Weekend Art Challenge – Black – London Art College

Welcome to this weekends art challenge where we asked our students to come up with artwork on the theme of the colour Black. Not an easy challenge – one to make you think! We have received some ingenuous pieces of artwork which you can see below.

Our featured image this week is shared by two students, Lavina Gonsalves who created a beautiful painting of a golden peacock on a black background and Nina Colva who created a painting of a juice box… Nina said…

I’m doing the perspective unit on the Drawing and Painting Diploma so thought I’d do a little juice box. I used my new Himi Gouache with Fabre Castel Polychromos. First time I’ve not used pen to outline.

We love all of the pieces of artwork that has been created especially for this weekend challenge. Next week is going to be slightly different… perhaps not so much of a challenge – but all will be revealed tomorrow.

Loved the challenge this week and really wanted to draw the light bulb on the blog in pastels.
Pauline Burke

orange / black pastel drawing of melon in the night! When else you can eat it if the days are so hot! The orange colour is so lively and vivid, especially against a black background!
Mila Zinzen

Tiger Dragon as named by my children. A2 Charcoal and pencil orange and blackish background
Claire Cross

Black acrylic on canvas board with acrylic lemon yellow. The inspiration came from a recent visit to the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket.
Norman Tharby

Orange is a vibrant colour.whereas black is an universal colour.
I have done a leaf painting using this colours
Latha Bhaduri Prabakar

I have used Derwent Grass Green Studio coloured pencil on black card. I had to focus on lowlights as these were the areas I had to leave more of the background showing in order to have more colour where the highlights should be – normally the highlighted areas would be the areas left; in reality the leaves vary slightly in colour but this was the only green that really showed up against the black!
Rosalind Spilling

I could resist this Bullyland Alpine Newt. I drew the newt first, coloured it with dry watercolour pencil and used an ink pad and a cork to create the dots. The background is plain orange card and the black card is thin corrugated card.
Nina Phillips

Acrylic. “the best thing to hold into in life is each other.”
Bhawna Sinha

I was inspired by the wonderful dream tree in the movie “The BFG” (film by Steven Spielberg, children’s book by Roald Dahl) – acrylic painting.
Véra Jaouadi

Orange Alstroemerias on black paper. Gouache and pastel pencil. Only orange was used in the making of this painting!
Dinah Barker

andom spontaneous Gimp digital illustration of a flame in the night.
Sally Studley

‘Orange and Black’ ‘Flames Alive’
Watercolour on Black Watercolour paper. I love these colours as it reminds me of the forthcoming Halloween!!
Debbie Davidge

One man and his dog. Watercolour on paper.
Shankar N Kashyap

Full moon. Watercolour with pen and ink.
Lowri Tolman

My pencil sketch in shades of black & amber!
Afshan Quraishi

The background is black but shiny (ink) and reflecting the light.
Dinah Barker

A pen and ink self portrait, not too flattering but I quite like it!
Chris Rye

Orange & Black. Been doing the perspective unit on the Drawing and Painting Diploma so thought I’d do a little juice box. I used my new Himi Gouache with Fabre Castel Polychromos. First time I’ve not used pen to outline.
Nina Colva

Weekend challenge orange and black
Lavina Gonsalves

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