I just finished making this Diamond painting called Lake Forest which is a Make Market diamond painting that I bought from Michael’s. This Diamond painting only took me 9 days to complete.

I mentioned this in a previous blog post that I was going to make this diamond painting in 9 days. I actually couldn’t work on it on Thursday, but my total time working on this diamond painting was in fact 9 days. I had 18 sheets of silicone release paper on the diamond painting, and I worked two release sheets a day until it was finished.

These Diamond paintings by Make Market are just so fantastic. I know I keep saying this, but it’s so true. This diamond painting looks like an actual picture or work of art from an actual artist. It doesn’t look as pixelated in the image above as it does when you look at it up close because you can see the pixelization which is basically every Diamond drill is a pixel. But when you are looking at it from a distance, I could barely tell that it’s a diamond painting.

I seriously do not know how they do these things. All of the make market Diamond paintings that I have done so far look like actual photographs. Even the 5×7 Diamond paintings that I made for summer that have the graphic of a rainbow umbrella, and the Adirondack chairs. They look so realistic. And then of course I also have the beach scene and the rainbow surfboards and they looks so real.

There’s so much detail in the palm trees and the shadowing of the palm trees on the sand in the beach chairs and then also in the surfboard diamond painting you can see like a little shack to the left and then of course you see all of the Palm leaves. And I mean, come on you have to look at that umbrella and think that it is taken from an actual picture. The Adirondack chairs do look a lot more fake and pixelated, but they still look great.

I am just so in love with Diamond painting and I’m just so fascinated by the whole thing and the whole process of making the diamond paintings and just the look of all of the graphics. This is probably by far, for me anyway, the best craft I have done in my life.

My next daytime project is the one that is the pink flamingo float in the pool and that one is halfway done, and I was going to do the bigger one that is called Wheat Field by Vincent Van Gogh in the bedroom, but I’m already starting to run out of space in my nine drawers with Diamond drills, and I have one drawer filled with diamonds for the one that’s called Starry Night with Tardis that I bought from Temu many months ago. I stopped working on it because it was causing me issues with the parchment paper being stuck to it. I have added the “Dotz Stick” Diamond painting glue to a small area of that one where the parchment paper took away the stickiness, so that should be good to go tomorrow night when I start working on it. This one I decided not to use the stainless steel grid that allows me to perfectly place all of the Diamond drills. I don’t think that the grid works for this Diamond painting. There are actually a couple where I won’t be able to use that grid because it’s too big for this diamond painting. So these ones that the grid doesn’t work with, I will just do it freehand.

So here you can see where I’m at in both of these Diamond paintings. I’ve been working on the flamingo float in the swimming pool for 3 days during the day in the living room, and even though you can only see the top half, look at how realistic it already is. You can clearly see the umbrella and it looks so realistic and then the cactus behind the wall. And then the Tardis with the starry night looks pretty good for being all freehand. And just like with the ones that I do at night, I will do two of the 4×6 silicone release sheets per night until it’s done. Then I’ll have an empty drawer that I can use for the Wheat Field, which I cannot wait to start on. It’s funny because Starry Night is Vincent Van Gogh and so is Wheat Field. The only difference is that the starry night one has the Tardis from Doctor Who. Can you imagine the Tardis being in the Wheat Field painting? I’m actually curious to know if they made a graphic that has a Tardis in the Wheat Field painting. I’ll have to research that, but not too much because I already have enough on my plate already as it is. Also, can you imagine what Vincent Van Gogh must think of all of these paintings with the Tardis in them?