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Step-by-step photos on how to paint a Fishy on a rock. (Hover over the pictures for instructions)
You can purchase your Fishies Kit online from Rock Paint directly. The pack contains everything you need to paint your Fishies. If you don’t have a pebble from the Fishie Kit, you can use any flat, longish pebble to create your fish. Once complete, you can varnish your Fishie pebble with Rock Paint Varnish to prevent scuffing and to keep it water resistant.
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Step one: Use a smooth, fat, longish shaped pebble. Make sure it’s rinsed under water and dry.
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Step two: Paint your pebble with a white undercoat using Lily White. Allow it to dry and paint a second coat or a and third coat if needed, till the pebble is completely white. You can paint both sides of the pebble.
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Step three: Paint the whole pebble using Periwinkle Blue (or whatever colour you got with your Fishie Kit - could be Dragonfly Blue, Cherry Red or vespa green), allow to dry and paint another coat if needed. You can paint both sides of the pebble, allowing each side to dry so that smudging doesn't occur.
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Step four: Using a pencil, draw a nice big round circle for the eye, and a smaller circle inside that.
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Step five: Paint the eye using Lily White paint.
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Step six: Once dry, give it a second coat of paint. You only need to do this one one side of the pebble.
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Step seven: Using a pencil, draw a straight or slightly curved line to represent the gill area.
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Step eight: Paint a thin line using your brush. When doing fine work, only dip the btush into the paint half-way up the bristles, not right up to the metal part and keep the brush clean as you work. If the paint starts drying and gets globby, give the brush a rinse in water, pat dry and carefully dip into the paint again.
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Step nine: With your pencil, draw a U-shape along the painted line, this will be your first fish scale.
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Step ten: Paint carefully over the pencil line.
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Step eleven: Complete the first scale.
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Step twelve: If you are confident to carry on painting the scales without marking them out in pencil first, then you can do so. If you prefer to have pencil guidelines, then draw them along the gill line.
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Step thirteen: Finish painting the first line of scales.
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Step fourteen: Start the second row of scales by painting a U-shape directly in the middle of the curve of the previous line's Us.
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Step fifteen: Complete the second row of scales.
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Step sixteen: Start the third row of scales, always placing the new scale's ends directly at the mid point of the curve of the previous U-shape scale.
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Step seventeen: Finish off the rows of scales by painting them until you reach the end of the pebble, allow your painted line to go over the edges of the pebble.
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Step eighteen: Once all the while linework is dry, paint the whole fish with Fairy Dust. You can paint a few layers but make sure each layer is dry before you add another layer. The Fairy Dust gel takes a while to dry (longer than the paint)
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Your fishie is complete, well done! Now you can try another fish in another colour.