EASY Dot Art Mandala Stone Painting Using ONLY a Qtip & Pencil FULL TUTORIAL How To | Lydia May

Hi, in today's

painting

I'm just going to use a rock, take a brush about an inch or so and a little bit of black paint and then make sure the rock is well coated evenly and that it dries before I start. . your points now for those of you who have my tools, you can follow me. I will put the appropriate tool size at the bottom right of your screen. These are the tools we'll need for today's video and for those of you who don't have them yet. my tool kit, you can find them in my Etsy shop or if you just want to test the stitches before you jump in and buy anything, you can use a few pieces of cotton, it's not a big deal, so for one thing, take off all the cotton , now I like this. use cardboard cotton swabs instead of plastic ones, so remove all the cotton from one end so you're just left with the stick, and then on the other end, remove about half the cotton and just smear some white paint for multiple surfaces. flatten the end and then just smear the paint on it and then let it dry to get two different sizes, and for another bigger size, you can leave all the cotton on the swab there and just put some paint on there, same process, just flatten it that and spread the piece down and you'll want to make sure they're nice and dry before you try to score with them, but there are three sizes. right there if you want to get a new

pencil

with the nice flat eraser that's going to give you a larger point and then semi sharp and let you know the smaller points and that's pretty much all you're going to need for this.

tutorial

now here are the paints that I use and I will list them below in the description of this video.

To start if you have my tool set you will need the green tool or the

pencil

eraser and go ahead just use the white and make your first dot right in the center understand moving forward would be a size 2 nail stylist or just use the sharp end of a pencil and go ahead and make a crisscross around the first center point there and then you'll put two points in the middle. each of those four points, so there are a total of 12 points around the center dr. Alright, so the next tool that you're going to use if you have my tool set is going to be the white tool and if you don't go ahead and grab the stick part of the cotton swab, then we're going to use smart fields green paint. and you just want to go between two points right on the outside edge and you're going to make the next row of points, so go ahead and do the crisscross from top to bottom, left to right and that way you can see the spacing to go right on the middle, go ahead and make two more dots between each of them, but it seems to help with spacing or at least that's what I've found, first crisscross well and then just to clean them up, that's fine, just go ahead and use the damp towel, now I'm going to mix these two colors together, one is called Atlantis and the other is just white and these are Apple Barrel multi surface paints and how can I get a little bit lighter shade and then?

I'm going to use the medium size swab that we made and if you have my tool kit, it would be a blue tool about this size and then go ahead and do the same crisscross process putting a dot right between two dots all the way. around that ring and then just apply it with a damp cloth, you don't want to rub it or twist it, but just rub it in, it seems to work well. Next, I'm going to mix two colors again this time. I'm mixing cobalt heel and white just to give the cobalt a little bit lighter tone and I'm just going to use a regular size cotton swab that we can put a little bit of paint on and then do the same process again.

I'm going to take out one more ring and just clean the cotton swab again. Next, we will use the direct cobalt tone. Now this is a folk art enamel

painting

and it is lovely, super vibrant. I love this blue, it's beautiful and we are

using

it. the pencil eraser which is equivalent to being the green size tool. Alright, next up is the Atlantis paint and it's just the solid color right on the lid and it's also an Apple Barrel multi-surface paint. Now I'm going to use the tip of the pencil for this one and what you do is you dip the pencil and then make your first starting point in the center of the outside edge of the largest point there and then just dot and hug the curve of that largest point. and then you read your tool and if you have a nail stylist set, it's very small when it's about a size two is what I would call.

Yury dips your tool, you extend the first starting point and then you go ahead and hug the pluck all the way down until the points go as far as they can go, you don't have to change the pressure or anything, they just get smaller on their own, the next size is just the cardboard tip of the cotton swab or my white carving tool and that was with the smart peels just the straight green one just a little dot right between each of the little bridges now we're going to go back with the pencil tip and I'm just going to do a little swipe right next to those green dots that we just made and it's going to go right to the top of the little bridge and then I go to the opposite side and do a little swipe outwards too like that, that's how If you were to make a point you just hold the pencil down or hold down the tool and just slide it a little bit.

I made them quite short because the long ones can look good. This is a color changing paint and I think color changing paints are absolutely beautiful. This one is called green flash and I'm going to use the pencil eraser or the green tool and we're just going to put a jot right above each of the little green dots. No, I discovered that you practically had to put two points in each of them just to get it. to make it really nice and strong, pull them back with the clover fields and this would be the size to stylize or just the sharpened pencil and we're going to do the same thing we did before around the glue dots.

This time we're just going to do it around the green dots, so just dip the center outer edge dot all the way to the base and then read if your tool read the first starting dot and then the dot. on the other side by honking at that point. Can we have internet for each of the following? We're going to be

using

the tip of the smaller companies wob and we're just going to place a dot right between each of those larger green dots and then I'm going to take the cardboard stick part and just put the top dot on the first row of Now you should making sure they're nice and dry underneath the light turquoise dots before you try to put them on top because if not they can get pretty sloppy and now this is a metallic folk art paint called ice blue, it's very pretty.

I'm going to use the stick end of the cotton swab or the white size of the mitral sex and we're going to finish off the next row with dots that like the glue, we're going to put a sturdy dot on each of them and then we're going to work down. , I'm sorry if you listen to Pablo, my dog, he's snoring and whining in his sleep, he usually dreams about, you know, fighting with the big dogs and he thinks he's a big boy, anyway, go ahead and put two points right there. between each of the little green bridges around the outside edge and then this, you know, print, this is all optional, but I went ahead and put a tiny little dot of the color shift paint on top of the green, the fields dots intelligent all around. the

stone

and I thought I would add a little sparkle there so that's it the final

stone

there make sure it's nice and dry and then varnish them like you normally would to hang if you liked this

tutorial

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