Category: Weekend Art Challenge

Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge, on the theme of umbrellas! And what a colourful challenge it was! The paintings below are beautiful and some quite ingenious. We love Sarah’s drawing with a Dandelion as an umbrella….

We have a cheery weekend art challenge for everyone this weekend! We would like for you all to come up with some designs which encompass colourful umbrellas. They can be any size, shape and colour and for any theme. They…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. This weeks challenge was to try to paint a subject using only green and white. At first glance this challenge possibly sounded easy, however when you start to design or create artwork…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. At initial glance this challenge might seem easy – paint anything as long as its only using the colours green and white. However the more you start to think about what is it…

Welcome to our sparkling weekend art challenge results. We have received some spectacular pieces of artwork this week from our theme of Fireworks. Our featured image this week is by Latha Bhaduri Prabakar who said …”For my family, fireworks reminds…

It’s officially fireworks night on the 5th of November here in the UK and many of us would normally be taking children and grandchildren to watch the displays. Perhaps this year with covid there wont be many happening, however we…

Welcome to our scariest challenge to date! We think our students enjoyed this one! Our featured image is by Barbara Schunk and we love it. So simple, yet striking. You can see the full image at the bottom of the…

This weekends art challenge is all about Halloween. Its that time of year again! You can create a scary painting or drawing using your wild imaginations, or perhaps choose to do something a little more traditional with a still life…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results! We set our students the task of painting or drawing giraffes this week and we have received some amazing artwork yet again. Students have had a busy time with their art material!…

Welcome to our new weekend art challenge. We would love for you to study Giraffes. They are simply beautiful animals, majestic and powerful, yet so graceful, dainty and friendly too. Students might like to create a realistic painting or drawing…

Welcome to our most recent weekend art challenge, where we set the students the theme to create artwork on Musical Instruments. They had free rein to create paintings and drawings in any way they would like on this theme. The…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge! Do any of you play musical instruments? If you do, or you have access to one, we would love you to paint or draw it for our challenge. Set it up with sone…

This weekends art challenge is a little different as we have been asked by the Association of Distance Learning Colleges (ADLC) to provide artwork for this years Christmas card. You can read about the challenge on our previous blog post…

This weeks art challenge comes with a difference! We are looking for a festive piece of artwork to be submitted for consideration for this years ADLC’s Christmas card. The cards are for them to send, not for sale. Credit will…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results. What an absolutely fantastic theme this week. Perfect for autumn – the colour orange! It has produced some amazing results and some very creative ideas from our students. The featured image this…

This weekends art challenge is simple! All you need to do is draw or paint something orange – or the main part of the image should contain the colour orange similar to the photos below. Try to show and create…

Welcome to this week results of the art challenge we recently set all about Toadstools. The object this week was for students to be creative with the brief and they could use any medium and have fun with the idea….

Welcome to our last weekend challenge of September! As we are heading into autumn here in the UK, we thought it would be great to challenge our students to create artwork on the theme of toadstools. If you can get…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge results. We set our students a rather tricky task this week to try to create a street scene in perspective from their own photos or imagination. We have received some incredible and very beautiful…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This one is going to be a pretty tricky challenge. It’s all about perspective in street scenes. There are lots of ideas below for you to work with, you can choose a street…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. We set students the task of painting or drawing something in black and white. It could be any subject, any medium, any size just as long as it was in black and white….

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. This time we would like you to create anything of your choice in Black and White. It could be in graphite pencil, black and white pastel or chalk, black and white paint with all…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge on the theme of art materials. We thought it would be the perfect September art challenge. With everyone getting back into the swing of things after summer holidays, for the new term. Our featured…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. September always has a ‘going back to school’ feel where you are buying new pencils, sketch pads, pencil sharpeners plus lots of new art materials for the new term. All with that fresh new…

Welcome to the latest results of our weekend challenge for our students. This week we asked them to draw or paint an owl, in any style or form. If you scroll below, you will see some absolutely wonderful renditions of…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge. This week we would love for you to portray owls – or a single owl, the choice is yours. Owls are predominantly solitary and nocturnal and this could come across in your work if…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge which we set our students this week. It was not the easiest of challenges, in fact, drawing or painting a horse in motion for an experienced artists is a huge challenge. So our…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. This time we would like you to study horses and their moment. You can place them within any kind of scene, wither it be realistic or a blurred effect, just as long as the…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge all about Tigers! What a stunning array of magnificent creatures we have to show this week. Our featured image is shared this week by Elena Statham, who’s artwork is on the left and…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge – and what a challenge this week. Tigers! We have collated some magnificent photos for you to work with below which are all copyright free. Alternatively if you have your own photos you are…

Welcome to the beautiful results of our latest weekend art challenge – all about butterflies! Our students have excelled themselves this week and created some very delicate and colourful paintings and drawings. Well done to everyone who took part! Our…

Welcome to our newest weekend art challenge! This week we would love for you to get creative using the theme butterflies. We have added some beautiful copyright free photos below if you would like to use those. They are full…

Welcome to a beautiful selection of Northern Lights artwork from our recent weekend art challenge. We have received some stunning and very creative artwork from our students this week. Our featured image today was created by student Rebecca Blake and…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Some of you reading this will have been lucky enough to see the Northern Lights in real life. Others will have admired the phenomenon from photos and tv. We would love for you to…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge all about fairies! We are absolutely delighted with the results of the art challenge this week. Our students have created a wonderful array of artwork, including an incredible lino cut and print from student…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We would love for you to get creative with an etherial feel this week within the theme of fairies. The challenge is quite open, interpret it how you would like. We have added some…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge results from the theme ‘Summer’! This theme has generated some amazing pieces of artwork, our students have been very creative in expressing what summer means to them. Our featured image today is by Pet…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge! We would like you to create a piece of artwork on the theme of ‘Summer’. It can be anything from a warm sunny beach scene, a picnic on the grass, children playing in the…

Welcome to the results of the weekends art challenge. We challenged our students this week to all look up to the sky and portray what they saw. We have received a huge number of stunning paintings, drawings, photos and digital…

Welcome to our weekend challenge and today it is all about sky and clouds. We all have access to look up at some point in the day wherever you are in the world. Whether is is a beautiful blue sky,…

Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge on the theme of Wild Flowers. We knew that this would be a popular theme, however we didn’t realise how much enjoyment you would all gain from this wonderful subject. You…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge all about wild flowers. Some of the photos below were taken on a woodland track in the wilds of west Wales, others are stock photos all free to use. You can draw or paint…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set our students this week, the task of creating artwork around the theme of Strawberries. Our students have had a wonderful time in creating and probably eating, plenty of…

Welcome to our very summery weekend art challenge. This week, we would love for you to be creative with strawberries. It’s the height of the strawberry season and you may be lucky enough to have some growing in your garden,…

Welcome to the results of ‘The Scream’ art challenge. This time we set our students the task of creating their own version – or own take on the Edvard Munch painting ‘The Scream’. We hope that you are all as…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge. A very different idea today sparked by student Mila Zinzen. ‘Mila’s idea is to ‘Make your interpretation of a well-known piece of art and for everyone to do the same piece’. After lots of…

Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge. We set our students the task of creating a mandala or two! Students seem to have loved this idea and found the whole process very relaxing and meditative. So many beautiful…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Mandalas. What are Mandalas you ask? Wikipedia describes them as ‘a geometric configuration of symbols’. They can be a very precise circles with a matching configurations of patterns or conversely they can be a…

Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to set about creating a ‘triptych’ as our weekend challenge. A Triptych is a set of three pieces of artwork with a theme running through them, or an image…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This time we would like you to create a Triptych. Students can create one long image split into three, or alternatively three separate images with a definite theme. The painting below by Simon…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set students the task of choosing to draw or paint anything that involved warm colours. We were once again delighted with the creativity that our students have shown this…

We would like our students this week to come up with a piece of artwork which celebrates the use of warm colours. We are thinking about oranges, yellows, golds, reds, peaches and sandy colours. The subject you paint or draw…

Welcome to our weekend challenge set last weekend on the theme of Pandas. We have received a phenomenal amount of Panda artwork! Each and everyone one being beautifully creative and we can see that our students really embraced the theme…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We would love for you to create artwork around the cutest animal on the earth…a Panda Bear! We have left this challenge fairly open, so our students can create either a realistic painting or…

Welcome to the wonderful results of our latest weekend challenge all about illustrating song lyrics. This challenge was thanks to Beckie Andrews who created this beautiful illustration below celebrating the song by Ocean Colour Scene – Travellers Tune. Also special…

Welcome to our new weekend art challenge. Student Beckie Andrews came up with a lovely idea for this weekends challenge. She would love for you all to draw or paint lyrics from your favourite song. We don’t really have many…

Welcome to our weekend challenge all about Marine Life. WOW! What an amazing array of paintings and drawings we have received from our students this week. We are stunned by the quality of every single piece. They are all so…

Welcome to our weekend challenge all about marine life. Something a little different this week. We would love for you to have fun with shape and colour, texture and form, wet in wet washes, bold strokes and soft shades… the…

Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge. The feedback from all of our students was incredible. From the sounds of it, the challenge was one of the most enjoyable to date! Scroll down to take a look at…

We have a very calming challenge for you this week. Sit back and relax and do some designing and drawing at your desk or kitchen table. We would like you to illustrate your name – or your initial. We have…

Welcome to the latest results of our weekend art challenge. A couple of weeks ago we set our students a challenge to take a photo of themselves in a mirror. You can see how the students got on here –…

Welcome to our latest art challenge which is a continuation from last week. We would like you to paint or draw your photo from last weeks challenge. I hear you say, ‘What? We have to draw or paint our photo?’…

Welcome to the results of our Photo in a Mirror art challenge! Wow! The results are absolutely incredible. We are thrilled not only to see our students, but also to see how creative they can be with their cameras! We…

Welcome to our new weekend challenge – ‘photo in a mirror’. We are partnering with our lovely Photography tutor Rona Cox who set this challenge for her own students this week. We would love it if our students could take…

We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter, although it was probably a lot different for many people this year. The Easter theme definitely generated lots of lovely and happy illustrations and paintings. One of our favourites is the lovely…

Welcome to our weekend challenge. As it’s Good Friday and Easter weekend we thought it would be appropriate to have an Easter challenge for all of our students to enjoy. Ideas! You could paint or draw all of your Easter…

Welcome to our springtime art challenge. We have received some beautiful pieces of artwork this week for our challenge which has brightened everyones day and lifted the spirits of our students! The lovely happy colours used in the artwork below…

Welcome to this weeks artwork challenge. As the clocks have sprung forward and we are now officially into Summer Time – although clearly it isn’t quite summer yet here in the UK, we would like you to draw on the…

We are absolutely loving this weeks collection of artwork – so varied and up-lifting. We were aiming for a cheery theme this week and we really hope all of these beautiful paintings and drawings make you smile. Thank you to…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. This one is quite a tricky one as we are going to make our students have a ponder as to what they would rather be doing than sitting at home. The list is endless…

We have received some beautiful paintings and drawings this week for our weekend art challenge, all about your favourite things. Watercolour seems to be the medium for today with students Vera, Anthea and Elena creating some very delicate pieces using…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. In these difficult times of self isolation we would like to make sure our students have fun with the challenges but also make sure we can set them challenges where they can safely stay…

Welcome to this weeks artwork for the Rainbow art challenge. What a diverse display of artwork we have received. It has been a lovely challenge for our students to complete in these difficult times we are going through. The beautiful…

Welcome to this weekend’s Art Challenge where the theme is Rainbows! We thought we would brighten your day by looking at colour and how rainbows are made, the colours within them and the transitions between each colour too. In a…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge. This post comes with a cuteness warning! We are sure that you will scroll down and smile at the beautiful paintings and drawings that have been created by our students. We hope you all…