In the June issues Leisure Painter and The Artist we invited readers to enter the third of six summer sketchbook challenges set by David Bellamy in Leisure Painter and Adebanji Alade in The Artist.

June's challenge in Leisure Painter was to sketch at the seaside with the following advice from David: 'This is a lovely time of year for getting out and making the most of the great outdoors, so this month we’ll concentrate on the seaside before it gets too crowded in the school holidays. Try to find a spot by the sea, whether it’s a lonely beach, busy harbour, high cliffs, or perhaps an estuary, with or without boats or people. Take advantage of splashes of flowers in the foreground – estuarine scenes especially benefit from this.

'Try to inject a sense of life into the work in the form of seabirds, dogs, cats, or have your figures doing something, like battling against the wind, sunning themselves in a deck-chair, or that beach fisherman heavily laden with fishing gear. These features will give your work a narrative feel. Add notes to the page with your observations, either on-the-spot or later. Any brilliant ideas that pop into your head should be jotted down quickly, as otherwise they have a habit of vanishing forever.

'If you are unable to get to the sea seek out some wild or garden flowers or hanging baskets. Concentrate on one or two blooms and let the rest fade away, as this will give you a real focal point. Creating a story here might be a little more challenging, but watch out for insect and bird behaviour, and other people’s response to the flowers. Asking young children for their feelings about the flowers is a possible way of triggering interesting and humorous responses.

'Make the most of these long summer days and record both your visual and written thoughts, for how much we all love recalling lovely summer days when trapped indoors in the bleak mid-winter.'

If you are logged into PaintersOnline you can see all of the entries to this competition by clicking here. Of these entries David selected Seaham to Hawthorn Walk by Malcolm Coils (see below) as the winning entry.

Malcolm wins a Caran d’Ache sketching pack worth £50(rrp), comprising 12 water-soluble coloured pencils and a book to illustrate and four graphite pencils with sharpener from Jakar International Ltd.

For The Artist, Adebanji invited readers to sketch trees saying: 'I love trees and am really looking forward to seeing the way you take on this theme. It’s an excuse to visit the park and bring out those sketching materials and have some fun!'

From all of the entries (which you can see by clicking here) the judges selected Dalham Park ( see below) by Geoff Wynn as the winning entry.

Of Geoff's winning sketch (see below) Adebanji said: 'I love this elegant piece of a simple tree trunk. Geoff has handled this majestic object with poise and precision. I love his use of lyrical line, it like poetry on paper. I also love the cropping of the tree, it makes a powerful composition. It could have worked without the tree in the background but with the instinct of a master, he adds that little one, which so kindly complements the larger one. Finally I love how the lines depict the texture of the bark; it is a beautiful sketch of a living tree'

Geoff wins a £50 gift voucher from Great Art.

Our congraulations go to both winning artists.

If you would like to take part in the rest of our summer sketching challenges, please login and visit the competitions page for full details.