It's a "thing". People all over the world are painting rocks and putting them in their yards and gardens. The two little girls up the block have a pretty big collection of theirs out under a big tree...it is pretty colourful
I noticed one of their little signs encouraged people to leave a rock.. Originally the signs read... "take a rock, leave a rock" ...but, I think people just took them and they changed their sign...now it reads, "please don't take our rocks... leave yours for others to enjoy".
Here is their garden of rocks...
I decided to paint them a couple of faces to put in their garden. Here are my first attempts... they are like my dolls. Seems the only thing I can actually draw or paint is a face. I used my watercolour pencils .... and sprayed them with several coats of a finish spray ... hopefully it will help them to remain intact. They do have big tree for some protection from the weather ..so maybe they'll be okay.
I tried a little whimsical cat ... doesn't look like much... and, for somer reason..one night out in a storm and it was almost trashed ........oh, well .......
So then I tried some wild sunflowers...... it was sort of okay... and, then, another girl.
My husband said, why don't you put some of them in our garden? Hmmm... now why didn't I think of that? So..I did a few more ...and, now....we have some in our yard too.
Here they are on a large rock in our yard....I have since moved them to a darker rock..but, haven't taken a new photo yet....
and....one more for our garden..... a brown eyed girl....
But, then......... Bernie decided he had to paint some rocks too. Although, after his choice of paintbrush size...... his first words were .... "maybe I need a bigger rock"""" yeh.....right .....good one Bernie...