Easter Bunnies and Eggs

A selection of rocks put out over the Easter Holidays.

Original artwork by Chris Ryniak

Original artwork by Chris Ryniak

Two-sided rock

Chocolate inside!

Farmyard Tales and Little Yellow Ducks

The shop's theme for Easter 2019 was the Farmyard Tales series by Usborne Books.  Each page of the stories has a little yellow duck hidden somewhere for the children to find.  So I took a batch of the smaller stones and made 30 yellow ducks to hide in the shop.  Then I painted some of the main characters from the books.

Poppy

Sam

Mrs Boot

Rusty the Dog

Curly the Sheep

Thirty Little Yellow Ducks

In the shop

Rocking Grantham

This is a batch I painted for my cousin's children and hid their in Granny's garden.  These are all their favourite cartoon characters.

Teen Titans!

Batman

Robin

Raven

Starfire

(I love the way you can see the sparkle in these white rocks)

Cyborg

Beast Boy

Ben & Holly plus Gaston the Ladybird

Oh help! Oh no! It's a Gruffalo!

In March we celebrated the Gruffalo's 20th Birthday with special activities in the shop including a scavenger hunt and some rocks to find.  These are some of the most detailed and complex rocks I have done.  Brown is a difficult colour to get right, the different shades needed several layers in different colours!

Ten Little Bookworms

Ten Little Bookworms by Mike Brownlow was one of the special £1 books published for World Book Day 2019.  I drew all Ten and hid them in the shop.

A Book Without a Story

As soon as I saw this new book I knew the illustrations were perfect for rocks.  These were hidden in the shop for World Book Day 2019.

The Book Without a Story

by Carolina Rabei

Valentine's Day Love and Hearts

A selection of rocks hidden over Valentine's Day 2019

Love is all you need!

Harry Potter Day 2019

To celebrate Harry Potter Day in February, I did a batch of themed rocks which we hid in the shop: