Colorful Mandala Design for Oval Stones ~ Painting Dots and Swipes with Miranda Pitrone

Hello everyone, Miranda's patron saint, here with you again tonight. I have a beautiful

oval

stone for us and it was created using the Happy Dotting Company large

oval

mold and I'll put that in the description, a little link so you can find them. make your own and I just painted my stone with matte black paint. Many of you have asked me for ideas for stone

design

s that are not a perfect circle so you know when we are doing

mandala

s and you have something that is the perfect circle, so you know you start in the center and you work outwards and it looks great there Sometimes though you have

stones

that are natural

stones

that don't always fit.

I have this little guy here, even the

design

, something nice. fall colors with metallics, but obviously you can see that this has nothing to do with the stone, so I just made that work, but for this one what we're going to do tonight is a little bit different, we're going to make a

mandala

that it's a complete mondo place one end and on the other end we'll just add mandala elements to the design as we go so to start we'll choose one end and you can find something about two inches these little stones are two inches or you can use a compass like this little one now personally, I'm NOT a big fan of pencil lines.

I don't like eraser marks, sometimes the eraser smears the paint just makes a chalky mess. I have never used it so this is my edger and my ature is my friend. He is the best tool. I would say that at this moment it helps me draw guidelines. When we have something with a map background like this, I just have this point tool where I can actually break off the end of the pencil and it's just a sharp end and I actually have it on my compass, so you can set two different sizes. on the compass, so we only want a one inch radius because we're going to have a two inch circle. here to fit into our first design, I'm just going to go down this end and at the 1 inch radius I'm just going to edge the circle on the stone like that so you have the light marks there and now that's actually going to be on the In the end it's going to be more easy to get rid of, some of the lines show because I just take a damp cloth and wipe it off or a damp sponge brush or I don't know anything wet, sometimes I can even varnish it.

I've done it before. Accident not forgetting to erase the guidelines and the varnish just soaked in and took care of erasing it so I think I'll also draw some guidelines as we go out here to make it a little easier for people who enjoy. Using the guide lines to see the size of the design we're making, after our first circle, which was 2 inches in diameter, I'm at a 1 inch radius here, I'll just take it out another quarter of an inch. and draw our first guide and you want to keep the same center starting position, so another quarter inch and this is just a tool, it's a guide, don't consider them limits.

It's taking me a lot of practice using the guides. I've never really used guidelines until this year and a couple of templates, so I just see them as a guide, not boundaries to stay within. I think it starts to get a little stressful when you're trying to stay within the lines by digging a hole in my stone here because I'm getting really excited about doing this, but I'm only doing a quarter inch at a time, so I have my circle and then a , two, three, four five lines at a quarter of an inch each. and that will help you maintain symmetry as you create your mondo elements, so I chose a green palette for tonight and I'm thinking green and gold and we'll see how it goes and what kind. of the design that we come up with from there, so we're going to start with gold here, the glorious dazzling metallic gold, just a beautiful shiny gold and I have a big brush, it's just a big round acrylic brush and this one is a size . six and it will allow me to make a larger die and you have seen me make the large

dots

with the angled detail;

It's just that there is nothing magical about the brushstroke. I promise I only put a lot on the brush to make a nice thickness. point for our Center and we already have ours like taken here from the compass, but like this I have a nice big point, okay, next I only have snow white. I'm going to go to my little dot detailer, we're just going to make a nice little ring around our gold here, so first I'm going to make a plus sign to act as a guide so the spacing stays precise and then I'm just going to make two between each of those points place the plus sign so that you have a white ring around the gold.

Well, next I have this beautiful light lime color and in the spaces between the white

dots

we are just going to put a white dot, I mean a light green dot in the middle. each of those white tops in the space, okay, next I have sea glass and between the greens that we just put those lines of light we're going to put some sea glass, you can see it's making a nice little sequence there , very good. no, everyone is going to get a little gift, so here's a little bonus for those of you who are loyal watchers and watch it from beginning to end without fast forwarding or jumping from side to side, and because YouTube still tells me that a lot of people are only I'm watching my videos for 6 minutes, so now we're up to 9 minutes and I'm going to show you a couple of little tricks for some design elements because I appreciate the fact that you held on past the 6 minute mark and you were with me here.

Many of you have been asking me how to make the oval dots I've been creating so on these two new pieces I started making some movable dots, I'm already giving them away anyway so here the oval ones and then my most recent one , my little pair of double points, so those who use brushes, this is just a small flat brush and it's beveled, so it's not like an ankle, just a little bit, and all you have to do is take the flat brush . I'm here. I've already started on a few but everything you do with these is pretty much the same as your stippling tools and as the paint runs out you get smaller ovals so that's what I used however I found a couple of more tools that people sent me to try.

To see how I like them and I think they will be useful for people who get frustrated with brushes, so this is a little detail, there is one end of this that is like a cuticle type tool and there is one end that is silicone and that it actually has holes that make them bigger, now you just dip them in and put them in and you'll have to forgive me because I'm not that savvy with the tools, many of you are, but you already have an idea of ​​how you can have a nice big oval with this type, but there's an added bonus to this one is that the robots on the side also make these fun little ones so you can create the big oval and then put the little ones around it and you don't have to worry about using brushes, so I bought an extra pair of these and I'll throw them in my store.

I may even do a giveaway soon. Maybe I'll be throwing some in there too. I'll see one there, but those are two different ways. With these, it's another. way you can do it right I was selling these in the store a while ago, but once I found them on Wish I decided to show you all that you can get them much cheaper on Wish. I think they were like $2. for shipping and they were free and then it was a big six pack or something so you can also make the big puffy dots and I bought a funnel to fill them.

There are also these little funnels for like a dollar. So you can make the 3D points again. I've shown them in the past, but you can also make your 3D ovals. I know many of you don't have time to try a ton of different tools and I appreciate that fact. that you stuck with me so you can see that you can get the ovals even by making the writers so decorative they already have some of these gel writers, they have ones that you can fill in and then they also have black and white ones and there's a glass one I think in the writers, so I can post a link for those too, but if you're going to take the ones for a wish like these, I just take stainless steel pins, like for sewing, and when I'm done, I'll actually just send it to you. you can leave it here, I thought, I think I showed you before these, you can just push it down the top maybe it's too long, sorry, so you just push it down the top and then put the pin right on it. through the hole and then it's self-sealing like that anyway, so those are just a couple of little things.

I dipped my hand into that, but just for you guys, because you guys are awesome and you stuck it out, I decided to share that with everyone, but if I can find another one. one of these little ones I'll also post a link in the description for these two, so it's just a flat brush. I've had this one for a long time. I'm not even sure the names have been erased, there are nine minutes. so I'll have to find one the same size for you all and then I'll post it, but it's a pretty easy brush to use to go ahead and do the dot, it's the oval dots, it's just a gentle press and it's a very soft brush, so you just move it and push it down.

Here's another one while we're at it. I just realized I have this on my practice sheet, so one of the things too is that I tend to practice brush strokes frequently. so I can also keep my skills because they don't stay, it's not like riding a bike, we can get on and keep going and keep our muscle memory with it, so I have another brush here which is another flat brush, this is a flat brush of a quarter inch that's on bevel, but also these two fun little tears that you can pull down like this and make fun little shapes as well and it takes a little bit of practice.

I'm not going to lie, it's not magical, but if you're thinking about using the brushes then it's something worth investing in because it gives you another different shape for your

painting

, so you can see this one is also beveled. an angle so one thing I just want to urge all of you is to try new things try dipping everything in paint and try it if you don't feel like using brushes or feel like brushes aren't your thing or get frustrated with them I don't know , just pens and Q-tips and brush tips or people use drill bits, there are tons of different things that make different shapes, so I urge everyone to be brave, get out there. there and try something different now we get you back to your regularly scheduled video.

I'm just kidding okay, we started our sequence here and I started with the clear lime, we did sea glass and I actually made white and sea clear limes. glass around our Gold Center, okay, so next I'm going to shine this nice apple green and even when this angle detail many of you say it doesn't work for you, don't trim your brushes or anything, it's just practice. so I just overload the brush and then I move it around to get different sized dots, so a little bit bigger, a little bit bigger, just move it a little bit more, you're just

painting

a circle and then also when you're doing dots that are Progressive sizing around something you just let go of as you get smaller, you might be losing paints because of a lot of tools, but you can just let go of them and the dots will decrease in size too.

In fact, if you don't want to use brushes for your Center, you could have used your squeeze writer and refillable paint bottle to make your Center as well, depending on how 3D you wanted your dot, which had a lot more paint in there than I meant . Okay, since I just showed you how to make the ovals, let's put them in here like this, this color is teal, it contrasts really well with that. I think I'll put them in alternating spaces, although not too close together so we can add some elements. around our oval points, so skip one, go to the next, there are some good rules there.

Oh, now, while the wolves are still wet, I'm actually going to gray them a little bit from the center to add some dots around the outside. from them, wow, a little help. I didn't mean to, so this is the beauty of having a background. I'll also show you this real quick, so when you have a background color, it's very easy. I just got a spot here by accident, you can just wipe the paint off, which wasn't necessary, it wasn't that high, it wasn't a big spot and then I went over it with the black because that's my background. color just to even it out a little bit again, then I'll let it dry and then we'll put it around and you'll never know it was there quickly and painlessly.

That's the beauty of having funds for us like that. just adjust it by pulling on your background a little bit, it dries very quickly, just put on a thin coat and then you can repaint the area, so we were around our first row, okay, I'll go back and take a little more of that. light lime I will also make a light lime roll. Now what I'm going to do is have this kind of start to get to a point at the top here, so I'm going to do this. point aEnjoy making this little stone with me.

I'll put links for anything I used in the video, like the turntable or the stone molds and the paints and all that. in the description of this video, so I hope you all have an amazing day and enjoyed it and I hope to do more with you, happy painting.