In my humble opinion, Quarto - Walter Foster publishes the best how-to books for arts and crafts out there. Having read at least ten now, I have never been disappointed, and The Little Book of Rock Painting is a fine example of the quality I have come to expect from them.

The book is visually beautiful and covers everything you need to know to complete several impressive projects. From how to choose and prepare the rocks, to what types of paints/pens to use, step-by-step instructions for each project (including templates of the designs and photographs of each step), and how to protect your finished effort, you will no doubt be eager to get started!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Walter Foster for allowing me to read an e-copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. All opinions stated are my own.

The Little Book of Rock Painting
More than 50 tips and techniques for learning to paint colorful designs and patterns on rocks and stones
by F. Sehnaz Bac, Marisa Redondo, Margaret Vance

Having done a bit of rock painting at summer camp I long ago I thought this book might be interesting to look through for ideas and perhaps purchase as a gift in the future. I can see it used by art teachers, camp craft counselors and those looking for a new craft to pursue.

The book begins with an introduction that includes tools to use, what rocks to use, tips and tricks then moves on to colorful patterns, animals, monochrome designs and provides templates for those who would like to try what is shown in the book.

The examples included many with strips and dots that filled in patterns or created patterns. I found one idea intriguing of a rock painted like Noah’s Ark with animals to put up next to the ark that are painted like animals. With the ideas in this book I can see those with ideas of their own using some of the techniques to create a plethora of wonderful stone paintings.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars

I have several creative friends in my life, and as an excuse to gather us together, I scheduled a rock painting night. Had I ever done so before? Nope. But it seemed a perfect activity to relax us while we socialized and decompressed at what is a busy time of year for all of us.

I was searching websites for advice, and only after I'd picked up some rocks and some oil-based paint pens did I stumble upon The Little Book of Rock Painting. I couldn't resist looking into this title to learn about basics of rock painting. This book focuses more on using acrylic paints, but as I already had paint pens on hand, I was most interested in the delightful tutorials that were offered.

I am in awe of what this book allowed me to create. I was intimidated at the skill level of some of the projects, but I boldly jumped in and, due to the clear instructions and pictures, I was able to follow along and end up with beautiful rock art.

At my blog I share a photo of my creations. I heartily recommend this book to offer basics on how to begin, but especially for the quality of the instructions, tutorials, and templates. I enjoy creative ventures but don't feel that I have innate drawing ability; however, this book taught me how to make it look like I am more skilled than I am! The spectrum of complexity is also welcome - I suspect my eight-year-old daughter, who is adept at art, could tackle the more detailed projects, whereas my five-year-old daughter would stick with some of the more basic ideas.

(I received a digital ARC from Quarto Publishing Group via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.)

I have been interested in rock painting for awhile, but was never sure on how to commence this new hobby, This book has some wonderful instruction and information, as well as some fun designs. A great book to start your rock painting journey, great for a beginner and someone with some experience alike.
Something to liven up the larger pebbles in the garden by adding a painted stone or two amongst the plain ones.
Great start

I enjoyed this book. I love the ideas that are in some might take some time to accomplish but overall they al are worth trying. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this.

The Little Book of Rock Painting
More than 50 tips and techniques for learning to paint colorful designs and patterns on rocks and stones
by F. Sehnaz Bac, Marisa Redondo, Margaret Vance is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
This gorgeous book starts out showing the reader what tools they will need, techniques to use, how to collect the right rocks and prep them, and it even has templates of art used in book in the back! It is filled with different styles of art work and how to put it on your rock. Lots and lots of photos! Great for beginners or intermediate artists!

This book is delightful and fun to look at and get ideas and techniques from. I likely could do quite a few projects except maybe for the last couple with animals. I think a certain degree of skill and foreknowledge is required with that one. I have painted wooden peg dolls of my family and I did pick up some pointers in this book on technique, but I am not so sure a beginning artist would be able to do it. The rest of the designs, probably. I would say if you haven’t done a paint project like this to stick with the front of the book.

This is a great book to gather inspiration for rock painting. I gained so much knowledge from cleaning the rocks to ideas for painting he rocks. It is a very resource for new to more advanced painters.

A little book with a lot of information on materials and methods for rock painting. There are step-by-ste instructions for creating painted "zen stones" as well as mandalas and animal depictions.

like this book a lot. it is very interesting and informative. thanks to netgalleyfor providing tgis arc

The Little Book of Rock Painting is a great guide to develop bright, intricate rock art.The authors walk you through choosing stones, initial care and then take you step by step through the artistic process, a guide to specific tools and photos at each step of the process, the book is a handy guide with everything you need to know.Also included with the book is practice pages for your initial sketches as well as transfer templates for guides to put on your rocks.
Detailed and in full color, The Little Book of Rock Painting is a great big guide to to this art.

A nice book for getting started in rock painting. It covers a little of everything including where to get rocks, what types of supplies work best, There are more than a few projects here. The best part is that for those who are more crafty than they are artsy, you won’t be too overwhelmed as there templates for the projects, so you could trace the basic outlines and then just paint them yourselves without worrying about whether or not you can draw them. They thought of everything for this book.

Fantastic little book! East to follow instructions - I will definitely be creating several of these projects!

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers for the advanced reader’s copy in exchange for my honest review.

The Little Book of Rock Painting is a new tutorial guide to designing and creating art on stone surfaces. Expected release date 30th April 2019 from Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint. It's 128 pages and available in paperback format.

This is a really well photographed book and the tutorials are clearly written and illustrated. I am by no means an accomplished artist and the instructions were well within my confidence level as a beginning 'doodler'. The resulting projects are attractive (see cover). The mandala and petroglyph paintings were especially appealing to me.

There's an introduction with materials and how-to's as well as a short section on sourcing and choosing rocks for projects. The author covers preparation and several different prepping methods for making a good and durable base for painting. There's a good chapter section on different paints, inks, and other media as well as tips for different shading and surface effects.

The intro is followed by large tutorial chapters roughly grouped by theme: patterns (mandalas and petroglyphs), animals (including a ton of beautiful stylized owls which I will be doing), and monochrome designs which remind me a lot of 'tribal' tattoos which are very popular.

The book does include templates for the projects as well as some inspiration photos and a short author bio.

There is no resource/link list or index. Neither of these detracts from the value of the material in my opinion, since a simple Google search can give you links and the table of contents is very detailed (and it's a short book).

Five stars. This would make a lovely weekend family project or a really cool 'tie-in' hobby for gardeners, rockhounds, collectors, etc.

Amazing reference book!
This book details the process of rock painting, with step by step instructions and wonderful projects to accomplish.
Highly recommend it to any arts and crafts enthusiast.

I have no experience of rock painting so I came to this book as a complete novice but I needn't have worried because it really does guide you through every stage of the process from having the correct tools and materials to selecting and preparing your rocks before looking at a wide variety of techniques and different designs to try. This book is an utter delight. The photography is bold, fun, engaging and beautiful. It is a truly fabulous book for all abilities and all ages.

I've seen rock painting become increasingly popular over the years, especially where my brother lives. There's a tradition of finding and hiding painted stones.
This book helps to take this quirky hide and seek to the professional level. With details on what's needed, to techniques that can be used. There's even tips on how to weatherproof your creation. This just might be the book I get my brother for Christmas x