Northeast Ohio Rocks! Artist of the Week May 2018

For the Week of May 6, 2018

For the week of May 6, 2018 Northeast Ohio Rocks! honors Carole Hogan as Artist of the Week. Below Caroles shares her story.

Carole used to paint with acrylics years ago. Knitting, crocheting, and sewing have always been my favorite craft projects. She has made some quilts and wall hangings, and participated in a doll making group. 

Her daughter got her interested in rock painting after a "girls day" of painting. She signed her up for Northeast Ohio Rocks. Carole likes to paint Snoopy rocks the best, but has tried many others, getting a lot of ideas from Pinterest. She has painted about 400 rocks and has found 3. 

The themes are a challenge but she participates when she can. This is a fun, creative group. Everyone has the same passion, to "paint rocks" and "make people smile".

For the Week of May 13, 2018

For the week of May 13, 2018, Northeast Ohio Rocks! honors the Jennifer Treacy Miller family as Artist of the Week. Below Jennifer shares their Northeast Ohio Rocks! story with us.

The Miller 6 are an amazing family of painters, hiders, finders and re-hiders. Thank you Jennifer! Thank you #miller6rocks

My whole family paints rocks! We are a family of 6 and the kids are 9,9,6 and 1 now. My kids love crafts and love to draw, but other than school crafts, we were not too artistic at home. I had first heard about Northeast Ohio Rocks when some of my friends had started painting them, but when we found our first rock we wanted to paint our own to hide. We all like to paint different things. Flowers, mandalas, Mario rocks, candy rocks, and rocks with writing. We just started using paint pens this spring and that has helped us a lot! We like painting rocks because it is fun, but I think one of our favorite things is hiding them. We love leaving rocks in places that we visit, or driving around town just to hide them in local places. It is awesome when we can see that our rocks have been found. My kids are great rock finders. We think we have found at least 15 rocks that we have posted and rehidden. We have been keeping a list of the hashtags on the rocks so we can try to follow them too. We have painted around 50 rocks so far, but we are ready to paint a bunch more over summer break. I love painting as a whole family, it is a way to relax and enjoy something together. I love that this group is here to spread kindness and smiles, and I think it is a way to bring out the artist in everyone! Thanks for this group!

For the Week of May 20, 2018

For the week of May 20, 2018, Northeast Ohio Rocks! honors Billie Esterle as Artist of the Week. Below Billie shares her Northeast Ohio Rocks! story with us.

Thank you Billie for all you do here at Northeast Ohio Rocks!

I can't paint beautiful pictures. I have 0 talent. So I paint the rocks and write words and use stickers. I love the sparkle Mod Podge so all my rocks sparkle! Everyone needs a little sparkle in their lives! I started painting about 14 months ago and have painted almost 2500 rocks. My favorite part is hiding the rocks. Love it when little kids find the rocks. My husband and I are in Colorado right now, I brought 30 rocks to hide and will be painting with my grandsons while we are here. Recently a rock I painted made it's way to Uruguay. It was a pink rock that said "Hope" One of my favorite things to paint are little gold rocks I write "YOU ROCK" on them and leave them for servers at restaurants. They get a big kick out of them. Thank Nancy for starting this group. I love seeing the beautiful rocks!

For the Week of May 27, 2018

For the week of May 27, 2018, Northeast Ohio Rocks! honors Debby White as Artist of the Week. Below Debby shares her Northeast Ohio Rocks! story with us.

I started to paint rocks a year ago thanks to my daughter who gifted me a basket of paints and brushes right after I retired. My love of painting and drawing goes back to elementary school where as a child I just loved Art Class. I also loved paint by number and velvet art. I really am enjoying my new hobby, I love painting / hiding but I especially love finding rocks. I have been lucky I have found about 10 Northeast Ohio Rocks! painted rocks. I have painted over 1000 rocks. I really enjoy being a member of this fine group.