Monthly Art Challenge
Presenting something new for National Art League members and friends, a monthly art challenge. We will supply a new original reference photo each month and you produce a new piece of art based upon it. Your finished work will appear on this page.
We want you to have fun and to challenge your skills. Either copy the photos as close as you wish or change it up to satisfy your own style and approach, whatever you want. Any size and media. This will be a great way to try something new, or give you a project when you don’t know what to paint next, or to break you out of those annoying ruts! There are no deadlines to submit entries any and all entries will be posted regardless of when submitted.
Digital photos (jpegs) of your finished painting should be sent to Karmen Elsen at , and will be posted within a week thereafter. These will not be judged or critiqued so don’t be nervous about submitting you artwork, but you will be able to compare and enjoy how other artists interpret the images. We will post on this page the Current Month's Art Challenge and entries along with the prior month's Challenge photo and entries for your perusal. Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge the painting size and name of the artist.
The Current Month's Art Challenge Reference is below. As always, you can change the composition, design, lighting, colors and make this your own. Photo Reference from The Elsens
March Art Challenge


April Art Challenge

2015 February Art Challenge
May Art Challenge

Print image
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June Art Challenge
July Art Challenge

August Art Challenge

September Art Challenge


October Art Challenge

November Art Challenge
December Art Challenge

2016 January Art Challenge


February Art Challenge
Edward Augustus Brackett's bust of Washington Allston at the Met Museum
March Art Challenge
Vanderbilt Estate, side of the Main house

April Art Challenge

May Art Challenge


2018 January Art Challenge

2018 February Art Challenge

2018 March Art Challenge
