This weekend we would love you to try something a little different – a Three Colour Challenge!
The idea is simple: create a piece of artwork using just three colours – pink, blue and yellow. You can choose any medium you enjoy, whether that is pencils, watercolour, acrylics, pastels, digital, or a mix. The fun of this challenge is discovering how much you can achieve with a limited palette.
Think about how you can blend and layer your three colours to make new shades and tones. For example, pink and blue can create purples, while yellow and blue make fresh greens. You might be surprised at just how many variations you can mix from only three colours.
This is a wonderful way to practise colour mixing, explore harmony, and discover new combinations you might not usually try. It is also a great exercise for training your eye to focus on values, contrasts, and composition.
We cannot wait to see your creative results – whether you paint a still life, a landscape, a portrait, or an abstract piece, let’s see what you can do with only pink, blue and yellow!
Tutor’s Tip: Before you begin, test out your three chosen colours on some scrap paper and experiment with mixing them in different ratios. You may find soft pastels, rich oranges, or even muted neutrals appearing – all from just three simple shades. Good luck and have fun!
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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