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Rock Name	Tuff Monkey 1
Month/Year	November/2021
Location	(47.4114343, 8.5195464) CG69+HRF Zürich
Tools	Acrylic colors, paint brushes
Artist	@yangyanje
Communities	#hive-127783, #hiverocks,

You Rock

Hive Communities, Art Lovers and Blockchain Enthusiasts,

I recently started a community on hive together with @brittandjosie, @phoenixwren, @nathanmars, @jurich60 and @alchemystones with much help from @qwerrie, who I encounter so positively everywhere I move in the #hiveverse. Very helpful.

The community is about painting rocks and leaving them somewhere, selling them, making redeemable NFT's or anything you can think of. To make it a mindful undertaking, retrievers of such rocks are encouraged to share their posting rewards with the artist who labels a rock with their hive account name.

If you would like to subscribe and follow, it's Hive Rocks or @hive-127783 .

The above Rock was my first one and I did not label it. I left it at the location of Latitudes and Longitudes described in the table above as a treasure hunt. Planing on making a series of such monkeys.

The Process

Firstly, I was walking to search for rocks and picked up three:

Checking the shape of each rock I pick, I assessed them on how one could place them, keeping in mind that anyone might be decorating their home with them. The top left had a nice flat surface which reminded of a tablet. The right reminded me of an animal. Guess which one? I also thought if I'd be putting them amongst other rocks, that they should at least look odd or stand out. Imagine a really nicely painted rock that could turn out to be quite the treasure hunt for some people.

I decided to paint the bottom one:

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