Author: London Art College
Student Lydia Weber has been working with tutor Monica Cilmi on our Pastel Art Course and has produced some exceptional artwork in her latest set. We adore the vibrancy of each piece, the movement Lydia has created along with plenty…
Welcome to our Colour Challenge. Every month we provide a new colour challenge whereby students can draw or paint anything they would like, as long as it is within those colours. This month we would like students to create artwork…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge ….. which was quite the challenge! We asked our students to draw something in either pen or pencil using a continuous line. It might sound easy, but actually its pretty tricky! It really…
Student Angela Willis completed all of these fantastic drawings on the Drawing With Pens Art Course. We love them, Angela has created some lovely lines and texture. Pens are often overlooked as a medium. If you would like to learn…
Pet Portrait student Patricia Clarke submitted her third assignment for the Pet Portrait Diploma Course and has created two superb submissions below. The first was created in pastel and the second Acrylic. We have added the reference photos Patricia used…
Student Rachel Shelly has been studying hands, feet and eyes, whilst working on our Drawing and Painting Course. She has created some wonderful studies which you can see below. We do try to encourage our students to work from life…
Our challenge this week has been chosen by student Rachel Pesterfield. We would like for you to draw a picture using one continuous line. Its not an easy challenge! A lot of thought needs to go into the subject, what…
Welcome to our first weekend art challenge results of 2022! And we are starting the year off with a Bang! Our challenge this week was for students to represent the words Noisy and Loud and we have recieved some fabulous…
Young artist Kasi Wyatt (aged 14) has been practicing her drawing skills and submitted these for one of her assignment below. She is taking our Drawing for Children Art Course 1. We absolutely love the study of the extension plug,…
Student Davina Raffaelli created these excellent drawings whilst working though our Drawing with Pens Art Course. As you can see from Davina’s artwork, using different papers and pens can give wide variety of textures, colours and results. We love how…
Student Yianna Charalambous completed these stunning paintings on the final set of the Landscape Painting course. We felt that they were more than worthy to be showcased on our blog, we particularly love the old car painting. So much texture…
Welcome to the first art challenge of 2022 which is all about being ‘Noisy and Loud’! The complete opposite from a few weeks ago when we did a peace and quiet challenge. What do you envisage when you think of…
Here are some wonderful paintings from student Jane Naylor who recently completed Still Life Course tutored by Alan Dedman. We have added some txt to go along side the paintings from Jane which students might be interested in reading. We…
Student Christine Emery has created three beautiful and exquisite drawings for her 5th assignment on the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course. We hope that you enjoy viewing Christine’s artwork in detail and we are sure her set 6 assignment artwork will…
Two wonderful and very colourful paintings today by student Inga Berkenstrater who completed our Colour Awareness Course recently. If you would like to find out what our Colour Awareness Course is all about, head on over to our website to…
Today we have some lovely studies from Kenneth Hustwitt who created these while working on the Drawing with pens art course. Take a look at our course page to read about how you can use pens as an art medium…
We have a stunning selection of students work to show you today. They are all from students who are studying our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Our students have designed some very creative and well thought out illustrations, along with…
Student Maria Pereira created these wonderful oil paintings whilst studying our Oil Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Maria has created two abstract paintings and we particularly love the textures she has made in the painting below. The pastel colours…
Young artist Asher Wood has completed these two drawings for the Drawing For Children Course 2. They are absolutely wonderful. Asher set up two still life studies, the first was to draw his guitar from different angles as sketches and…
London Art College student Jean-Cristophe Catera has created some beautiful landscape paintings for his assignment on the Landscape Diploma Course. They are all absolutely stunning and we hope that our students are inspired by, not only the subjects and composition…
Student Serena Carter created these wonderful pieces of work while on the Coloured Pencil Course. Serena has explained about the drawings which you can read below, we are so pleased that she enjoyed her time with Monica Cilmi on the…
I want to thank Gayle Mason for introducing me to the dog painting world on the Pet Portraits Course. She has shown me methods I would never have known had I been training myself. Firstly I enjoyed designing my own…
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our lovely students far and wide, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Wherever you will be spending the festive season, enjoy yourselves, relax and keep safe….
My weekend challenge, ‘Christmas’ Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving and of families united. Merry Christmas to all! We absolutely adore Bhawna’s painting of ‘Christmas’ and we hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas…
We are in absolute awe of student Sally Studley’s artwork below. We love it, it’s so beautiful! We wish Sally and her family a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. Looking forward to seeing more artwork from Sally…
Merry Christmas! My latest Christmas drawing. I‘m enjoying seeing all the Christmassy pictures here and on Instagram. #weekendchallenge We are thrilled you are enjoying the christmas artwork Priscilla and the Christmas collage on Instagram. If our readers haven’t seen our…
A wonderful Robin by London Art College student Rosalind today. We wish Rosalind and her family a very happy an safe Christmas, from all of us here at the college.
We love this one from Audrey Quinton, wonderful watercolour and pen study. we hope everyone is nearly ready for Christmas!!
One year, as a young child, I collected 100 hazelnuts from the garden, and presented them to my Mum to help save some money at Christmas time. This is ‘Posting hazelnuts’.
…..what had never thought about before: Maybe Father Christmas is a rather cool guy? Who knows? No one has ever seen him…
LAST MONTH TO ENTER the Derwent Art Prize Artists from around the world have until 4 JANUARY 2022 to… ✨ Enter artworks created in any pencil, including colour, water soluble, pastel, graphite and charcoal pencils. You can enter up to…
We are far away from our home so I will send these cards to my mom and sister for Christmas this year.Watercolor on paper.
‘It’s almost Christmas again and I would like to wish HOPE to everyone! My snowman was painted in watercolour, pen ink and acrylics.” We love your snowman Josiene and would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas from all…
“I wanted to draw an image of the traditional way of communicating by post at Christmas. In this digital world I think it would be sad for Christmas cards and letters to Santa by post disappearing for good.” We agree…
Some wonderful christmas cartoons today by Cartooning course student Alfred Reid. We love them and hope you do too!
“ Winter Fox “ I painted this Christmas card from my childhood memories. Red Fox in the snow reminds me Christmas is on the horizon. I have used acrylics on acrylic paper.
December challenge finally finished. Acrylic paints with white Posca for the highlights. White Posca is great for fine lines like cat’s whiskers on a dark background and can be purchased on amazon.
We love this scene by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar, isn’t it wonderful! It will be featured on our Instagram collage soon too. Have you seen our instagram page yet? its pretty epic! Come over and follow us…. https://www.instagram.com/londonartcollege/
Merry Christmas to everyone at London Art College. A few of my silly snowmen…. Lynne Bagnall We would like to wish Lynne a very Happy Christmas too, we love her snowman collection and hope that they make you all smile!
Weekend Challenge ‘What December Means to Me’… December means festive rush – definitely. This little elf is moving with the times, as you will see if you read his message board. But will the mouse move too? Merry Christmas!
Weekend Challenge: What December means to me – For me this time of year means remembering family and friends who celebrate Christmas or Chanukah. This is a double sided design. The design below is the Christmas tree, for this I’ve…
We love this painting by Patti-Ann and know that her cat is just about to pounce on that bauble and cause plenty of Christmas havoc! Well done Patti-Ann – superb painting! Have you created your Christmas painting for our blog…
Here is my rabbit Christmas painting. I used Saunders Waterford paper, watercolours. It is a very popular design at the Art and Craft Events, I go to, especially at Christmas.
A handmade Christmas Angel drawn in coloured pencil by student Rosalind Spilling. We love it – its so beautiful! Well done Rosalind on a really delicate piece.
For me, Christmas is not just about celebrating and spending time with the family, it is also about long walks in nature. Watercolour landscape painting.
I made Chanukah cards this year for friends and drew a Dreidel, a game enjoyed by children at this time of year. It is a watercolour painting.
‘The first tree in the Greenwood.. it was the holly’ How can you have Christmas without holly? Holly has been associated with Christmas since medieval times. It represents so much: Evergreen – being always present Berries – a source of food (although…
IN THE BEGINNING…………………… Now, where did my Art inspiration come from?? Well, believe it or not, pumpkins! Pumpkins, you are saying!! Yes, pumpkins. I am an American, having lived in the UK for many years, since a youngster and being…
The Pastel Certificate course with the London Art College is the perfect way to become well acquainted with all things pastel. From conte sticks, pastel pencils, soft and hard pastels and oil pastels, this course introduces you to a range…
Student Andrew Yorston has been learning to draw on our Beginners Drawing Course. The following studies are form his second assignment. We love the varying techniques Andrew has been utilising, form his line and shade still life, to his heavily…
Some lovely images today by London Art College student Andrea Williamson from the Coloured Pencil Course. We have also added the reference photos Andrea used to work from for her Set two assignments. This might give our students an insight…
Student Cynthia Davidson recently completed our Landscape Diploma course with tutor Alan Dedman. The images below are from Cynthia’s final set. We have also added her collection of study images which Cynthia created in preparation for her final piece. We…
Welcome to the last weekend challenge of the year! We are getting ready for our Christmas countdown once again and we would love for you to get involved. We are looking for 32 pieces of fantastic artwork to be featured…
Welcome to our weekend challenge results, this week, all about the country of France. What amazing artwork we have received this week. So many beautiful pieces, we struggled to find our favourite as there were so many we wanted to…
Student Jane Naylor completed our Still Life Course and submitted some of the images below for her final assignment. Students can use a variety of mediums in the course and can specialise if they require. Jane’s paintings are absolutely wonderful,…
We thought that this was an excellent set of work to show on our blog to explain why its important to develop your work through sketches and studies to get to your final piece. Charito completed the first final piece…
Young artist Georgia Barrett created these amazing drawings whist working on our Drawing For Children course. We absolutely love them and can see that Georgia has a promising career ahead of herself! We hope you enjoy viewing them all too!…
Student Tess Burn has been studying on a number of our London Art College art courses and created these selection of pastel pieces for her assignments on our Pastel Painting course. We love the textures that Tess has created, particularly…
Student Thakur Balbeer Singh suggested that we have a set of challenges based on places around the world. Kind of like a world tour! We thought it was great idea and a good chance to for our students to not…
Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to create a drawing or painting on the theme of ‘Anything that floats’. What amazing paintings and drawing we have received this week. It was so difficult to choose…
London Art College student Helen Acosta has completed her Pet Portrait Diploma Course with tutor Gayle Mason. We love her final painting and her flyer for her portraits is wonderful. We hope you enjoy viewing Helen’s artwork and reading about…
Here are some more amazing pieces of work by student Jenny Nutborne who is working on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. This exercise was for the ‘All is Dark’ challenge. Take a read of Jenny’s notes on her work…
Student Emmet O’Sullivan has just completed the Digital Illustration Course with tutor Monique Piscaer Bailey. We have added some of Emmet’s artwork below and hope you enjoy viewing them. If you have any interest in digital illustration or digital art,…
Student Justė Olsevičiūtė suggested we set a weekend challenge on the theme of ships. We loved that idea and felt we would broaden it a little to encompass any ‘vessel that floats’. So students could indeed paint a ship, a…
Welcome to our results for our weekend art challenge on the alphabet theme. This week our letter was ‘K’ and our students came up with a number of ideas including a variety of kingfishers, Koi, kiwi fruit, kittens, koalas and…
London Art College student Clifford Herbert has just completed our Illustration Diploma course and passed with a Distinction. Tutor Steve Hersey was over the moon with Cliffords work and said – Clifford has just completed his Illustration Diploma course and…
I have recently completed the Illustration Course at the London Art College with tutor Steven Hersey which I very much enjoyed. I have always loved the chaos and joy in Quentin Blake’s illustrations. I had the idea of reimagining the characters in Velazquez’s…
London Art College student Serap Keser has just completed the Botanical Painting Diploma Course with tutor Polly O’Leary. Serap’s artwork is absolutely amazing and you can see more of her work if you head over to Instagram and follow here…
Our final Alphabet challenge of the year! We hope that you have been enjoying them so far! This months Challenge is K! Draw or paint anything beginning with that letter. Its a pretty easy one this month, there are lots…
Welcome to our latest Weekend Art Challenge on the theme of Celebration! We love the artwork that has been created for this theme, especially our feature image this week by student Katja Felbel. The little characters Katja has bought to…
We have shown some of Cerys’s work before on our blog and are always impressed in each painting or drawing she has created. The following shows a selection from on of her assignments on the Pet Portraits Course and some…
Our short courses are an excellent way of dipping your toes into learning to draw or paint and getting a bit of experience and fun along the way. Student Brenda Smith has been experimenting with paint and colours on our…
Some beautiful and delicate drawings today by London Art College student Marianna Magi who created this for one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting Diploma Course. We love them all and hope that our readers are impressed too. If…
Today’s art challenge covers a lot of ground. We would like you to celebrate in art form, the theme ‘celebration’! It could be anything from the birth of a child, a wedding or engagement, a birthday for someone of any…