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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 you can see both the painting and a photo Rebecca took in full, at the bottom of this page. Rebecca said……
The painting was a happy accident which had to include the northern lights, done with acrylics, oil pastels, chalk and gold leaf.
What a stunning painting with lots of texture and feeling.
We also love the delicate and soft pastel that Pauline has created below. Pauline has blended the colours of the northern lights together beautifully and into the background with the stars too. Absolutely stunning.
Everyone here should be thrilled with their achievements and a big hello to our new students who have submitted for the first time too. Keep up the create work everyone!
New challenge on its way tomorrow!
I loved the idea of the northern lights! Tried black paper and pastels but found it hard to get a fluorescent green effect! Enjoyed it anyway and look forward to the blog to see how it can be done! PaulineThis is my first trial for the Weekend Art Challenge on the Northern Lights with watercolour paints. Hyeyoung Jess1Painted in “interactive acrylic” on watercolour paper. Sheila BrownThis is my painting of nordic lights in winter scenery for a change. Barbara DerekaThis is my contribution to the Weekend Challenge – Northern Lights. Lill BrodersenColored Pencil with a little bit of ball point pen and chalk Ada TothMy contribution to ‘ Northern Lights’ Challenge. Oils on canvas. Dorothy RobinsonWeekend Challenge – I didn’t have time to finish this piece as it is in oils which doesn’t dry quickly but I hope to finish it soon. I was supposed to go to Iceland at the end of June this year but my trip got cancelled. This is like painting somewhere unknown of which I still can’t wait to visit. Anna Charlotte JankeGod’s painting is aurora borealis.I could not do it properly.Just a try.. Latha Bhaduri PrabakarTitle – The Northern Light and The Pine Tree Media – GIMP Sally S‘NL’… A crowd of hopefuls is disappointed. But at least it’s a starry, starry night, so they’re ‘ Not Losers’. Wax crayon on coloured Canford paper. Julie SmalleyThis weekend project – Northern Lights. Watercolour and marker Charlotte DraperMy Northern Lights. Pastel on coloured paper. Enjoyed drawing it! Mila ZinzenDidn’t do this at the weekend for the challenge, but on a Bob Ross instructor course, a few years ago. Oils on canvas, of course. Maria MoonHopefully a photo is ok for the weekend challenge – I was going to do a painting of it, but so just have too much going on this weekend. I took this last fall in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was my first time seeing or photographing the northern lights. I was so excited! Connie Hohman BerryWeekend Challenge. Northern lights oil on canvas board. Jackie GrovesHi all, here’s my version of Northern Lights which was done digitally. Happy weekend 🙂 Tim HsiehNorthern lights. Quick sketch. Thanks for the advice in the instructions. Helen JaegerFor the Northern lights I used a base card with different shades of blue. Oil pastels were used and I used my fingers to smudge the colours together. The edge of a ruler was used to separate some of the colours to give a slightly uneven effect. Nina PhillipsNorthern lights. In Finnish they are called revontulet: fox fires. Tiina MeurmanAbove & Below My attempt at the weekend challenge ‘ Northern Lights by a Northern Lad’. Really hoping to see this phenomenon for real one day. Original in watercolour + Photoshop embellished version added also. Chris RyeChris RyeThe first painting was a happy accident which had to include the northern lights, done with acrylics, oil pastels, chalk and gold leaf. The photo is one I took whilst in Tromso, Norway in 2016. I was lucky enough to spend 3 months in Finland and spent a long weekend in Norway at the right time with camera at the ready. Thank you Rebecca Blake
