Weekend Art Challenge – Bugs – London Art College

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge results where we asked students to create a kind of bugs eye view of the world.

We have received some amazing pieces this week and we are loving the spiders web by student Nina Phillips. We have chosen it for our featured image this week as we felt it was quite ingenious. Nina used glue melted from a heat gun, to create a three dimensional and raised quality to the web which is fantastic! Well done Nina!

We love all of the paintings submitted this week and are thrilled that our studnets enjoyed this challenge. We can’t wait to see what you will all bring to the next challenge! Stay tuned till tomorrow!

I spend some time tonight on my PC playing around with Photoshop and transforming a photo of a lovely green grasshopper which I took a little while ago when the insect was sitting on my kitchen window. This is a digital modified and transformed picture of a little grasshopper on a window placed on a dark blue background.
Serafine Christine

Here is my entry for this week’s challenge – it is drawn from photos of the bees in my garden.
The circle in the centre shows how the bees see the world and each other, the rest of the painting shows our view of the scene!
It is painted using pen and ink and watercolour.
Catherine Thompson

This is my watercolour & graphite picture of the strikingly-patterned Jersey Tiger moth which landed in our garden.
Wendy Redvers Harris

The picture is showing a butterfly or better a night moth called Brown Bear (Arctia caja), drawn with Faber Castell Polychromos on greenish (light green) Pastel Mat-Paper size DIN A5. The animal was found two days ago by a friend of mine and rescued as it was in danger of flying into a building. It was my first attempt of drawing on this kind of paper.
Serafine Christine

Here is my take on the bug challenge…watercolour/digital/photo mix.
The photo was taken at a magical cottage on British Columbia’s
Sunshine Coast which had a real pond at the bottom of the garden, complete with many, many insects!
Ethne Dian

Weekend Challenge: Garden insect challenge – Above and Below
I’ve done two insects. The top one is a butterfly using acrylic paints and the lower one is a black widow spider (which I’ve paint yellow)
I’ve used children’s & acrylic paints, and to give it a more authentic look I’ve used glue melted from a heat gun.
Nina Phillips

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