Identify Your Garden with an Address Painted on Rocks

A way to make your garden and yard distinctive is to display rocks with your address painted on them. Painted rocks can also be used as unique memorial markers.

One-of-a-Kind Address Marker Painted on a Rock

An Address Painted on a Concrete Garden Wall Block

Front of Memorial Marker Painted on a Triangular Rock

Back of Memorial Marker Painted on a Triangular Rock

You can see how different types of rocks and pavestones found at home improvement stores can be hand painted to beautifully and uniquely identify your garden, home, yard, or gravesite.


© Cindy Thomas Painted Rocks

Add Magic to Your Garden with Gnome Home Painted Rocks

Instead of whimsy, you may wish to add a magical element to your garden with yard art that invokes fairies and gnomes.

Because of the varying shapes of rocks and extensive paint colors available, hand-painted gnome homes are truly unique and one-of-a-kind garden art decor that attract attention, comments and curiosity about who may be living in the garden.

Learn More About This Blue Painted Rock Gnome Home

Discover More About This Pink Painted Rock Gnome Home

Can You Picture Two Gnome Home Painted Rocks in Your Garden?

A Gnome Relaxing Outside His Wee Neighbors' Painted Rock Homes

A painted rock gnome home nestled among the flowers and foliage adds a magical quality to your garden.


© Cindy Thomas Painted Rocks

Add Whimsy to Your Garden with Painted Rock Critters

As quoted in The Denver Post, "Adding art to your garden is an extension of your identity," ... "You decorate the inside, why not the outside? Any personality, any hobby, can be represented - classical, funky, seasonal - you name it."

Rocks can be painted to achieve all of these garden art styles and more - whimsy, magic, personality, love of animals, seasonal, classical, funky, etc.

For instance, you can express your whimsical nature with a cute, painted rock critter that hides among the foliage and flowers.

Can you imagine a painted rock alligator's head peeking from underneath your garden foliage? Do you think it would attract attention to your garden and cause a closer look?

Take a peek at how an alligator's head painted on a rock added subtle whimsy to these gardens.

What is this critter doing in my garden?

Is this alligator alive?

Are those day lilies growing out of that alligator rock?

Can this alligator smell the roses (er, daisies)?

With a little acrylic paint and imagination, rocks can be transformed into garden art that's either fun & whimsical or beautiful & decorative. Painted rocks are always unique and one-of-a-kind because of shape, texture, and paint technique.

Why not forego cookie cutter, machine-made garden decor and try some painted rocks in your garden this year?


© Cindy Thomas Painted Rocks

An Alphabet Rock Painting Project for Kids

Summer vacation is just around the corner and to brighten up their summer days, read about a fun, simple, educational rock painting project for your kids posted by Jodi Kahn on May, 2, 2012 at dashrecipes.com.

Some additional ideas inspired by Jodi's post for this alphabet painted rocks project are:

• Children can paint the alphabet freehand or get a little help with stencils or stickers.


• Ask the children to search for and collect 26 small, smooth stones while they're at the playground, grandma's, in the backyard, etc. but don't tell them why they're collecting the stones. Once they have enough rocks for each letter of the alphabet, bring out the paint, explain the project, and let them get creative

If you or the kids need additional inspiration, I recommend Lettering in Crazy, Cool, Quirky Style. 

Not only is this book useful for painting alphabet rocks during the summer, but when school starts again, your child can give their reports a distinctive appearance using the tools and ideas in this lettering kit. This book also includes: 5 plastic stencil pages, 8 colored pencils with double-points (16 colors!), 4 marker pens, 1 mechanical pencil, 50 sheets of practice paper, 2 sheets of sticker paper, pencil sharpener, an eraser, and a reusable pencil pouch.

Summertime is for fun and learning can be fun when combined with art and nature.

Elements and Principles of Art Helpful with Rock Painting

This PowerPoint presentation gives a basic, illustrated explanation of various art principles some of which are applicable to rock painting.

The art elements simply covered in this handy reference guide are: line, color, value, shape, form, space, texture, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm & movement, pattern & repetition, unity, variety, and proportion.

Elements And Principles of Art

View more PowerPoint from kpikuet