Easy Owl Painted Rock Artwork
Grab some river rocks for Easy Owl Painted Rock Artwork and we’ll make a tree full of rock owls! I’ll show you how to paint these cute owls for fall or Halloween. A project straight from the 70’s!
Servings: 1 Owl Painted Artwork
Cost: $3
Equipment
- Hot glue gun and glue
Ingredients
- flat stones, like river rocks
- permanent markers
- acrylic craft paint
- paint brushes
- A paper plate
- jar of water to clean your brushes
- paper towel to dry the paint brushes
- hot glue gun and glue
- piece of scrap wood or piece larger piece of drift wood
- A few sticks to be broken into pieces
- picture hook to place on the back to hang the craft (optional)
Instructions
- Draw around each rock on a piece of paper. On the paper, sketch an idea for how you want your owls to look. Transfer your sketch onto the rock with a fine line permanent marker.
- Place a small amount of paint on a paper plate in each color you want to use on your owls. Acrylic craft paint is good for the painting of a rockUsing a small paint brush, fill in the picture you drew on the rocks. You are blocking in the color in the spaces. Let this paint dry.
- Paint one rock a solid yellow or orange to be a moon (optional).
- Go back and add details onto the blocks of color on the owls. Add lines, dotes, circles of color to add details to the wing like feathers, pupils in the eyes, and designs to make the owl colorful and funky.
- Use a black marker to outline the sections of the owls you drew and to add more design pattern.
- Arrange your sticks and owls on the wood so you know where you want to glue them down. It is to look like a tree trunk with branches and the owls are sitting on the branches.
- Use a hot glue gun and glue the branches and the owl rocks to the larger piece of wood.Add a picture hanging hook to the back of the project so it can hang on the wall.
Video
Notes
There are tips and variation suggestions as well as a link to the full length video on the post.