Painting a Watercolor Zen Stack of Beach Stones for bookmarks, cards, gifts and memories to share!

[@amandaterrio4823]

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful mommas!

[@jmc6772]

I love it when you talk "absolute rubbish". Such a joy to watch and listen.

[@moppeliini6614]

By your hands.. everything becomes a live.🤔 It's magic.🙃😊 Happy Mother's day!!!

[@TammyBrackettDesigns]

I am having the BEST TIME ROCKIN' OUT with you Miss Diane! Thank you from the bottom of my southern United States heart!

[@niwasnut]

A wrong breakfast is good enough for this wonderful worky to day. Thanks again❤

[@susansullivan5203]

Listening to you and watching you paint is like music for the eyes ! Thank you for sharing Mother Day with us.

[@debpate9405]

Happy Mother's Day Diane!

[@shaustin22]

Happy Mother’s Day 😊

[@FannaTurano]

"Lift and soften" should be a mirror mantra! It was quite Zen watching this video, enjoyed all of your media additions. I have all kinds of art supplies, many different kinds of pencils and markers, and haven't a clue as to their application natures: pastel, Derwent Inktense, Caran D'Ache, graphite, charcoal, hard pencils, soft pencils, dual-colored pencils, alcohol markers, waterproof markers, acrylic markers, ad nauseaum. I wish someone would have YT tutorials and explain each particular need or function of myriad art supplies! I'd LOVE that. Papers too. I have pads from Bristol paper, mat board, Indigo Art Papers, Pastel mat, oh Diane....so many things, so little time. Have a nice day, and thank you for your many painting gifts! :) Fanna

[@teresamcfall9491]

❤Rocks done beautiful.

[@kdd6209]

Love this Diane, so enjoyed watching lots of your videos this week, just before I resume grandma duties, so relaxing and meditative.thank you

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Wonderful! Don’t forget to make time for you!

[@alichtenwalter]

I like your rocks. Here in Arizona we have large boulders that are redish brown. For Christmas cards I made a rock snowman. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY..

[@kimmom7785]

Good morning 🌞 Happy Mother’s Day from America. Love the 🪨 rocks . I love to paint rocks and stacking them. Even though it sounds weird when I say it 🤔. Thank you 😊

[@sweetengland99]

I really enjoyed all your projects❤

[@lynnej7219]

Beautiful pebbles and I relly enjoy your “musings”. Please do not change ❤

[@gailmariage5318]

I've been wanting to do a rock cairn painting for awhile. A good friend, who loved to camp by rivers and streams, died of Covid last March and I've been wanting to do a painting for his wife. Can't wait to try this.

[@michellemorris8943]

This is lovely, thank you! Loved the remember of you telling the rock story with your children. Happy, Mother’s Day!

[@CBE21]

I love this!!!!!!!!!!!

[@anni50ful]

I forgot my watercolour pad today ,so one of my friends in my art group gave me an outline she had drawn of St Michael 's Mount here in Cornwall, I don't really like seascapes but I gave it a go and as you know St Michael 's Mount has a causeway so I'm pleased I watched this as I was stumped when it came to the rock on the causeway,so thank you once again☺🇬🇧

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Oh Anni, you have such good friends, and aren‘t you the lucky one! Glad the rocks came out well!!!

[@mpetersen2586]

Happy Belated Mother’s Day Diane and all you wonderful Mother’s! These rocks are so absolutely real looking….they could jump off the page! You do make it look so easy but you give such encouragement along the way!❤

[@rinavogels4262]

Very nice serie; the rocks! I'm going to give it a try to☺️❤️

[@donnaseabolt4848]

Really enjoyed this! Very “Zen”!

[@mandygee9972]

This is great, thank you! 😊

[@wendip4]

I seriously enjoyed painting this project, along with you! I learned something about mixing colours, and about how to create depth using a pencil! Thank you Diane.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

It‘s great to have some playtime, isn‘t it! Happy painting!

[@amandahodgin9316]

Your rocks are just lovely. Here in New Brunswick, the rocks on our beaches are many different colours. On any one beach you could find red, grey, green, black or purple rocks. I just love walking on the shore and looking at them.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

That sounds fascinating! It would make a wonderful painting!

[@s.terris9537]

I love this style of learning - and I love your design. I can't tell the difference between sepia and black, though. I love your spatter style with the hole cut out! I love your style, esp. "bop bop bop bop bop" So much permission to experiment, thank you!

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Thanks so much for your comments! It’s a very dark sepia, it’s true, they aren’t all that dark! The fun is in the improvisation I think, no matter what!

[@carolyndaughton3373]

Very zen Diane! I just love going to beaches and seeing these rocks artfully created. I love the idea of the mixing up your art material. The lines and splatters make the rocks look realistic. So fun hearing the story about Tamsin and the bolder. Looks like she's always had big brilliant ideas and an eye and an appreciation for beauty just like her mum. Your talk about breakfast is making me hungry so I'm going to go make some breakfast :) I hope your mother's day was beautiful.

[@donnacarraway9182]

Love this once again!! I know that you watch some other KZbin videos and this reminds me of Lilly moon on KZbin another favorite! I think that you might enjoy a glance at her work. She’s a sweet young lady, with Parkinson’s I believe, and lives on a Greek island. I think that watercolor helps her cope and in turn she shares her beautiful art with us which helps us too, something like you do!! Love this idea!! Happy Day!(It may not be Mother’s Day in France, but I wish you a happy day anyway!!🙃🙃)💕

[@amandahodgin9316]

She has MS and she lives in Cyprus. I love her videos, too. She is so sweet and calming.

[@Galbereth]

Am just doing this right now! Only a month late!! It's really fun so far. Thanks Diane for this lovely tutorial. Love, Mel xx 🍰🌻

[@אורנהועופרחזן]

Love this. Its beautifull. Thank you ❤🎉

[@lindakuck5981]

Thanks for the art advice. I love listening to you. 😊

[@rosanneshaver8296]

Really love this painting. I look forward to painting one very soon. I appreciate your advice on mixing colors, which you do so well. Thank you, Diane. You're the best,

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Thank you so much Rosanne, too kind x

[@teensymarie]

I love it, Diane

[@estelalozdon6096]

Lovely 😍. I love how the rocks shine. Exceptional use of highlights. Thanks, Diane, I enjoy immensely what I learn from your videos. Love your notebook too 👍🏼

[@patriciahorelick6450]

Happy Mother’s Day to you too albeit a bit late at 2 a m but I have to say I’m laughing out loud and trying not to wake the household. I love the way you chat with us as you paint! Also, You just described how I paint watercolor, too! You called it line and wash…that is a perfect description of what I do. When I try to do a pure watercolor painting I’m never happy as it doesn’t look finished so I go for the pens and pencils.

[@posiesutton2009]

Can’t wait to try this one! Brilliant! I’ll be up to it soon. I know the USA Mother’s Day is different from yours, but I want to wish you a happy one whenever it is! XOXO❤️❤️❤️

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Thanks Posie, glad to hear you’re on the mend! Yes, this is an easy one, no pressure and the outcome is guaranteed to be interesting! Happy Belated Mothers’ Day to you as well! Xxx

[@saritaschwedes8393]

i just saw za picture of some balanced rocks and they had a small rock on the bottom large one.. nice. 🌸

[@anniefaint6373]

This is lovely,,,xxxx ❤

[@ralphherrick596]

Very nice...

[@blesselbatidor6264]

Also, I actually have a stacked stone in my room that I might put into watercolor like one you’re doing here. And I might frame it if it comes good enough 😂. Thanks for the brilliant idea.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Sounds great!

[@elmariejansevanrensburg2952]

I absolutely love your work. ❤

[@wendyj_thecoddiwomplelady]

This was lovely (as always). I must admit I did chuckle at The Wrong Breakfast...it brought Wallis & Gromit The Wrong Trousers to mind...maybe there's a new film in there somewhere! :-) 🙂

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

LOL LOL!

[@kathgarvey]

Great video, really enjoyed this one. Will definitely paint some rock’s tomorrow. Thank you.

[@blesselbatidor6264]

Hi Diane, I just started watching your videos these past few days when I asked myself what kind of subjects or style I’d like to paint in watercolors. I’ve watched those watercolorists you’ve mentioned and I feel frustrated when I try to follow their tutorials. Maybe since I’m just starting this art? That it doesn’t come out like theirs? Or maybe I don’t like their style although I love what they paint? So many questions to answer 😅. Well until I found your channel . . . Keep doing what you’re doing. Love your style and your humor. I’m glad you don’t push for the best paper, the best paint or the best brush. 😊. ❤❤❤

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Hi there and welcome to the channel! I’m sure you’ll find loads of videos on my channel that suit your style, I do a variety of types of painting and we have about 750 videos I believe I’ve made over the last almost 3 years! So glad you enjoy what we do, and I am glad you find ours easy to follow, that’s my goal! Have fun and enjoy the journey!

[@elaineg60]

Happy Mothers Day Diane! I noticed your swatch template at the start of this as you were flipping through your notepad. I think I have mentioned the little 4.1 in by 6 "Baohong Sample Books", 18+ pages glued at one edge like a booklet, divided into the 3 types of artist grade paper that I'm using as a swatch book. I actually reinforced 2 with duct tape, put them together & I'm still making a "cover" for it...had a few interruptions lately. I DID finish the swatch book, re-arranging and searching my 2 larger tins and my new smaller one (that I put my 15 most used colors in for easier portability) on this last trip to the hospital. I may not be getting much painting done, but at least I'm more organized. 😂. I had purchased Kimberly Cricks swatch stamp..since I'm too clumsy to attempt doing that many on my own with a ruler. The problem is even the bigger one I got is a LOT smaller than it looks online in videos and pictures. I could fit 2 on each page of my swatch book with tons of paper leftover...since the "dispersion" space was so tiny in the watching the large empty space underneath each swatch, I did a wet on wet "blotch" and still had room to do a wet on dry line underneath. There's several key things I need to know about a paint, depending obviously on WHAT I'm Painting and in which style: STAINING/Permanence, opacity/translucence, dispersion/control and just for myself, I mark paints I've learned I can use on xuan paper. Unfortunately, I've discovered many..if not most, manufacturer's don't always put the correct into on their tubes or color charts...IF they give it at all (ROSAs has NO staining info and their views on whether a paint is opaque or translucent....a BIT subjective, to put it politely. Don't get me wrong, I still love the paints...but would rather they not say a paint is opaque on the tube..then find it to be beautifully translucent when I swatch for vice versa. And I'm still trying to figure out why they would say some are granulating...i couldn't get granulation with a bunch of water on rough paper..they were smooth as silk.🤷🏼‍♀️ (most of them anyways)) Are you going to make that into a stamp? I'm seriously thinking of making my own stamp...just for me, Liz & my daughter. Right now, since I did my entire paint collection, this swatch book will do. But I had to write SO tiny & multi-pigment paints, I had to list next to the swatch. I'll need a magnifying glass to read my own writing soon!😂

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Hi Elaine and thanks for your message and. Mothers‘ Day wish! Same to you xxx I was very interested in what you wrote about the swatching process. Until recently I had no idea that systematic swatching was such a big “thing“ in the art community. I don’t think it is the same over here in the Olde Worlde! But when I started to be given these sets of paints by various manufacturers it became clear that doing a full page of swatches to test the colors was a good idea. Then I thought I should develop my own version of a swatch card for individual colors, so that they could be collated and collected together. (I do think that this could easily become such an overwhelmingly impossible task that no painting would ever get done, so I am very wary of that trap!!!) - Anyway, together with Tamsin I’ve designed a format that will suit me, and maybe other people. I hadn’t thought of doing it as a stamp, but I can look into that. Stamps are a world I have zero knowledge of! But I was thinking of offering the swatch design as a digital download so that it could be printed on to sheets of paper, and then either cut up and filed, or put into a binder as a full sheet and filed in plastic pockets. Lots of different ways to do it. My swatch card would be approx 4 x 5.5 inches (four to a page of 8 x 11 paper) and it would be offered either with words for each section, or blank. There would be room for all the information on the front, and more space on the back for details of full pigment names and any notes you want to make. It would be easy to run through a printer on to a watercolor paper which ideally would be a bit lighter than usual, say 90lb instead of 140lb, because otherwise a folder full of swatches is going to be very bulky. Anyway, just my flow of consciousness on where I am at with this, suggestions and questions welcome! I only have one tube of Rosa paint and it didn’t float my boat - opaque Quinacridone gold??? Hope you are feeling okay today, take care!! Diane xx

[@elaineg60]

@@DianeAntoneStudio I think I’ve said, I love MOST of the single pigment Rosas Gallery, mainly because A. They’re highly pigmented and B contain only 2 ingredients, Pigment and Gum Arabic. (So they’re the most easily adapted Western paint to xuan paper…besides Kuretake. Although more Chinese artists outside China are using Kuretake; artists inside the country would never use them). The issues with Rosas? They disperse similar to QOR, Kimberly Crick stated she thinks it’s because the pigment is grinder so fine..but, this can lead to 2 other issues: a few have a chalky look (in my opinion, especially PR108), and pigments they list as granulating, have little to none. I actually bought some foam sheets that I saw some art article had said you can make into stamps. I attempted one…which was why I ended up buying KC’s stamp. But it’s just over 2x2 inches, WAY too small, as I said. I think the main reason for a stamp would be for those of us who put them in, say sketch books, or my little swatch book. The reason I REALLY like my “sample book”-the last 6 sheets of rough paper, I made for only my granulating paints, so I can see the granulating and/or separating effects of the paint. Mine is mainly the primatek paints and I’m trying to figure out a way to easily add about 6-8 small sheets of double xuan-which is most like western paper, to add swatches using brush water with mingjiao (fish bone glue)…to show how certain western paints adapt to the xuan paper. SOME of the primatek, the ones that would be closest to original, mineral-based traditional paints, can be adapted..others just either tear the more delicate papers or sit on top with no absorption at all-likely because of other added binders DS uses. Also, Prof Chen tested some and found the same thing the guy on IG found a few years ago..added synthetic pigments…and plastic mica in some of the shimmery paints. 😔 But this is my primary reason for having these swatches, to keep track of both the positive and negative properties of the paints-for BOTH Western & Eastern styles of painting. I’m afraid at my age, I can’t file all this away in my ADD brain anymore. 😂. I’ve also started a “mixing” swatch book in a cheap “Grumbacher” watercolor sketchbook. It’s really textured paper, and while it SAYS it’s 140/300..it’s thin pages feel closer to 90lbs..which is fine. I’m only using it for mix swatches and the back pages I sometimes “warm-up” or practice strokes. I dug out an OLD notebook last night filled with cotton/silk paper I did Yantras on with handmade oil pastels in India 20yrs ago. Liz has been asking me to find it and test both my western and eastern paints and inks on it for months. I just didn’t want to start pulling stuff out when I’m trying to pack up to move. It’s a handmade Indian paper, similar to Lotka, but because it’s a bit thicker, almost like fabric, Liz and Fiona think it might take watercolor easier than the Lotka. Going to try it out tonight since I slept most of the day. I’ve got a bunch of paperwork I need to fill out tonight before I play. My daughter’s trying to get me into a senior apt complex down the road from her in Buffalo. It’s smack in the middle of an arts district. 😁 The application? 26 pages long…WTF?! 😂

[@lindakuck5981]

Love this Diane! Thank you. I will definitely be trying this!

[@ralphherrick596]

The white paper looks better than the other...

[@conniejenskindsfather979]

My grandson has been stacking rocks in nearby rivers and streams since he was quite young. Quite an engineer. He is now almost 20 and still so connected with nature and water. Seeing this painting unfold is especially meaningful to me.

[@jeanettespary2615]

Inspired! 30:22 ❤ 30:36

[@kathyedmondson9183]

Very nice!💞 Have you any videos using just watercolor pencils?

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

There’s one from a while back doing some forget-me-nots with pencil … kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoDchox4nbqEbrs

[@kathyedmondson9183]

​@@DianeAntoneStudio Thank you, that was very helpful!❤

[@cindysimons2772]

They are Fantasty Rocks

[@cindysimons2772]

Happy Mother's Day to all

[@gailliguori3037]

I love this so much! Going to try it. I did the sea glass one and I LOVE it! Love your free and easy style. I need to be a little more brave! Why do my blobs look like blobs and yours turn into beauty???????😂

[@nancysteffen7902]

Hi Diane!! I loved this rock tutorial. Thank you very much❤ Do you always use 100% cotton paper or is it okay to sometimes use 300gsm watercolor paper that isn’t 100 % cotton. Why is cotton so much preferred? Thank you!!! I love you channel and love your relaxed talking style ❤❤❤

[@amandahodgin9316]

Cotton paper stays damp longer and dries more evenly than cellulose paper. It also tends to hold up better if you want to do lifting of colour and it will typically accept the paint better. Good quality cellulose paper can be great so long as you understand its limitations so that you don’t frustrate yourself trying to do a technique that is best done on cotton paper.

[@DianeAntoneStudio]

Hi Nancy, so glad you enjoyed the rocks! No, I don’t always use 100% cotton paper, and often a painting doesn’t need it at all. I think there is a lot of disinformation around on KZbin (and probably elsewhere) about the necessity of using the most expensive paper. One of the best ideas I’ve found is to use mixed media paper - it’s usually cellulose and sized to resist abuse, and I find it suits my style well. My personal advice is to use as many different papers as you can and not to get hung up about what you paint on while you are learning. I know a lot of people don’t agree with me, and that’s fine. I paint on anything and everything - including copy paper! Just have fun!

[@amyb82941]

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[@kathleenblando1555]

I’ve been wanting to paint a stack of rocks but all that I saw used liquid watercolor. I haven’t painted in rocks due to some health issues and I didn’t want to make the investment. I was t sure I could get the desired effect with watercolor paints. I think I might give it a go soon.

[@bettybrugman843]

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