For Rock 1: lion

  • Paint the surface of the rock in orange sherbet.
  • Paint one half of the rock in coastal waters defining the space with a wavy line.
  • Using a fine tip paint brush, paint a lion’s face and ears in the center using canary.
  • Using a fine tip paint brush, paint a small triangular nose, mouth and the lion’s mane using black tie.
  • Continue using black tie to finish the lion’s mane and to add two dots for the eyes.

For Rock 2: tribal pattern

  • Paint the surface of the rock in orange sherbet.
  • Using a fine tip paint brush, dip the brush in coastal waters and paint a diagonal stripe on one end.
  • Paint a second stripe on the other end in coastal waters.
  • Dip the brush in canary and paint a thicker diagonal line between to two other lines and a thinner canary line on the far end of the rock. Using the opposite end of the paint brush, dip it in canary and add small dots to the other far end of the rock.
  • Using a fine tip paintbrush, apply small triangle shapes in a line between the canary and coastal waters lines.
  • Add some small dots in lipstick red.
  • Using a fine tip paint brush, paint some short dashes in an alternating pattern through the center of the painted rock.
  • Add some additional thin lines in black tie.
  • Add smaller dots in canary over top of the existing lipstick red dots as well as extra dots next to the other lipstick red dots on the one end.

For Rock 3: the tree

  • Paint the surface of the rock in canary.
  • Paint one third of the rock in coastal waters defining the space with a wavy line.
  • Paint the other one third of the rock in orange sherbet defining the space with an even wavy line.
  • Using a fine tip paint brush, paint a silhouette of a tree in black tie.
  • Add the base of the tree and additional branches.
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