Author: London Art College

Welcome to our scary results for this weekends art challenge on the theme of Halloween!! Our feature image this week is by student Pauline Burke who created a very atmospheric and clever way of portraying lots of glowing pumpkins in…

Student Jane Tivey has created two wonderful drawings of her hands for her pastel course assignment. Read about how Jane created the drawings below. Tonal Hand – I decided to try with the back of my hand on the table…

Coloured Pencil student Carole Mallatratt had created two wonderful drawings for her Coloured Pencil Course. The task was to set up a still life and then first draw it in graphite pencil to get to grips with the depth of…

Young artist Alec Anderson (10 years and 9 months old at the time!) created the following drawings whilst studying our Drawing for Children Course 1. Aren’t they amazing! If you have a budding little artists in your household, why not…

We have a wonderful collection of paintings to show today. All of our students have created incredible paintings below and we hope that you enjoy viewing them. Scroll down to see the artwork and the students who painted them. The…

This weekends art challenge is all about Halloween. It’s that time of year again! You can create a scary painting or drawing using your wild imaginations, or perhaps choose to do something a little more traditional with a still life…

What an absolutely fantastic idea for a challenge. Thank you to Latha Bhaduri Prabakar for suggesting the theme for us this week – Indoor Sports! Latha has created the artwork below of a hula hoop lady and it’s full of…

Prior to this course, my experience in art other than a very brief sojourn in my twenties was at school during the 1970’s, where we were left to our own devices and radio 1 playing the hits of the decade….

Student Lesley Booth has completed the Coloured Pencil Diploma Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monika was thrilled with Lesley’s artwork and sent it to us for inclusion here on our blog. We are thrilled she did. Aren’t her pieces wonderful!…

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Colour Pencils Course and would certainly recommend it: there is so much more to colour pencils than I imagined and Monika has been so helpful and encouraging with her feedbacks. Wild Animals For this composition…

Welcome to the winners of this years 2021 London Art College Art Competition! The winner is student Shailaja Rathinavel and the runner up is Habimana Augustin. Congratulations to both students, a very well deserved win! Take a look at all of the…

Student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar suggested that we challenge our students to the theme of sports and this week we have narrowed it down to ‘indoor Sports’. This can cover a wide range of sports, including gymnastics, indoor basketball, tennis, badminton,…

⚽️ Calling all ART & FOOTBALL fans! Exciting news:The Football Art Prize is CALLING FOR ENTRIES, giving artists the opportunity to… 🎨 Show their work to a distinguished panel of judges, including @davidjamesofficial @lottewubbenmoy @sachacraddock and Mark Wallinger. Take part in an exhibition which…

The UK Coloured Pencil Society’s 20th Anniversary Gala Exhibition. Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 October at Bargehouse @oxotowerwharf in London The exhibition will include 250 works by 150 UK and international artists – making it the largest exhibition @colourpenciluks ever…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge, all about Egypt. We asked our students to research Egypt and find out about the country, their culture and landscape. We then asked them to create a piece of artwork from what they had…

Student Philip Hickin has been creating some fantastic artwork for the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and has just passed the course with a well deserved Distinction. We would like to officially congratulate Philip and wish him well in his…

In the past 18 months a lot has been said about the benefits of doing art or simply being creative, and I’m sure I won’t be able to write anything that hasn’t already been written or said in this regard. …

After finishing my Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma from London Art College, I have written and illustrated a few books and these are published at Apple Books online available for 51 countries to purchase. My latest book is called ‘Once Upon a…

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 most recent weekend art challenge where we invited our students to draw or paint something beginning with the letter J. Our feature image this week is by student Lowri Tolman who painted the various types of Jays…

This piece was one of the illustrations I produced for an early assignment in the Illustration course and is an illustration of a short poem by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This was the final illustration of the set and the poem…

I often visit The London Art College Facebook page and look at all the students’ excellent work, and fondly remember studying the Illustrating Children’s Book Course, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I passed with a merit in 2011. I can’t believe…

Our annual London Art College competition is now closed. All of the entries can be seen online on our dedicated entry page. Did you enter? Click the link below to go and see if you are there! If you have…

Jenny Nutbourne is currently working on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Jenny’s Fiery Fred project is shown below in full, from the initial concept through to the final piece. We love her thought process and the…

Welcome to our Alphabet Challenge. This month it is the letter J! For those students who are new to the alphabet challenge, we have a new letter of the alphabet each month and students can draw or paint anything as…

Welcome to the results of the weekend art challenge all about Childhood Memories. We asked our students to cast their minds back to when they were a child and illustrate a memory or feeling from that time. Not an easy…

I had a lot of fun with this editorial exercise in the Illustration Course. We had to produce a quarter page and matching spot illustration for an article about chicken enrichment. I have chickens of my own so I really…

I’m Sarah a 13 yr old who had enrolled in the Beginners Drawing Course. So before joining the London art college course, I did like to draw in my free time, but this course developed a completely new interest in…

Send a clear and in focus photo or scan of your artwork via email to entries@londonartcollege.co.uk making sure that it is cropped to the actual artwork – ie not showing mounts / frames or backgrounds. Enter today!!

Jenny Nutbourne is currently working on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Jenny’s artwork is not only incredible, but she has annotated her drawings which we felt would be really interesting for our students to read….

Student Dora Birgis came up with the idea of illustrating, drawing or painting memories from our childhood. This challenge might make your ponder for a while, in not only what you will portray but how you will create it. A…

Welcome to our latest challenge where we asked our students to complete a piece of artwork using pastel colours. Students could choose any subject and any medium. We received some really lovely ideas and creative artwork this week. Our featured…

I decided to paint three citrus fruits together to give me an opportunity to explore a few different bright colours. I started with the lemon. I think I got the roundness and shape of the lemon ok. Of the three…

Student Ingrid Baron has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma course with tutor Paul Weaver. Paul was delighted with Ingrid’s work and we have showcased a few of her pieces below. We love her woodland toadstool scene, it has lots…

My daughter introduced me to the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. She had already enrolled. She had written a novel and wanted to be able to illustrate it herself. She thought I might be interested. The pandemic offered the unexpected…

Welcome to our Colour Challenge. This month we are setting our students a new colour challenge and it is a little more open than other months. We challenge you to draw or paint anything using only Pastel colours. These colours…

Welcome to the results from this weekends art challenge. It was quite a tricky one this week. We asked our students to draw something using their non dominant hand. So if students were left handed, draw with the right and…

It was amazing to have chosen the Beginner‘s Painting Course. I would like to thank my teacher Monika Cilmi. I had been drawing almost all my life and did lettering for a while, but somehow wanted to dive into painting,…

Having completed my final assignment, I have looked back over the journey. There is a lot of useful information in the study units and I’ll continue to look back over the course material because I’m sure that I can continue…

I really don’t want to end the Pet Portraits Course! I enjoyed it so much. I felt a bit sad when submitting the final files. I enjoyed reading Gayle’s comments, it helps me to improve. The Ben and Jenny portrait…

Students Rachel Pesterfield and Priscilla Hocking both suggested that students are challenged to drawing a picture with their non dominant hand. We felt this was a great idea as often using your non-dominant hand to draw something either from a…

Welcome to this weekends results for our art challenge all centred around the letter i. We have received some beautiful results this week and our featured image is by student Nina Phillips. Her ice skates are absolutely wonderful, so spangly…

A lovely selection of work today by student Lydia Weber who completed the Pastel Painting Course recently We love Lydia’s artwork, especially the landscape which is so full of life and vibrancy and we wish Lydia the best of luck…

We would like to congratulate Suzanne Prytherch on passing her Botanical Coloured Pencil Diploma and have added her final assignments below with the accompanying text as we feel that it will give insight to our other students in how Suzanne…

Student Brenda Smith created the following paintings while studying on our Beginners’ Painting Course. Brenda has been experimenting with colour charts and colour pallets and has also painted a very limited pallet still life which you can see below. We…

Welcome to our latest Alphabet Challenge. This month we are working with the letter I. It’s a tricky one this time – unless you are a huge fan of Apple and you have a collection of iPhones, iPads or iPods…

Welcome to the results of our weekend challenge all about Iceland. This challenge was a lovely one, to learn about and different country and culture and explore the scenery and animals. Puffins feature beautifully, we have a gorgeous Arctic fox,…

Student Santi Chetia has created some amazing paintings on the Still Life Course recently and we have added a handful below for you all to view. Santi’s composition ideas and layouts are fantastic and the ideas for her still life…

Michelle Emmerson is working towards completing her diploma in Pet Portraits and has created some absolutely wonderful paintings and pastels which we have showcased below. Her work is stunning, the detail within the horse is superb making it very realistic…

Natalia Nesterenko created these paintings while studying on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. We love the bold, bright colours Natalia has used and has created movement and flow in her paintings with her brush strokes. Her strong drawing skills…

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 the results of the latest art challenge where we set out students the task of creating a painting or coloured drawing using only greens. We had some amazing feedback about this challenge on our facebook group. Green seems…

For the animal exercise on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course I chose a fox as they are one of my favourite animals. First I filled an A4 page of quick sketches of foxes walking, then using those as a…

This was my favourite of the three exercises in this set.  I was really wary to start with, so I did a graphite version first, so get a feel for the shapes and shadows, and I found that to be…

Student Kasey Medina is working towards completing our Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. She has created three wonderful paintings for one of her assignments. We love Kasey’s wet in wet washes, especially the blue sky in the day…

Welcome to our Colour Challenge. This month the challenge is to paint or draw anything with two shades of green and everything else green in between! Sounds easy? We understand that there can be other minor colours within the artwork,…

Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge where we set our students the task of painting with watercolour. They could paint any subject or object, just as long as they splashed paint on paper and had fun. We have received…

These paintings by Monika Baum are from the final assignments for the Botanical Coloured Pencil course tutored by Ida Mitrani. Monika’s artwork is stunning and we love the Chillis in particular. They are so striking don’t you think? “I chose…

I am a self taught artist and want to become a full-time drawing teacher. Thanks to London Art College for offering such a wonderful course which is designed to help all people including some one like me who had no…

I’m doing the drawing and painting course and loving every minute of it. The first three pictures are from unit 3 of my course all concentrating on tonal shading. I loved learning all about this aspect of art and its…

Student Justė Olsevičiūtė has suggested that we challenged students to use one specific medium for a weekend challenge. So this weekend we would like students to only use watercolour. The theme can be anything you would like to paint, however…

Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. This week we asked our students to come up with a piece of art on a subject or object beginning with the letter H. Our feature image today is by…

We have two wonderful coloured pencil pieces today by student Catherine Verdoene who is studying Botanical Coloured pencil course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Ida was thrilled with Catherine’s artwork and we all agree! It’s beautifully delicate and we are are…

Student Jane Zonneberg has submitted her second assignment for the Illustration Course. Tutor Steven Hersey was absolutely delighted with her artwork and we are thrilled to be able to show it here on our blog today. We hope that our…

We have some lovely work by students who are studying the Graphic Design Art course with tutor Vanessa Weaver. This first piece is by Philip Hickin who submitted his proposal for a book jacket. He has used complementary colours to…

This months Alphabet Challenge is H! We challenge our students to draw or paint anything beginning with that letter. Its a pretty easy one this month, there are lots of choices including hedgehogs, horses, hens, helicopters, hearts, houses, hoover, hairbrush,…

STILL LIFE I found this still life on Pixabay and thought that it would be a challenge to achieve the texture of the fur , as it was very different to an animal fur. There were also lots of values ,…

Welcome to today’s blog post which shows the wonderful artwork by student Hu Zete who has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a Distinction. We wish him the best of luck with his future drawings and paintings…

I selected four different works for the final set on the Chinese brush painting course, although I made many others. This time the most difficult part was to obtain a fish whose body actually looks to fluidly swim in the…

Our London Art College competition is officially open to all of our students! Send us one piece of work that you have created. It can be in any medium apart from pure photography. It doest have to be a piece…

Welcome to this weekends art challenge where we asked our students to come up with artwork on the theme of the colour Black. Not an easy challenge – one to make you think! We have received some ingenuous pieces of…

We have a lovely collection of work today by London Art College Student Davina Raffaelli who has just completed the Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. We wish Davina the best of luck with her future artwork and art…

We have two wonderful students today who have produced some beautiful pieces of artwork for our Graphic Design Art Diploma Course. Geoff Ofodile and Ehlgee Guiamoy have impressed our tutor Vanessa Weaver, we have added the images below along with…

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 it is a little different, as suggested…

Welcome to the scariest blog post we have had for a while… read on if you dare! We asked our students this week to create artwork on the theme of Creepy Crawlies. If you scroll down the page, you will…