The
Big Painting Challenge
BBC
1: 6pm Sundays starting 22nd
February for 6 weeks.
The BBC also has a website promoting
this which has some excellent “How to draw…” pages including faces and
buildings. Well worth visiting.
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The Little Painting Challenge |
The
Little Painting Challenge
[from the website…]
If you’ve been inspired
to take up a brush or pencil by The Big Painting Challenge on BBC One why not
enter The Little Painting Challenge?
All you have to do to
enter is draw or paint your entry on the blank side of one of the pre-printed
postcards, fill in your details, add a stamp and pop it in the post box.
1000 of the best entries
including the winners will be exhibited in the newly refurbished Whitworth Art Gallery
in Manchester from the 4th of May 2015.
Categories
·
Children
Age 7 to 15*
·
16+ Beginner
·
16+
Experienced
*Entrants under 16 must
have permission from a parent or guardian to enter
Closing Date
Entries must be received
by 5pm on Thursday 2nd April 2015.
Prizes
Children: Art supplies
to the value of £250
16+ Categories: Art
supplies to the value of £500
Notes
·
Works in any
media but not digital or computer generated artworks
·
For the purpose
of this competition beginners are described as someone who is untrained,
self-trained or has taken a few classes in art at a basic level. As a guide any art courses attended above A
Level Art would be classified as experienced.
Let’s do it!
more info on how, next week
25 & 26 th February Art Circle at Lytham & St Annes Libraries respectively