A helpful guide for creating mini masterpieces. -- Looking for a Good Book

A fantastic book -- The Classy Chics

Transform ordinary stones into colorful works of art with this easy-to-follow guide. Popular stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac, a seasoned archaeologist who markets her painted Sassi dell'Adriatico (Stones of the Adriatic) on Etsy, presents step-by-step instructions for creating 30 fantastic designs. Full-color photographs accompany directions for painting themes that range from trees, flowers, and animals to mandalas, geometric patterns, holiday motifs, and more.
Starting with the basics -- including finding and choosing stones as well as tools and materials -- the guide offers a variety of techniques, including painting stones with colors or inks, painting on natural stone, and sealing the finished work. Projects range from simple to advanced and include suggestions for indoor and outdoor display, as well as instructions on how to style wearable objects such as pendants.

This is a gorgeous book and I found so much inspiration reading through it. -- The Gingerbread House

The instructions are clear and engaging, while the photos are lovely and inspiring. Rock painting has become a really fun family activity for us all. -- Sharing Craft Ideas

This is brilliant, fun, and truly inspirational Highly recommend it. -- splashesintobooks

Transform ordinary stones into works of art with easy and inspirational step-by-step instructions.

Filled with creative exercises, art prompts, templates, and step-by-step projects, Rock Art for Beginners--adapted from the best-selling The Little Book of Rock Painting--encourages interactivity for immediate results, while teaching you the fundamentals in an engaging and fun way.

This beginner's guide shows you how to gather and prepare your rocks to create masterpieces that are truly one with nature. Written and illustrated by three talented rock-painting artists, the book features a range of contemporary designs to experiment with, from patterns and animals to mandalas and dots. The instructions are easy to follow and invite creativity and originality.

Grab your colors, head outside, and start painting beautiful works of art on stones!

Winner of a Bronze 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

This follow-up to the bestselling The Art of Stone Painting offers a kid-friendly version of an engaging activity that helps promote creativity. Popular stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac, a seasoned archaeologist who markets her painted Sassi dell'Adriatico (Stones of the Adriatic) on Etsy, presents step-by-step instructions for simple projects, accompanied by full-color photographs. Her introduction explains how to find and choose stones, which kinds of materials and tools are safe for kids to use, how to set up a workspace, simple techniques, and other helpful tips.
A splendid variety of patterns begins with illustrations of basic shapes and designs for human figures and faces, animals, numbers and letters, and natural motifs -- flowers, trees, and stars. Other activities include painting stones for games such as tic-tac-toe, chess, and dominoes. Kids will learn lettering techniques for writing names and words on pebbles and how to design holiday-themed decorations. They'll also discover how to assemble multiple stones for picture-making and story-telling.

This is a nice over-sized book. The pictures are beautiful, simple, and large so you can easily see the art work to copy it. Great book, great ideas, tons of great fun --Wall-to-Wall Books

You can craft a new mandala every week for one year with this full-color guide by the author of the bestselling The Art of Stone Painting. F. Sehnaz Bac, an artist and seasoned archaeologist, presents step-by-step instructions for fifty-two projects. Her easy-to-follow guide will show you how to transform ordinary stones into inspirational works of art.
The mandala -- derived from the Sanskrit word for circle -- represents the universe, and the symbol has long been instrumental to sacred rituals and meditative practices. This treasury of radiant designs presents patterns for stone paintings, each of which is accompanied by a one-word mantra -- relax, tranquil, spirit, dream, believe, and other uplifting terms. A few projects are meant to be painted on sea glass, leaves, or shells, but most are based on Bac's popular interpretations of classic stone-based styles. Colorful photographs accompany simple instructions for a year of crafting inspiration.

Filled with creative exercises, art prompts, templates, and step-by-step projects, The Little Book of Rock Painting encourages interactivity for immediate results, while teaching beginners the fundamentals of the medium in an engaging and fun way.

In The Little Book of Rock Painting, aspiring artists will discover how to gather and prepare their rocks to create masterpieces that are truly one with nature. Written and illustrated by three talented rock-painting artists, the book features a range of contemporary designs to experiment with, from patterns and animals to mandalas and dots. The instructions are easy to follow and invite creativity and originality.

Grab your colors, head outside, and start painting beautiful works of art on stones!

The Little Book of ... series focuses on delivering fun, approachable, and interesting art instruction in a fresh, portable format. With its contemporary design, open practice pages, creative exercises, and prompts that encourage interactivity, beginning artists learn the fundamentals of their craft, often with immediate results.

Also available from the series: The Little Book of Sketching, The Little Book of Lettering & Word Design, The Little Book of Manga Drawing, The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration, and The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters.

Unwind and connect with your creative side as you color 30 detailed illustrations of enchanting flowers and mandalas.

The beautiful, whimsical imagery of painted stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac is a daily inspiration to the more than half a million followers on her social media pages (@I Sassi Dell'Adriatico). With Color Beautiful Flowers, find even more inspiration from Sehnaz Bac's stunning designs by adding your own color to them. This gorgeous coloring book features:

• 30 imaginative and joyous illustrations to color
• A floral pattern on the back of each illustration to color, if you choose
• Quality paper, so your colors won't bleed through

The designs include:

• A variety of different flowers and leaves
• Mandalas

Simply color in each space with whatever color palette you desire and explore your creativity. Whether you use colored pencils, markers, crayons, or paints, just relax and enjoy the time for yourself.

Get blissfully lost in color and creativity with Color Beautiful Flowers.

Circles of life: Original artwork numbered for coloring provides creative relaxation.

Each book in the Brilliantly Vivid Color-by-Number series presents 30 pieces of numbered, ready-to-color original artwork by Italian artist F. Sehnaz Bac, renowned for the stunning palettes of her whimsical painted rock designs. Flowers and Mandalas offers a wide variety of floral and circular pieces, all numbered for vibrant coloring in markers, colored pencils, crayons, or paints, along with coloring instructions (with a color key) and four bonus full-color prints. Simply color in each numbered space with the corresponding color in the color key, or explore your unique creative path and fill the spaces with your own palette. Relax, unwind, and be creative as you color in these lovely pieces of art. Once you've enjoyed these designs, you'll want to try Sehnaz's two other Brilliantly Vivid Color-by-Number books: Birds and Butterflies, which feature her popular and iconic songbirds and owls, delicate butterflies and dragonflies, and other beautiful motifs; and Animal Friends, which include her endearing cats, bunnies, and elephants, along with many other marvelous creatures that frolic on land and under the sea.