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This week for our art challenge we asked our students to draw or paint wildflowers and they didn’t disappoint. From bold poppies and cheerful daisies to delicate foxgloves and intricate plant studies, the results were full of colour, variety and personality.
Some artists chose to work loosely, capturing the overall feel of a meadow or hedgerow, while others focused on fine detail and careful observation. Each piece shows a real appreciation for the subject.
Thank you to everyone who took part this week. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing your wildflower artwork. A new weekend challenge will be posted tomorrow, we hope you join us again!
Watercolour sketch based on this week’s challenge based on some wild flowers and grasses I collected on a walk yesterday. Joanne HThese flowers are near my house. I think wild red daisies in watercolour in my watercolour visual journal. Ni NiMy small wild flower meadow. Mainly Ox eye daisies, corncockle, grasses and Foxgloves. Oil on board. Dinah BThis is poppies in a field on paper. There’s so many wild poppies out in Scotland at the moment and they’re so lovely I couldn’t resist. Mary AnnHere is a page from my sketchbook for this week’s challenge. I have drawn these foxgloves directly from life. I found a few interesting facts about foxgloves, the most interesting to me was that they may be responsible for Van Gogh using so much yellow in his later paintings. Also, William Withering, who discovered the benefits of using digitalis in medicine lived very close to where I live now. Catherine Twild flowers. Mixed medium. Children’s paints & pencils used( dry watercolour pencils and metallic pencils) Nina PThis is the Dog Rose. We have an abundance of these in our hedgerows and gardens. Watercolour pencil on cartridge paper. Heather KWild flowers. Really enjoyed painting this subject. This time gouache on black paper. Dinah BWild rose: created with acrylic on paper A4 size. Ni NiWildflowers in our garden: Rose (Rosa sp.) Ozlem EThey are drawn with an ink outline and colored with Tombow brush pens (mixed with water on a caran d’ache palette for water-soluble products.) LinnWild irises with watercolour Ni NiThere are more than 400 species of geranium, with many cultivated varieties, but they also grow wild pretty much everywhere and are also known as cranesbill. This one has established itself in our back garden. Hilarie SPrimrose(Primula vulgaris)-Inspired by Hiroshige – a woodland wildflower Ozlem EBottlebrush with soft pastels and pastel pencils. I was thinking of doing something Australasian and remembering I walked pass bottlebrush trees. They don’t have many flowers at the moment as it is southern hemisphere winter. Bottlebrush is Australian native. Still have one flower in the tree near my place. Ni NiFoxgloves with black pen, watercolour and pastel pencils on watercolour paper. Ni NiWildflower meadow with pastels on paper with acrylic under painting. Ni Ni
We hope that everyone enjoyed this challenge. Stay tuned for a new Weekend Art Challenge posted here tomorrow.
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