Weekend Art Challenge - Seaside Results!

This has been one of the most popular and inspiring challenges we have run in a while! The seaside theme really seems to have captured everyone’s imagination and the amazing array of artwork we have received has been absolutely wonderful. Every piece tells its own unique seaside story.

We have even had a fantastic clay piece, hand-painted by student Ozlem, which adds a wonderful three-dimensional twist to the challenge. Plus Ni Ni’s collection of shells glued onto card with modelling paste and painted – superb. We are also loving the sketchbook studies that have been sent in, a big well done to Catherine for her creative work in capturing shells from North Wales and Anne-Marie for her beautiful collation of seaside finds.

Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see all of the artwork from our talented students. We truly love every single piece, and it is always such a pleasure to share their creativity here on the blog.

Well done to everyone who took part and stay tuned, our next art challenge will be revealed tomorrow!

Here are my shells at the sea-side! ….from my book, Cookie’s Caravan Holiday!….I used watercolour paints and black fine liner.
Lynda

Weekend Challenge Seaside 👣 (Acrylic)
Ozlem E

These are real shells stuck on cardboard (basically back of my old watercolour paper pad) with modeling paste and created with acrylic colours. I didn’t paint on the shells but a little stains on them from paints. I went to beach near my house. Original aim was to do sketches but I collected shells and made this. I hope you enjoy my creation!
Ni Ni

Green Sea Snail Shell (Inspired by Billy Showell’s tutorial-Mixed Media)
Ozlem E

This is a painting of seashells using acrylic paint on acrylic paper.
MaryAnn

For this challenge, I drew a little shell I found on the Belgian coast last week, and I was thinking about who used to live inside it….
Alicia

Seaside Finds. Message in a Bottle, in oil paint.
Anthony Snell

Here are a couple of pages that I have done in my sketchbook for the seaside finds challenge. They are all shells that were found in a recent holiday to Rhos-on-Sea in Wales, UK.
Catherine

Another page from my sketchbook showing the Pelicans foot shells in colour.
Catherine

A painted piece of driftwood.
Judith F.T

Seaside finds
Something very basic and simple this week. A pencil drawn seashell
Nina P

Seaside Finds
I took this picture of some children on a beach last year and decided it would make a great picture to paint.
They look out to sea, lost in their own world; perhaps they found pebbles to throw or imagined sailing and swimming in the depths. It summed up a child’s reaction to everything at the seaside.
Graphite and watercolour on HP Watercolour paper.
Heather K

Seaside walk with oil colours on paper.
Ni Ni

With watercolour and white gouache in A5 size sketchbook.
Ni Ni

We hope that everyone enjoyed this challenge. Stay tuned for a new Weekend Art Challenge posted here tomorrow.

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Weekend Art Challenge – Seaside Results!

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