Gemstone Painting

Gem Painting

 Making table decorations or any form of decoration can often become rather costly very quickly, but this little idea gives you plenty of inspiration to play around on a budget!

I bought this pack of gemstones for $5 from spotlight and thought I'd play around with them and come up with some ideas. I used a 3/0 round Princeton brush so I could paint the fine details.

Materials:

Pebeo Vitrea Paints: (You can use whatever paints you desire, or even use the marker pens!)

- Sun Yellow

- Pimerno Red

- Turquoise

- Oriental Green

- White

- Ink Black

- Gemstones

- Fine tip Paintbrush

- Tissues

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 Rabbit 

 

I decided to paint my gemstones on the flat side, so I had an easier surface, but you can paint them however you'd like!

I started off with the black spots for eyes. 

I then mixed the pink and red to create the pink.

I then used the pink for the nose.

If painting on the flat side like I have here, you have to be aware of your layers, I had to do the eyes first and white paint last so I could keep all the details.

Little ears.

Poor bunny drowning in all of that paint.

Oh wait! See, this is what I mean by those layers! Now I painted around the outside with some blue paint.

Ta-da!

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Duck

 

Taking into consideration the layers, I started off with the duck beak and eye.

When those were dry, I painted over the top with the yellow paint.

I then painted around the duck with the green.

Just quackers.

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Flowers

 

These were my favourites. I started off with a small yellow dot for the center of the flower.

I mixed some of the colours to make purple.

I then painted small petals, only reaching halfway to the edges of the gemstone.

 

 I then repeated it a couple of times.

Now you have your base flowers.

Now you paint over those petals again as well as extending past the petals lengths.

This is what the underside looks like.

But when you turn it over, you see the two colours.

Ta-da!

I repeated it again for the pink flower, by going over it with some red.

You get that lovely gradient.

I used the white paint on the purple flower.

Subtle, but sweet.

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Words

 

I decided to paint the name "Lilly", but because I was doing the reverse of the gem, I had to write the letters backwards, but you can paint on the top of the stone if you want to avoid this.

It doesn't make sense upside down...

But when you turn it over! "Lilly!" (Apologies for the glare on the stones)

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Easter Placemats!

Rabbit Placemats

By Natalie Wyatt 

 Made with "Pebeo Setacolour Paints"

Hello beautiful blog watchers!

I have for you today a very easy and repeatable Easter idea to liven up some place-mats or make some especially for the occasion. :)

 What you will need:

• Stencil Print Out
• "Inhabit" by Ladelle - Place-mat and Napkin Set (Yellow)
• Pebeo Setacolour Paints
• White
• Rose Bengale
• Scissors
• Canson Coloured Card (White)
• Water
• Paintbrush (Princeton)
• Graphite Pencil
• Tissues
• Paint Roller

All of the above items can be sourced from Spotlight Stores.

Black is optional if you would like to add eyes.

Here is the stencil for you to print out.

My version was roughly 12.5 cm tall from the lowest point to the highest.

First of all, you will need to cut out the black Rabbit Stencil.

Try to be as precise as possible for the best shape.

Take a piece of white Canson coloured card.

Outline the stencil on the card.

Start cutting the stencil from the middle, we want to have a complete piece of paper around the edges.

You will need to make a hole with a sharp object in the middle to allow the scissors to break through.

I used an etching point to break a hole.

For those who are more experienced, you can use a Stanley knife and cutting board.

Cut out a chunk from the middle so it's easier to cut the edges.

You should now have a complete stencil!

I cut my Rabbit with space around the edges so I could use my roller without getting paint rolling off the paper.

Position the stencil on your place-mat.

Using the Princeton brush, start applying the paint to the roller.

Cover as much of the roller as possible.

Start rolling over your image.

You may have to roll both up and across to completely cover the place-mat.

Remove the stencil carefully.

You may want to touch up any areas you missed with the brush.

You can use all sorts of colour and mix them to create gradients. As you can see above, a tinge of blue creates a purple depth on the right-hand side.

Using a smaller Princeton brush, apply the white paint.

You can do this step while the paint is a little wet to create the pink tinge, or wait until it's completely dry to achieve the strong white colour.

Fill in the small space on the tail.

Paint the ear.

Now the whiskers.

And finally the nose!

Now you are ready to iron. 

 Make sure you leave a day for the paint to fully dry before ironing. 

I used an ironing cloth over the paint the first few times and the finished it off with just the iron.

Iron the place-mat on a medium setting and iron both the back and front.

You are now ready to use your place-mat!

Hand washing or Eco-setting washing is the best way to clean the mats.

I repeated the series very easily as well. You can always add grass or any other fanciful additions!

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Natalie Wyatt

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