Publisher Description

Alleviate stress, foster creativity, and commune with nature while creating beautiful art with Meditative Stone Art. Let artist Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango guide you on a meditative art journey, for beginner and expert crafters alike, as she shares her unique, sophisticated, and inspiring designs for decorating stones.
Along with the fascinating histories of rock art and mandalas, meditation practices, information about gathering the perfect stones, tools, and art techniques, Meditative Stone Art includes 50 illustrated step-by-step projects - 25 calming mandala designs and 25 nature-inspired designs.

Chock-full of beautiful photography of finished pieces and easy-to-follow illustrations and instructions to get your designs just right, Meditative Stone Art will have you feeling focused, creative, and relaxed in no time.

Author Biography

Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango is the author of Rock Point's Meditative Mandala Stones kit and is a self-taught illustrator-crafter from Bogota, Colombia, who now calls New Zealand home. She likes to draw, paint, and embroider. In 2001, she became interested in mandalas and started drawing them and learning more about their history, psychology, and symbolism. Since 2011, she has combined her love of mandalas with painting beautiful stones she has collected.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Tools and Supplies
How to Make Your Own Dotting Tools
Sourcing and Prepping the Stones
How to Transfer Your Design to the Stone
Color Inspiration
 
Mandala Stones
How to Draw a Mandala Using a Grid
How to Draw a Mandala Freehand
White Circles and Dots
White Mehndi-Inspired Mandala
White Mandala Flower
White Mandala on Blue
Jasperware-Inspired Mandala
Silver Mandala on Black
Red Mandala on White
Black Mandala on White
Color Wheel Mandala
Eight-Point Colored Mandala
Purple and Green Mandala
Mandala in Shades of Blue
Rainbow Mandala
Sunset-Inspired Mandala
Turquoise Mandala Flower
Magenta and Green Mandala Flower
Shades of Red with Gold Mandala
Shades of Purple with Gold Mandala
Peacock Blues with Gold Mandala
Excentric Mandala
 
Nature-Inspired Stones
How to Draw a Flower
Four-Petal Flower
Five-Petal Flower
Six-Petal Flower
Eight-Petal Flower
Ten-Petal Flower
White Plant with Red Berries
White Leaf
Garden in Black and White
How to Draw a Butterfly
White Butterfly
Jasperware-Inspired Moon Moth
Polka-Dot Butterfly
Moth with Leaf Patterns
Butterfly in Shades of Red
How to Draw a Beetle
White Beetle
Green Beetle
Golden Beetle
Yellow Beetle with Purple Dots
Beetle with Plants and Dots
How to Draw a Fish
White Fish
Fish with Aqua Dots
Red Fish with Lilac Dots
Green and Orange Fish
Violet Scorpion Fish
 
Special-Technique Project
Brush Marker Mandala
 
Templates
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Long Description

A comprehensive guide to the art of drawing and painting on stones, for beginner and expert crafters alike. Alleviate stress, foster creativity, and commune with nature while creating beautiful art with Meditative Stone Art . Let artist Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango guide you on a meditative art journey, for beginner and expert crafters alike, as she shares her unique, sophisticated, and inspiring designs for decorating stones. Along with the fascinating histories of rock art and mandalas, meditation practices, information about gathering the perfect stones, tools, and art techniques, Meditative Stone Art includes 50 illustrated step-by-step projects - 25 calming mandala designs and 25 nature-inspired designs. Chock-full of beautiful photography of finished pieces and easy-to-follow illustrations and instructions to get your designs just right, Meditative Stone Art will have you feeling focused, creative, and relaxed in no time.

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