How to paint perfect dots on wooden shapes

[Treasures]

Hi,
I wasn't sure whether to post in this section or the wooden section, but hopefully someone here can help me...

Ive decided to try painting wooden shapes and I wondered how on earth do people paint perfect polkadots on wooden hearts etc...? I can't for the life of me work out how to do it, I imagine stencils would be messy and easy to do wrong.

Can anyone help please? Also are acrylic paints the best to use?

Thanks x

[KayleighAnn]

Oooh dipping a hair grip in the paint or a cotton bud, you would have to do the perfection spacing by eye though, otherwise what about a home made stamp? Cotton buds (or anything circular) fastened to card perfectly spaced apart..

Kayleigh

[Treasures]

Hi Kaleigh,

Thanks for the reply, Im not as worried about the spacing, its getting perfect circles that Im worried about lol. I think cotton buds might leave a texture? I could try a hair grip though.
Big thank you for helping

[AliCat]

Try the end of a paintbrush handle dipped into paint and used as a stamp. If you have a paintbrush with a flattened handle end, even better (or cut the pointy wooden end off a little to make a flat 'stamp')

[KayleighAnn]

If you get the right amount of paint it should work, I also agree with the paintbrush. Anything small and rounded basically!! Hairgrips will make cute teeny dots compared to slightly bigger ones from cotton buds

KayleighAnn

[wendy]

These paintbrushes are perfect for making dots: https://www.rosemaryandco.com/index.php?cPath=22_415&osCsid=184i4dqs0djmbohvbi6itbq5l7

You could also try these paint pens: http://cultpens.com/acatalog/POSCA_Markers.html

[Angi]

I use the end of wooden meat skewer for my lead Hooks - I got a pack of 100 for a pound and they are pointed one end and flat on the other. It also means that I can use a different skewer for each colour and dont have to worry about washing them. I've use the pointing end of a cocktail stick to make small pin prick dots too.

[Lilac Moon]

I used to have a tool for painting dots on finger nails that had round metal ends in different sizes. look up nail art tools to find it.

[Treasures]

Wow thanks for all the replies, I was getting my paint brushes from Rosemary and co so ill try the end of the paint brush trick along with the skewers and Ill also have a look at nail tools. Then I can see what works best for me.

thanks so much!