How to make a good stone base

As I am a high elf player I bought  the new Mage plastic box and for the mage on foot I used the sort of vortex magical wave thingy so I was left with the stones so what I did was I cut each stone from and an other and I positioned and stuck them to a base. I then took a skull from my old dark elf regiment and put some sand on the base. Now I basecoated it with black. Then I painted the stones scorched brow, drybrushed the sand with  scorched brown and painted the skull with bestial brown. After that I drybrushed the stones with codex grey followed by fortress grey. The sand was then drybrushed with Bestail Brown. The skull was then highlighted with bleached bone and skull white. The last touch was the static grass which was drybrushed with Iyaden Darksun.

Basic of Color

First when you are trying to paint you need to decide on your color scheme. Now this can be as basic as looking at your army book and copying the colors in there, which doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it but where is the fun in that so this article is going to help you decide on your colors so here goes:

Complementary colors/ Opposites:

This is something that most people know how it works, red  is the opposite of green, blue of orange and yellow of purple. We can make the difference even bigger by making one color lighter and the other darker to show the contrast more.

Colors that just go together:

There is no "rule" for this and I've just learned it by trial and error so here are the colors that I have found go well together: red-orange, orange-yellow, red-orange-yellow, blue-green, green-yellow, blue-green-yellow, blue-purple, purple-red, blue-purple-red.

Weird shades and highlights:

This is a french way of painting which is rather really hard to master but if you do the result, I assure, will be magnificent. If you look at the color combinations in the second chapter they are the same here only that instead of using them side by side you use them together taking the first color as the shade and working your way up with the others.