Weekend Art Challenge Results!

This weekend’s art challenge was all about celebrating the season through one of its most iconic features – summer flowers. Whether picked from the garden, spotted on a walk, or remembered from a favourite summer holiday, we asked students to paint or draw their chosen blooms in full colour.

We received a wonderful selection of artwork this week, from lovely almost botanical studies to more expressive and painterly styles. It is always lovely to see how each student interprets the brief in their own way. Some chose to work from life, others from their own photos and the variety of techniques and varying materials really stood out this week.

Thank you to everyone who took part – every entry brought a bit of summer sunshine to our inbox! Well done to all!

Bellflower drawn this week in my garden.
Ainsley

Daylilies drawn this week in my garden.
Ainsley

For this week’s challenge, I made a composite photo and marker drawing (for the name of the plant). This is a butterfly bush (Buddleia) that set up housekeeping in the corner of our patio, just growing out from between the tiles. It usually has more flowers at this time of year, but it’s been very dry. You’ll see it has a very friendly expression!
Alicia

Here’s a watercolour sketch of flowers growing in my garden, drawn from life, the yellow ones are a type of Rudbeckia and the white ones are ox-eye daisies. They look really nice growing all mixed up together.
Catherine

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

Alstroemeria and leucanthemum. Gouache on black board
Dinah B

Hello all, here is my flower for the WE Challenge… hope you like it!
Johan V. B

This is a lily and was done in watercolour
Janet L

Summer Flowers
Common Mallow with watercolour pencils and liner pens. Stonehenge HP watercolour paper.
This had to be quick. I have been on holiday and had just got back. This was growing in my garden when I got home. I quickly sketched it out and outlined it for speed. I selected just a few colours in watercolour pencil. I scribbled the pencils on my little caran d’ache palette and activated them with water before quickly dropping onto the paper.
I kept my sketch and photographed my plant composition for future use. When I have more time, I’d like to redo it in more detail.
Heather K

Sunflower field in Umbria, Italy
Watercolour, pen and ink.
Dinah B

Summer flowers. A primrose from my garden. Mixed medium. Children’s paints, dry watercolour pencils to outline and gold flower stickers
Nina P

Aquilegia : Inspired by Billy Showell tutorial
Ozlem

Sunflower in acrylic and ink pens on acrylic paper, from the sunflowers in the garden.
MaryAnn

Helleborus white with watercolours and pastel pencils on black paper.
Ni Ni

Daffodil with pastel pencils. I went to park near my house and sketched there.
Ni Ni

Hope this qualifies for the flowers weekend challenge? I don’t do many flowers in colour pencils and I usually do fur !!!
Gwen R

Camellia and Pandorea Golden Bells, I set up to get still life and created with watercolours.
Ni Ni

Summer Flowers
I created this while on holiday from one of my photographs taken a few summers ago.
Coloured pencil in my Stillman and Birn zeta sketchbook.
Heather K

Snowdrops with watercolours and white charcoal pencil on a black paper. Colours used are Chinese white, cadmium yellow, light green and viridian green.
Ni Ni

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