Weekend Art Challenge Results!

Welcome to this week’s Weekend Art Challenge results, where we set our students the task of creating artwork inspired by the letter O. We are absolutely delighted with the response, and what a creative and wonderfully varied collection it has produced!

The letter O clearly sparked a wealth of inspiration, with students finding their O subjects everywhere from their own gardens to the deep prehistoric past. Nature featured strongly throughout the entries, with orchids, osteospermum daisies, orange cotoneaster berries, olives and a magnificent eagle owl all making an appearance, alongside animals including ostriches, an orangutan and even an octopus given the digital treatment.

The ocean was a particular favourite this week, drawn to beautifully across several pieces, and Clare deserves a special mention for her dedication in submitting four paintings, all exploring the oceans and life of the Ordovician period with real imagination and a wonderful sense of scientific curiosity.

We also want to give a very warm welcome to Jayne C, who submitted her charcoal orangutan sketch for the very first time this week. We hope it is the first of many!

Thank you to everyone who took part. The O challenge has brought out some truly outstanding work, and we loved every single entry. Stay tuned for another challenge tomorrow!

A watercolour of orange cotoneaster berries found in my garden.
Karin F

Here are my ‘olives’ for this weeks ‘letter O Challenge”
I used ‘watercolour pencils’ and watercolour paints combined.
Lynda

This is the fourth of my four letter ‘O’ pictures. This is a scene from the ORDOVICIAN period, when most life was in the oceans but some of the first plants were starting to live on land. This is also ink and watercolour outlines with fineliner on cartridge paper.
Clare

Orchids with gouache on A4 size black paper
Ni Ni

O is for Ostriches.
I had some fun hand-colouring a cartoon portrait of an Ostrich family for this weekend’s challenge.
Thank you!
Aubrey

Osteospermum daisies with acrylic inks and a small touch of yellow pastel pencil on A4 green paper.
Ni Ni

1) **Octogonal Octopus** – I made this art using GIMP and mainly focused on experimenting all types of filters and gave me an oppurtunity to explore the outcome of using different types of filters.
2) **Olives** – Made on watercolour paper with paint.
Thanks,
Sindhu

An ORTHOCERAS in an ORDOVICIAN OCEAN.
Clare

Here’s an orange highland cow, in the Scottish highlands, with an orange sunrise for this week’s challenge. It’s made using fine liner and watercolour.
Catherine

A quick sketch in charcoal of an Orangutan.
Jayne C

Ocean with watercolour on Saunders Waterford CP paper. Colours used: ultramarine blue, cadmium red, lavender, small touch of sap green and alizarin crimson.
Ni Ni

Weekend challenge: O. I did an ostrich using acrylic paint and pens
Nina P

Here is another ORDOVICIAN OCEAN for the letter ‘O’.
Clare

rganic containers, I picked them up from recycling bin to paint.
Still life with gouache on a cartridge paper A3 size 135 gsm
Ni Ni

O is for Owl , this is an Eagle Owl which I have actually been working on for a week and finished this weekend so it fits nicely with the weekend challenge. Oil on acrylic board.
Dinah B

Here is a very deep OCEAN for the letter ‘O’. I’ve really enjoyed the letter O, because I love oceans. All my letter ‘O’ pictures are a mixture of ink and watercolour or gouache on cartridge paper.
Clare

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

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