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#dotpainting

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Heather :chickadee:

A quick post and run… a couple of dot painted stones I made in the last week. The first one was just a free-handed geometric pattern I drew on the initial grid, and the second features pastel colours chosen by a friend of mine. The pattern for that one wasn't planned or anything, it just came out as I went.

(I playfully call the design in the second one "Pastel Butt-Stuff". X) I'm such a child, haha. :da_sweat: )

[Feeling low on spoons, so I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out with alt-text! Thank you! :da_cuddle: ]

#Alt4Me#DotPainting#DotMandala
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Heather :chickadee:

This was a fun one! 🤩 Love the way the pattern turned out, and the colours! I'll have to try this design again someday…

(I made a silly error when glossing it that resulted in some surface imperfections, but they're not very noticeable, thankfully! And I learned what to avoid for next time. :da_sweat: )

A photo of a dot painting on a round plaster stone. the design consists of a six-pointed star shape filled with radiating teardrop shapes in metallic colours of purple, pink, and turquoise. The star in the centre is circled with scallop shapes filled with the same teardrop starburst patterns. It's punctuated with metallic silver lines and dots.
Showing off the side scallop designs and silver dots.
More of a top-down view, showing off the six-pointed star shape in the centre.
Holding the stone in my hand, 3/4 view. It's nice and shiny.
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Heather :chickadee:

AmandalaRocks posted a video where she painted this stone a couple weeks ago, and I had just received my own "sphere" mold, so I thought I'd give it a go! (And even though I was using the same mold, the same tools, the same paints, etc., my measurements/tool sizes were all off compared to hers… oof. x__x Not sure what went wrong there! I guess I wasn't exact enough with my dot placement… I need more practice!)

I hadn't done a stone with this many dots in such close, regular quarters as this before, and I think it shows. ^^; Hers is much more regular and clean. Not to mention, this was the first time I tried out my own handmade paint cones for the tiny accent dots in such large quantities, and yeah, I wasn't the best at it… they're all over the place. :da_sweat:

Still, I made a cool thing! :da_w00t: If you want to see how you can make your own, you can check out AmandalaRocks' how-to video here: youtube.com/watch?v=gHghM1S55-

A large, spherical dot painted stone sits on a wooden tabletop. Its surface is covered in rows of hundreds of small metallic white dots radiating down from a large centre gold dot at the top. Each row the dots get slightly bigger, until past the widest point, where they get smaller again. Some of the white dots are painted metallic gold in a pattern that makes a cascading diamond design. It's busy, but the regular placement of the dots makes for a pleasing pattern when taken in at once.
A photo of the top of the sphere, showing the large, round, metallic gold centre dot, with the rows of small white dots around it, slowly getting larger. It's easier to see how the gold-coloured dots make a bit of a starburst shape around the centre.
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Heather :chickadee:

Wanted to paint but was low on creative energy, so I just filled in the grid lines with metallic paint. Inspired again by one of AmandalaRocks' designs on YouTube. Mine's not exactly the same, but the idea is! So many thanks to her for it. I like the result, so I'll probably do this again with different colours/patterns someday. :da_grin:

A small, oval-shaped plaster art stone, painted with a radial grid of black lines, each section filled in with different shades of metallic green paint. It gives a neat effect of the colour going from light to dark on each row, offset by one; like an expanding light show/music visualizer frozen in time.
A shot of the long edge, showing the dotted border under the lip.
The top down, to better see the symmetry and grid.
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Heather :chickadee:

A newly finished dot painted art stone and a tealight candle holder. :mandala:

The tea light holder design was inspired by one of AmandalaRocks' designs, but I don't think I executed it very well. I'm happy with how the outer gold elements turned out, though! Still trying to figure out how I'm going to incorporate paint pens into my practice.

A photo of a dot-painted art stone, with an eight-pointed flower design. The centre dot is gold, the inner petals are a pinkish red and white, and the outer petals are swooshes of pale green. Framing the petals are decadent looking teardrop shapes in gold and bronze. The whole flower design is outlined with bronze dots.
The same stone with the flower design, from the top down, to better see the symmetry.
A photo of a round dot-painted tealight candle holder. Circular elements with radial stripes of blue, turquoise, green, and yellow-green encircle the inner well that holds the tealight. The circular elements are surrounded with gold and black dots that look a little like some kind of lace. The hole thing is painted black beneath the design.
The same tealight candle holder, but photographed from the top, showing more of the symmetry.
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Heather :chickadee:

…NOW we're finished! :da_boogie:

Added a layer of silver highlights to the swooshes, to add some extra shininess. :D It's probably a bit too much, "gilding the lily," as they say, but it was fun anyway! All varnished up, too, so it's *done* done. :da_phew:

How you enjoyed watching it come together! I really enjoyed painting it, it was so relaxing. Lots of love, everyone! :blobhug2:

The finished mandala stone. It's a flat, oval "stone", cast from plaster, and painted with a black background. Painted on top is a geometric flower pattern lined with lots of small silver dots, with eight "petals", coloured with metallic white, blue, and turquoise "swooshes". There's a large, silver "dot" in the centre. The edges are also decorated with half-circle swooshes in metallic lavender and sky blue. The swooshes and other parts have been embellished with silver highlights. The stone itself has been varnished, making it all shiny in addition to the metallic shimmer.
Another shot of the stone, top down.
Another shot of the stone, from the side, showing more of the side swooshes.
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Heather :chickadee:

I think this is my favourite dot painting I've done to date. :ablobcatattention: The photos don't really do it justice… it feels so special and precious when I hold it in my hands. :da_love:

I have no idea what I'd call this design, though, if I had to give it a name. Any ideas? :thinking_rotate:

DecoArt Americana acrylic paint on a Ultracal 30 plaster cast "stone", then varnished with DecoArt Duraclear Gloss Varnish.

A photo of the mandala stone. There's an eight-pointed geometric flower shape outlined with gold dots. The petals are coloured with metallic pink, metallic purple, and white, and the centre is a large dot of metallic gold. Between the petals are white "swooshes", and around the edge are fan shaped leaves with gold dots at the centre. The design is painted on a black background, and it has a pleasing lustre and gloss to it.
A photo of the edge of the stone, showing more of the fan-shaped "leaves" in a bright metallic emerald green and peridot green, with gold dots at their centres. There's a white dotted outline around the bottom edge, finishing off the design.
The stone in a 3/4 view, showing off the glossiness and shine of the metallic paint.
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Heather :chickadee:

For anyone curious, here's how my first dot mandala painting experiments turned out.

They are Not Great, and have a lot of issues, but I learned some important things:

1. That I love the process. That's good to know!
2. The consistency of the paint matters *a lot*.
3. Having A Plan is also very good, rather than just freehanding it (at least until I get better at knowing what works and what doesn't).

I'll ramble on some more in the comments! :da_ahoy:

A photo of a dot mandala painting on a round piece of black cardboard. The dots vary in size in shades of purple, turquoise, and white, in a radial symmetry pattern.
Another dot mandala on black cardboard, this one has a spiral effect radiating out from a central point, with various dot sizes in shades of green, pink, white, and black.
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Heather :chickadee:

Heya! My name's Heather (aka. Rheall). I'm an artist, writer, and comicker (mostly on hiatus), and #MastoAdmin of :masto_comic: ComicsCamp.Club 🏕️

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