Weekend Art Challenge Results - Purple and Orange!

Welcome to our latest Weekend Art Challenge results, where we set our students the task of creating artwork using just two colours: purple and orange. What a response we had this week!

It has been such a joy to see how differently everyone interpreted this colour challenge. From Karin’s loose, joyful watercolour abstract, painted while exploring techniques from her new watercolour course, to Alicia’s wonderfully inventive lino print of a mouse clutching a Camembert, coloured with alcohol markers and created to illustrate her own children’s story.

The subjects chosen across the board were beautifully varied. Ni Ni submitted some beautiful pieces. Giselle captured bees enjoying the heatwave in watercolour and pen, Catherine blended realism with abstraction in a striking pastel and watercolour study of oranges and grapes, and Justin rendered a still life flagon in soft pastel and graphite with real atmospheric depth. Phil’s watercolour explored the pigments themselves, mixing cadmium orange with ultramarine violet and quinacridone violet, Ozlem worked boldly in acrylics on canvas, and Ivana rounded off a truly impressive week of entries.

Thank you so much to everyone who took part. It is always such a pleasure to see how a simple colour prompt can spark so many different creative ideas! Stay tuned for tomorrows next challenge!

Here is my Cat Yinyang picture- a surprisingly good contrast between colours!
Created with pens and digital overlay/colour.
Helen A

I recently enrolled on the watercolour course. I decided to paint an abstract and have fun while practicing the basic techniques.
Karin F

Here is a little lino print of a mouse holding some Camembert wrapped in a leaf (the sort of thing you see every day…!). I colored the print in with purple and orange alcohol markers. It’s to illustrate a children’s story I wrote.
Alicia

Pansy with oil pastels on a black paper.
Ni Ni

Buzzy delights in the heatwave!
Watercolour and pen
Giselle J

Here are some oranges and grapes for this week’s challenge. They started realistic in the middle and moved outwards to shapes. It’s made using pastel and watercolour.
Catherine

My little mermaid, sketched with 8B graphite pencil and drawing done with watercolour pencils – orange and purple. Then painted with watercolour cadmium orange hue and purple. At the end, some touches of watercolour pencils and pastel pencils- orange, purple and white.
Ni Ni

Weekend Art Challenge – Colour Challenge: Purple and Orange. Watercolour.
cadmium orange ultramarine violet and quin violet.
Phil H

Purple and Orange Acrylic on Canvas
Ozlem

Purple and Orange Challenge ~ The Flagon.
Soft pastel w. Graphite on Cardboard.
Justin R

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

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Weekend Art Challenge Results – Purple and Orange!

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