Absolutely wonderful little guide to different tools and techniques. While aimed for beginners, even slightly more experienced rock painters may learn some cool new techniques.

A fun project book to do with the kids-Lots of ideas and step by step instructions for a lot of fun! Highly recommend!

This was a cute and informative book. A coffee table type book with lots of painted rock pictures that gave me so many great ideas for my own projects. Highly recommend. :)

I  received a free digital copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.
I loved this book. It gave great insight and ideas for rock painting! This will give great ideas for my niece and nephew!

Rock Painting For Beginners is a new tutorial guide by Adrianne Surian. Released 2nd July, it's 152 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats.

I really love DIY tutorial books. I especially love art tutorial books which are accessible for beginners or those with artistic longings inside us who haven't got enough technical skill to transfer what we're visualizing into reality. This is a very appealing, upbeat, positive book which is technically accessible for anyone of any age or artistic ability to use to create beautiful results. As such, this would make a superlative classroom art-resource and a good addition to the artist's home library. These techniques and applications could also be used by children if supervised.

This one is beautifully illustrated, colorful, and it made my fingers itch to get started right away. The layout is logical, starting with an introductory section which covers materials selection (how to pick rocks), paints and tools, and a short intro to color theory.

The following chapters include specific techniques like tape resist painting, mixed media, decoupage, stencils, stamping, pens/pencils/etc, and much more. One of the things I really liked about this book was the incitement to guerilla art in the form of painting happy rocks and releasing them into the wild. #painthappyrocks.

Worth noting, the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.

This is a fun book with lots of inspiration. Five stars.

Great instructional book of varying methods for beginners. Photos of the methods, list of what tools or items needed. A great tool for anyone interested in trying the art of painting rocks. I highly recommend this book.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my open and honest review.

This is a fun and easy book to get you started on rock painting. From choosing rocks and setting up your supplies through placing your rocks and finding rock painters on social networks, this book will take you through all the steps.

The photographs and descriptions were clear and concise. The projects were easy enough beginners could handle them, but with enough depth that those a little more advances would find inspiration. All of the materials suggested are easy to locate and fairly inexpensive.

I highly recommend public and even school libraries add this to their collections.

Simple, fun, and inspiring! Exactly what a book like this should be. I feel that I could try most of the projects in this book and plan to go later today to collect rocks with my daughters to do a bit of art with.