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Welcome to the results of the first weekend challenge of the year! We set our students a challenge of creating a piece of artwork starting with the letter A. It could have been on any topic or subject as long as it started with A. We have had a number of different objects like apples, avocados, asparagus, aeroplanes and Arks!
Astronauts was popular along with animals, arachnids and words like Angry and Anxiety too. There were so many ingenious and creative paintings and drawings, including a fantastic one by Sarah Hogan that you need to look out for! We hope you enjoy viewing them and we also hope that you have all enjoyed taking part.
Stay tuned as another challenge will be along tomorrow…!
I love the idea of the alphabet challenge. So here is my “A” for “angry”. It is a pencil sketch, the colours are added afterwards with procreate. Barbara SchunkAttached is a watercolour painting based on letter A. This is from a photo taken during a brief walk about break on the way home from a few days in Scotland. It is at Berwick-on-Tweed, last September, a somewhat grey day…….. Norman TharbyWith all the rain we have been having I thought of . . .A for ARK where the animals (antelope and alpaca) entered 2 metres by 2 metres . . . Pauline BurkeA for Aquarelle Elena StathamI recently completed the Illustrating Children’s Books course and I enjoyed it so much that I wish to go on and have just enrolled for the watercolor course. My week-end challenge, just the letter A and some apples. Watercolor and collage. Rose-Marie BiehligMy A for this weeks art challenge. Vicki WatkinsA is for… Apple – using FC Polychromos coloured pencils. Suzanne PrytherchA is for Arab. Return to Giza. Spray Acrylic on canvas board. Dave SmedleyA is for apple. I called this piece “Brain food” Ruth StirtonSome quick food themed sketches and collage for the letter A. Sophie MurphyA – for avocado – been playing with my new toys (polychromos) over Christmas. Liz CollinsFor weekend challenge A is for Anger. Sarah Hogan‘A’ smacks of Art History. Traps my total attention! So here is the plan I feel I must mention. I’ll ape an artist each month, suitably lettered. (A thematical temptation which, for me, can’t be bettered.) As this is the season for snow, cold and damp and icy landscapes. I give you The Master… Hendrick AVERCAMP! Dutch and delightful, from the 17th C his ‘Winter Scene on a Canal’ – is now a pastiche by, well…me. Mixed media. Charcoal pencil and pastel on coloured pastel paper. But please enjoy the real original! Julie SmalleyWeekend challenge: A for Anxiety Khadiga KadryA is for apple. Practicing my shading on the coloured pencil course. Pete TaylorMy drawing in coloured pencils, mainly Prismacolor, A for ant. Marie Désy-FieldThe effect of staying at home is painting what you see around yourself everyday! Mila ZinzenHere’s my painting (in watercolour) for this weekend’s art challenge, beginning with an A, as Arctic Fox. Véra JaouadiA is for Arnold. Rimmer. BsC. Pencil. Jackie GrovesA for aquarium.We generally feel relaxed watching fishes in a aquarium .So starting 2021 in a happy note… Latha Bhaduri PrabakarA is for Astronaut Done with Coloured pencil. Elrita RoosA for ‘Abstract’ so just did this for the weekend challenge. Lynn LockAn albatross in pencil. Nina PhillipsFor the weekend challenge…. painting of Astronaut in space. Shailaja RathinavelWeekend challenge, Animal Dora BirgisA for acrylics . Weekend challenge. I’m on the illustration course, but did this Self portrait in acrylic on board today for something a bit different. Sarah ListerA is for the Animal on the hunt. Done in graphite pencil. Michelle MosleyWeekend challenge – Angel in watercolour and pen Bebe CanterA for apple! My weekend challenge for this week ‘A with Bs’I couldn’t wait to get started on the new #weekendchallenge For me A is for…Arachnid! I have never painted a spider before so thought this would be a good challenge. Love them or hate them you cannot deny they are amazing creatures. We’ve had lots of icy winter mornings here and their cobwebs are quite magical glittering with frost. Happy New Year all! Sarah EgertonDip pen and ink drawing, enjoying playing with my new pen. Lou Addison-BrownMy contribution to the challenge… A for my American cocker spaniel in ink. Dylan F JeskyeAlphabet Challenge ‘Alpha Mike Foxtrot’ Charlotte DraperA for Anemones Judy FeilderWeekend Challenge. A is for Arachnid Trish MarshMy A is for my mum, Anne, who I drew from this old photo Andrea WilliamsJust when you think you’re in charge of your own destiny, the universe hands you a Chance card … call it fate, or karma, if you will. But I reckon A is for Arbitrary. Annette Pfifferling MartiI’ve been a bit under the weather and not really up to much but thought I’d share this for the “A theme” Pete WoolgarWeekend art challenge…. You’ve got to be a Star Wars fan for this one . A is for Ahsoka Tano. Elizabeth RobinsonAaarrgghh! Abstracted After 2020 Acutely Afflicted – CHALLENGE A Carole BusbyThe pastel painting that I did for the 2020 London Art College competition, it can also double up as my contribution to the letter A. Patricia ElliottAstronaut of today facing the challenge of the moment? (I did this one when I was practicing layers in GIMP for the digital illustration course.) Audrey Quinton
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Thoroughly enjoyed looking at the challenge results, it would have been nice to know the courses they were on.
Hi Margo,
So pleased that you have enjoyed the letter A challenge. It would be tricky for me to gather that information on each student Margo, as you can imagine it takes a lot of time to collate everything as it is, however if the students do post which course they are on in the text that goes along with the images, I will always add it for you to see.
Melanie x
. A is for Ahsoka Tano.
Thoroughly enjoyed looking at the challenge results, it would have been nice to know the courses they were on.
Hi Margo,
So pleased that you have enjoyed the letter A challenge. It would be tricky for me to gather that information on each student Margo, as you can imagine it takes a lot of time to collate everything as it is, however if the students do post which course they are on in the text that goes along with the images, I will always add it for you to see.
Melanie x