Category: Weekend Art Challenge

Welcome to this weekends artwork challenge. Its cuteness overload here! We would love for you to create a drawing or painting of a ‘Cute Animal’ similar to the photos you see below. You can use the photos or choose your…

Welcome to our weekend artwork with the theme – Cityscapes. We left the theme fairly open so that our students were able to add their own flare and creativity into the artwork. As you can see from looking at the…

Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge. We thought we’d mix things up a bit this week and ask our students to paint, draw or illustrate a cityscape. This can be any city at any time of day or night, in…

Welcome to the gallery of artwork for this weekends challenge, created by some very serene students! The pieces below are absolutely fantastic and we really hope that you all enjoy viewing them. So many different ideas for the theme this…

This weekends art challenge is quite an open subject. We thought as we generated lots of stormy artwork last week we would calm things down with the theme of Serenity this week. Interpret it how you would like and we…

What a beautiful array of artwork we have received for this weeks art challenge. The artwork below really does convey the theme of ‘Storms’ well and I hope that everyone enjoys viewing all of the pieces. A very wide selection…

Here in the UK and in parts of Europe there have been lots of storms recently, this weekend we are being battered by Storm Dennis. We thought it would be a very apt challenge to create a piece of artwork…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge artwork! It is all about the eyes! We set students the task to either draw their own eyes in a mirror or draw or paint the eyes of friends and family members. If students…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We thought we would ease you in gently with painting portraits by starting with drawing eyes. You can either look in the mirror and draw your own, or if you have a friend or…

Welcome to our weekend art challenge artwork for the theme Cats and Kittens. We have received an overwhelming amount of entries this week and we are delighted to see the vast array of styles, ideas and beautiful artwork our students…

Welcome to this weekend art challenge. We would like you to create a piece of unique art in any medium and of cats or kittens – or both! It can be a pure portrait style piece for our pet portrait…

Welcome to this weekend’s art challenge – Superheroes. The theme was a fantastic idea by our illustration tutor Steven Hersey! We have received some amazing paintings and we particularly like the watercolour by Vera Jaouadi which we have used as…

Welcome to this weekends Art Challenge! With thanks to our Illustration tutor Steven Hersey and his suggestion, we are excited to announce the them for this challenge is Superheroes! We have added a literal translation of the theme below in…

Welcome to our artwork for this weekends art challenge where the theme is Winter! We knew that this subject would allow our students to be very creative and come up with a wide range of paintings and drawings for this…

This weeks challenge is quite an open theme – its anything to do with Winter. You could draw or paint all sorts of things from a still life of pine cones, to a wintery snow scene, skaters on an ice…

Welcome to our first art challenge of the New Year and what an amazing array of artwork we have been sent! Our theme this week was Teddy Bears and we love them all! So many different bears in different poses….

Welcome to our very first Art Challenge for 2020! We hope that you all had a lovely festive season and New Year and are ready to get back into the swing of things again with our art challenges. We thought…

We would like our students to take part in our Big Christmas challenge Advent Calendar. It is very simple. Find something along a Christmas theme to paint or draw for us to post on the blog this month. Send as…

We are speechless! WOW! What an incredible amount of entries for this weeks Art Challenge. It was based on the brief of Exotic birds and we found the students a few copyright free photos to get started. Alternatively they could…

What an art challenge we have for you this week! Its all about colour! Lots of bright intense and vivid tones and hues to portray some exotic birds. You can use any of the photos below which are copyright free,…

Welcome to the results of our Art Challenge which we sent our students last Friday. It was to create a drawing or painting in any medium, on the subject of Nuts. We have received some beautiful and very creative pieces…

We would love for you to find a collection of nuts to draw or paint! Hopefully, heading fast towards Christmas, there should be lots of choice in supermarkets or your local shops. You can portray as many as you would…

Welcome to our post all about the artwork from this weekends art challenge ‘onions and garlic’. What an amazing array of drawings and paintings our students have created! We are so pleased and utterly delighted at how many students took…

We all have some onions and garlic lurking in our kitchen somewhere. Whether it be onions in the bottom of our salad draw in the fridge or garlic in a very beautiful garlic pot adorning your kitchen. What ever you…

Welcome to this week blog post all about the wonderful artwork from the art challenge all about reflections in a mirror. We have been sent a wide range of very creative pieces of art which i hope you all enjoy…

This weekends challenge is all about objects or things reflecting in a mirror. You can choose anything to set in front of your mirror, try to portray some of the background and surrounding area too. There will be a lot…

Welcome to this weeks Halloween Challenge. I hope that you aren’t too scared looking at the amazing artwork on offer this week. Particuarly Magdalena’s ink artwork – incredible!! Our students must have had a lot of fun completing this challenge….

Welcome to our spookiest challenge of the year! Calling all illustrators, cartoonists and painters! Send us some of your spookiest and eeriest cartoons, spooky characters or your draw the most spooky still life set up you can! Have fun with…

Welcome to our Autumn leaves artwork challenge – and what a popular subject this one was! We have received so many amazing paintings of leaves, they are all simply stunning! It’s the right time of year for leaf drawing and…

Welcome to our Autumn leaves weekend art challenge. We thought that as it is getting very autumnal outside here in the UK, it might be great to have an autumnal challenge. The paintings below have been created by artist Eliot…

Welcome to this weekend Art Challenge – Scones, Jam and Cream! Is it making anyone hungry yet? All of the students have handled the texture of the scones beautifully. This wasn’t an easy task, especially with the sones and cream…

This weekends challenge is going to be difficult to not eat while you are drawing or painting it! We would love for you to draw or paint some scones with jam and cream. Your only dilemma is – are you…

Welcome to this weeks art challenge depicting of oranges and orange peel. This is a fantastic exercise as it combines not only colour but also the varied textures on the orange and peel to contend with. If you think about…

This weekend’s art challenge is very orange! We would like you to portray either an orange, tangerine or clementine with the peel coming off, revealing part of the inside of the orange. It can be similar to some of the…

Welcome to our latest art challenge – the three colour challenge. What a wonderful selection of artwork we have for everyone to see today!! So many different genres all using just three colours. Isn’t it amazing what can be achieved…

This is going to be quite a fun challenge as we would like you to create a painting using three colours – but with no actual mixing to ‘make’ colours. You have a few options. You could set up a…

Let’s dive right in to our fantastic challenge all about Water Lilies! What a beautiful array of artwork we have received this week. Our students have excelled themselves, each and every painting really brings out our students own unique styles…

Welcome to this weekends Water Lily Art Challenge! Water Lilies have to be one of the most graceful and beautiful plants to adorn our ponds and lakes. You only have to take a look at the many paintings Monet created…

Welcome to this weeks artwork for our most recent weekend challenge – Sentimental Objects. This was a great challenge as it allowed our students to choose exactly what they wanted to draw from anything in their home that means a…

Tutor Monique Piscaer Bailey suggested we choose a sentimental object to create a drawing or painting from for one of our art challenges. We thought it was a wonderful idea and we know that it will get you all thinking!…

This weekends challenge was to draw or paint an apple with a bite out of it. It is not the easiest of challenges as you not only have to portray the soft and shiny skin of the apple, but also…

This weekend art challenge is to draw or paint an apple with a bite taken out of it! Easy! Perhaps not! We would like you to try to represent the texture of the inside of the apple and capture the…

Welcome to this weekends challenge – toys! Bears feature quite heavily and I think that would be a lovely challenge on its own for later in the year. However here our beautiful cuddly bears mixed with some lovely toy drawings…

This weekends art challenge is all about children’s toys. We would like you to portray either one single toy or a collection – the choice is yours. We have added some ideas below for you. If you don’t have access…

Welcome to this weeks challenge – a very outdoorsy one for the summer – pebbles! We certainly set our students quite a challenge this week as pebbles are not easy to capture in pencil, paint or digital. However our students…

Welcome to our Weekend Challenge – Stones and Pebbles. We would love our students to create artwork from the photos below. Alternatively if you have access to a beach, river or pebbles in your garden, set up your own still…

Welcome to our latest weekend challenge. We asked our students to create a copy or their own version of their favourite piece of artwork. We have received a stunning selection of artwork submitted by our wonderful students. If you view…

This weekends challenge is a little bit different. We would like you to recreate your favourite painting or drawing, either as a copy or in your own style, as homage to your favourite artist. We would like you to show…

Welcome to another very popular weekend challenge – Seascapes! We have received an amazing number of paintings this week and we hope you enjoy viewing them all. We have added all of the paintings and drawings below with students names…

Welcome to this weeks seascapes art challenge. We would like you to paint or draw in any medium a seascape. You can work from life if you live near the coast, you can take photos and create your artwork at…

Welcome to our weekend challenge all about Dogs. The challenge was set to either draw or paint my own dog Lily, your dog or a dog of your choice. We have been inundated with paintings and drawings so I have…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge! We thought that we would encourage all of our students who enjoy painting and drawing dogs, a chance to show us their dog portrait skills. But this challenge isn’t just for our pet portraits…

Our egg-citing weekend challenge this week was all about eggs! Shelia Browns oil painting with a pallet knife is simply egg-cellent! Loving the texture! Lynette Dobsons coloured pencil drawing of eggs on cloth is simply stunning and Avril Walkers egg-squisite…

This weekends Art Challenge is very challenging! We would like you to set up a still life of eggs laying on a cloth. We have taken some photographs of eggs on a linen cloth however you can use any kind…

Welcome to the reveal of our students artwork on the theme of reflections. So many varying styles and ideas of this theme. It is amazing how students can come up with completely different and unique ideas to convey the word…

Welcome to our latest artwork challenge all about reflections. We see reflections everywhere, whether it be tiny reflections in a drop of water on a window from the rain, to our own reflections peering into puddle. Reflections can be from…

Welcome to our latest weekend challenge artwork! This weeks challenge was to paint or draw a bottle or jug and fill it half or three quarters with a liquid along with a glass with liquid in sitting next to it….

Welcome to this weekends challenge. It’s quite a tricky one. We would like you to draw or paint a bottle and glass with liquid in half or three quarters full. It doesn’t have to be a wine bottle and wine…

Congratulations to all of our students who completed this weeks art challenge – peppers and chillis! We absolutely love them all and are always thrilled when art challenge artwork fly into our inbox each week. We also really enjoy viewing…

Welcome to our latest weekend challenge. This one is an easy one! We would like you to draw or paint some peppers or some chillies – or both! Any colour, any shape, any size. Whole, or cut open the choice…

Each week we set students an art challenge to keep them busy over the weekends and this week we set students the challenge of painting or drawing the corner of their room. We have received two wonderful submissions. Luca’s beautiful,…

Starting the blog post for this weekend art challenge is Pauline Burke. This is the first weekend challenge that we have received a multimedia piece and it is superb! Pauline has also created a traditional drawing below too, scroll down…

This weeks challenge is all about Mushrooms, Toadstools and Fungi. If you have access to various types of mushrooms in your fridge and wish to set up a still life with them, we would love to see your results. Alternatively,…

Sheila Brown ….I am on a small cruise ship in Croatia. This is a view through the porthole!  Alex Lewis…….I just joined the illustration diploma, so this is my first attempt at a weekend challenge. Here’s the view from my kitchen…

Welcome to our latest Weekend Challenge. We would love to see a drawing or painting of the view from your window – or any window! Perhaps you have a lovely view into your garden from your lounge or maybe you…

Well done to Ethne Dian, Pauline Burke and Shiela Brown for creating some beautiful artwork this week for the weekend challenge. Sheilas custard creams are very recognisable too…and we agree perfect for dunking!! We hope you enjoy viewing them and…

This weekend s challenge is slightly different. We would like you to draw or paint a biscuit (cookie) – or a collection of them. We were inspired by the beautiful artwork submission of student Linda Brughera who drew this biscuit…

What wonderful artwork from this weekends challenge. So many beautiful ripe tomatoes in so many different and amazing styles! We really hope that students who are reading our blog are drawing inspiration from these challenges. They really show how far…

The challenge for this week is to paint some ripe red tomatoes. You can design them however you wish. Portray them on a chopping board whole or cut, arranged on a plate or bowl, you can even add some cheese…

Welcome to this weeks collection of artwork from our weekend Challenge – Pointillism! We have received such a wonderful response from our students, especially exciting to hear from Pauline who watched the video we posted showing the use of cotton…

Student Emily Kent suggested we have a Pointillism art challenge! One of the artists that made Pointillism popular was the artist George Seurat. Two of his most famous paintings, which we are sure that you will all recognise, are the…

Welcome to the reveal of student artwork from this weeks Art Challenge – Sandwiches. To be able to improve on your drawing and painting skills it is important to try to draw anything and everything. Sandwiches are perhaps something that…

Following on from our cake challenge, student Julie Smalley suggested we have a sandwich challenge! So we would like you to draw or paint any kind of sandwich. It can be a toasted sandwich, a doorstop with thick bread, a…

Welcome to our weekend Challenge – Cakes! Such a popular subject to paint and draw, we have had many students take part as you can see below. Sheila Brown said – ‘one cake was just not enough’.. and we agree…

Welcome to our weekend challenge, all about cakes! You can draw, paint or illustrate any kind of cake. It could be a Vanilla Custard Slice, Battenburg, Fresh cream scone, Chocolate eclairs, Bakewell Tarts, Macaroons or what about a Long Jam…