For our final art challenge of the year, we are keeping things fun and friendly with a theme that everyone will enjoy – Cats and Kittens!
Cats make wonderful subjects for art. They can be elegant, mysterious, playful, or mischievous – sometimes all at once! For this challenge, we would like you to create a drawing or painting of a cat.
It could be your own pet, a cat you have seen out and about, or one from a photo reference. You might choose to focus on a detailed portrait, capture a whole cat in motion, or even create a quick sketch showing their personality.
You can work in any medium you like – pencil, pastel, watercolour, acrylic, digital, or a mix. The most important thing is to enjoy observing and capturing the unique character of these much-loved animals.
Tip: Cats often have very expressive eyes and body language. Try paying extra attention to these features – a single tilt of the head, stretch of the paw, or flick of the tail can bring your artwork to life.
We are really looking forward to seeing your cat and kitten artwork and ending the penultimate weekend challenge with character, charm and cuteness!
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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