Weekend Art Challenge – Famous Artwork

   October 26, 2023  4 Comments on Weekend Art Challenge – Famous Artwork  Posted in Student Artwork

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge where we asked our students to find a famous painting and recreate it! Wow! What amazing artwork we have received. Our students went all out this week and we love the results.

Our featured image is by Watercolour Diploma Student Philip Hatter who copied the Edouard Manet painting – A Bar and the Folies-Bergere. We absolutely love it and you can see the full painting by scrolling to the bottom of the page. Phil said this about the painting….

I decided to have a go at an impression in watercolour of an impressionist oil  painting Edouard Manet painting ‘A Bar and the Folies-Bergere, 1882 it was very challenging but I had great fun doing it and I’m really pleased with the results. I love Manet for the way he uses his darks and his drawing style which can be copied in watercolour.

We have a number of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ paintings and scroll down to find one with more than just a pearl earring too! We also love Rosalind\’ Catherine of Aragon coloured pencil drawing below, beautifully and delicately drawn.

We have left our students to do a bit of research to find the original paintings of each piece below. Thats your homework for the day! Stay tuned for the next challenge tomorrow!

Katherine of Aragon by Michael SITTOW (1469-1525) in coloured pencil.
Rosalind
Peter Paul Rubens “Head and right hand of a woman’
Oksana
I have recently enrolled on the Portraiture Course and this is my attempt at Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child 1890. Huge respect for the way she creates such intimacy between the two. And her hands! Amazing.
Jackie Ross 
Here is the first of my pieces for this weekend’s challenge. It is my version of “Lady in a yellow straw hat” by Jawlensky.
I’ve painted it in acrylics and chose it because of the bright colours.
Catherine Thompson
Here is my second piece – as you can hopefully see – it is a copy of a self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, again painted in acrylics.
Catherine Thompson
By chance, same day this was announced I went in for second piercings in my ears…and chose pearl studs. So-oo just had to replicate Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in honour of the occasion. My version has, of course my own gold hoop plus pearly stud. Unusual memento!’
Julie Smalley
The art that inspired me: The painting of Paul Cezanne.
Aneesha Dilip
Famous masterpieces Edvard Munch’s Scream.
Used just coloured pencils.
Nina Phllips
Girl with the Pearl Earring. Done in coloured pencil
Serena Gausel
Never as easy as you’d hope!
Joan Curnuck
Girl with the Pearl Earring
Debbie Davidge
Karen Price
I painted it from a poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. I used pencil, felt pen and Gimp.
Vera Jaouadi
I decided to have a go at an impression in watercolour  of an impressionist oil  painting ÉDOUARD MANET, A BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE, 1882 it was very challenging but I had great fun doing it and I’m really pleased with the results. I love Manet for the way he uses his darks and his drawing style which can be copied in watercolour.
Phil Hatter

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