Weekend Art Challenge Results - Turquoise & Sand!

Welcome to our latest Weekend Art Challenge, where we set our students the task of creating artwork inspired by the colours turquoise and sand. It’s a beautiful pairing, the cool, jewel-like blue-green of turquoise against warm, golden sand and it instantly conjures up sunlit shores, shallow seas and long summer days.

As always, our students took the theme in wonderfully different directions. We had serene watercolour churches and quick studies on khadi paper, a sunbathing mermaid brought to life as a digital illustration, a rather splendid turquoise hippo under a golden sky, naïve mixed-media pieces inspired by everything from gallery windows to Cousteau, and even an adventurous linograph print. It’s always a joy to see how one simple colour brief can spark so many different ideas, styles and techniques.

Grab a cup of tea, scroll down and enjoy this gorgeous gallery of turquoise and sand creations. A huge well done and thank you to everyone who took part! Another challenge will be posted tomorrow!

A small quick watercolour on khadi paper.
Karin F

This is my second one for turquoise and sand colour challenge. A church in blue sky!
Watercolour in Winsor and Newton visual journal. I only used turquoise and yellow ochre. Mixed those 2 in various ratios made different tones of green.
Ni Ni

Turquoise & Sand – Mixed Media – Naive Art Inspired by an artwork seen in a gallery window.
Ozlem E

Here’s my drawing for the turquoise and sand challenge. Sunbathing mermaid, digital illustration.
Amanda

Turquoise and Sand- Mixed Media – inspired by Cousteau
Ozlem E

Watercolour: colours used- turquoise and yellow ochre with white gouache.
Ni Ni

I’ve drawn a hippo which I’ve painted turquoise and the sky I’ve painted a golden sand colour. I’ve used mixed medium, so using acrylic paints and pens alongside with children’s paint (there are obviously other colours though emphasis on the hippo and sky)
Nina P

Turquoise and Sand.
The Founder
Linograph on paper
3.5×5 inches
So I went way out of the usual wheel-house and tried Linograph Print-Making with a silk screen. Each step was ultimately fun, and felt like I was using a different section of my brain to be attentive in the designing, cutting and layering. Recognizing the details are bleeding through the silk screen, I decided to roll with it…and thus this came about.

Cobalt, turquoise and sand (ish)!
Modelling paste and acrylic on canvas.
Dinah B

Cobalt Turquoise and Sand (Quin Gold) Watercolour.
Phil H

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 Results – Turquoise & Sand!

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