The Big Painting Challenge

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Amateur artists attempt to perfect their skills and be crowned the overall champion.

Passionate amateur artists undertake an intensive, six-week, artistic boot camp in a bid to perfect their skills and be crowned the overall champion.

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Mariella Frostrup

Richard Coles

Lachlan Goudie

Daphne Todd

Diana Ali

Pascal Anson

Rachel Watson

Louisa Gray

Paul Newton

The Big Painting Challenge: Series 2: Episode 3: Portraiture

Episode 3

Episode 3: Portraiture

Series 2

Portraiture

BBC One - The Big Painting Challenge, Series 2, Portraiture

The artists travel to RAF Hendon, where they must conquer two portraiture challenges.

Amateur painting competition presented by Mariella Frostrup and Reverend Richard Coles. The artists travel to RAF Hendon, where they must conquer portraiture.

Eight artists are still in the competition, and this week they must conquer portraiture. To celebrate the RAF centenary the artistic travelling circus has moved to RAF Hendon. The first task our painters are confronted with are the youthful faces of two RAF cadets. Thankfully their mentors, Diana Ali and Pascal Anson, are on hand to help them with the all-important sense of proportion. If they get that wrong they will have no chance of creating a likeness.

This week's masterclasses are full of helpful tips on capturing expression and new ways of mark making and blocking to improve their compositions.

With the arrival of judges Lachlan Goudie and Daphne Todd comes the second challenge. This time our budding Picassos have to deal with the other end of the age spectrum. They must capture the wisdom and spirit of our two sitters, both of whom are veterans of the RAF, and who have over 180 years between them.

The artists' efforts are put in front of ex-RAF personnel and members of the public, who choose their favourite to send through to next week. The rest are at the mercy of our judges, who will be dispatching someone from the competition.

Overseeing proceedings, providing words of encouragement and a shoulder to cry on, as always, are Mariella Frostrup and Reverend Richard Coles.

The Big Painting Challenge: Series 2

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