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Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge where we set our students the task of creating artwork in only three colours. Limiting your palette can do surprising things. It sharpens your eye, strengthens your composition and forces you to think more carefully about value, contrast, and colour relationships.
We love how each student interpreted the challenge in their own way, proving that creativity thrives with a few well-chosen constraints.
Scroll down to enjoy this wonderfully cohesive and varied gallery, and be inspired to try a limited palette yourself!
Weekend art challenge, three colours. I just used 3 paints, as photographed. A lovely artistic challenge. (plus two images below) Anthony S Oksana FHere’s my picture of a horse using only pink, blue and yellow coloured pencils. I have just started a Pet Portraits Diploma course and enjoy drawing and painting all animals. Lindsay TCreated with acrylic on A3 acrylic paper, only used Alizarin Crimson, Yellow Ochre and pthalo blue (limited palette). Reference photo is my holiday photo last year taken by my sister in law. Happy drawing and painting weekend! Ni NiHere’s a kingfisher painted in watercolour using literally only the three colours shown. CatherineTeresa C3 Colours: pink, yellow and blue A pink elephant, blue sky and a sandy beach. I’ve used acrylic paints and felt tip pens with a goggly eye. Nina PI chose permanent rose for pink, cadmium yellow for yellow and cerulean blue for blue. Created with watercolour and a little bit of yellow pastel pencil on 20% cotton cold pressed watercolour paper A3 size. I used given reference photo for the challenge. Ni NiThis was created in my little sketchbook from an ivy leaf found on my local walk. I chose one each of pink, blue and yellow from my polychromos pencils and blended them with a colourless blender. I used the pink mainly for the shading first. Then I added the blue. The magic happened when I added the yellow. I did add more layers of blue as the green, though lovely, was too bright for the ivy. It was difficult to get the darker green I would have liked for the ivy as the sketchbook paper does not allow lots of layers, but the effect is still interesting. Heather KMy piece is called “Neon Zebra”. I made it with a felt tip/crayon drawing and then colour enhanced background digitally. Helen LI colored a painting, I had done in the Sumi-e style, using three Lyra watercolour pencils: Ozlem EHere is what I came up with for the pink, blue, and yellow challenge – that was an interesting idea, and it was a nice exercise to be limited to three colors. Aliciayellow, pink and blue. Illustration “Girl with a cat”. Tatsiana C‘fruit and grass’ sketch Teresa CA bluetit on a pink rose. Judith F.TWeekend Challenge: (2nd piece) Blue, yellow and pink. A kite flying at the beach. Acrylic pens and paints used. A sprinkling of glitter with a hold line sticker Nina P
We hope that everyone enjoyed this challenge. Stay tuned for a new Weekend Art Challenge posted here tomorrow.
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