Author: London Art College
‘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…
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,…