Author: London Art College
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…
We love the artwork that student Emily Hemmings has been producing on the Graphic Design in Art Diploma Course with tutor Vanessa Weaver. Vanessa said… Emily Hemmings has produced the following selection of work on the graphics course. It shows…
Student Dianne Pike completed these two paintings whilst working on the Pet Portrait Diploma Course. You can also read Dianne’s comments about them below. We love them both, they are very different, the first being rendered in Acrylic, the second…
The following paintings and study sketches were created by student Jacqui Hogan who completed these while on the Watercolour Diploma Course. We love Jacqui’s thought process and you can see this by viewing her study sketches below, working out how…
Student Nina Phillips has chosen this weeks art challenge for us. And we are a little scared! It’s the theme of Creepy Crawlies. Students can draw or paint any kind of creepy crawly, they can zoom in to say the…
Welcome to this weeks results of the art challenge we set our students at the weekend. The theme this week was to draw or paint anything on the theme of Japan. We didn’t realise how pretty the artwork would be,…
Student Glenda Brown has created two amazing pastel portraits of people while working on the Pastel Painting Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. They are absolutely stunning – we think you will agree! If you would like to learn how to…
London Art College student Elizabeth Taylor created this wonderful painting while studying our Landscape Diploma Course. We have added two of Elizabeth’s preliminary sketches to go along side and they are absolutely stunning too. Her drawing and sketching skills are…
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 this weekends art challenge results which are inspired by the letter G. We set the task for our students to come up with an object or subject to create a piece of artwork, showing that it is obviously…
Student Emma Arthur has completed the Chinese Brush Painting Course and these are her final paintings. We are thrilled to be able to display them here and have added some text to go along side to enable our students to…
Student Andrea Williamson created these two lovely illustrations whilst studying on our Botanical Coloured Pencil Course. We love them, particularly the pineapple, so much work has gone into their creation. Botanical illustration does take some patience and practice, however we…
Welcome to our Alphabet Challenge. Every month we have a new letter of the alphabet and students can draw or paint anything as long as it is beginning with that letter. Students need to get creative this month with anything…
Welcome to the results for this weekends art challenge. Our theme this week was for students to draw or paint a mythical creature of their choice and we posted a few ideas for them on our challenge page. We have…
Student Carole Mallatratt has completed the Coloured Pencil Course and you can see her final artwork and below along with the text about the images too. We would like to wish Carole all the best for her future drawings and…
Student Rachel Malpass has submitted her final set of work for the Scifi and Fantasy course. We absolutely love the these and characters she has created and you can read all about them in the text by Rachel below. “I…
As a warm-up challenge for my final Watercolour Course Assignment I decided to re-do the paintings that were, in my view, a milestone/watershed moment in this year’s watercolour journey. These being the Mushrooms from assignment #3 and Braye Bay beach…
Student Beckie Andrews has chosen this weeks theme for our weekend challenge. Magical or Mythical Creatures! We have scoured the internet and have only come up with one photo of a unicorn pictured below. So we feel that students are…
Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create artwork only using sepia colours. This was a pretty challenging, challenge! It’s not easy to create artwork using only brown tones, whilst still…
The following pastel painting was the final piece created by student Dianne Pike for her Pet Portrait Diploma Course. Dianne wrote the following about her artwork and also a thank you to Gayle for helping her during the course. We…
Student Susan Cardozo is working on the Still Life Drawing and Painting Course with tutor Alan Dedman. Two very interesting paintings Susan created were of her shed tools, one in daylight and one in moonlight. Different lighting and different colours…
Mari-Ann has just completed the course with a DISTINCTION. She worked diligently through the course and produced some sensitive work, her pencil studies are particularly good. Tutor Paul Weaver NovemberFor this picture I sat down and used Daniel Smith watercolors to…
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 ‘Sepia’! If you are unsure…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge where we asked our students to create a painting, drawing or collage on the theme of water sports! We have received some spectacular artwork this week along with such happy and playful pieces too….
Jane Tivey created this fantastic drawing of fruit for one of her exercises on the Pastel Painting course. Jane explains about the artwork below, we hope that our students find it informative and helpful. I chose to do fruit for…
I am a fine artist who paints in oils. I chose to have no formal art college education but I studied Art History at the School of Oriental and African studies, University of London. It was during this time when…
I have a passion for art and was looking for a structured course to help me learn. The pandemic presented an opportunity for me to enroll and study at LAC. LAC’s course helped me to study and think. The study…
Student Oksana Lupych has created her final set of work for the oil painting course and we have added a selection fo paintings below for our students to view. Oksana has explained a little about her paintings and also a…
Our latest challenge was devised by student Latha Bhaduri Prabakar and we loved the idea of a sports theme for our weekend challenge. To make it a little more challenging, we have narrowed it down a little more to Water…
Welcome to the results for this weekend art challenge. So many wonderful pieces of artwork and so many variations on the theme. Our featured image this week is by Student Eve Warren – we love the idea of turning Fingerprints…
The old barn was part of my third assignment for the coloured pencil course. This was my choice for a building which I felt would also demonstrate perspective, the sky also was a challenge but once started I had to…
Set 3 Assignments- Coloured Pencil Course – written by student Jennifer Parry Portrait – I decided to try pastelmat for this piece and even though I am not pleased with the outcome, I am really pleased with the amount I…
Every month we have an Alphabet challenge and this month it is the turn of letter ‘F’. Students are challenged to draw or paint anything, as long as it begins with the letter F.. Why not try to illustrate a…
Welcome to this weeks art challenge where we set our students the task of creating a painting or drawing of any subject using only the colours ‘Blue and White. Perhaps it sounds a simple challenge however once you start, it’s…
Portrait Painting student Yulia Kerme has completed her set 3 assignments and we wanted to include a few of her paintings here for everyone to see. They are absolutely beautiful and we love to see the in progress style photos…
Student Daniel Hall has been creating some amazing work on the Illustration Diploma course and we have added a few of his pieces below. We love the chickens especially! We would like to wish Daniel all the best for his…
Student Sean Cocker has been working on the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani and these pieces are from Sean’s final set. Ida was delighted with Seas work, and gave him an excellent critique and help to send…
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 ‘Blue and White’! These two…
Welcome to the Mermay results of this weeks art challenge. WOW! They are all absolutely wonderful and we are so thrilled to see them. So many variations in medium and style! Our feature image is by student Nina Colva who…
I have always been drawn to art, but for some odd reason it took until nearly three years ago for me to take the passion seriously. I would often find myself doodling small characters or monsters in the corner of…
London Art College student Debbie Davidge is currently working on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. Her artwork below is absolutely superb and Debbie explains both below…. The Evacuee Child, A4, is from an Assignment, done in Indian ink and…
Lynne has just completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction, her drawings are particularly strong with excellent shading. Lynne carries this understanding of tone into her paintings as well. We hope that you enjoy viewing them all below.
Do you have a love of Manga and everything kawaii? Would you love to learn how to create your own original Chibi characters from scratch? If you are jumping in your seat with excitement, this is the course for you! Our…
What is Mermay? MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.Every day in May people are drawing mermaids or subjects around the mermaid theme and so this week we thought it would be great to follow…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge results for our Peace and Quiet challenge. We have been very relaxed this week watching all of the lovely peaceful artwork appear on our facebook group and in our inbox. Some very beautiful and…
Rachel has just completed the course with a very well deserved distinction and tutor Paul Weaver was thrilled with all of the work she completed throughout the course. Rachel completed the Drawing and Painting diploma and we wish her the…
I felt this was a difficult assignment, except perhaps the Japanese technique where open lines and simplified shapes are used. Mastering ink painting is a long term process and feel I have a long way to go before I get…
We haven’t featured any botanical students here for a while and so today we have some amazing and very delicate artwork by student Georgine Somer. Each piece she has created is absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing…