This weekend’s art challenge is all about celebrating those tiny but mighty creatures that fill our gardens with movement, colour and sound — bees, butterflies, dragonflies, and all things buzzy.
Whether you are lucky enough to spot a bee gathering pollen on lavender, see butterflies fluttering around buddleia, or catch a dragonfly glinting above a pond, we would love you to capture it in your artwork.
This is a perfect subject for those who enjoy painting close-up studies and experimenting with colour. You might choose to create a delicate botanical-style illustration with pencil and watercolour… or go bold with inks, pastels, or digital art. Think translucent wings, fuzzy bee bodies, vivid flower petals and sunshine tones!
You could even include more than one creature in your piece – how about a whole pollinator party?
A few ideas to get you inspired:
- A sleepy bumblebee resting on a sunflower
- A monarch butterfly with spread wings on a garden wall
- Dragonflies shimmering above still water
- Bees swarming a vibrant wildflower patch
- A close-up of butterfly wing patterns like a mosaic
As always, you can use any medium you like – graphite, pen and ink, coloured pencil, watercolour, pastel, acrylic, digital… whatever inspires you.
We will be sharing the entries on the blog next Thursday, so please send in your artwork before then. You do not need to write anything unless you would like to add a title or short note – we are just excited to see what you create.
Let’s fill the blog with wings, colour, and movement – and celebrate the little creatures that make summer truly sing. 🎨🐝🦋
Happy buzzing!
The idea of these challenges is to help students improve their skills by drawing, painting and creating regularly.
So try to submit work that you have created specifically for the challenge – or course work you are currently creating for your art course. Sometimes our challenge themes cross over with what students are learning. Our challenges are great practive for your coursework too!
Remember to submit your artwork to us via email if you would like it posted on our blog next week.
Email your artwork to us for inclusion on the blog next week. We sometimes take challenge posts submitted to our Facebook group to add to the collection, however we may miss some, so if you really want to see your work here, make sure you email it to us!
All students can take part and they can post their artwork on our main Facebook Group to share with fellow students.
If you would like your work included in our weekly Thursday blog post Email it to Melanie on
techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk
Please only post new artwork that you have created specifically for the challenge.
The idea of these challenges is to help students improve their skills by drawing, painting and creating regularly. Most of all, have fun!!
All of the photos we post on our London Art College Weekend Challenges are copyright free. Feel free to use the artwork you produce however you wish. If you would like your artwork posted here on our blog, email it to Melanie at techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk. If you have any Weekend Challenge requests let us know too! Best of luck and happy drawing and painting!
For those who are new to our challenges, we post them every Friday, so that students have a chance to pick up their pencils, pens, brushes or tablets to create artwork in their downtime over the weekend.
The results are the posted here on our blog on the following Thursday.
We love it when students add text to go along side the artwork, we will always post it on the blog if included.
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