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How do I paint rocks?

What materials do I use?

That type of stuff.

I might sell some rocks at a Swap Meet so I need to know how to paint rocks or something.
May 25, 2022
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I usually just us acrylic paint! Because rocks often aren't smooth, it can take a bit more care to get in all the little divits and such. It may take several cots and so to speed up the process you could use spraypaint as a base (it sticks better and easier)
Pick a color like a dull red, brown, grey, blue, silver and such, and just draw strange squares with extra edges, and the shade wherever e light doesn’t hit the rock and add highlights where it does
step 1 - you take a rock
step 2 - you paint the rock
My ma just recently found one of the rocks I painted at least fifteen years ago in the garden and it’s cheap acrylics smiley face is still going strong ^u^

Just acrylic paint directly on the stone. I would recommend not using the plasticy drying ones though since I suppose those could peel off.
Also not using too smooth stones should help the paint stay where you want it to.
i don’t paint rocks often but i think acrylic paint would work best for that kind of surface :)
I used acrylic paint or paint pens and a sealant of sorts when I did it a while sgo