Welcome to this week’s Weekend Art Challenge, and what better time for it than when spring is truly making itself known!
This week we are inviting you to celebrate the season by drawing or painting Spring Flowers. Step outside, look through your window, or gather a few stems to set up indoors, because right now nature is putting on one of its finest displays and it is crying out to be painted.
Your subject could be anything that captures the spirit of spring in bloom. A sunny cluster of daffodils in a vase, their cheerful trumpets catching the light. A bold and beautiful tulip, with those wonderfully smooth, cupped petals that are such a satisfying challenge to paint. Or perhaps the delicate magic of blossom, cherry, apple or pear, with its soft clouds of pale pink and white against a bright spring sky.
If you have a garden or an allotment, why not step outside and paint what you see? Pots of spring bulbs on a doorstep, a border coming back to life, a tangle of branches just beginning to flower. A simple arrangement on a windowsill works just as beautifully. This challenge suits every medium, but if you work in watercolour, spring flowers are an absolute gift, think soft washes for petals, wet into wet for blossom, and those gorgeous yellows and greens that feel made for the season.
However you choose to interpret the theme, we would love to see your work. Send your entries to techsupport@londonartcollege.co.uk and we will look forward to sharing them on the blog.
If students would like to find photographic reference, we always recommend using Pexels – copyright-free images:
https://www.pexels.com
Simply use the search box and you will find thousands of high-quality images to save and work from.
We will be sharing the finished artwork on Thursday 16 April on our blog.
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!!
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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